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Pedal advice please

Wallygator

Wallygator

Mar 16, 2007
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Toronto, Canada
www.decibelgeek.com
#1
Hey there,

Ok so I have a 3 pedal BOSS board. So far I have two of the spots filled with a tuner pedal and the OD-3 Overdrive pedal. For Christmas I received some gift certificates for my local music store to complete the pedal board. I have been listening to pedal demos all day and would like to hear your suggestions and why. Has to be a BOSS pedal and if it helps I mostly play classic rock to heavy metal and some punk stuff.

Cheers.
 
#6
If it has to be BOSS I would go with..

This

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or This

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or THIS!!! IMHO

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actually i think the Behringer line of pedals

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as well as the Digitech line

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are all the same shape and size of the Boss Pedals
 
#15
For A different distortion sound you could through the ODB-1 on your board. I get some hate for this, but it is one of by favorite distortion pedals.

Other than that, I concur with Snakeman:
I have all those pedals and I like them all.
In order of what I use most to least:
Bass EQ
Flanger
Bass Chorus (That Effect Volume and the Cut control really help get just what you want out of this pedal.)
 
#17
No real problem using the BCB-30, IMO. The only issue I have with it is that it limits the player to 3 pedals. :). I have a BCB-60 that I now use for my acoustic guitar set-up and it does just fine. It was my first bass pedalboard and after mercilessly gutting it, I could put up 10 pedals in there.

Going back to OP, my first recommendation would be the LMB-3, it works much better for bass than the CS-3, as previously posted. If you don't need compression or your amp has a decent comp/limiting option, than the CEB-3 would be a great addition, as well as the BF-2 or the BF-3, flangers that can be set up for chorus effect.

I just compared sizes between a Digitech BassDriver and a TU-2: as suspected, the Digitech is slightly bigger than the Boss, so I'm not sure they would fit in the BCB-30.

If you're OK with padding the compartment a bit, you can use smaller pedals such as MXRs or EHX's nano series. Opens up options a bit, but I would still stay within above recommendations.

Have a great Holiday Season and 'till the next Habs/Leafs pow-wow:)
 
#18
Well, only having room for JUST one more limits your choices. :D

But, for BOSS pedals, I'd say the CEB-3 is hard to go wrong with, a very nice wallet friendly chorus.

The bass EQ is nice, but only if your amps EQ functions are limited AND you don't mind loosing pedalboard real estate for a "utility" pedal....can be used as a decent boost pedal as well.

The OC-2 is a very nice octave choice if you're into that.

The LMB-3 is decent for the price, but not the best comp/limiter out there by a long shot.

The BF-3 is a fun pedal too :D
 

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