you know your a pedal head if --

[bassbrad]

...if it's crucial that your bass and amp work with your effects.

..your bandmates wonder if there is something wrong if you show with no effects...

 

[bigchiefbc]

... if, when you run out of room on your pedalboard, you start planning to build a bigger board rather than sell a pedal.

... if every soundguy mistakes you for the guitarist when you start setting up.

... if you have a bigger pedalboard than the bassist in a Tool tribute band that you opened for

 

[Jay2U]

If you think: "Am I playing bad today", if you forgot to switch on the pedal gear.

 

[puddin tame]

your list of gear sounds like a porno stash

 

[My name is Mudd]

...you actually have a pedal named for you (The Behndy Box).

 

[warwick.hoy]

When you passively aggressively* post a link to a 2 year old thread that you created on the very same subject.

You Know You're an FX Junkie When....

*j/k

Stay in school.

 

[Fishyfan]

...youve gone to a show and gotten more pictures of the pedalboards than you did the band.

 

[pgolliher]

....You have more pedals than a dozen roses

....You have more pedals than Le Tour De France

 

[andvari7]

...you write pedal reviews that are more full of horrible purple prose than all of the "Twilight" books put together.

...you can actually have an argument with yourself over which Big Muff Cliff Burton used, and yet, somehow, still end up losing.

...you are more excited about a drunken eBay auction for a Morley Power Wah Boost than you are about a Primus concert that night.

...you actually know what a Morley Power Wah Boost IS.

...you actually care about what a Morley Power Wah Boost is.

...you pick up three gross quantity purple high-luminescence LEDs on consignment, because you ran out just last week.

...your guitarist complains about the size of your wah, and you have to ask him which one.

...you buy a pedal just because it has canvas on it.

 

[CopperheadLXXIX]

...the pedals you own cost more than your bass(es) and amp(s) combined.

...You have to stomp off all the pedals with uber-bright blue leds if you want to be able to sleep.

 

[EskimoBassist]

If you still don't have a car...

 

[metalinthenight]

(I'm guilty of soo many of these)

....your spouse threatens to breakup with you because you talk about gear too much

....you spend more time twiddling knobs than practicing.
....you spend more time thinking about pedals than actually playing the ones you have.
....you don't get lunch at work because you're "this close"
....you show up to an audition and you are the only one with pedals.
....you draw diagrams of your potential pedalboard, just to see if it will fit...or you cut paper...or use photoshop....

 

[wiseguyst]

...you keep coming back to this thread to see what others are posting.

 

[wolffman]

...you use pedal names as pet names for your girl

...you get your pedals delivered to work so you can touch them and fiddle with knobs ASAP

...when you get pedals delivered to work you try and describe to noises to your coworkers, when that doesn't work you try and make the sounds with your mouth

 

[pgolliher]

...you use pedal names as pet names for your girl

*You can probably get away with calling her your "Electric Mistress", calling her your "Big Muff" isn't probably a great idea, but don't ever, ever, ever, refer to your girl as your "Swollen Pickle".

 

[FilterFunk]

...you wonder if terrible weather in various parts of the country will affect the shipping of your pedal (I'm soooo not proud of that! ).

 

[Bassmike62]

When guys you don't even know call or write to ask about effects, chain order and so on...

 

[vegas532]

When guys you don't even know call or write to ask about effects, chain order and so on...

Been there, several times.

 

[Smurf-o-Deth]

....you draw diagrams of your potential pedalboard, just to see if it will fit...or you cut paper...or use photoshop....

This is so me. I have untold numbers of board sketches drawn on post-its littered everywhere.

 

[Nv_D_SlapnPop]

... if you miss your package from spencer then walk through 15" of snow 2 miles to the post office, wait 1/2 hour in line then 2 miles home, plug the pedal in and as soon as it lights up, before you hear it you think "it was worth it"