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08-12-2010, 06:56 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: The Empire State | | | Pedal Addiction - Seriously, a real problem?
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I'm sitting here practicing just looking at my two current pedalboards.... 24 pedals total. I have about 2 dozen assorted other pedals in boxes and on my work bench - I can't stop.
What's worse, is that I live only 15 minutes from pedalgeek and Dan knows me personally. It's like an uncontrollable desire to have a "new toy"
How do I *you* stop the addiction? Most of my guitar playing friends don't have even close to the number of pedals I have or even care that much about it.
What is it with us?.... seriously? |
08-12-2010, 06:58 PM
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08-12-2010, 07:02 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: The Empire State | | I <3 fuzz too.  |
08-12-2010, 07:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: self banned from talkbass.... | | Quote:
Originally Posted by lowend range  I <3 fuzz too. | I have 27 fuzz pedalz....
But being nice will not make me admit to having a problem....
I have no problem!  |
08-12-2010, 07:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: America's High-Five | | | Restrict myself to a Pedaltrain Mini. And be super picky.
Current planned line-up: fuzz, fuzz, fuzz, chorus, delay.
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08-12-2010, 07:09 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: The Empire State | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Eric! Current planned line-up: fuzz, fuzz, fuzz, chorus, delay. | That's 5 pedals.... I don't like odd numbers.
And NO... ditching a pedal is not an option so I would have to add another.... and so it continues.  |
08-12-2010, 07:10 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: The Empire State | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Mudfuzz
I have no problem! | Me neither.
See the problem? |
08-12-2010, 07:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: self banned from talkbass.... | | Quote:
Originally Posted by lowend range Me neither.
See the problem? | Yes I do, the problem is the people that keep bring up the word "intervention" they don't get how useful they are and how pedals are like paintbrushes and paints, you need different colors and ways to apple those colors to achieve a tonal landscape of beauty!  |
08-12-2010, 07:17 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: The Empire State | | That was so eloquently put...I love it.
And it's not helping me! |
08-12-2010, 07:19 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: America's High-Five | | | Acceptance is the first stage to recovery..but we don't have problems, right?
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08-12-2010, 07:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: self banned from talkbass.... | | | Right!
No problems!
Go buy a pedal! |
08-12-2010, 07:28 PM
|  | I'm gonna love and tolerate the **** out of you! | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Memphis/Knoxville TN | | Quote:
Originally Posted by lowend range That's 5 pedals.... I don't like odd numbers.
And NO... ditching a pedal is not an option so I would have to add another.... and so it continues. | Looks like you might need a nice tuner too if that's the case  |
08-12-2010, 07:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2000 Location: Chatham,IL | | | It's bad, real bad, but I love it! Gets even worse when you spend a extended period of time out of a band. You turn yourself into a alchemist of audio, twisting knobs and stomping buttons, changing effect orders.
It starts getting boring so you add another pedal or three.
HELP! forget I said that. I need HELP! Shut up stupid. Don't listen to him it's my other me, the one that keeps me up all night wispering no more pedals.
On another note I will report that the SS/BS TAFM might cause liver failure, abnormal heart beats, deep chest compression and brain damage to large animals. |
08-12-2010, 07:45 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: America's High-Five | | Oh yeah, tuner offboard. And a couple pedals sit on my headboard, tucked away.. Quote:
Originally Posted by MohawkHarry On another note I will report that the SS/BS TAFM might cause liver failure, abnormal heart beats, deep chest compression and brain damage to large animals. | I hooked another!
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08-12-2010, 08:43 PM
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Originally Posted by jmattbassplaya Looks like you might need a nice tuner too if that's the case | I have THREE extra ones.  |
08-12-2010, 08:44 PM
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Originally Posted by MohawkHarry It's bad, real bad, but I love it! Gets even worse when you spend a extended period of time out of a band. You turn yourself into a alchemist of audio, twisting knobs and stomping buttons, changing effect orders. | This is exactly one of the problems. I started spending an extravagent amount of money once I stopped playing regular gigs. |
08-12-2010, 08:51 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Richmond, VA, USA | | | I think some of you addicts need to do the right thing, and just give away your stuff. That's the first stage.
Anybody want my addy? |
08-12-2010, 08:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Oakland, NJ | | | I was setting up for my last show this past Tuesday, and when I dropped the pedalboard on the ground the soundman came up to me and said "Lemme guess - you're the lead guitarist."
I said "No, I'm the bassist."
He just looked at me and then walked away quietly... I think I'm in denial about my 'problem'
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08-12-2010, 08:55 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Portland, OR | | | Until you're exceptionally hungry and can't get food, or notably without a place of your own because you've been kicked out, you're probably in OK shape.
Besides, it beats having 24 amps strewn about the house. |
08-12-2010, 08:55 PM
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Originally Posted by a_magg I was setting up for my last show this past Tuesday, and when I dropped the pedalboard on the ground the soundman came up to me and said "Lemme guess - you're the lead guitarist."
I said "No, I'm the bassist."
He just looked at me and then walked away quietly... I think I'm in denial about my 'problem' | THAT is awesome. haha | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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