Just 4 Effect Pedals...

[Gus Borden]

I am sure it's been done before, but I am always curious...

If you could only have 4 effect pedals on your board... they would be which 4?

 

[Bassosaur]

I am sure it's been done before, but I am always curious...

If you could only have 4 effect pedals on your board... they would be which 4?

Mine would be:

Korg Tuner
SansAmp VT
Bass Big Muff Pi
MXR Bass Octave

 

[Green Mind]

For live use:
Korg DT-10
Foxrox Octron
Polish Love
Digitech Bass Synth Wah

For home probably swap the korg for my Boss RC-2.

 

[JimmyM]

The 4 I'm currently using:

EHX Micro Pog
EHX Nano Small Stone
Boss SYB-3 set to auto filter
Sansamp VT Bass

The VT gets by far the most play on my board. I could cut back to it and the Micro Pog and do what I need to do. I just keep the other stuff on there for occasional swirly or duck-like sounds.

 

[Valerus]

Man...it depends on my genre! I don't need delay/reverb for just a straight up rocknroll band, etc.

I would get a Pedaltrain Mini.

So my 4 would be (to try and cover as much territory):
Green Russian Muff clone (fuzz)
Boss RV-3 (delay/reverb)
Mojo Hand Cream Pie (dirty boost/tone shaper/light overdrive)
Korg Pitchblack

I can't really think of anything else. Maybe an EHX XO Deluxe Memory Man instead of the tuner? Because it can do delay, vibrato, chorus whatever

 

[NortyFiner]

The three I am currently using...

Korg Pitchblack Tuner
Demeter Compulator
EHX Bass Big Muff Pi

...plus one other off my GAS list, probably the 3Leaf Groove Regulator or EHX Stereo Electric Mistress, for a variety of cool sounds.

 

[-Kiedis-]

1- Electro-Harmonix Q Tron
2- Boss ODB-3
3- Sansamp-VT
4- Boss Limiter Enhancer

Done and done.

 

[Jared Lash]

1. Ring
2. Mod
3. U
4. Lator

 

[bigchiefbc]

Yeah the problem is that I have two different bands, so I have two different answers to this.

For my rock/metal band, it would be:

DHA VT1
XP-1000
CC-300
DOD FX72

For my synth/electronic band, it would be:

Bass Murf
Bitrman
EHX BMS
Flanger Hoax

 

[groooooove]

+1 to "it depends on the band."

for jazz, something like-

analogman chorus
boss RV-5
digitech whammy
a compressor? dont currently own one.

rock/funk/jam band-

535Q wah
digitech whammy
a fuzz pedal (brown dog lately..)
red witch moon phaser

theres other stuff i do, but i usually just throw stuff on the board randomly before i leave for the gigs. those two lists are pretty common.

 

[cp4eva]

For my band, as it is now...

Sorry for the fuzzy pic.

 

[Gus Borden]

1. Analog.Man Mini Chorus (with Depth knob and deep setting)
2. Fuzz (on Monday, I will find out if the Homebrew Ultimate Octave Fuzz is the one for me!)
3. Octave Down (if I could find the one for me-thinking of an MXR BOD)
4. Auto Wah/Filter (Emma DiscumBOBulator - but I haven't pulled that trigger yet...)

Although my current goal is to gig with 3 effects at my feet only. Tuner rides in the rackmount.

 

[Gus Borden]

cp4eva, what d'ya have there?
Let's see, Line 6 MM4, Boss OC-3, Boss OD-3, Russian Big Muff Pi ? Nice!

 

[Snakeman1066]

Voodoo Lab Sparkle Drive (O.D.)
EHX BBM (Fuzz)
Devi Ever Dark Boost
Ibanez Weeping Demon Wah

 

[shrigg]

1. DHA VT-EQ-Acoustic - All the time
2. Keeley 2 knob compressor - Some of the time
3. That's it, really. Also a Planet Waves S.O.S. Tuner but it isn't a pedal...
4. This space for rent, lol

 

[kesslari]

Mutron III - Filter
TC Chorus
Carbon Copy delay.

hey, I got room for 1 more!

 

[Swift713]

For my band: Q-tron, Blueberry, CP-9, Pitchblack

 

[cp4eva]

cp4eva, what d'ya have there?
Let's see, Line 6 MM4, Boss OC-3, Boss OD-3, Russian Big Muff Pi ? Nice!

Thanks. I'd been using only the Big Muff for a long time, but decided to throw the ODB in with a couple of boxes our guitarist just had sitting around, unused. I was pretty happy with how the sound came out,

 

[king_xanadu]

Let's see.
Whammy
[Flameproofsuit] Digitech bass squeeze [/flameproofsuit]
Big muff
Boss CEB-3

 

[stefean]

I only have 4 right now:

Markbass Compressore
Tech 21 Sansamp 3ch Bass Driver DI
Digitech XBC Multi-Chorus
Korg Pitchblack Tuner