How many do you play through?

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BuddytheReow

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The past few days I've been playing mix and match on my board to get a really good tone for a basement player such as myself. I stopped and realized I was playing through 5 pedals at once (6 if you count the reverb on my amp). Booster>OD>Light Dist>Tone Shaper>Noise Gate. This was a record for me! Not that "more is more" here; I just realized I got a really nice tone I was looking for and it just so happened to need 5 pedals.

How many do you usually play through at once? Switching pedals is one thing. I'm talking simultaneously. Normally for me its 2, maybe 3.
 
Always on hx stomp in 4cm with my Marshall for any reverbs, delays or modulation. I run a fuzz face, a boost and a drive pedal in the front. I might stack two of those but usually one at a time. I don't use noise gates because I don't get excessive noise.
 
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Lately my chain has been
Thumbsucker > Paragon Mini > Volume pedal > Source Audio Collider

I turn the amp up so that it’s too loud and then self mix with the volume pedal.

Everything stays on pretty much always. I’ll roll the volume back for less gain or kick in the second half of the Paragon for more. Overall vibe tends to be controlled by which of a few presets on the Collider I’m using.
 
I always have at least one pedal on. I play through a very loud old SS amp. I use pedals to shape the tone 95%; AIAB. On top of that is usually compressor, and maybe some mild OD. That’s kind of the base tone (as opposed to the bass tone). From there I’ll add some modulation or fuzz, or maybe loop something and jam…
 
All the time 4, input boost, preamp, Unicab, output buffer/boost. Often 7+ previous pedals plus OD, rat and/or big muff, modulation or delay, reverb.

Currently Mercurial-Rat-Bigmuff-Octuplet-Unicab-Seahorse and Trembling loon(as buffer/boost) +rack reverb. I would be unlikely to have the chorus and octave on at the same time and I'm in between preamps, with many more on the way, currently.
 
Recently I’ve been playing through the following: Vibe->SoB->Carbon copy. I often use Flanger instead of Vibe but I have that after the SoB. I also have a bit of reverb on the amp and sometimes vibrato as well.
 
Always on depending on the amp, but most likely a compressor with a mild overdrive a touch of delay, reverb or chorus. I like to keep 2-3 overdrives and a distortion in my chain, also a Flanger or Phaser.
 
Probably too many. lol.
General Tso’s compressor and Clandestine Preamp never get turned off.

Always have some kind of reverb on (even if very light) and have a delay on probably 95% of the time (similarly, sometimes very low repeats/mix, but almost never fully “dry”).

And I use a pair of amp sims which I guess are technically pedals that don’t get turned off, either. So by that count it’d be 6 lol.
 
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Probably too many. lol.
General Tso’s compressor and Clandestine Preamp never get turned off.

Always have some kind of reverb on (even if very light) and have a delay on probably 95% of the time (similarly, sometimes very low repeats/mix, but almost never fully “dry”).

And I use a pair of amp sims which I guess are technically pedals that don’t get turned off, either. So by that count it’d be 6 lol.
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And that’s not counting a passive volume pedal and tuner pedal lol
 
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I don't think I have an always on pedal. I love reverb and most things I play will start with that. And then from there it depends. I've been enjoying things as a clean boost recently to bring out different frequencies.
But then as I jam with myself I don't think it's incredibly abnormal to get even 6ish going at a time? Something like fuzz -> comp -> modulation -> preamp -> delay -> reverb.

The more pedals I engage the less I like a compressor (I use mine early in the chain and i prefer to get the dynamics out of my pick attack)

Occasionally I might look down and notice I have 8 pedals going at once. I don't think that's an issue as long as 1. it sounds good in the environment/mix and 2. your noise floor is bearable at volume.

I don't think i would fault anyone for knowing that their clean tone took 8 active pedals to get. As long as he has somewhere to go from there.
 
Always atleast three, Boughton high-pass -> mxr bass comp -> pedalpcb lamb chop. The biggest change is if I use modulation I turn off the lamb chop beacuase I don't like dirty modulation. Any other pedal I just leave the main three on.
 
When I pick up to noodle, I'll plug in at least a Rat variant. On the rare occasion my board is actually wired up (and in the last bands I played in), I run through a FreqOut, Ring Thing, and a Rat. Most everything else is just fluffy flux, though there are a few that I have plans to incorporate into a permanent rig (DuoPhase, a couple envelope filters, and I'm trying to find the flanger and chorus that really spark inspiration for me)

Really, though- I just need a filthy scuzz box to get me goin
 
I played through 3 paralleled reverse reverbs the other day. At once. So, um, sometimes all of them.
But guitar and pedals are a way for me to tickle the former audio engineer and current EE in me.
I'm all for new, weird, unrecognizable sounds.
 
I think minimum of 4 for me, but it depends on if I'm playing with an amp or headphones/modeller. I don't usually play with a clean signal (I mostly play metal). Usually I'll stack drives or a boost and distortion. That gives me some flexibility to chug and noodle. That goes into at least one always-on delay (timeline on the tape setting with the modeller, hydra or carbon copy with an amp), into a reverb (dynamic plate on the hx stomp, gravitation reverb with pedals). If it's around I'll use a general tso. Like a fool I only have one. I need to build a couple more so I never have to go without. That thing's incredible.
 
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My board has a tuner, OD, delay and a Flint. In a way I'm cheating because the OD has a boost in it as well and the Flint has two effects. Often I'll stick whatever OD/fuzz I've been working on in front of the board. That's all I ever use at home, and for gigs it would probably be fewer. I try to use as little as possible because (a) I don't use anything more and (b) I'm terrified of something going wrong!

At home I often use a little reverb from the Flint but in a band I only use reverb as an effect, ie rarely and strongly. Rarely use tremolo even though I like it. Just don't find a use for it. And I never use modulation. Other guys can use it well but I can't. Never use a wah because of wah face and it's been done. I like the beautiful sound I get from my guitars with a little OD and a great amp.
 
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