so whats everyone using pedal wise,currently im running

dod fx10 bi-fet pre-amp-clean boost (sounds very a. sparhawk!)
color sound dipthonizer -fuzz/vowel filter kinda p.j harvey-ish
maxon od 808-basic overdriven sound
lovetone big cheese sydbarret's brain in a box (i.e mad)

i'm likin this rig for the moment...

so what you folk usin?

Z.Vex Super Hard On - sort of John Holmes-ish
Boss Analog Delay - sort of Dave Grohl-ish

Wait, you said distortion.

JCM900 50W SLX - sort of Marshall-ish

EHX LPB2ube (again, really dumb name), which I talk about here and here.

I like the tone possibilities, particularly with the two channels cascaded, even though I am not fully convinced that it's not starved plate. (There is a transformer inside, but there are also light bulbs on the circuit board.) Also, the durability is not that good--one screw holds the circuit board off the chassis, and when it inevitably loosens, your chassis will go live. But again, I like the tone options, which range from bright sparkle to responsive to edgy to crunchy to slabs-o-distortion.

Humphrey Bear wrote:No pedals and no effects. I just plug my guitar directly into my amplifier and commence to suck.

at least you are honest!

susan wrote:

Humphrey Bear wrote:No pedals and no effects. I just plug my guitar directly into my amplifier and commence to suck.

at least you are honest!

Unlike most people I don't need piles of effects and pedals to get a good sound. If you don't sound good when plugged straight into an amp, you should consider playing another instrument or not playing at all.

Boss HM-2 Heavy Metal
MXR Distortion+
Seymour Duncan Pickup Booster
Danelectro Fish & Chips EQ
Fender Hot Rod Deluxe

I use the HM2 set with the high all the way up and the low all the way down, just for a weird painful tone every now and then

The MXR is my main distortion, I love the pedal.

I always leave the pickup booster on to drive my amp into slight break up, and I'll boost everything on the EQ as well to get distortion at times. So those two aren't actually distortion pedals, but that's how I use them pretty much.

I also have a Russian Big Muff Pi in the chain at the moment, but I hardly use it unless I'm playing a song from Siamese Dream, ha.

I was going to do an image search to post pictures, out of boredom, but I have a picture with all the pedals anyways.

If I had a two-channel amp that was not in dire need of a tube change and a re-biasing, I probably wouldn't use any pedals...or maybe very sparingly. I've got a modified DS-1 that is my main, as well a Boss MT-2 that turns my 15w EL-84 amp into a towering inferno of metal madness.

Humpty Bear eat your heart out.

sunset_gun wrote:Humpty Bear eat your heart out.

I don't have a heart.

HAO Rust Booster
TS808 knock off by cusack music
Z.VEX SHO