How Many Pedals Do You Need? 5 Pedalboard Setups Pros and Cons

[@JohnGuitarLord]

The real answer is N+1 N being the number of pedals you currently own (This formula also works for guitars)

[@MichaelBanfieldGuitar]

Perfect! If Einstein had played electric guitar I'm sure he'd have come to the exact same conclusion.

[@user-mi4du9rd1j]

Bear in mind the old adage about fishing lures: they're not really designed to catch fish. They're designed to "catch" fishermen. ;)

[@dw1784]

Unfortunately, I'm all too familiar with this formula. I could fund a second degree with my N+1 behaviour 😂

[@stratjed]

medium is best choice in all things , goldilocks and the three bears teaches this lesson .

[@MichaelBanfieldGuitar]

Good choice!

[@maykolllopez1585]

Yes 8 to 10 pedals is the way to go.

[@robfitterer6080]

Michael, your videos are crystal clear, no nonsense, and very valuable. Thanks for the effort. Cheers

[@user-rf6bc4kb1d]

Title: How many pedals do you need? Me: more

[@Ratchman_5000]

Me: All of them!

[@1011skarn]

Yes

[@SaxJockey]

Guitar shop: How many pedals do you want? Answer: How many have you got 😂.

[@fairuz565]

This is really helping. Having 6 pedals, and intention to buy another 6 pedals, and finally stop thinking and it's better to practise together to improve my guitar playing rather than wondering what pedal should be here should be there blablabla. You're the real MVP.

[@MichaelBanfieldGuitar]

The nice thing I find happens when I've been practising consistently for a while is that I not only have a clearer idea of what gear I'll need but any purchases feel much more justified. Practise first, tone chasing second.

[@dejuancampbell2862]

@@MichaelBanfieldGuitar so true that statement! Plus it’s just nice to go straight to amp no effects. Just you and the 🎸

[@robertbriquet]

2 for me, boost and wah. I get my gain from the amp, reverb with amp. That's it.

[@MichaelBanfieldGuitar]

Sounds like a great minimalist setup that! Wah's and boost's don't draw much power either so you could just use trusty batteries for mess free cabling and clean isolated power.

[@martingregory5955]

I had a GT1 and sold it as made everything sound crap even from clean. Back to basics with pedals now and far better but yes more expensive but far easier with no menus to remember where I found something. On/Off buttons are great!

[@asimov647]

I like to turn down the neck pickup to clean and the bridge pickup to full volume on a guitar with separate volume controls. This way the pickup selector switch works like the on-off switch of an overdrive pedal.

[@MichaelBanfieldGuitar]

Totally agree. That's a great way to use the guitar controls for Gibson style pickup configurations

[@doomerius1300]

This

[@motorbikeray]

Your "no-pedals" demo at (13:30) was a GREAT example of the guitar sounds versatility that can be made from using different combinations of the guitar's volume and tone controls, the guitar's pickup selector switch, and the amp's volume. You made your guitar sound like it was going through several different pedals!

[@squirelova1815]

I see about 13 pedals there in the 'Big' rig. You have convinced me that I may not have "too many pedals" to deal with after all. Hope springs eternal again! Thank You sir.

[@Matheus.Richard]

What worked for me was a medium sized board + a small multifx unit (like a Zoom G3X or a HX Stomp). Those models work like individual pedals, and you can take advantage of the enormous amount of modulations, for instance. It's super versatile and you can experiment with sounds before deciding to commit to "the real thing", if you ever decide to do that.

[@thisdyingsoul76]

1 pro for the 3 - 5 pedal board, that it can be powered with a daisy chain and is small and prortable without having to disconnect everything when you want to move it. I feel 8 pedals is the optimum number for a single board. Start with the basics - 1 dirt, 1 modulation, delay or reverb. Once you establish your base tone, decide from there what else you want... extra dirt pedals, a compressor would be good if you play a lot of funk or country music, different modulations, maybe you want both reverb and delay. I usually leave things like wah, rotovibe and my volume pedals off the board; but I may look at seeing if I can make space to at least put the volume pedal on there as its useful all the time while I don't always want wah and rotovibe.

[@SaxJockey]

Very good summary, and well balanced opinion (including making the most of the guitar/amp controls). I have a medium set up, but find myself using fewer pedals; so it might shrink down a bit. The point about complexity and distraction of too many options can be a real rabbit hole, best avoided whether it be due to too many pedals, multi effects or amps with multi effects.

[@dw1784]

It took me years to realize how much I was missing as a guitar player by not taking advantage of the volume control on my guitar. It has made a huge difference in what I do now. I don't switch on and off effects pedals nearly as often as I used to. Somthing so simple yet so foreign to me for many years.

