Looking to get a stompbox.

Farfromlukin

I'm looking into getting a stompbox and wanted your opinions before purchasing one. Which brands do you guys prefer and are any made in the USA?

DewieCox

What kind of effect are you looking for?

If you don't know the different effects and what they do to your guitar sound go to proguitarshop.com and sort effects by type and just start watching videos.

Quality, versatility and build origin are all over the map. There are literally thousands of effects of each type and some of the more timeless individual effects gave thousands of clones.

xtremehardy388

Farfromlukin said:

I'm looking into getting a stompbox and wanted your opinions before purchasing one. Which brands do you guys prefer and are any made in the USA?

Much like Dewie said, there are endless possibilities. You can also make your own stompbox.

Farfromlukin

Thanks guys. I'll look into it more. I've seen them used a few times at concerts and am interested in them now.

BinFrog

Find someone whose guitar tones and effects you want to try and emulate, and then find out what is in their pedal chain.

BHealy

This page might help: http://www.pedalboardsofthestars.com/

dudeman

The best thing I ever did when getting into the world of effects was to buy a multi-effects processor. Anything in the $100.00 price range should give you access to all of the basics. OD/Distortion/Fuzz, Compression/Limiting/Gates, Phase/Corus/Flanger and Delay/Echo/Reverb will be your general effects and most effects processors these days have a few varieties of each. Some even have expression pedals for Wah, Volume and Pitch-shift effects. It was a good starting point for me because it gave me the ability to experiment and explore what I liked and didn't without spending hundred of dollars on individual pedals. Once I had an idea of what I wanted, I started shopping for better quality and better sounding individual pedals.

I was also able to sell that processor for about 70% of what I originally paid for it.

BinFrog

Toooooys.

BinFrog

and when I play out solo (acoustic):

pulling69

I have been trying to trim my touring board down a bit, currently I am down to this sparse setup:

BinFrog

Win.

xtremehardy388

My 2009 board.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/58735350@N08/8743397780/in/datetaken/?cr

pjpjpaul

I'd say get the essentials-

Distortion- RAT or Boss
Overdrive- Tubescreamer
Wah- Crybaby
Delay- Carbon Copy and Boss DD
Phaser- MXR Phase 90
Fuzz- Big Muff Pi
Chorus- Holy Grail, CE 2, or Small Clone
Whammy- Digitech Whammy
Volume pedal- Ernie Ball
Compressor- MXR dyna comp

xtremehardy388

pjpjpaul said:

I'd say get the essentials-

Distortion- RAT or Boss
Overdrive- Tubescreamer
Wah- Crybaby
Delay- Carbon Copy and Boss DD
Phaser- MXR Phase 90
Fuzz- Big Muff Pi
Chorus- Holy Grail, CE 2, or Small Clone
Whammy- Digitech Whammy
Volume pedal- Ernie Ball
Compressor- MXR dyna comp

Another good chorus: DOD Ice Box or a Danelectro (not the most road worthy but great sound). They're cheaper. Distortion: BOSS DS1.

mccreadyisgod

If you're just looking to play around with some stuff, get a Line 6 M5 pedal and spend a bunch of time with it. As a modeling effects pedal, it has a variety of different effects to choose from, and then you can see which ones you really connect with.

xtremehardy388

mccreadyisgod said:

If you're just looking to play around with some stuff, get a Line 6 M5 pedal and spend a bunch of time with it. As a modeling effects pedal, it has a variety of different effects to choose from, and then you can see which ones you really connect with.

+1. It's expensive but there are a lot of options. If you're able to go to a guitar shop, try out some pedals. Used stuff (which I LOVE) is usually a bit cheaper and you could stumble upon a gem

rollings

I thought a stomp box was an old-time sturdy beer case with a drum pedal attached.....no?