1 pedal only

mickie08 · Post by **mickie08** » Mon Mar 15, 2010 6:12 am

Not sure. Currently with the Jet City amp I can get pretty good OD and distortion out of it so it would probably be some sort of modulation. So if only 1 choice then it would be a delay I think.

Will · Post by **Will** » Mon Mar 15, 2010 7:52 am

Don't have one, and never will, but a tuner is the obvious choice.

Right now I have an EA Tremolo in an ugly spray-painted box. I'd probably use that.

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Mon Mar 15, 2010 7:58 am

creamydreamer. its broke tho

izodiak · Post by **izodiak** » Mon Mar 15, 2010 8:54 am

Would keep my danelectro reverb.

overdrive I can do my amp quite nicely.
and my echo and octave pedals I use just under some circumstances.

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Mon Mar 15, 2010 10:37 am

It'd have to be a nice analog delay like a Memory Man or something. I could do without overdrive or distortion and my amp is only a single channel. Most of the things I've been playing with the band don't have any dirt and are more delay based cleans.
Forget the tuner! If someone else has one then tune to them. If youre playing alone than who cares!

Thom · Post by **Thom** » Mon Mar 15, 2010 10:53 am

Tuner first and foremost - but if we're talking actual effects, then depends on what amp I guess, but it would go like this:

Marshall: Carbon Copy Delay
Princeton: Catalinbread DLS

Post by **Mike** » Mon Mar 15, 2010 10:55 am

I can happily play direct to my amp since it has Clean and Crunch sounds I love, but if I didn't have a dirt channel I liked I would probably go for an overdrive pedal like the DLS or the OCD, depending on which one got on with the amp I was using better.

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Mon Mar 15, 2010 11:47 am

Why are we having so many threads that we've already had just a matter of months ago?

Saltbooster, likely.

http://www.shortscale.org/forum/viewtop ... er&start=0

http://www.shortscale.org/forum/viewtop ... altbooster

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Mon Mar 15, 2010 12:16 pm

opinions change! i know i wouldn't have the same answer six months ago and i'm sure i won't six months from now

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Mon Mar 15, 2010 12:31 pm

This thread upsets me a lot.

Since I can't say"M13 LOL" because, frankly, I'm better than that, I'm going to nominate whatever my fuzz-du-jour is. And lately, that's my Tonebender; it can do the sizzling fuzzes that you'd expect with aplomb, but what consistently suprises me about it is the amount of bass it pushes out. I keep finding whales beached on my drive etc.

Progrockabuse · Post by **Progrockabuse** » Mon Mar 15, 2010 12:34 pm

Haze wrote:opinions change! i know i wouldn't have the same answer six months ago and i'm sure i won't six months from now

fair enough point. My opinion changes a bit and then it's something that I've sold that I wish I'd kept.
For me it a toss up between my DLS or the tubescreamer. The DLS is the go to box I can pair with anything and know it'll sound great. The tubescreamer works really well with my amp, the mid range hump helps the amp in my case, as my amp lacks a lot of mids. Close call for me to choose between the two.

lorez · Post by **lorez** » Mon Mar 15, 2010 12:46 pm

BacchusPaul wrote:Why are we having so many threads that we've already had just a matter of months ago?

Haze wrote:opinions change! i know i wouldn't have the same answer six months ago and i'm sure i won't six months from now

Also, noobs get crucified for resurrecting old threads as well. Kinda catch 22.

for me currently it is my DLS.

ultratwin · Post by **ultratwin** » Mon Mar 15, 2010 2:11 pm

One pedal is a mean option. I'm a (1)dirt and (2)delay guy, with compression at a steady no.3 for me.

Still, a two-in-one is the way I'd still go to work with an amp, and I've grown quite fond of this red quirky dual-channel Korean dirt box:

That being said, not unlike Benecol I'd like to pretend a dude like Mr. Martin was already in the collection:

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Mon Mar 15, 2010 2:45 pm

Polychorus

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Mon Mar 15, 2010 3:27 pm

paulychorus

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Mon Mar 15, 2010 4:11 pm

Matt wrote:paulychorus

Deluxe Memory Matt

less_cunning · Post by **less_cunning** » Mon Mar 15, 2010 6:33 pm

Hazarai.

riotshield · Post by **riotshield** » Mon Mar 15, 2010 8:05 pm

ultratwin wrote: That being said, not unlike Benecol I'd like to pretend a dude like Mr. Martin was already in the collection:

My choice will probably always be deluxe memory man

also, happy to see someone dig carl martin as well

Ankhanu · Post by **Ankhanu** » Mon Mar 15, 2010 8:30 pm

My Strobostomp seems like the obvious choice... tuning is pretty damn important. But, at the same time, I went 12+ years without a tuner pedal, and my basses stay in tune pretty solidly.
With that in mind, I suppose the one pedal I'd want to keep (of the ones I actually own) would be my DP-1 for dirt. Really, it's the only pedal I use much. The others I play around with, but never gig with.

Jahsoul · Post by **Jahsoul** » Mon Mar 15, 2010 9:06 pm

My Trogotronic TR86