What are your ‘desert island’ guitar effects

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What are your ‘desert island’ effects (can select TWO)

Boost
1
1%
Overdrive
12
8%
Distortion
14
10%
Fuzz
22
15%
Pitch shifting (incl. octave)
2
1%
Flanger
2
1%
Chorus
4
3%
Phaser
2
1%
Vibe
1
1%
Leslie simulator
0
No votes
Tremolo
10
7%
Wah
0
No votes
Envelope filter (really? Are you Frank Zappa?)
1
1%
Reverb
20
14%
Delay
43
30%
Looper
6
4%
Equalizer
0
No votes
Compression
2
1%
Some obscure shit… let me tell you about it
0
No votes
None (It’s all in the fingers dude)
1
1%
 
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What are your ‘desert island’ guitar effects

Post by JVG » Wed Jun 16, 2021 12:16 am

For some inexplicable reason you’re heading to a desert island.

The island conveniently has a reliable power supply, and an amp (with no built-in effects) and your fave guitar are waiting there for you, which is pretty weird, right?

However, you ate too many pies for lunch, so the plane taking you to the island can only carry a maximum of two effect pedals….what are they?

No multi-effects units :Pl

Edit: added comment about amp not having effects built-in
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Re: What are your ‘desert island’ guitar effects

Post by fortytwo » Wed Jun 16, 2021 1:01 am

Red Llama and a Space, that should get me pretty far.

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Re: What are your ‘desert island’ guitar effects

Post by CorporateDisguise » Wed Jun 16, 2021 1:57 am

Give me a Superfuzz, a Big Muff and an eventide space or SA Ventris, and I’ll never be bored. If you’d let me have a phaser, I’d love you forever.......
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Re: What are your ‘desert island’ guitar effects

Post by O Drones » Wed Jun 16, 2021 1:58 am

Big Muff and a DM-2

Pretty much all I use anyway, aside from a tuner and OD to boost the Muff
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Re: What are your ‘desert island’ guitar effects

Post by sholkham » Wed Jun 16, 2021 3:01 am

Fuzz and a Reverb I could be happy with. Maybe I could learn to use my volume knob in place of a boost pedal.
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Re: What are your ‘desert island’ guitar effects

Post by bubba899 » Wed Jun 16, 2021 5:50 am

Tonebender and a DMM would do the trick. Could get chorusy sounds out of the DMM as a cheeky bonus.

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Post by s_mcsleazy » Wed Jun 16, 2021 7:31 am

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Re: What are your ‘desert island’ guitar effects

Post by jorri » Wed Jun 16, 2021 7:55 am

Space would be cheating its almost a multi-fx unit.

Loop loop loop.
What better than to layer and jam with yourself, and the ability to make soundonsound textures is one of the most versatile effects.

Then i suppose delay. Which technically could often appear with a looper on a single pedal most of the time...

And im fine with amp distortion i'll assume thats good.

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Re: What are your ‘desert island’ guitar effects

Post by Telliot » Wed Jun 16, 2021 8:24 am

I'm gonna cheat. I'd have my PR, so reverb and tremolo are included automatically. Beyond that I'd say an FC Barbershop, and an EHX Hazarai, since it's both a delay and a looper (I'm generally not much of a looper guy, but if I'm on a desert island I'd need something to keep me occupied).
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Re: What are your ‘desert island’ guitar effects

Post by Embenny » Wed Jun 16, 2021 8:53 am

What amp do I have to play them through?

If I get to bring my Axe FX III, I'm good. The only pedal I need is the footswitch/controller :P

If I've got a tube amp - which one? Overdrive/distortion and reverb would be my two choices if I was stuck with a clean and dry amp, but if it's an amp that has those, then I'd go with a delay/looper and an octave pedal, so that I can lay down basslines and play over them. Would help stave off the inevitable insanity and volleyball conversations for a while.
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Re: What are your ‘desert island’ guitar effects

Post by fuzzjunkie » Wed Jun 16, 2021 9:22 am

CorporateDisguise wrote:
Wed Jun 16, 2021 1:57 am
Give me a Superfuzz, a Big Muff and an eventide space or SA Ventris, and I’ll never be bored. If you’d let me have a phaser, I’d love you forever.......
I would say that a Space almost qualifies as a multi effect, but what if I told you it can do Phaser effects?

Well, I think it could? It can definitely do flanger and chorus with the ModEchoReverb algorithm. Probably would not sound like an MXR 90, but you could get some comb filtering going on with reverb.

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Re: What are your ‘desert island’ guitar effects

Post by fuzzjunkie » Wed Jun 16, 2021 9:29 am

I would place Echo, Fuzz, Reverb and Tremolo as my favorite effects, probably in that order. My AC-30 has Tremolo, so I would just need a nice delay pedal and a fuzz that cleans up a bit.

Deluxe Memory Man and a Tonebender sound heavenly into a Vox amp. I’d go with a Sola Sound Mk-4 on the Tonebender as it covers a lot of sonic ground. A DMM into a Vox and you really don’t need reverb. Maybe this island has a cave and then a reverb pedal definitely isn’t necessary!

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Re: What are your ‘desert island’ guitar effects

Post by HarlowTheFish » Wed Jun 16, 2021 9:45 am

OD & Compressor -- get me some good flexible ones (i.e. Wampler Dual Fusion or Ceriatione Horsebreaker and something like an Empress compressor) and I'm pretty set for all the tones I could reasonably ask for. Not a huge effecty-effect kinda guy: I use them decently often because they're there, but I could make do without if I had to.

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Re: What are your ‘desert island’ guitar effects

Post by Strango » Wed Jun 16, 2021 10:17 am

I went with reverb and tremolo, but probably overdrive wouldn’t supersede the trem. Gimme a Flint and, I dunno, a Carcosa and that probably covered my bases there.

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Re: What are your ‘desert island’ guitar effects

Post by sal paradise » Wed Jun 16, 2021 10:33 am

TU2?
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