[@AxelAlexK]

I am keeping mine to 8 pedals max. I have a medium board. Rocking 7 right now. Gear is addicting...I often have to remind myself I'm not a collector but that urge to get one of everything is there. But honestly I could lower mine to just octaver, distortion, delay and looper if I really needed to. I play one man band type stuff. If I gigged a lot I'd definitely not take anything but what I needed for the setlist.

[@TheWelhaven]

Played in a band since late 80’s. Got four pedals on my both my boards (one is at home, one is used in my band). Both got a tuner, phaser and overdrive. Then a delay at home, and a flanger on my bands pedalboard. Don’t need anything more, I’m a “one-setting” guy, and the less I’m stepdancing during a gig, the better I play :) Btw: the OD-3 is a great pedal, feels a bit underrated.

[@user-mi4du9rd1j]

Need? Or want? I spent many years playing with nothing but a tuner and a Boss chorus that I almost never used. And a footswitch for the amp itself. I never really felt like I didn't have enough gear to get through any gig. My 2-channel amp had plenty of gain, as well as reverb and chorus built-in. The verb stayed on all the time, but I didn't use the amp chorus very often. People might be surprised how simple of a rig you can actually get away with and still do a fine job with all sorts of tunes and styles.

[@mke7605]

I was on a pedal buying journey. Then I hand build my own treble booster pedal an now it’s almost the only pedal I use. Always on into a slightly overdriven amp. I get almost fuzz with the guitar fully turned up and sparkling clean turned down.

[@simondavid2519]

I have a small board which works quiet well for me! The signal goes so : Tuner Overdrive Fuzz UniVibe Reverb Looper I bring it everywhere I go (holidays, parties when my friends ask me to (or agree that…) bring my guitar, small concerts, etc…). I also use it for recording and it’s really functional! :)

[@MichaelBanfieldGuitar]

That sounds like a sweet setup. I'd like something similar to that as a practise board.

[@simondavid2519]

@@MichaelBanfieldGuitar It is sweet ! And I actually found out that it forces me to be really creative, because I don’t have a lot of effects and because of that, I have to be imaginative to find the tones that I want, and I’m not overwhelmed with too much stuff, since I chose really simple pedals (I’m the kind of guitar player who might have two reverbs always on and some really weird pedals if I had the money for it). Less is more ! :)

[@MOONfacekilla]

I’m looking at something similar. Is a distortion useful if I’m aiming to also get a fuzz and OD?

[@simondavid2519]

@@MOONfacekilla it’s somewhat in between the other two (but actually closer to the OD than to the fuzz), the overdrive I personally have is a Boss OS-2, and it can do both the overdrive and the distortion, but I mainly use it to give a texture to my clean tone when needed. I don’t really use a distortion personally, but if you have a good overdrive, by pushing it hard, you can get pretty close to a distortion. What I would recommend is to take a pedal that does both the OD and the distortion (such as the OS-2). But it really depends on your needs and the tones that you are looking for :) PS: if your board is rather small (mine is a Pedaltrain Nano+) it will give you more space for other pedals if needed ;)

[@MOONfacekilla]

@@simondavid2519 great thanks for the advice! I'll look into what you mentioned about an OD that can get pretty close to distortion when I need it. Then it's no problem to hit the fuzz when I go heavier. Thanks

[@sharkeynoyz]

My chain is tuner-noise suppressor(send to)-OD-preamp(return to)-noise suppressor-EQ-delay-impulse response loader. I’m adding a chorus soon and that’s it. :)

[@michelvondenhoff9673]

Starting out the GT-1 is great, plenty of effects and the pedal can be switched between volume and wah! Add like you got a Boss FS and you can select up to three fx to be on/off. Run this through the fx-loop of your amp and just plug your stompbox pedalboard into the amp.

[@user-mi4du9rd1j]

For the small pedal board, I'd insist on some kind of modulation pedal in place of one of the overdrives. You can make a good chorus, phaser or flanger sound like three or four different pedals if you know how to tweak them., And you can set a good amp to be pretty dang clean with the guitar's volume rolled back a little and a gentle picking style, and downright crunchy with the guitar volume on ten and a more aggressive attack. So you can still stack gain more or less the same way as using two different distortions/overdrives, even if your amp has only one channel. Different playing dynamics and using the guitar's pots/pickup selector can give you several different clean, OD and even distorted tones with the same pedal and amp settings. But modulation is very difficult to "fake."

