Effects Pedals.

Redegg

Right I'm heading into town to get some new pedals. What does everyone recommend. I Like the sounds of pavement, pixies, placebo, radiohead.... no metal basically.

I need some sort of overdrive/dist and and a delay just for fun.. any other pedals/effect people recommend? any help greatly appreciated!

Hip

Redegg wrote:

I need some sort of overdrive/dist and and a delay just for fun..

A wahwah pedal in the middle of those two is always fun.

Redegg

have one.

-=al=-

a Compresor? chorus? eq...... my compressor is nearly always on, eq most of the time..
chorus can add more dimention and add to a nice clean tone

try the boss overdrives the "od" ones, they can have a nicer less harsh overdrive/distortion....

fish-head

Big Muff for the fuzziest of the fuzzies! I my Muff. :P

jcoote

tubescreamer for distortion and a boss dd-6 for delay (or if u can afford it the line 6 delay stuff is sensational).. chorus and comp are other obvious choices..that should do unless u want to mes around with sound effects and mad noises

Mongo

Whammy!!Mad noises altogether

Creamy Goodness

i'd try the pedals in town, then buy them online, you'll save money (perhaps 10-20 euros a pedal)

Redegg

cheers for the tips. Im interested to see what a chorus does. Anyone know any good site I could buy off?? ones in Ireland perhaps. Is ebay a bad idea?

david

Nope Ebay is good. Best cheap digital delay available is the Line 6 Echo Park. It's amazing, a downsized version of the DL-4 (no loop sampler) for one third the priceof the DL-4. I highly recommend it.... Much better than any boss delay for like... €50 less. €129 ish on www.thomann.de

fish-head

Chorus is a disgustingly 80's sound..

feylya

Only when people can't use it right. That's like saying distortion is an 80's sound :rolleyes:

Fusion251

Mongo wrote:

Whammy!!Mad noises altogether

I second that motion, Digitech whammy pedals are great fun.

Fusion
:cool:

Redegg

right after tryong out a load. think the ones i really like are. all boss
od-3
dd-3
md-3 mega dist?

Did not really like the distorion pedal that much. thought the od-3 would do the job. what does everyone think of them? the dd-3 is incredibly expensive but it was so much fun. have not had that much fun since our protest in primary school.

fish-head

feylya wrote:

Only when people can't use it right. That's like saying distortion is an 80's sound :rolleyes:

I dunno..whenever I hear chorus i just think "Paradise City".

david

Redegg wrote:

right after tryong out a load. think the ones i really like are. all boss
od-3
dd-3
md-3 mega dist?

Did not really like the distorion pedal that much. thought the od-3 would do the job. what does everyone think of them? the dd-3 is incredibly expensive but it was so much fun. have not had that much fun since our protest in primary school.

DONT get a DD-3 whatever you do.... theyre soooo basic and dont sound as good as an Echo Park! The echo park is cheaper and all... just buy one! Or at least try one out before you hand over the squids for that boss yoke.

John

Check out ProCo's RAT range of distortion pedals, they sound lovely.

And any effect can sound great used right. Chorus can sound awful but it can also sound beautiful, just have to know what you're doing.

I've fallen in love with ****ing around with pitchshifters lately, great fun. Especially if you like Johnny Greenwood in his bleepy guitar mode

fish-head

Mmmmm Johnny Greenwood...what a god. I was watching Radiohead live on vh2 last night, he's just so damn cool. The amount of strraaaaange stuff he does is wonderful!

jcoote

yeah definatly don't get a dd-3 man they are really really basic as freakonaleashx said... line6 all the way once u can get it at the right price...would u consider multi fx??

david

€129 is cheap for an echo park, get one new from thomann

Redegg

i have given up on multi fx.. not made to last...