If you could have only four effects pedals and a tuner what would you choose?

Overdrive
Analog Delay
Chorus
Wah

Easy. Right now my pedalboard has:
Nocturne Dyno Brain
Planet Waves tuner
Bad Monkey OD
Aqua Puss delay

I've got a Box of Rock coming later this week, which I'd swap with the Bad Monkey. That leaves me a spot for a 4th pedal, which I'd leave open until I started to GAS for something, maybe a TIM?

Boss DD-3 Delay
Boss CH-1 Chorus
Mosrite Fuzzrite
Ibanez Tube Screamer

Nocturne Atomic Brain
Strymon El Capistan
Strymon Lex
RetroSonics Stereo Chorus
Sonic Research ST200 tuner

- Leslie simulator
- Reverb
- Delay
- Chorus

-Nocturne Atomic Brain
-Lovepedal Les Lius
-TC ElectronicNovaDelay
-???

I'm not sure what else I'd want...

Dyno Brain
El Capistan delay
Supa-trem
Digitech Digiverb

fulldrive
super hard-on
deep blue delay
deluxe memory man

right now i just have the memory man and fulldrive.

Morley Wah- Either Bad Horsie1/2, or just regular optical wah.
Devi-Ever Rocket Fuzz
Ibanez AD-9 analog delay
Ibanez Airplane Flanger.
I dont use stage tuners, so It would just be some OD/Dist pedal.

Peterson strobostomp doesnt count :)

Brain preamp
fulltone Supatrem
TIM
El Capistan

Why do so many of you guys have the Nocturne Dyno Brain.

Is it a Gretsch "thing".

P.S I am a recent convert having bought a White Falcon last month.

Regards

I mainly only use two effects. A Magicstomp with the excellent Charlie Hall EFTP echo software installed and an Alesis 3630 compressor. On rare occasions I also use a Tuna Melt tremolo and a Boss Heavy Metal distortion pedal.

Barber Ltd Overdrive
EHX Big Muff
T Rex Tonebug Reverb
Malekko Ekko delay

Why do so many of you guys have the Nocturne Dyno Brain.

Is it a Gretsch "thing".

P.S I am a recent convert having bought a White Falcon last month.

Regards

Because Tv the wired turtle makes them, and while i am not an owner of his pedals (yet), they are built well, and sound fantastic.
of the pedals i own now:
Fulltone OCD
Vox Wah
Big muff pi
Wampler Faux Echo analog delay

That's easy. The four I use now:

Boss SD overdrive
Boss TR-3 Tremolo
MXR Carbon Copy Delay
Boss '63 Reverb

Of course I'm kind of cheating because my old Morley volume pedal has an excellent chorus so if I had to eliminate one to meet the (4) standard I would ditch the Reverb pedal and go back to the amp and turn the reverb up and down as needed. The pedal is on my board mostly out of convenience.

ScottyB

Tremolo, EQ, overdrive, reverb

Guitar
MXR DynaComp Custom
Ernie Ball Volume

FX Loop
Lovepedal Gen 5 Echo
EHX Holy Grail Nano

I left out the Fulltone GT-500, it is the pedal I use the least.

Right now my board consists of Dyno Brain, GFS Tuner (though it just died last weekend), Dano Cool Cat Tremolo, Ibanez DPL10 stereo delay. I also just bought a Zakk Wylde Overdrive from MacStevenXIII that I'm looking forward to trying out.

BYOC Triangle spec Big Muff - '80s RAT - Catalinbread Hyperpak - EH Small Stone

I play a '70s Ampeg VT22 which won't break up until it's loud enough to kill small animals, so I need more variety in the dirt department than I would otherwise. If I had an amp that would give me edge of breakup tone at less than WMD volume I'd probably trade the Hyperpak for a tremolo. I dig the Hyperpak and I'd love to try the Formula 5 in the same application, but I don't actually need it, you know?

I don't use any pedals right now. I only own 3: Cry Baby, OCD and Carbon Copy (Delay), but none are in my chain. I do use spring reverb on my amp.

http://www.gretsch-talk.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=763&pictureid=6573

...And I don't use the Wah anymore..

Here is what mine would be:
--Fulltone Fulldrive II Mosfet 10th Anni.
--Paul C. Timmy
--Boss DD-20 Giga Delay
--TC Electronic Hall of Fame Reverb

Maxon OD808
Barber Trifecta Fuzz
Strymon Lex
Strymon El Capistan

substituting a EH Humdebugger for a tuner.

Carl Martin Quattro - I'd have them all in one neat tidy package

Compressor, Overdrive, Chorus (Tremolo on early models) and Echo.

Trick question ! I have all four effects in my Fender Deluxe VMs
Chorus, Delay, Reverb, Overdrive and I keep a Snark tuner on the headstock.
So one pedal from the Deluxe is all I need.

