Desert Island Drive Pedals

[falco_femoralis]

Piggy backing off Locrian's thread...

If you were stuck on a desert island that somehow had a power grid and your favorite amp and guitar, and you could only have 3 drive pedals because this scenario makes sense, which 3 would you pick?

I'd pick a Fuzz Face, Tube Screamer, and BD-2. But I'm also using this as a way of learning about different drive pedals to build and try out so take mine with a grain of salt (no salt on the island tho)

 

[drgonzo1969]

rat
systech overdrive
hm-3

 

[PapaBear]

Merman
Frost Drive
Rat (or maybe a Muff)

 

[jcpst]

I’ll miss the point of this, of course. If my “favorite amp” could be any amp, I wouldn’t be interested in a drive pedal for the most part. Also, while I’m spiraling off on a tangent, I think my desire for overdrive would be much lower if there’s no bassist and drummer. And even lower if I’m chilling on a beach, taking siestas, no cars, noise, light pollution…

But for this exercise, if we count gain-y circuits in general.

- a clean boost that pairs well with the amp
- for a long time I would say rat, but lately a vintage-spec DS-1 has been filling that role for me. But regardless of what I chose here, I would wish I had a different pedal at some point.
- If there’s a band, a green ringer. I’d be so bored if I couldn’t skronk and clang.

If I’m not jamming with anyone, I don’t think I would care if I had any pedals or not.

 

[Aentons]

My modded TS9DX
Deluxe memory man
Vfe Enterprise

 

[jcpst]

Deluxe memory man

I like how I pondered this for a second before thinking “yeah you could count that as a drive”

 

[mckillacuddy]

RAT2
HM2
TL2

 

[zeropluszero]

Hx Stomp, klon, hm2

 

[Aentons]

I like how I pondered this for a second before thinking “yeah you could count that as a drive”

Oh shit, haha I missed the drive part.

 

[anevilspar7an]

All Darkglass since I'm primarily a metal bassist.
1. Microtubes X-Ultra
2. Alpha-Omega Ultra
3. Duality Fuzz

 

[gonzo]

Treble booster, dod 250, and a fuzz face or tone bender

 

[leadfoot]

Since it is just me and no band I think it'd be a bit different since the only mix I'd be cutting through is in my head I'll just make this a top three pedals today.

1. Dwarfcraft Devices Reese Lightning - forget the Eau Claire Thunder this should be the fuzz they're known for.
2. Compact Phasing A - easily my favorite phaser, I just wish there were more clones of this out there.
3. EHX EchoFlanger / PastFx PolyChorus - I'm a fan of modulation and UFO noises are awesome

 

[PedalBuilder]

Gemini IV - A germanium harmonic percolator-ish circuit and a silicon fuzz face-ish circuit that you can blend together in or out of phase with each other. Lots of fun textures to play with here.
Mechanic - A germanium fuzz face by our very own Chuck Bones. Unlike the original fuzz face, this one has very useful tone controls and stays biased regardless of the ambient temperature.
Rotobone - A Jordan Bosstone derivative that does everything from overdrive to wall of fuzz to trumpet-esque tones.

 

[Nostradoomus]

ts
rat
hm2

The idiotbox That’s No Moon was so close to perfect

I have plans.

 

[Passinwind]

Piggy backing off Locrian's thread...

If you were stuck on a desert island that somehow had a power grid and your favorite amp and guitar, and you could only have 3 drive pedals because this scenario makes sense, which 3 would you pick?

Not sure I'd pick any drive. I currently own two but rarely use either one, and whatever my favorite amp turned out to be after I built it to be would already have excellent drive capability by default.

But since you want look into some different ones, I have a modded Crystal Lettuce Silver and a Fender Santa Ana, which both do very different things pretty well. I also have a heavily modded Hafler T2 rack job, which I actually do use a little more and really like for both guitar and bass. And yes, it has $5 clipping diodes in it, for real...