[@patrickolson8558]

Bought the PodGo as soon as it came out for my all in one gig solution as each patch, although the capacity is much smaller than the Helix or Stomp or GT-1000, can easily be switched between songs. However, even though that's my go to solution for gigs, I still haven't stopped collecting and buying pedals like I said I would. And I'm glad I didn't. My new setup is now using the PodGo alongside of my Wampler Tumnus. I just put the Tumnus in as my go to drive pedal in the FX loop and it opens up one more slot for mods or special fx pedals in the PodGo interface. Easy to toss into a backpack with minimal patch cables for either local gigs or fly gigs.

[@jamesknighton8658]

The three questions when considering pedalboard size are 1) type of music you play, 2) are you using the amp as a pedal platform or are you utilizing the amps distortion, and 3) are you using the effects loop? If you use the amps distortion (which is why you buy a good amp), you can get away with a small pedal board. If you play metal, like me, you will need to tame that amp at any volume. This will require at least a medium board because you will need to use utility pedals. You will need a gate in the loop as well as before the preamp. You will also put the time based delays in the effects loop. On my medium size board, out of 10 pedals, only about three are effects pedals. Simple to use. The rest are utility pedals that shapes tone and tames sound and noise. If I wasn’t using the amps distortion. I would need a large pedalboard because you would need about three pedals as different gain stages as well as the mighty mighty boss ls-2 to change “channels” between pedal distortions. Only these blues and country players have the option of small boards.

[@RulgertGhostalker]

a daisy chain supply is good to have while you're figuring things out. beyond that, noise is the anti-good sound ... with that few pedals; individual wall warts, and a power strip, is the next step.

[@LunaticTheCat]

For me a big pedal board is best. I have an EOB Susteiner Strat, so I love using all sorts of wild modulation pedals to warp the sustained sounds I get with the sustainer pickup. Sometimes I end up playing the pedals while just holding simple shapes on my guitar.

[@MichaelBanfieldGuitar]

Sounds like you're getting some epic soundscapes going on there, large pedalboards certainly score high in the fun department too! Thanks for commenting.

[@Racosz]

Excellent review and excellent KZbin channel. The review is clear, concise and straight to the point. I'm rebuilding my pedalboard and this vid fits perfectly. Greetings from Bogotá, Colombia.

[@MichaelBanfieldGuitar]

Great to hear you found it useful, thanks for commenting!

[@barneyfowlds8889]

Brilliant viid thanks,really insightful! As a bedroom/hobbyist guitarist for now, I'm currently in the process of building and putting together a medium sized pedalboard purely for fun and creativity purposes.Nothing high-end or boutique going on there,just well chosen essentials for their sounds and flexibility chosen using vids like this to confirm my choices (and some fun stuff too obvs..) But that said,I could never be too far away from an acoustic guitar with which to use fingers,picks,bottleneck slides etc,to create a few rather enjoyable effects of my own!

[@migo33]

Thanks for the great video. I like the last bit. no effects at all. Now I just got a small one-row pedalboard which limits me to the bare essentials. I prefer to play than mucking around with gadgets.

[@crumbs72]

So, playing bass I have 2 boards I run. 1 runs direct chain as follows( tuner/comp sust/envelope filter/octave/overdrive/fuzz/noise gate/eq). Then my effects loop runs as follows(chorus/phaser/vibrato/delay1/delay2/synth/looper). So overall running 15 pedals and grabbing a couple more. I use every single one and wondered if it was overkill. This made me feel better 👍

[@irishman2333]

Love the video Michael! You can NEVER have enough pedals :D

[@MichaelBanfieldGuitar]

You got that right!

[@SteelyGlow]

I'm always using only one tube overdrive pedal with a small tube amp, taking the sound with a microphone. If no amp can be used, I replace it with tube amp modeler pedal. When live, dry sound only. Environmental effects I apply only at recordings as postprocessing. So basically I don't even need a board for my pedals.

[@Mrmemphisbones]

Very good video! Thanks a lot. As a bassist i am very happy with a small pedaltrain with 3 pedals and 1spot daisy chain power. Tuner compressor and preamp-Di. Sometimes though, even the nano stays back home and i just toss a little zoom multipedal in the gigbag and i am good to go :)

[@jepatawaran]

I have a big board. Around 27x15. Sometimes, i change from 20x6, or 12x20. My first pedal was a multi-effects, Zoom G2.1u, then i upgraded to a Zoom G5 and now I have my main pedalboard, which are all single effects, no multi. what a journey. Great video, btw!