Atomic Brain preamp
deville dark echo
TIM
El Capistan

4 is all I use now, 5 is the most I ever took to any gig.

- Fuzz (Monsterpiece NPN)
- OD (Boss OD-3)
- Trem (EHX Pulsar)
- Delay (Boss DD-7)

I need a trem because I use a Bassman nowadays, but I might try to swap it for a Super reverb and ditch the Pulsar...and gain reverb !

Why do so many of you guys have the Nocturne Dyno Brain.

Is it a Gretsch "thing".

P.S I am a recent convert having bought a White Falcon last month.

Regards

For me, it started as a "Gretsch thing" but then I found my other guitars sounded "thin" without the Dyno. So, I use it with my Fender Mustang and even with my Schecter.
It's become my only "always on" pedal, rwgardless of guitar or style I'm playing.

Peterson strobostomp doesnt count :)

Brain preamp
fulltone Supatrem
TIM
El Capistan

I'm surprised you only picked Brain, Tavo. Why not Atomic or Billy?

Mine are:

Nocturne Dyno-brain
MXR Dynacomp (really loving this pedal right now, I blame TV and his 'stang' post)
MXR 78 Custom Bad Ass Distortion
Boss DD-3
Boss Tu-3

All of those running into the Hot Rod Deluxe.

I'm surprised you only picked Brain, Tavo. Why not Atomic or Billy?

Mine are:

Nocturne Dyno-brain
MXR Dynacomp (really loving this pedal right now, I blame TV and his 'stang' post)
MXR 78 Custom Bad Ass Distortion
Boss DD-3
Boss Tu-3

All of those running into the Hot Rod Deluxe.

because my Brain is a DynoAtomicBillyFuzzray :D

because my Brain is a DynoAtomicBillyFuzzray :D

Guess it pays to be the boss. :)

Sunface
Tim
Dr. scientist tremoloessnce.
Toneczar Echoczar

because my Brain is a DynoAtomicBillyFuzzray :D

I wannit.

Exotic-EP3
Fulltone-OCD
Z vex-Mastotron
Boss-DD For some reason I like digital delays. Not sure why.:confused:

Fuzz, od, trem, delay....seems like the standard fare for more than one guitarist. :) What do you think of that Dr. Sci Trem?

Great sound. Very versatile. Don't own one but have played a few and that and the Supa-Trem are my favorites. Give it a try. I'm betting you'll be pleased.

I have two rigs: digital and analog. My digital rig is an AxeFX w/ MFC-101 foot controller, so I don't need anything else except for maybe an expression pedal.

For my analog rig ('63 Bassman), I have currently: Turbo Tuner ST200, Dyno Brain, and El Capistan. Right now, I don't need anything else. If I were to add something, maybe a chorus or digital delay and a wah. I thought about a volume pedal, but that thought usually arrises when I'm practicing (and frustrated with) my master volume technique. :)

my current board suits me fine -

Boss TU-2 Tuner
OG Nocturne Brain Seltzer
Barber Small Fry
MXR Carbon Copy

I picked up a DRRI for my Trem & Verb needs

Amazingly, this is exactly the number of I use when I actually have a pedalboard.

Boss TU-2 (good tuner but worthless in sunlight)
Boss FDR-1 Deluxe Reverb O/D pedal (a good pedal for mild overdrive and nice built-in reverb)
Boss SD-1 Super Overdrive (a good overall overdrive pedal)
Boss FRV-1 Fender Reverb Pedal (almost as good as my tank)
MXR Carbon Copy Analog Delay (my all-time favorite delay pedal)

Crap... I don't know.

I don't like to use pedals.

BUT... say I was in a spot where I had to use an amp that didn't do what I wanted and I had to pick pedals....

I'd probably want:

Gain pedal of some sort (Either Tavo's stuff or Boss)
Delay pedal of some sort (Probably Boss)
Reverb pedal of some sort (Probably Boss)
Trem pedal of some sort (Probably Boss)

... and probably the Boss TU-2 tuner.

4 whirlwind a/b switches....

Well, Ok... Tube screamer, rat, DL-4, and that custom pedal that makes me loOk and sound like a player much better than myself....

AC30

Q Zone (auto wah)

Dirty Little Secret (medium gain)

Hot Cake (high gain)

This is my Thin Lizzy/Zepplin/Queen sounds

Super Reverb

Butah (low gain)

Custom Baby Quazar (phaser in a bigger custom box with a stereo Panning pedal)

DMM (delay/chorus)

Mini Deja (leslie/vibe)

This is my Badfinger, Cars, rockabilly sounds


Then just run the rigs in stereo :) Thats only a max of four per amp :) Besides you cant count the vibe or tremelo on the Super..