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Your "MUST HAVE" Pedal?

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Pre-amp pedal based off the op-amp of a RE301 Space Echo. Crank up the gain and it gives a great distorted sound. Back it off a bit and it enhances the dynamics of your fingerstyle. An 'always on' pedal for me.

I have an first gen Nocturne Brain Seltzer that i use as my always on preamp before the DI at church. love it.
 
Boss LS-2 pedal. And, er, one capacitor and one resistor in loop 2 as a first-order lowpass at 220Hz.

Anything you like in loop 1. The content of loop 1 changes but the LS-2 is a constant. If it only had a phase reverse switch!

Makes a great mini mixer in a pinch too.

Or, er, if I can only have one pedal, one of the new Zoom bass pedals please, which is like wishing for three more wishes.
 
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I'd really like that GK sim pedal that a few TBers are building but no one is getting back to me on that.

It was my chorus for a little
then for a long while it was my VT bass
an octave for a short time
bass big muff for a short time

the only pedal i still have is my OptoStomp

and I rarely use that. these days I'm pretty happy with bass >>> amp and for some reason I find it easy to sell pedals, way easier than selling off amps or basses.
 
I can live and have for many a years playing directly bass to Amp.but just very recently I have started to experiment,I have a Aguilar tonehammer,BK Butler Blue tube,and I like them both very much but if it came down to which one I would really absolutley must have from now on it would be the Tonehammer...