[@sparkyguitar0058]

I have a 12 pedal board that's been knocked down from 16. A lot of the time I don't even hook it up. Just play straight into the amp. What helps with my setup is a AKG wireless bug system that's all battery powered going in and a 5.8 rechargeable wireless unit going to the amp. Only have 1 wire to board ; the electric cord. Makes a very movable board including on a tray to work pedal controls.

[@TroyNaumu808]

I use a small to medium pedal board. The large pedal board and the multi-fx is way above my head.

[@EnterJustice]

Small (4): Boss TU-2 Chromatic Tuner, Boss DS-1 Distortion, Boss OD-3 Overdrive, Boss DD-7 Digital Delay Medium (8): Boss TU-2 Chromatic Tuner, tc electronics sub n up octaver, ProCo Rat distortion, Ibanez TS808 mid-hump overdrive, catalinbread Dirty Little Secret Marshall sim, Boss BF-2 Flanger, Boss CH-1 Super Chorus, Boss DD-7 Digital Delay

[@dimesciple1652]

Fuzzmaster General and Tone Job 🤘

[@isaiahfurrow7414]

I've been researching starting my pedals journey... and have decided to start with a Headrush MX5, it's small and flexible, and will cost roughly as much as the tuner I would have chosen, a Ditto+ looper, and maybe 1 pedal or 2 of the cheaper options on my pedal wishlist ... then there's power and cables... I think the MX5 is small enough that later on a few specific pedals could be added to create a hybrid pedalboard...

[@moosemuseum1853]

I've got mine down to 10 including the tuner. Tons of versatility. I use the mod on the analog delay and a keeley seafoam or mooer elec lady flanger for modulation. The buffer is part of the friedman pedalboard buffer bay.

[@TwistedMind86Chern]

I think the last choice is the best. Play with your guitar's knobs and pickups and your hand's dynamics.

[@MichaelBanfieldGuitar]

Well said. It certainly encourages you to refine the fundamentals of getting a good guitar tone. Thanks for commenting!

[@sparkyguitar0058]

How do you phase or delay? Ya that's what I thought. I love my board. I started with a Digitech RP 10. Very limiting, you can't tweak your already set sound on stage. Now my board is 12 pedals, 1 pwr unit. 3 drives, 2 delays and 3 modulations. A wah, boost/ buffer, and last on board a silent modded 10 band EQ. Hey people take a look at Caline P-1 pwr unit. Way cheaper than those brand name and big power out of 8 outs. I've ran as many as 17 pedals off this unit. Got it on Ebay for $ 32 two yrs ago. And I still use the RP-10 also. Just not as much. Remember on pedals look up the mV's of each pedal before plugging in.

[@TwistedMind86Chern]

@@sparkyguitar0058 personally i don't use those effects. I only use the spring reverb of my amp(not so often). I have a TSL 602, so in the concerts im plug and play guy and the sound engineers congratulate me every night 🤘

[@sparkyguitar0058]

@@TwistedMind86Chern I understand. I have both a Boogie and a Twin. Right now my only gig is a worship band. Not much use for drives or the wah. And I only just to use a practice amp in church. An amp I kinda rebuilt and covered with R&R, car racing and surfing stickers. So I keep that covered on stage with a black pillow case. Fits prefect but no effects at all. Need my board for many ambient sounds in this music.

[@thedeadxtras9927]

Nice one Mike great informative video, I was surprised when you popped up on my vids to watch on KZbin, I thought I definitely know that face, I’m Steve who used work at the Greenhouse few years ago when you used to rehearse there, great to see you again and glad to see you seem to be doing well. All the best Stevo

[@MichaelBanfieldGuitar]

Hey Steve! It's nice to hear from you! Thanks for saying hi. Yeah, not much happening gig wise at the moment so I've taken to playing around on KZbin. Let me know if you have any video suggestions. Hope you're well!

[@-Pol-]

Having seen your demo of how to get chorus like effects from the Boss flanger I'd be tempted to have that as the default modulation pedal on my minimalist board. It certainly seems abl eto kill a few birds with one stone.

[@Robsi60]

Very good video, so as your others. For me as a „beginner“ very helpful. I went a step back or two with my board. For the reason to concentrate more on practice I switched to a small board. Thanks!

[@Lowtech14]

Great video. All the info you need, and none that you don’t to help you make the right choice for you

[@chrisholbrooks412]

Good looking shoes

[@MichaelBanfieldGuitar]

Thanks Chris! You can't go wrong with trusty desert boots...

[@marcellofreitas7356]

My board is pretty medium to large. I have 9 effect pedals, 1 footswitch for toggling modes in Turbo distortion and an ABC switch so I can change guitars without unplugging. I don´t do gigs, but I make recordings and play jams in the Ninjam network. : )

[@MichaelBanfieldGuitar]

Sounds like a sweet setup. I'm not familiar with the Ninjam network, how close is it to being like a jam in person?

