I've been using effects on an off for years and I finally got round to building a proper board.
And that proper board stays in it's case, while I plug into a cranked Tiny Terror.
I think I have come to the conclusion that after many years of obsessing and lusting after stomp boxes, I buy them, but never use them. Virtually every time I play now I use my Tiny Terror with the guitar straight in. My TH30 is seldom use as I have it set up for pedals in the loop, but can't be bothered to use them.
So having had this revelation I think I'm going to de-pedal my life, strip back to the simple pleasures of guitar, tuner, amp.
I have to say it's an incredibly liberating moment!
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Although I still think the right combination of chorus, flanger and analogue delay can sound amazing!
Like someone here said once "Spending lots of money and hours of time on a minor tweak that no-one else notices"
Don't you all get it ?
It's not the effect that counts but that you care that it counts. It's your care that is the greatest effect there is.
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2017: Faith Blood Moon Neptune
One of my favourite pedals is a volume pedal for Swells and tremolo effects. Love it. While I love going au naturelle I was be at a loss without a delay pedal.
Because I cover quite a range of 'commercial' music I find the use of basic pedals rather useful into a good clean amp. The fine tuning thing often passes me by these days (in my yoof I spent hours tweaking each new pedal to explore ane understand thier potentiel). I tend to have one good/nice usable sound on each pedal and select them singularly or in combination as applicable. I do believe less is more as far as effects are concerned, it's the ability to go from a police flange sound to a slapback echo rock n' roll sound to a compressed funk chop to an EVH overdrive to a clapton overdrive in rapid succession that makes pedals so useful. Bending over between every song to adjust something is not required, your playing style does enough of that (there are exceptions to every rule).
My pedal board is now nicely established in a large pupose built wooden case with a lift off top. My only consideration now is to reduce the size/weight of the thing.