Your "Always-on" pedal

[KingKrabb]

We all have those pedals that we're always looking for excuses to use. Or, on the other hand, pedals that we barely even touch at all, but you still leave on the board... "Just in case".

However, there's the "Always on" pedals, for some of us. That one pedal that's just become such a significant part of your tone, that it's always turned on.

So, I was wondering. Do you guys have a pedal that you can't possibly live without? Your "always-on" pedal?

 

[NoxNoctus]

MXR M87, Darkglass B3k with varying levels of Gain, MXR 6 band eqing that, More times than not when I need dirt on top of that, either the Blower Box or Ultimate Drive, and at the end of everything, the SansAmp BDDI patch and the Fishman Pre patch with bass rolloff on my Zoom B3 at the end of my chain.

 

[Got2SadowskyNYC]

EBS MultiComp, BBE Sonic Stomp, Visual Volume.

 

[blindrabbit]

Diamond Bass Compressor. Gets turned on at the same time as my amp.

My W&C Phat Phuk B is slowly but surely moving towards being an always on pedal, I probably have it active for 80-90% of the songs I play.

 

[sk8]

Compressor. Was my Maxon CP9 pro+ but that has been replaced by a Cali76TX

 

[eveilleu]

Cali76tx and B7K

 

[FretNoMore]

Line6 G30 wireless, Empress Compressor and Sfx Sound micro Thumpinator are always on.

Other pedals only as needed depending on the song and my whims.

 

[SirMjac28]

Cali76tx

 

[Toddbass65]

MXR M80 distortion with DI.

 

[Unrepresented]

Fulltone Bass Drive.

 

[bobbybass85]

Zoom B3 (usually just Compressor and EQ) and the Aguilar Tone Hammer

 

[Stevorebob]

Fairfield Barbershop...

 

[kleinenenten]

MXR M87, Darkglass B3k with varying levels of Gain, MXR 6 band eqing that, More times than not when I need dirt on top of that, either the Blower Box or Ultimate Drive, and at the end of everything, the SansAmp BDDI patch and the Fishman Pre patch with bass rolloff on my Zoom B3 at the end of my chain.

Mostly ditto. No BDDI, Fishman or Zoom though. I'm getting a Blower Box today, and me thinks I'll be finding ways to turn that on more often than not. As it is now, B3K, MXR Bass Comp and MXR Smartgate are always on.

 

[Bassist4Eris]

I don't always bring my pedalboard, but when I do, the Markbass Compressore stays on full time.

 

[plong123]

Sans Amp. It has always made my bass sound like I want it to. Easy to say, hard to do. Until I started using that one.

 

[nshuman]

My always one pedals, without any exception, always always always on:

-SFX Micro EQ
-3Leaf Enabler
-SFX MicroThumpinator
-2x Visual Sound Buffers

Previously Always on: Cali76tx. It is no longer always on because of the 1176 Comp in the UA6176 that I now use as a pre. If I did not have that, it would still always be on. So I guess it counts as a "always trying to turn it on for any reason" pedal.

 

[Feral Feline]

Radial PZed-Pre

 

[rtslinger]

I have two my Boss CS-3 and my Boss NS-2

 

[InsanityAmps]

modded BBE opto stomp. I set it up to run on 18V and added a 36dB/octave active high pass filter with the cutoff set at 30Hz.

 

[bentoni]

FEA dual band Opti-comp & B7K