[@marcellofreitas7356]

@@MichaelBanfieldGuitar Ninjam compensates the delay and makes playing real-time possible. If you use Reaper, it comes with a Ninjam client. There is also Jamtaba2, which I strongly recommend. : )

[@MichaelBanfieldGuitar]

@@marcellofreitas7356 Thanks! The more I learn about Ninjam the more I want to try it. I use Logic Pro so I'll try it with that first.

[@moustachio334]

What Prince used is the perfect pedal board hehe

[@alchemysticgoldmind4164]

It depends on the Gig or rehearsal..jams small..small short gigs medium.or small...2hours or more Big medium..

[@spacebarbus]

Trebleboost, Timmyt 2 flavours of fuzz, Tape echo and wah..That's all I need..Reverb and Trem from amp.

[@MichaelBanfieldGuitar]

Sounds like a great setup. I must get a Timmy to try!

[@nigelthomasse6869]

I’m so happy I discovered this channel! Awesome content!

[@mikelundquist4596]

Tuner, wah, OD, fuzz, modulation, delay and delay thru a Fender amp will get one thru most gigs.

[@djay6651]

Right now, mine is an overdrive, flanger, analog delay and an EQ

[@soundzofnoize8603]

wow that is a beautiful guitar, very nice demo as well thank you.

[@mikhailalyokhin6244]

Good Video! Thanks a lot! The variativity of pedal combinations is what I'm really craving for and what the very few guitar videos is about (sorry for my Eng. - I'm Russian so not a native speaker). But the point I really want to hear about is How to combine small universal pedalboard which I can plug into input oif the AMP, into the send-return (after the pre-amp) and directly in (mix fx) Line. To use it as a Audio interface would be perfect! I mean The combination with the really little differences between variations! Something like Sans Amp GT-2 in the OUT of distortion or other solutions... Glad to hear view on this idea! Thanks a lot any way!

[@nedim_guitar]

I'm going to get more Boss pedals! Edit: Boss pedals have a buffer, right? So with a Boss pedal as first and last pedal should need no buffer pedal, or so I've heard. My pedalboard will grow beyond ten pedals. I think around 12 pedals will be all I "need".

[@MichaelBanfieldGuitar]

Boss is best!

[@nedim_guitar]

@@MichaelBanfieldGuitar Hard to argue about that. They've had the same, winning concept since the 70's. And they're not extremely expensive either!

[@emmettyoung7603]

hey man i love my nautila and you’re the first guy i’ve seen with one on his board, it’s my essential pedal

[@MichaelBanfieldGuitar]

Ah yes. I always have to refer back to a piece of paper that has my favourite settings on for that one, it has a lot of controls. Very versatile. Thanks for commenting!

[@bemetalways]

YES

[@GoCreateSomething]

Some other options are to get a multifx pedal that is the size of a normal pedal like the Behringer multifx. It is small, cheap, and has 6 effects that sound pretty decent in the demos I've seen. You can still have the little pedal board with a lot more flexibility. The downside? Well, they're digital effects. How many people can actually hear the difference between a digital chorus and an analog one? And once the drums are going, I think that even ceases to be a factor. Another option? There are several amps like the Boss Katana that have tons of effects and can sound like just about any amp available.

[@MichaelBanfieldGuitar]

Good shout. I agree those small multi effects pedals are great when trying to get a small pedalboard to be more versatile. Thanks for commenting

[@GoCreateSomething]

@@MichaelBanfieldGuitar Hey, thanks for the video!

[@jan.baginski]

Actually, I liked the sound of only the amp the most 😊

[@Junior1385]

I just have 1 pedal, The Boss Os-2 and the Digital Amp the Boss Katana

[@Nekro_bird]

I think the smaller you can get the better. Mainly so that I’m less tempted to buy more pedals since I’d have no room available lmao, and it forces me to upgrade my existing ones

[@lucas3oster]

Excellent video to the point. Thank you Michael.

[@MichaelBanfieldGuitar]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@pvgaming8243]

All of the pedals.

[@MK-tj5bf]

Thanks! Very useful and interesting video!

[@MichaelBanfieldGuitar]

Glad it was helpful!

[@louis6331]

Very nice presentation mate…. Great job.

[@bordstumalian5174]

Small board. Just add zoom multi stomp (MS-70 or 50) for other efx

[@_Planeview_]

1000 million

[@johndotcue]

distortion/OD, Delay, and Chorus for me. