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Pedals you keep for that ONE sound

FilterFunk

FilterFunk

Everything is on the ONE!
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Whether you use the sound a lot, or if it hits the spot for just a couple of songs, or even if you think you'll never use it, but it's just too cool to let go, do you have any pedals that you keep around not because of versatility, but because of ONE particularly cool and/or useful sound? Sorry for the run-on sentence...

Mine is the DOD Vibrothang. It's actually pretty versatile, but I keep it for this one ghostly tone that I call "Spooky Bass":
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I have the Depth set at minimum, so it's easy to get a more prominent effect if desired. I used two very different keyboard bass presets to show that "Spooky Bass" sounds cool with various bass tones.

So...what are your one-sound pedals?
 
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I tend to keep one 'always on' dirt-kinda pedal (TC Spark at the moment), then every other pedal on my board is for one sound.
-Ampeg Scrambler or Ibanez PhatHed PD-7 for a lo-fi big OD with flats.
- Caline Wine Cellar for a crunchy, overdriven sound with stainless
Nux Mod Core for the 2 times a year I goof with it.

Amp/Pedals don't get touched once set, except for amp volume.
 
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Even though I have a Dubterrograph on my big board, I keep a three knob Xerograph on the board as well, for filter sweeps... nothing does it better than a oldschool Xerograph.

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My EHX Black Finger basically, which is a tube driven optical compressor that runs its tubes at proper high 300V plate voltage.

It's an always on pedal placed towards the end of my signal chain in both my bass and guitar setup, dialed in to a quite minimal compression, set with such a high threshold that the compression basically never kicks in, but with a high input gain setting to run the tubes just on the verge of breakup when I dig in the hardest, adding a beautiful touch of nice tube warmth and subtle tube compression, just making everything that is send through it sound great and rounding off any harshness from my signal ever so slightly, without in any way dulling it or effecting my playing dynamics, as this pedal is basically an optical compressor circuit placed between the input and output stage of a tube preamp.
 
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There are 2 for me...

1. Pigtronix - Mothership2 - it does this incredible r2d2 sound that I can add inflection to w an expression pedal. It has become such an signature thing to my sound arsenal I could never get that pedal off my board.

2. The Moog MF101. Try as I might to replace it w a xerogrpah deluxe (maybe I need to try an older one @Matt Dean ?), the sound of the MF101 justifies the size. Having a monster like that on the board also helps reel things in a bit since there is less space for non sense.
 
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cosmicevan said:
There are 2 for me...

1. Pigtronix - Mothership2 - it does this incredible r2d2 sound that I can add inflection to w an expression pedal. It has become such an signature thing to my sound arsenal I could never get that pedal off my board.

2. The Moog MF101. Try as I might to replace it w a xerogrpah deluxe (maybe I need to try an older one @Matt Dean ?), the sound of the MF101 justifies the size. Having a monster like that on the board also helps reel things in a bit since there is less space for non sense.
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The MF101 is the mother of all filters. However, I’ve been using a three knob Xero forever and my brain has completely bonded with the three knob.

Not so much with the Xero D as a filter sweep.
 
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FilterFunk said:
Whether you use the sound a lot, or if it hits the spot for just a couple of songs, or even if you think you'll never use it, but it's just too cool to let go, do you have any pedals that you keep around not because of versatility, but because of ONE particularly cool and/or useful sound? Sorry for the run-on sentence...

Mine is the DOD Vibrothang. It's actually pretty versatile, but I keep it for this one ghostly tone that I call "Spooky Bass":
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I have the Depth set at minimum, so it's easy to get a more prominent effect if desired. I used two very different keyboard bass presets to show that "Spooky Bass" sounds cool with various bass tones.

So...what are your one-sound pedals?
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Nice tones w/ Vibrothang! What setting are you using?

To answer your question: Ibanez BC10 Stereo Bass Chorus. I use it at home all the time, mainly because it's stereo out. I don't use it with a band / 2 amps (yet). Always the same setting (D-TIME & WIDTH 100%, RATE 50%).
 
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