Do You Play Live?

[Chris McKinley]

How many of you play live on a regular or semi-regular basis using effects? What kind of music? What are your "go-to" pedals/effects? Which effects do you use most often?

 

[kiff]

For the last 10 yrs I've been doing pretty much hard rock and metal and I've only really needed a wah pedal. Before that, when I did more top-40'ish rock I used chorus (cleans) and delay for various songs.

 

[MJ Slaughter]

I play out a few times a month in a variety rock/dance band doing classic rock, disco, current top 40, country etc. Though I've got the effects to cover whatever I need I mainly just use a little echo slightly noticeable and or reverb, a couple of songs a little chorus through my Rocktron Xpression. All my settings are tweaked because from the factory they are just too much. I suspect that the amount of time based effects I use isn't all that obvious to the audience. On the pedal board I most use my Xotic AC+, MI Crunch Box and Wah. Overdrives just for the variety of tones I need and wah because it's just too much fun sometimes. If I had to slim down and only take two items it would be the AC+ and wah and just use a little reverb on my amp.

 

[pjrake]

we play out alot also. alt hard rock, so for effects i use the G-Major. got a TS9 and ISP pedal, and they're always on.

-PJ

 

[Sebby123]

I play about 1-4 times month been slow because my bands recording right now but the only fx i really need is a delay....Im working on getting a g major though as much as the audience probably wont notice half of it its nice to have and makes playing live a little more exciting switching between sounds becomes more exciting to me anyways

 

[user 7737]

i'm playing rock, indie, noise, math stuff

before i get my mesa i used a turbo rat and an old big muff... since i have my cal50+ i only use my rat... but i plan bying a ts-808 ri and a loopstation or a jamman...

 

[UltraGary]

My band does all original...what we call 'avant-garde modern rock'... and play a show every other month here in Los Angeles.

I'm a huge volume pedal user, and my main go-to pedals are my Line6 DL4 delay (the big green one) and a Visual Sound Route 66 compressor/distortion (I use it to grit up the clean channel on my T-Verb a bit sometimes).

I also have a Petersen Strobo-Stomp tuner on my pedal board, as well as a Line6 MM4 chorus/phaser/flanger (the big blue one) that I don't use all that much.

My biggest thing regarding pedals & live shows is> Use a pedal board that can be immediately bypassed if there is a problem. (a signal chain can be very confusing in the dark under pressure)

Cheers & Happy '09!

 

[ned]

I've been running direct with a GSP1101 for the last year with my 80's pop/rock/rap cover band. Basically use 4 patches with a couple of others that are specific for songs like Just Like Heaven that are really heavy on FX.

Working on a amp based rig with a GMajor in the loop now but I'm very intrigued by the AxeFX.

 

[SBG200]

Mostly 90's covers. Stiletto Ace.

Wah pedal out front; chorus (soon to be flange), delay, volume in the loop. Nobody in the crowd can really tell the difference anyway.

 

[GIG4FUN]

I play out very frequently. Tonight is one of the first days off in four months. We have played EVERY weekend since Sept. A few times i played without any pedals. (Left the pedalboard in Van). I missed the wah and delay. I play classic rock.

I think my go to pedals would be the dealy and wah. It is fun to play straight. It keeps me working harder. I have played since I was six. (1964) Hard work is appreciated. I may leave the pedalboard in the van a few more times !

 

[Vigo1999]

We play hard/classic rock almost every weekend or at least 2 times a month. for 90% or most of the time i go straight to the amp (my main live amp is the MkIII). In a 30 or so setlist, i use chorus for 3 songs, delay for a couple solos, a wah every now and then and a phase for 1 song and thats it 8)

 

[stephen sawall]

Yes-The pedals I use the most Cry Baby 535/Roger Mayer Voodoo Vibe/Zvex Fuzz Factory.

 

[MJ Slaughter]

Sometimes I play Dead.

Especially on the 3rd night in a row with limited sleep. :shock:

 

[Casper]

I play in a regional variety band on the east coast. We do about 80-100 nights a year and travel when and whereever our agent puts us. I was into the digital modeling pedals for many years because they were easy to program and pretty consistent (at least digitech was) L6 stuff sucked (imo). I have gone back to mostly all analog true bypass stuff (I'm 44 and have played for 30 years) My pedal board:
Fulltone Clyde Deluxe Wah
Barber Tone Press Compressor
Barber LTD Black (low gain OD)
Barber Direct Drive (OD)
MI Audio Crunch Box (Distortion)
Jauqes Meistersinger Chorus
Boss DD-5 Delay
Petersen SS2 Tuner
Pedal Power Unit
Pedaltrain PT-24 Board

I am very interested in the TC Nova Mod and Nova delay, but don't have the realestate on the board right now. I am going to have to reconfigure all of this for the DC-5..hope to eliminiate a OD or Distortion. Otherwise I love the pedals I use right now. Tone is so subjective though?? We all seek the tone in our heads..
Nice thread!
Shaun

 

[jab]

I play live probably 1-2 weekends a month, and have been for the
past 25+ years. I use all pedal regularly (thus they are on my board), but if I had to divide the group:

"Must-Haves":
Boss TU-2 Tuner
Xotic AC+ (needed to crunch my clean channel and for solos)
Delay (I put a slight slapback "always on" to widen the sound; bigger delay for solos or special applications)

"Nice-to-Haves":
Crybaby Wah
Barber Tone Press (used "always on" to smooth my tone)
Sonic Stomp (things just sound better with it)
Boss EQ (almost made my "must have" list as it fattens up my Stiletto Ace nicely)

 

[Old BF Shred]

We have'nt had a lot of gigs lately, although we will in a couple weeks...

Here's the path I use:
Guitar to Shure wireless to Dunlop 535q wah to "home brew" distortion pedal to input of Ace. I use the distortion only to boost & add crunch to clean channel on Ace, effectively adding third channel.

I run a L6 POD xt in FX loop of my Ace, used mainly for delay, reverb & flange/chorus.

I have a L6 Shortboard controller and use a MidiSolutions "Relay" to change channels on the Ace. Channel changes with pre-sets on POD. I do not really need the Ace's foot pedal, but I like the solo button.

I run Ace clean ch with "Bold", diodes, on Fat Clean.
Lead ch with "Bold", tube rect, on Tite gain.

I use either 2) home built 1x12 cabs with 12" Mesa/Celest. C90's or 1) 4x12 stereo cab with 2 each G12-t75 and G12-80 Celestions, depending on room size; if I need more power I slave out to my 50/50 and bring all speakers.

Sounds good to me!

Later!

 

[Sixstringpsycho]

I play several times a month in a cover band and original band. My board is small, delay, chorus, wah, whammy. The only effect i really NEED and always take is the wah pedal.

 

[Gibbyage]

Before member changes we were playing 2 times a month.

Gotta use Dl-4, Phaser, Lehle AB, RC-2, and Digitech Whammy. Have some other stuff on the board that I never take off like Flanger and the mesa channel switchers.

Tuner and NS also on the board.