What do i need for a basic guitar pedal board?

depends what you want from it really,but a compressor and an eq could be a nice start.
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I’m not sure what a double muff is. TIme to google, I guess.

My basic pedalboard has depended on my goals. Usually, I want to be able to have a few different options – I want to have a basic clean for chords and semi-acoustic style lines, I want to have an effected clean for warbly / chorusey / phsery riffs or volume swells, I want a good rhythm crunch (chunky distortion), and I want to have a decent solo sound.

My choices of pedals will heavily depend on my amp…. if my amp has a decent distortion sound, I don’t need a distortion pedal for my basic rhythm crunch, for instance.

What I’ve usually ended up with is some variation on

Guitar -> distortion -> chorus -> delay -> wah -> amp

I try very hard to pare down my signal chain to as few pedals as I absolutely need, for one its a pain in the ace to have to constantly be tapping pedals, but its also harder to connect all these pedals, make sure my batteries/power adapters are all accounted for, each pedal means one more thing can go wrong, etc. When I’m playing live I don’t want jack going wrong, y’know? I seem to have a knack for having things go wrong, and the more complex my signal chain is, the more likely it is that *something* goes haywire.

So anyways, the wah is for soloing, my Dunlop 535Q has a volume/solo boost built in, so I can kick it up a notch with that. I have a Boss Chorus that sounds wonderful, I really like it … Boss CS-1? CE-1? I forget the exact model name. My buddy has an H20 Chorus/Echo that is the single best chorus pedal I have ever heard. I’ve been getting into phasers, though, I like the sound of a good phase, so I might use that instead, if it fits the band’s sound.

The delay pedal is usually just for volume swells and creating those ambient floaty note things. Turn the volume on your guitar all the way down, tap the delay on, hit a note or chord, then bring the volume on your guitar up. Creates a nice swell, like a synthesizer.

I"ve been using a multifx pedal, a Boss GT-3 in this case, pretty extensively, and have gone to just using it and a wah pedal as of late. The GT-3 has tons of clean effects, so I use it for that, and I use the amp ( a Mesa Boogie Trem-o-verb in my case ) for distortion. I like the whole tap-tempo thing for distortion and controlling the rate of chorus and all that junk, its pretty nice, I can do stuff like the whole U2/Edge thing now if I want to. Having chorus, delay, EQ, etc all built in to one pedal is incredibly convenient, and if you only stick to the clean sounds on a multifx pedal you don’t run into the multifx biggest weakness… their distortion.

So feel free to experiment, but I suggest in the end using only what you absolutely need to get the sounds you want.

Saul
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