Tuner, compressor, delay, reverb and drive.
Everything but the tuner will likely be replaced by me viewing youtube content, but im good with that, know my weaknesses.
Hard to argue that!
I bought an exotic bb because I liked the tones people got with it.I have a few I've been using for several years. With pedals, everything's down to individual needs, so I'm not saying any of this stuff would work for anyone else, it simply works for me:
Suhr Buffer, because it's small, transparent and is able to drive long pedal chains and cable runs. It has a second isolated output so I can run wet/dry or wet/dry/wet without ground loop noise; or I can run a direct out to my recording gear along with my miked-up amps. It also has a phase switch.
Eventide H9 Max. Sounds great for digital gear, has ten zillion useful algorithms, and has an IOS app and/or computer that works simply and wirelessly for editing and setting all parameters in seconds - no bending over the pedal for menu diving, no need to dig up a cable to attach to computer or device. Very powerful. Also has the classic H3000 algorithms I used for many years with rackmount gear. The ducked delay alone is worth the price of admission.
Lehle 1 at 3 amp switcher. No noise, no switch pops, no ground loops, can select between one amp or more than one amp at a time, and is all kinds of programmable.
Fulltone OCD. Good with all of my amps. One of those things lots of people depend on.
Xotic BB, because it meshes very, very well with my PRS DG30 amp. It's the only pedal I've found that makes the DG sound even more DG.
Suhr Koji Compressor for its very transparent compression and a switchable EQ. Compressors are just plain great for clean tones, and this is a good one. The Suhr folks also use soft-click switches that don't make noise.
The Suhr Kokoboost adds a nice sparkle, fattens the signal a bit, and has a switchable mid boost with variable frequency emphasis to push the mids for solos where you need them for your amps. I like clean boost instead of overdrive with the HXDA when I want a bit extra.
Suhr Jackrabbit tremolo is analog, with tap tempo, not noisy, great sound.
Fulltone Tube Tape Echo. No digital tape echo emulation really has "the sound." This one was designed with input from Mike Battle, the guy who invented the Echoplex, and is so authentic that the tape cartridges also work with the early '60s machines.
The post you quoted is from 5 years ago, it's a little out of date.I bought an exotic bb because I liked the tones people got with it.
I seriously think that once my hands touch something it ceases to function as intended.
Ha ha ha well..........I did buy a used PD2 and I don't use it so there you go!!The post you quoted is from 5 years ago, it's a little out of date.
I don't have the OCD or the Xotic BB any more. They did leave my board! Not that they were bad at all, in fact, they're great pedals and served me well, but three years ago I got interested in exploring more transparent / less compressed overdrives.
I was looking for more of a 'vintage studio gear' sound than a high-coloration pedal sound. With four amps I figured I could get the variety I wanted with the amps, and just use pedals to slightly color the 'edge of breakup' tone I like. It worked.
So I replaced them at first with a Pettyjohn Pettydrive 2, which combined two of their pedals, the Chime and the Iron, and eventually transitioned to a Pettyjohn Edge and a Pettyjohn Chime as separate pedals because I wasn't using the Iron side of the PD2. These are low-to-medium gain pedals. They're very transparent the way I use them. Of course with any pedal, it's always a matter of whether it can be set up to give you what you were hoping to get, and these do it for me, with my guitars, my taste, and my amps.
On the other hand, what we do with guitars, amps, and tone is so different that if I have a piece of gear, you should automatically run the other way!
Kind of a big board, but I think it's always good to keep one's options open.