If you had to choose one brand...

[39-Bassist]

Mine is Line6 XT Live Bass POD....
I love everything about it!

 

[logdrum]

MXR - I am tempted to say Source Audio but they are too complicated

 

[PWRL]

EHX, Boss or Zoom. I've had good luck with all 3. Plus, I don't use that many effects, so that's almost where I am, anyway.

 

[klejst]

Typical me would say Boss or Way Huge...however I am loving Idiot Box Effects stuff so I'd give a tip of the cap to them here.

 

[Alfonso Alba]

Electro Harmonix. I have 5 pedals on my board and 4 are EH with the 5th pedal a Boss tuner. Honestly, if EH made a tuner I would probably get it in order to satisfy my completionist tendencies.

They do make a tuner:

EHX.com | EHX-2020 Tuner Pedal - Chromatic Tuner Pedal | Electro-Harmonix

 

[Gizmot]

I don't use any pedals with bass - - I must be an old fart!

 

[micguy]

Probably Xotic - they make good basic stuff - I could probably live with a pedalboard with just their stuff on it. Not ideal, but I could do gigs OK.

 

[rohi]

If noble made a compressor then I'd get it in a heartbeat. Lately I've only been using my preamp with the EQ section and no other pedals, so I'm pretty easy.

 

[Leo Thunder]

The brand of effects doesn't matter. No one cares. No one. Wake up.

 

[BaltBass5]

Darkglass. Period.

Currently, outside of my Line 6 G70 and Peterson Strobostomp I am ONLY using the Alpha Omega, Hyper Luminal and B3K.

 

[SmokinJoe992]

Another vote for Tech 21 here. I currently use the VT Bass Deluxe as the main part of my board and it is almost always on. IMO I could put it in front of any amp and get a good tone with it. MXR would be my second choice.

 

[2F/2F]

Er.....Korg, I guess...since my only bass pedal is a Korg tuner.

 

[the baint]

3Leaf Audio.

 

[Jephmo]

They do make a tuner:

EHX.com | EHX-2020 Tuner Pedal - Chromatic Tuner Pedal | Electro-Harmonix

Wish you hadn't told me about that, don't need to be spending money right now

 

[winterburn69]

I see all the EHX fanboys are no where to be seen....


Dunlop for me.

 

[TB24]

Tech 21 Sansamp Bass Driver D.I. V2 with my Fender Rumble Stage 800 bass amp (40 built in effects).

 

[Mili]

MXR

 

[Nighttrain1127]

Source Audio Many Pedals in each box and easily tweakable to do whatever you want them to.

 

[40Hz]

I’m surprised I haven’t seen Aguilar on here. Not perfect pedals, but they cover ask the necessary bases!

Fair enough. But if you wanted the most comprehensive effect ecosystem you’d be hard pressed to find something the BOSS family of pedals doesn’t cover - and with multiple choices within the different categories.

Close seconds are JHS, EHX, and SA for comprehensive catalogs.

 

[nnnnnn]

If you could only use one brand of effects pedals

Does a tuner count for this thread? For bass the only pedal I need is a tuner, and the only effect I currently use is an HPF/LPF - is there one company that makes both of those? I prefer the Sonic Research Turbo Tuner and Broughton HPF/LPF (actually I use the Broughton Messenger preamp for HPF/LPF because I like having its four-band EQ for emergencies even though I don't generally use it).

For guitar, on the other hand, the answer is Boss because they're about the only brand that provides the full variety of effects that I want on my board with good tone, great build quality, and prices I can afford. There are a couple of reasons why I don't actually use all Boss in practice, but if forced to use only one brand that's the one I'd choose.