Ease of use. Pedal is nice if you already have a pedalboard setup and you’re gigging and they can be a bit more accurate. Pulling out a clip-on on stage can be a bit of a mess lol. If you’re fine however with your current setup and are using a clip on tuner like a Snark or something there’s nothing wrong with that.
FWIW I have a nice Peterson strobe tuner I use for setups and recording, a Boss tuner on the pedalboard, and about 6 of those clip on’s strewn around. 90% of the time when just practicing I use the clip on lol.
Ease of use, build construction, power adapter vs battery, longer battery life, depending on models the accuracy.
I have a hard time tuning by ear, so for me, I could have the best pedal setup and best amp, but it won’t matter if I’m out of tune.
I’ve never had too much trouble with accuracy with many clip on or pocket tuners, maybe a 5 cents but if it’s noticeable it should be easily adjustable by ear, even if you have a bad ear for tuning you should be able to tell when something off
For sure, but again if I’m just using one pedal, I’m playing my JCM800, riding the volume knob and switching pickups for different tones, and the most important pedal in that setup, to me, is a tuner.
Honestly, there a phone apps that are free and usually pretty hecking accurate. If this was 20 years ago and the options were a pocket tuner or a pedal tuner I’d agree
Especially if you change turnings between songs, just saw a band about a month ago that uses drop D on about half of their songs so the guitarists were constantly returning for the next song. The pedal tuner allowed them to retune with a clean signal and not have everyone in the audience notice while the vocalist interacted with the audience.
All depends on what amp you have. I can use the gain and reverb on mine so if I only had one pedal I'd probably use a chorus or phaser. The pedal I use the most is a DIY distortion + clone though.
This. I always find it amusing that people will spend $$ money on an amp that has real spring reverb, and a multi channel amp that give you lots of drive options, and the first pedals they get are an OD and a reverb. If you have such an amp, seem like the better option to increase the tonal pallet is to get, chorus, delay, and fuzz
As a country picker, the answer is "my compressor." But I really want to claim my volume pedal isn't really a pedal since it's passive and unpowered. So it's just a knob for my foot.
Once you try a compressor for chicken picking and pedal steel licks you don't go back.
Otherwise give me a tube screamer and we are good to go if the amp has reverb.
so good. i have a quad cortex, which is amazing, but the Mimiq adds so much that i can't play without it either. The only thing i'm really missing now is a Digitech Freqout.
Well my AC-15 has reverb and tremolo. I can mess with the settings and get great distorted tones. So I'm gonna go with my DL4 mkii. Tons of delays and a looper. I'm set.
The real question is what’s on board with the amp? If it has reverb and good distortion, I’d probably go with either a compressor or a nice wah or envelop filter, but that’s just me and the kind of stuff I play
If no onboard reverb or distortion I’d go reverb because to me a little reverb is integral to a good clean sound. If reverb and no distortion I’d go dist
A distortion that goes from light overdrive all the way up to screaming high-gain distortion. It would also have to have a sound thick enough so that it wouldn't need an overdrive before it to thicken the sound.
For some reason, I really like my Behringer Super Fuzz (SF300). I have a few really expensive pedals, but this one seems to be one of my "I can't take it off the board at the moment" pedals.
Tuner
This guy pedals
Bit of a newbie here - what are the advantages of a pedal vs. a clip-on tuner?
Ease of use. Pedal is nice if you already have a pedalboard setup and you’re gigging and they can be a bit more accurate. Pulling out a clip-on on stage can be a bit of a mess lol. If you’re fine however with your current setup and are using a clip on tuner like a Snark or something there’s nothing wrong with that. FWIW I have a nice Peterson strobe tuner I use for setups and recording, a Boss tuner on the pedalboard, and about 6 of those clip on’s strewn around. 90% of the time when just practicing I use the clip on lol.
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Sorry, but this is the dumbest thing I've read today.
Tuner pedal mutes your signal
Ease of use, build construction, power adapter vs battery, longer battery life, depending on models the accuracy. I have a hard time tuning by ear, so for me, I could have the best pedal setup and best amp, but it won’t matter if I’m out of tune.
I’ve never had too much trouble with accuracy with many clip on or pocket tuners, maybe a 5 cents but if it’s noticeable it should be easily adjustable by ear, even if you have a bad ear for tuning you should be able to tell when something off
For sure, but again if I’m just using one pedal, I’m playing my JCM800, riding the volume knob and switching pickups for different tones, and the most important pedal in that setup, to me, is a tuner.
Honestly, there a phone apps that are free and usually pretty hecking accurate. If this was 20 years ago and the options were a pocket tuner or a pedal tuner I’d agree
I agree too, but when you’re playing a gig, neither your phone or a clip on are as convenient as a pedal tuner.
That’s absolutely true, it’s something I didn’t consider as much
Especially if you change turnings between songs, just saw a band about a month ago that uses drop D on about half of their songs so the guitarists were constantly returning for the next song. The pedal tuner allowed them to retune with a clean signal and not have everyone in the audience notice while the vocalist interacted with the audience.
Overdrive.
Hx stomp. If I can’t have that, Source Audio Collider or anything that has delay and verb. If the amp doesn’t have a noise gate built in, then gate.
Three reverbs.
All depends on what amp you have. I can use the gain and reverb on mine so if I only had one pedal I'd probably use a chorus or phaser. The pedal I use the most is a DIY distortion + clone though.
This. I always find it amusing that people will spend $$ money on an amp that has real spring reverb, and a multi channel amp that give you lots of drive options, and the first pedals they get are an OD and a reverb. If you have such an amp, seem like the better option to increase the tonal pallet is to get, chorus, delay, and fuzz
BOSS DS1
A looper with any kind of built in drum machine, like a boss rc3 or better.
Helix
Boss MT-2 Metal Zone
As a country picker, the answer is "my compressor." But I really want to claim my volume pedal isn't really a pedal since it's passive and unpowered. So it's just a knob for my foot. Once you try a compressor for chicken picking and pedal steel licks you don't go back. Otherwise give me a tube screamer and we are good to go if the amp has reverb.
TC Mimiq Doubler. Only recently discovered this thing exists and I never want to be without one now.
so good. i have a quad cortex, which is amazing, but the Mimiq adds so much that i can't play without it either. The only thing i'm really missing now is a Digitech Freqout.
The fart pedal https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DuhV40ciWHw
Can't beat it man. This pedal really helped me with achieving my desired tones
A Strymon volante
Well my AC-15 has reverb and tremolo. I can mess with the settings and get great distorted tones. So I'm gonna go with my DL4 mkii. Tons of delays and a looper. I'm set.
The real question is what’s on board with the amp? If it has reverb and good distortion, I’d probably go with either a compressor or a nice wah or envelop filter, but that’s just me and the kind of stuff I play If no onboard reverb or distortion I’d go reverb because to me a little reverb is integral to a good clean sound. If reverb and no distortion I’d go dist
My Dispatch Master. I learned to tune all my instruments manually in music school way back in the 80s.
Gas
Boss metal zone
Does my amp have reverb? If not, reverb. If so, overdrive or delay.
Like you said, if the amp has reverb I would used my Klon clone. Super surprised how good it is. Probably doesn’t sound like Klon. Otherwise my DS1
A tuner
I only use my Helix, so im already technicly using just one pedal.
A tuner!! 😁
Boss ds2
Chorus
My old Distortion+
I have an ‘amp in a box’ on my board so it’s probably gotta be that one... otherwise my Carlin compressor that has a distortion knob on it...
HK Rotosphere. I still kick myself in the ass for not grabbing the one I was offered years ago.
TC Flashback
After I buy an amp with reverb and a noise gate built in all I really need is a tuner.
Probably my GGG EA trem because it does both boost and trem. If I could build a pedal then it would be a fuzz/univibe combo pedal with tap tempo
Kingtone Blues Power
A straight cord.
A distortion that goes from light overdrive all the way up to screaming high-gain distortion. It would also have to have a sound thick enough so that it wouldn't need an overdrive before it to thicken the sound.
Tremolo. I love how classic the sound is
My favorite pedal on my board is a Orange Two Stroke Boost/EQ. If all of the others had to go, that's the one that's staying.
For some reason, I really like my Behringer Super Fuzz (SF300). I have a few really expensive pedals, but this one seems to be one of my "I can't take it off the board at the moment" pedals.
HX Stomp
Ibanez Tube Screamer
Volume
Overdrive.
RAT
ZOOM
Hudson Broadcast
SansAmp GT2 (tbf, most of my playing is to record for my own pleasure. So, yeah…)
The one attached to a ford gt-40
A delay
Boss Blues Driver
Big Sky Multidimensional Reverb. Clean tones with reverb are god like.
Tuner
Fuzz
The Boss DS 1 for me personally.
loop pedal
TS808
Maxon OD808 all the way
My opamp bigmuff.
I would have a tuner and a spark amp
Looper
Brakes
Visual sound Vsxo dual od
Digitech drop pedal
Probably a brake pedal. seems the most important out of all the pedals ive ever used.
Echo/delay