Favorite Guitar Pedals

I recently got a DOD carcosa fuzz and I like to set it to where it breaks up ridiculously then just hammer power chords with it.

The most versatile pedal I have is probably my Rubberneck. That thing can do all kinds of delay/reverb/oscillation sounds that I’m still figuring out. But it will get away from you in a hurry to where your speaker is about to blow.

Komet KODA is my overdrive pedal, and I love it. I never leave the clean channel of my amp anymore and just let the koda do all the work. It’s a tone print of Komet’s expensive amps (similar to Dr. Z) that they build locally in Baton Rouge. It’s super versatile and capable of making anything from a clean boost to heavy fuzz, but I use it for a trebely snarling overdrive sound that still maintains clarity so every note shines through.


Another always on pedal for me is the Rougarou Banshee Reverb. Rougarou is a boutique pedal manufacturer out of Hammond, LA. Though they’re most known for their fuzz pedals, the Banshee is my favorite reverb tone I’ve ever found. I crank it all the way up when using a clean tone to create a beautiful spacious vibe, and leave it halfway drenched when overdriven to add just the right amount of shimmer without muddying up the tone.


Another pedal that’s always on is my electro-harmonix pitch fork. I leave it set to the minor third setting, set to add it below, and have the dial for the saturation at 100%. I then hook that pedal up to an expresser pedal so that I can go from zero to 100% to create a tremelo effect. It’s great because my guitar lacks a tremelo and I can whammy all I want without worrying about throwing my guitar out of tune. The only downside is that I can only whammy in one direction at a time, much like a Bigsby tremolo system. I can also bump the saturation down to around 30/40%, set it to one or two octives in dual mode, and turn on my chorus and overdrive pedals to create a distorted 80’s synth tone that sounds really cool in the right context.


The other effects I occasionally use in some songs are my boss chorus, dunlop crybaby wah, and behringer vintage analog delay. I also have a digitech stereo phaser, but still haven’t found a tone for it that I really love, so I rarely use it live.

Of course you hated pedals. You were using a metal zone!

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Favorite Guitar Pedals

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Fulltone Deja-Vibe

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And the tone/sound you make with it. Go.

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Robin Trower

I've had both the treadled DVs and the stompbox ones with the oversized speed knob you can turn with your toe. I prefer the treadle but I can survive with either. The toe knob is easy to work with a little practice.

My current one's like this, speed via toe ...

I have a couple of Catalinbread delays that I love. The Belle Epoch is their original take of the Echoplex before they released the Belle Epoch Deluxe (which actually is more or less the vintage Echoplex circuit without the tape). I also have their Echorec pedal that can be used for Floyd style stuff.

I use the Flying Dragon made by Steve Miller out of Laplace as my clean boost when I go into lead mode. Love that thing!

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I don't like using pedals and only like running off the distortion of my amp - which is why I have a Boogie.

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Same here, but I much prefer over driven power tubes to pre amp distortion. That's why I have small amps.

I do have a Wampler Euphoria which is a very nice pedal, but I rarely use it.

I am looking for a reverb/delay pedal, since neither of my amps have reverb.

When I see players with pedal boards packed like a sardine can, I get a headache.

Only own one, bought it in the mid 80s, Ibanez slime green TS9 Tube Screamer. Tried many others, but never found anything useful to me. The TS9 can give me the sound of Fender deluxe Reverb on 7-8 at a 2-3 volume level, that is all I need.

Never have used them much, except for a delay. I've usually always made do with the controls on my old amps, and am mostly looking for that retro sound anyway.

Recently acquired a 100 watt peavey Windsor stack, and it doesn't have any effects on it, so I bought a boss effects processor to use with it. I haven't even taken it out of the box yet, but I'm hoping that will work OK. Might be too complicated for me though. I hope not.