Boss Blues Driver
December 13th, 2008 | 
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What type of guitar pedals would you recommend or would you use these ones?
I'm looking at creating my own pedal board. I have been playing guitar for about 3 years now and have just upgraded my guitar and amp. I did have an Epiphone Special II Les Paul and the little 10w practice amp it came with when I first started out. Just recently I saved up my money and bought a Gibson Les Paul Studio with a Vox Valvetronix 30watt amp. The Vox has a few effects built in but I've always had a bit of a thing for pedals and would now like to create my own pedalboard. So what I'm asking is what is the essential pedals to have? So far I would like a "Way Huge" Swollen Pickle Fuzz Pedal, Boss Blues Driver pedal and a Slash crybaby wah. They're just the ones I have tried with my LP and have really liked the sound that they produced, powered by a Dunlop DC brick.
Do I need things like an equalizer or enhancer pedal? I'm not looking to buy a million pedals and go over the top, just a few that I quite like. Is there any other pedal I should add? Thank you!
Personally, I'm a big fan of KISS (keep it simple, Saul!). After spending a few years gigging, and having just about everything wrong happen that could happen, I went from a rack-mount setup with multiple MIDI-controlled preamps, at least six pedals, and multiple EQs, to no more than four pedals and a power amp.
Try to figure out the exact sounds that you want to make, and go from there. I've found that I like the *clean* sounds that many multifx pedals can supply - in that sense, something like my Boss GT-3 absolutely rules. I get an onboard tuner, compression, chorus, delay, EQ, all that junk, and I can use a separate wah and distortion pedal and get everything I need.
When I've had an only-analog-pedal setup, I've had a a distortion pedal (usually a Boss Metalcore, but after modding my Boss Metal Zone, I've been going back to it more often), a wah, a chorus, and a delay. A Dunlop 535Q wah, everything else is Boss. The CE-1 chorus is a great pedal. Another spectacular pedal is the H20 (made by...?), it's a combination echo/chorus, really a gorgeous sound.
I really like having EQ, I think it is a good way to get a wide variety of tones, especially when put after a distortion pedal. If you like to tweak your tone, this is a great way to go about it. It's better, in my mind, to have an EQ pedal than to buy pedal after pedal looking for that "perfect tone"... sometimes a bit of tweaking with an EQ pedal can deliver the tone you're looking for.
If your amp does not have an effects loop, then I would not get an enhancer pedal. They work best in an effects loop - they can give a lot of sparkle and extra "pop", but.. well, yeah. In an fx loop you'll hear it, in your signal chain you won't hear much of a difference, if any.
So, to wrap up.... I would say that you need a solid distorted tone, one or more "modulation" effects (chorus, flanger, phaser), a wah pedal, and a delay pedal. An EQ pedal is optional, but useful if you like to tweak your tone and want more usefulness/variety from your gear.
Something I've found is that I like to put my wah pedal after my multifx unit, rolled back just a little. This helps "smooth" out the sometimes-digital tone, and gives it a bit of mid emphasis, useful for cutting through the mix.
My two cents,
Saul
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