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Post that special/indispensable pedal you'll never get rid of...

#43
I'm going to cheat and say the Line6 m9 or my m13. None if the effects are the best available, but the ability to stack identical pedals and immediately switch to 3 or 4 other completely different pedals with one click makes it absolutely essential to my covers and originals band.
 
#45
Boss ls2. My pedal board has been completely remodeled several times but the ls2 has stayed. It's just really useful. Keeps my signal strong by taking effects completely out of my signal when I'm not using them. I can turn off the pedals on one loop and use a distortion on the other loop in mix mode and get thick dirty tones that actually have low end. I can use it to go from my normal tone to a tone with say reverb and chorus by touching one pedal instead of tap dancing and hoping no one notices that one pedal or the other wasnt kicked in on time. Just has a lot of uses
 
#46
The twins:

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#50
The 3Leaf Enabler. A Swiss Army Knife of a preamp pedal, and the combination of studio-grade headphone amp and independent MP3 input control for silent practice on your own or along to your Itunes playlist is a joy to behold.

Lonnybass
 
#55
adamsmatthewj said:
OCTAVER!!

Now, not a certain brand/model/etc, but I don't know how I lived without an octaver.

I keep the output of the clean-octave and the octave-below perfectly even, and I keep the output of the pedal itself perfectly even with my dry signal, so it's never a "boost" situation when I engage the pedal, only an octave situation. I use it so often it's not even funny.

My current octaver of choice is the Aguilar Octamizer. I like it ok, it's certainly a vast improvement from my first octaver (that was a crappy Beringer)! But I may still hit eBay for an old OC-2 at some point. (And of course there's the grail- Ashdown makes a Pino Palladino sig octaver that I HAVE to try someday!)

My board right now also consists of a Way Huge Pork Loin overdrive, a Mooer Sweeper envelope filter, a Boss orange Distortion (left unplugged unless I'm going to use it for the song, she's noisy!), a BBE Sonic Stomp (I don't go through an amp, I go direct live, so this is a close second for my most indispensable pedal!) and a Snark chromatic tuner/mute switch. I have come to love and regularly use all of these, although I'm always searching, expanding/consolidating, etc...

BUT I'll never play without an octaver by my feet

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Not wanting to derail, but how's that Sweeper?
Back on topic, my Fuzzhugger Velcroscillator was my first boutique pedal; it sounds disgusting, and there's so much fun to be had with the oscillation (single coil lipstick tube pups drive it crazy), I can't really see myself ever parting with it.
 
#57
adamsmatthewj said:
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How do you like that Mercy Phuk? Seems VERY intriguing...
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To be honest? I LOVE it.

The MP has a steep learning curve, the steepest I've ever encountered in a one-knob pedal anyway.
It sounds great once you've dialed the internal gain knob in. It took me 3-4 practice sessions with my band to get where I wanted, but once it's set you're done.

W&C designed this pedal to be very dynamic and responsive to your bass' volume, while this is true, you have to have a master volume on your bass to take full advantage of this design, but it's still very useful if you don't.
 
#58
Thylacine Dream said:
Not wanting to derail, but how's that Sweeper?
Back on topic, my Fuzzhugger Velcroscillator was my first boutique pedal; it sounds disgusting, and there's so much fun to be had with the oscillation (single coil lipstick tube pups drive it crazy), I can't really see myself ever parting with it.
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The sweeper is nice for the price you're paying and the amount of real estate it takes up!
It's NOT going to compete with a true envelope filter stomp box, but I don't think it's meant to. At least, I don't view any "micro" pedal as a direct competitor to a true stomp box.
I absolutely LOVE micro pedals for what they are: amazing little toys that add some serious fun to my pedalboard for under $100 each that I can sneak in the house in my pocket without my wife noticing that I bought yet ANOTHER PEDAL...
I specifically love the Mooer's for their true-bypass and ridiculously tiny footprint.
The Sweeper is a really nifty little pedal. It has (realistically) about 3 useable sounds in it (which ain't bad for a tiny little $80 pedal!)
-discreet, chilled out envelope filtering effect
-aggressive, bubbly envelope filtering effect
-fuzz-laden burpy punchy sick filter-style craziness (that's generally the setting I keep her on!)
The Intensity knob isn't hugely nuanced, but it does deliver what you ask it to do. The Fuzz switch is the coolest part IMHO
The two small tweaking knobs aren't a ton of help, but if you "Juan Alderete" it by cranking up your volume and turning them slowly until you hit that feedback-y, psychedelic-crazy sweet spot... then they're fun!! (Yes I did just use "Juan Alderete" as a verb, sorry)

It plays VERY nicely with others (I often run it with my octaver for a sick filtered-octaves sound, and I also sometimes kick on my od or distortion with it just to add some extra mayhem).
It's most fun use that I've found is when I'm playing hip-hop grooves: if i turn off the dry-octave on my octaver and run just the octave-down, and couple that with the Sweeper, it really mimics some of the guttural punch of modern bass sequencers pretty well, actually.

Anyway, sorry for writing a book on here! Just trying to answer best I can!
 
#59
adamsmatthewj said:
The sweeper is nice for the price you're paying and the amount of real estate it takes up!
It's NOT going to compete with a true envelope filter stomp box, but I don't think it's meant to. At least, I don't view any "micro" pedal as a direct competitor to a true stomp box.
I absolutely LOVE micro pedals for what they are: amazing little toys that add some serious fun to my pedalboard for under $100 each that I can sneak in the house in my pocket without my wife noticing that I bought yet ANOTHER PEDAL...
I specifically love the Mooer's for their true-bypass and ridiculously tiny footprint.
The Sweeper is a really nifty little pedal. It has (realistically) about 3 useable sounds in it (which ain't bad for a tiny little $80 pedal!)
-discreet, chilled out envelope filtering effect
-aggressive, bubbly envelope filtering effect
-fuzz-laden burpy punchy sick filter-style craziness (that's generally the setting I keep her on!)
The Intensity knob isn't hugely nuanced, but it does deliver what you ask it to do. The Fuzz switch is the coolest part IMHO
The two small tweaking knobs aren't a ton of help, but if you "Juan Alderete" it by cranking up your volume and turning them slowly until you hit that feedback-y, psychedelic-crazy sweet spot... then they're fun!! (Yes I did just use "Juan Alderete" as a verb, sorry)

It plays VERY nicely with others (I often run it with my octaver for a sick filtered-octaves sound, and I also sometimes kick on my od or distortion with it just to add some extra mayhem).
It's most fun use that I've found is when I'm playing hip-hop grooves: if i turn off the dry-octave on my octaver and run just the octave-down, and couple that with the Sweeper, it really mimics some of the guttural punch of modern bass sequencers pretty well, actually.

Anyway, sorry for writing a book on here! Just trying to answer best I can!
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No apology necessary! Thankya much.
 

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