Guitar Pedals

[Cosmiceddie]

My current pedal board consists of:

 

[Dick Brucinson]

What are your favourite pedals off that board? If you couldn’t pick more than 5, let’s say.

Thats a tough one... I'd go with them ones as my five faves:



The Empress Heavy is probably the best Distorion pedal I ever had my hands on in the past 40 years. Sounds very organic and super straight forward.
J. Rockett Rockaway Archer is a nice hybrid Overdrive/EQ pedal, was developed with Steve Stevens.
Maxon AF-9 is a cool Envelope Filter, and I use almost always turned on, with very decent settings = all down to zero. That adds a little bit of a human voice to the tone. Marty Friedman does that a lot.
Fortin 33 is a "brutalizer" that cleans up the low end fundament from Distortion pedals and brings more weight, clarity and aggression to the tone.
The Keeley Compressor plus is a wonderful always-on Compressor for me, the sound just profits in general from that. Have altogether three Compressors on my board, but this one is my fave.

 

[Maturin]

Got an MXR Phase 90 and an Electro Harmonix J. Mascis Ram's Head Big Muff. Looking forward to trying them out on my "small board", which will now consist of 7 pedals.

Been using a TC Electronic Helix Phaser on my main board, which is probably my most unexpected hit.

 

[Cosmiceddie]

This one has just arrived:

 

[Edington]

Ooh, I've been eyeing those up, I have an old Digitech DropTune I'm wanting to replace as it gets pretty muddy and artificial-sounding. Let us know how the Boss sounds!

 

[Maturin]

Just ordered a Boss TE-2 Tera Echo. Couldn't justify a straight reverb, but this is too creatively inspiring not to have.

 

[Dick Brucinson]

Here's my FX Board, 2026 updated version. The MXR X100 (bottom row center) is the perfect tool for a Somewhere In Time-related guitar tone.

 

[Maturin]

Updated my "small" board. Currently running the chain:

MXR Dyna Comp -> MXR Phase 90 -> Boss SD-1 -> JHS Charlie Brown V4-> JHS Overdrive/Preamp -> Boss PS-6 (chorus setting) -> Boss DD-3T -> Boss TE-2.

The Charlie Brown is currently the main distortion. So back to old school vintage Marshall-esque tones it is (it's a Marshall JTM-45 in a box, basically, and it does wonders for early Maiden-tones).

 

[Dick Brucinson]

Why the JHS Overdrive behind the Distortion?

 

[Maturin]

Well, it's a Distortion + on one of the modes and I always use that as a main distortion into a clean amp, goosed by a TS/SD-1 rather than as an overdrive.

In this setup it's for variation, never used at the same time as the Charlie Brown.

It's got a way more apparent and raspy distortion than the Charlie so it at least feels a lot heavier.