Im wondering what brands yall would reccommend for a distortion or maybe reverb pedal. Kinda new to the techy aspect of everything......

thanks guys

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Dpends on the type of music you are going for. Check out :

www.bossus.com

It can help you out a little. Try their virtual pedal board.

RK

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Alot Of Classic Rock!!! some country

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I just received a TS9 Tube Screamer I won off ebay and I love it. Its an Analog Man modded pedal that is modeled after the TS-808 (which has the rep of being the greatest OD pedal out there, don't know about that but it is a great pedal). Don't buy if you are looking for loads of distortion. This pedal is best used for pushing an amp set on the edge over into grizzly distortion. It's very easy to control through your guitar as well through your picking techniques. If you cant afford one of these modded TS9's (they are expensive) look for a DigiTech Bad Monkey. They sound great, similar to a nice TS-9 or even TS-808 and the Bad Monkey is cheaper. I'm a big fan of Robert Keeley, he has some great mods and does several for TS9s. Monte Allums is another fellow that provides mods for all sorts of pedals including TS9s and I am very happy with his work on another pedal I have.
If you're just looking for a cheap distortion pedal the Boss Distortion DS-1 is a nice buy and you can find for $45 on sale many times a year.
If you are just getting started with guitars and pedals and amps, I suggest you do alot of research to find exactly what you want. Try out as many as you can and go for a cheap simple pedal if your happy with it. Later you will have a better idea of what you are looking for so you will be able to spend your hard earned cash on something you really need.

Russ

Check out a Junkyard Screamer from musician junkyard dot com......check out reviews on HC too......You won't be disappointed.

I bought a Mr Springgy reverb pedal a while back because my amp was lacking that feature. It's been great -- nothing fancy, just the closest you can get to a Blackface reverb sound. Performs 100% as advertised.

Another reverb pedal I'd be curious to sample one day would be Malekko's Spring Chicken. It seems capable of putting out a sound just a little more like a separate reverb tank than the Mr Springgy. They made a special edition with an additional dwell control that sold out immediately and sounded superb. Some Malekko pedals have a toggle that allows you to switch between true bypass and buffered mode, which is a handy attribute. I have an analog delay of theirs, and the switch helps it play nicely with other pedals.

(edit: I just checked that link, and the Chicken doesn't have the switch... it does have an input for an expression pedal to control the amount of reverb, though, which is something I'd like to have...
As both of these are hand built, they may be a bit more expensive than you'd like... $199 for the Mr Springgy, $150 for the Spring Chicken)

Yall are great thanks for all the advice!!! Keep It coming!!

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I purchased an electro harmonix holy grail+ and I'm really happy with it, as far as distortion boxes go I have a keeley modded Boss Blues driver(meh), a zvex super hard on(really like this one, though i would have gotten a Super Duper 2 in 1 now) and my fave is a butler audio tube driver
http://www.butleraudio.com/tubedriver.php
cant go wrong with this through a tube amp, but it really depends what sound you're after, plenty of great pedals out there

Bluesdog88

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Bostonman, check out digitech. Your new to guitar arent you? If so you dont need to be spending a fortune on pedals. The world of pedals is a minefield at best, 95% are vastly overpriced and not worth more than $30. Until you get used to how different types effect sound dont spend too much. Digitech and danelectro whilst not alwaysbeing the best offer a range cheap enough that you wont loose out to bad. And they dont sound bad either.
For classic rock sounds get a compressor a overdrive and a analogue delay.

http://www.guitarstop.com/Effects/danmini.htm
I use their compressor and graphic eq a fair bit. Those two pedals are equally as good as the big name ones. (heres my boss one that sounds worse http://www.instrumentpro.com/P-BOSEQ20). $40 danelectro or $210 boss rip off.

You can spend thousands on pedals if your not carefull, i did. You can get equally as good sounds by being dilligent and looking to left field. You'll also avoid the generic sounding every manufacturer sounding like every other manufacturer, vying for business kind of garbage that plagues the market these days.

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This is good advice.

And regarding Digitech: if Classic Rock is the flavor, I just happen to know that Gary Moore has been using the Digitech HardWire Reverb as part of his regular rig recently:

http://www.digitech.com/products/Hardwi ... Reverb.php

That's a bit more expensive than Digitech's basic model - which would also be fine:

http://www.digitech.com/products/Pedals/DigiVerb.php

These are digital pedals and as such decried by some in relation to the (very interesting) boutique pedals of the type mondo500 was discussing. But for a beginner - and many others - they offer a wealth of different sounds and are amazing value for the price.

One way to go.

Cheers - C

I'm pretty sure I have the solution for you - The Boss SD-1 Super OverDrive. The name makes it sound like some kind of metal thing, but it's the best value I've ever had in a pedal. I think it goes for $49 - $59, making it one of the cheaper pedals for a big brand, but for classic rock nothing beats it in that price range.

Whatever you get, I'd definitely seek an overdrive pedal vs. a distortion one if classic rock and country are your goals. Overdrive is a bit grittier and more organic sounding than distortion.

The TS-808 and TS9 are both awesome pedals, but they cost a hugeee amount of money, before even modding them which many people do. The SD-1 is great out of the box, with lots of range. I can't imagine you'd be disappointed.

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Reverb pedal = FRV-1: Fender® Reverb http://www.bossus.com/gear/productdetails.php?ProductId=1021.

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Try the Fulltone OCD, or the MI-Audio Blues Pro.
Rather than get a BOSS or Ibanez pedal, try a boutique pedal for about $50 more. It's very much worth it. True bypass, and much better tone.

Boutique pedals are the best, without a doubt, but this thread was for a beginner who wanted to know more about gear. It's a confusing world as there are tons of little boutique companies with heaps of different models.

If you're not going true bypass, the next best thing is Boss's buffer system.

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2009 Telecaster, Callaham bridge & Bare Knuckle Pickups

Agreed. But the Fulltone OCD is nearly an industry standard as far as overdrive pedals are concerned for classic rock/blues rock. The boutique world is very confusing at times, for sure.