Since I've switched back to hardware for a lot of my production I want to revisit having a small pedalboard. This will not replace my more complex rack mounted stuff nor will it replace plugins. I just want something on the floor, plugged into my mixer, that I can just pick up my guitar and start playing without farting around with any presets. I only have a few pedals, none of which I'm in love with, and so I'm pretty much starting from scratch with this.
I am not interested in the politics of boutique pedal builders which is, IMNSHO, even worse and more irritating than that of boutique module builders. I'm looking for the cheapest things that sound great. To be clear, if it is a clone and it shares the schematic of the original, then it sounds just like the original to my ears and I have absolutely zero interest in collecting vintage pedals. Obviously, digital pedals have a much wider variance. The one thing that is important is the basics of durability. I'll pay more for something in a metal box with a durable foot-switch.
Ok, then, let's begin.
Input : some kind of buffer with three outputs, pedal chain, direct out to mixer, and tuner. I have a few choices on Amazon for this, but I'm not settled on anything. If I could build this cheaper than buying it, I would because it is dead simple. However, at the current budge pedal prices, I see no point to this.
So, I'm thinking the Behringer tuner would be fine for a tuner, but I'm not sure if I want to spend $35 even when I can get a monoprice tuner for $20. Suggestions welcome. I want a tuner on the floor though that is on all of the time.
Then comes overdrive and distortion, right now I think that the Moskey Audio Silver (klon clone) followed by the Moskey Audio Black Rat (proco rat clone) will fit the bill at about $30 each. Open to suggestions for good reasons.
Then comes whatever. Here's where I want good suggestions of excellent low budget pedals. I'm not really looking for time based pedals because that isn't something that I typically want before the amp-sim. That said, we can still talk about the coolest budget options because I might change my mind on this. So mostly just simple mono in, mono out pedals. I really want a phasor that can be very slow or even have manual control with no LFO.
Finally, I want an amp sim. Here I'm willing to spend a (little) bit more. I'm thinking that the Boss IR-2 might have the right level of simplicity with a reasonable balance of quality, price, and flexibility.
So this will give me two outputs to feed into my mixer. Direct from the guitar, and an amp modeled output with distortion. I can just pick up my guitar and jam with whatever else that I have going on but I can also capture just the clean channel so that I can re-voice it later, all without turning on my computer.
Related: I need a power supply and high quality right angle short cables that consume a minimum of space. Willing to spend more on these, I hate crappy cables.
I am not interested in the politics of boutique pedal builders which is, IMNSHO, even worse and more irritating than that of boutique module builders. I'm looking for the cheapest things that sound great. To be clear, if it is a clone and it shares the schematic of the original, then it sounds just like the original to my ears and I have absolutely zero interest in collecting vintage pedals. Obviously, digital pedals have a much wider variance. The one thing that is important is the basics of durability. I'll pay more for something in a metal box with a durable foot-switch.
Ok, then, let's begin.
Input : some kind of buffer with three outputs, pedal chain, direct out to mixer, and tuner. I have a few choices on Amazon for this, but I'm not settled on anything. If I could build this cheaper than buying it, I would because it is dead simple. However, at the current budge pedal prices, I see no point to this.
So, I'm thinking the Behringer tuner would be fine for a tuner, but I'm not sure if I want to spend $35 even when I can get a monoprice tuner for $20. Suggestions welcome. I want a tuner on the floor though that is on all of the time.
Then comes overdrive and distortion, right now I think that the Moskey Audio Silver (klon clone) followed by the Moskey Audio Black Rat (proco rat clone) will fit the bill at about $30 each. Open to suggestions for good reasons.
Then comes whatever. Here's where I want good suggestions of excellent low budget pedals. I'm not really looking for time based pedals because that isn't something that I typically want before the amp-sim. That said, we can still talk about the coolest budget options because I might change my mind on this. So mostly just simple mono in, mono out pedals. I really want a phasor that can be very slow or even have manual control with no LFO.
Finally, I want an amp sim. Here I'm willing to spend a (little) bit more. I'm thinking that the Boss IR-2 might have the right level of simplicity with a reasonable balance of quality, price, and flexibility.
So this will give me two outputs to feed into my mixer. Direct from the guitar, and an amp modeled output with distortion. I can just pick up my guitar and jam with whatever else that I have going on but I can also capture just the clean channel so that I can re-voice it later, all without turning on my computer.
Related: I need a power supply and high quality right angle short cables that consume a minimum of space. Willing to spend more on these, I hate crappy cables.
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