How many effects pedals do you currently own?

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How many effects pedals do you currently own?

0 - pedals are for wankers!
0
No votes
1 to 5 - I’m a minimalist
4
7%
5 to 10 - keeping things practical
11
18%
10 to 20 - gives me enough options
15
25%
20 to 40 - I like pedals
18
30%
40 to 60 - I may have over-indulged
7
12%
60 to 100 - whoa, this is getting out of control
2
3%
Over 100 - I need help (or do I?)
3
5%
 
Total votes: 60

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How many effects pedals do you currently own?

Post by JVG » Sat Oct 23, 2021 12:55 pm

Just a bit of fun….

Tell us why you only need 2 pedals, or confess to a sympathetic audience that you’ve just reached 500 and you have pedal-buying ‘issues’. Or anything in between!

How many stomp boxes do you CURRENTLY own?

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Re: How many effects pedals do you currently own?

Post by marqueemoon » Sat Oct 23, 2021 1:33 pm

I’m in the 20-40 range.

My actual boards are on the small side, but I play in 3 bands and have a setup for each plus extra stuff.

The extras are boosts, dirt/fuzz, delay, and preamp/DI-type stuff. Nothing very exotic.

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Post by zhivago » Sat Oct 23, 2021 1:44 pm

I think I am somewhere in the low 20s...I used to have just one board, but now I am in a band again I found myself with two boards! :D
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Re: How many effects pedals do you currently own?

Post by del » Sat Oct 23, 2021 1:59 pm

I'm in the 20-40 range, but I usually play with only three or four pedal - fuzz, overdrive, tremolo, and delay.
I have exact duplicates (e.g. a couple of old Rats) and lots of crossover equivalents (e.g. so many delays and distortos of all sorts).

I should really sell a lot of them, but I'm in a not-very-big local market and I'm not a fan of online reselling/auction sites.
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Post by windmill » Sat Oct 23, 2021 2:57 pm

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Post by i love sharin foo » Sat Oct 23, 2021 3:09 pm

Counting my two reverb units and tape echo, I think I am at 62. I've had more so I'm not too worried about it. It's almost all stuff that I rotate in and out of use.
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Post by MattK » Sat Oct 23, 2021 3:20 pm

Delta Lab TO1 (TS clone)
Boss CS3 Compression Sustainer (Keeley mod)
MXR Carbon Copy
MXR Blue Box
Behringer Super Fuzz

+ on the "for sale" pile, EHX Hot Tubes (full size 1980), and a kit-built Dwarfcraft Great Destroyer

However, 99.9% of the time, no pedals at all!

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Post by soggy mittens » Sat Oct 23, 2021 5:23 pm

72 (not including mic mechanic or expression pedal)... which is all in this photo but also two BOSS BD-2s that I got since this photo was taken, can't be bothered ripping my boards down again for a pedal fam photo sesh xD

The two blue pedals under the Joyo AC Tone are the Joyo American Sound pedals that I used to bang on about but now might prefer the AC Tone.

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Re: How many effects pedals do you currently own?

Post by Embenny » Sat Oct 23, 2021 5:45 pm

I still own 3-4 that I'm sentimentally attached to, but don't use a single one. None are even connected to anything at the moment.

I switched to an AxeFX III a while ago, and that thing has a ludicrous number and quality of effects. I sold every pedal I owned except for those few I wasn't ready to part with.

I do have a 12-button footswitch and an expression pedal though - does that count as 0 or 2 if they're just controllers and aren't in the signal path? I also use more effects than I ever did when I had a board, because I don't need to shell out cash and pedalboard real estate for a shimmer reverb that I use for one part of one song, or justify the cost of three different delays or five different boosts. No guilt over seldom-used pedals, no inconvenience of setting up a 4-cable board with independent loops to get each effect into its ideal spot in the chain.

It's just a near-infinite pedalboard where everything can be tweaked just right for each guitar and inserted anywhere from before the preamp to after the cab. I've never had a bigger "pedalboard," or a smaller pedalboard.
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Re: How many effects pedals do you currently own?

Post by fuzzjunkie » Sun Oct 24, 2021 8:01 am

I had/have 20, but 4 are waiting to be sold. I got 3 of those in trades and never used them. Practically NOS.

There are 8 plus an expression pedal on my board. The rest are big box vintage pedals that I want to keep for recording, but don’t want to lug around on a board anymore.

The 8 on my board are more or less modern duplicates of the 8 vintage pedals that I want to preserve.

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Re: How many effects pedals do you currently own?

Post by seenoevil II » Sun Oct 24, 2021 8:29 am

3 (actually 4)

I've never really messed with pedals much.

I get why people like them though.

I have the Boss OD-1 I got in high school. 2 behringer delays, one with a trim pot mod, and a small stone for a couple moments.

I play solo, and before that I was the only guitarist in a trio/4 piece. So my parts were always "meat and potatoes." I've never had too much allowance to go into space, or the fuzz zone.

Though I suspect I could be doing things better.

My OD-1 is set up as a "more" pedal at moments of emphasis or brief solos. It increases the volume and adds a bit of hair, but it also kills the bass.

I'd be interested in some "always on" things like a good spring reverb or some slight/ slow modulation like a vibe.

Also, my phaser would obviously be better as a univibe.
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Re: How many effects pedals do you currently own?

Post by adamrobertt » Sun Oct 24, 2021 9:47 am

I have 10 pedals on my board (including a volume and a tuner, so 8 "effects" pedals I guess) covering all the basics - compression, verdrive, distotion, flanger, chorus, delay, reverb, and boost. Nothing super complicated or over the top though.

Aside from that I own maybe 4-5 other pedals that are currently not on my board. I've bought and sold a LOT of pedals over the years, but I've never really had more than this at any given time. When one comes in, another usually goes, and it's usually all just variations on the same basic theme.

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Re: How many effects pedals do you currently own?

Post by JSett » Sun Oct 24, 2021 12:24 pm

I've fluctuated between 5 or 6 and 50-60 at times. I tend to buy and sell a lot and there's some I've owned a few times over.

I think I've got about 30-ish at the moment, maybe more... I can't be sure as there's a few out on loan and some tucked in boxes in the attic that I can't find.
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Post by redchapterjubilee » Mon Oct 25, 2021 5:56 am

I just barely got 20. Some of what I've got are doubles for the travel board. I get itchy about having pedals I don't use often but I'm trying to be more of a hoarder when it comes to pedals. They don't take up that much space to sit around.

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Re: How many effects pedals do you currently own?

Post by ElephantDNA » Mon Oct 25, 2021 10:46 am

I would say prob 50+ ? haven't counted in a while but fuzz alone probably 30 even though I have literally one on my board right now :fp:

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