high quality effects pedals you would recommend

this is gonna start an uber long thread lol

 

lol, too bad spanky isnt here.

 

Check out the boxes that Peter Cornish is building. He's the best in the industry.

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of the mass-produced stuff, EBS is my fave

 

search and you will find

 

Look at Bongo's reviews for compressors...I'm he's reviewed a million that you've never even began to hear of.

 

I like:

www.analogman.com
for dirt, compressors, chorus.

www.olcircuits.com
for dirt, compressors (well they built my OS clone but it's not a regular model)
and phaser (also not a production model... it's a phase 45 clone)

www.maxonfx.com
for dirt, delay, modulation, envelope

 

You mentioned Pigtronix. Their envelope phaser is one of the coolest effects, ever. And very well built. As to EBS, I like the Valve Drive alot. Very natural sounding od, and variable from smooth grit to all out tube grind. It got a bad review on Bongo's compressor thread, but I like the TRex Squeezer alot. Very tweakable, all the right controls, very transparent and quiet. And I did try a number of other compressors before settling on the TRex. There's tons more, seek and ye shall find.

 

Tonefactor seems to get quite a bit of love around here too.

 

Among non boutique builders, EBS, Maxon & Jacques (french fx shop) are the best. Old Ibanez supposed to be good as they were built by Maxon.

 

there's so many good boutique builders it would take too long to list them all. Go to

www.pedalgeek.com
www.tonefactor.com

and look at all the brands, pick some stuff you like, and then post a new thread and then we can help you narrow it if we've played it before

 

Guyatone Ul-tron is a cool thing...i think it's a "perfect mu-tron iii style" envelope filter......and i think the Moog low-pass filter is the best low-pass filter pedal...but sometimes the band-pass filter is useful especially when you use a gated-fuzz before the envelope filter.
about the delay pedal, i would perfer the Diamond memory-lane and the compressor is also Diamond too......
i have had some EBSes, include a custom-made octa-bass( custom japanese made foot-switch and custom "black&white n&o-face" finish ), but i sold them all after i got the Aguilar db924. because the EBSes are little tone suck when i used db924. the EBS comp is really noise-less and punch, powerful for rock music or power slap tone, but i think the T-rex is better when you want to a dynamicful fingerstyle tone. i don't like the T-rex 's big body and electronic-bypass. the Keeley comp is a cool ROSS style too, and it's very kick ass when it have added the trim and attack pot......
if you have a fuzz in your toyzboard you maybe have some funny. Z-vex and Roger Mayer made some great fuzz pedals for bassplayer. and i think the cheaper one, G.I. Fuzz made by Mi Audio from Austrilia has more funny.

and don't forget something to keep your singal and tone when you used 3 pedals or more...it will be a buffer/preamp or some great cables......i hate tone-sucker pedals...

 

There is no such thing as a holy grail, because our individual tastes are always going to differ significantly.

EBS makes quality gear, no doubt, (as does Pigtronix) but it comes down to preference.

What you're going to get with a generic question like this is either people asking you to be more specific (do a search) or simply a list of people's favorite gear, which might be useful for making a list of things to research, but otherwise doesn't help you in your quest for the sounds you're looking for.

I'd be happy to tell you my favorite compressors, filters and delays if you want, but I think you'd be better served rephrasing your question to get more specific info. What kind of music do you play? What kinds of sounds do you want to achieve? What's your budget? These are all helpful things to know.

 

Search, then read. When you're done reading, read some more. After that, follow up with a few bouts of reading and then top it off with a solid read. If you want an encore, Read: Extended Version. Dessert? Read pudding.

There are countless brands/builders/names/etc. that have amazing tone, a whole lot of them are discussed here. I'm not going to pick a favourite, but the only brand I have more than one pedal of on my board is Homebrew Electronics.

 

i disagree nad

follow up should be heading to a store and spend hours there.
extended version? order/buy them back to take into your living room and start the massacre.

lol.

 

I only have one EBS pedal (older Octobass) and its the only EBS I have tried. It sounds great and seems well built but there is a very short mute in sound when you turn it on.

I use it in a bypass looper with a distortion so its not a problem for me, but I wouldn't want to use it without my looper. I'm not sure if all EBS pedals do this but its something to consider.

 

Well, actually......

www.ehx.com

And a holier, and holiest.....

 

hahahaha... ive always wanted one of those just to "say" i have that pedal.

anyway... for me personally... ive liked DHA and HBE