There are so many effects pedals, it's a rabbit hole many guitarists (including myself) get sucked into and before you know it you have more money in your board than your amp and guitar combined, and you've masked the organic tone of both that you once loved. #pedalboards #effect
Every year or so I strip my board back down, and slowly over time I get tricked into adding new gadgets I'm convinced I need, until once again, there is a giant pile of effects between my guitar and my amp. Then this always happens...
One day for whatever reason, I'll plug a guitar directly into the amp, and the tone blows my hair back. This amp sounds amazing! Why have I ruined it with all these gadgets I don't really need? And so begins the rebuild. I can't tell you how many times I've done it.
The pedals that have been with me for decades - Xotic BB Preamp, and MXR Carbon Copy. Pedals I have found since that will remain - Xotic EP Booster, and Morley Bad Horsie 2, Klone (Klon centaur clone that while is annoyingly noisy when stacked with the BB is glorious.)
Everything else is coming off. Maybe... lol
I see these kids with pedalboards that look like the control panel on the Space Shuttle. The $3k amp behind them - what's the point? Their signal is so overprocessed that the tone of that amp is colored and long gone.
Some of the best player tones I have heard are simply a good quality old school hand wired tube amp, a guitar, and an understanding how to make those two things do what they want. Volume knob on the guitar is their gain. Raw, pure, organic, and glorious.
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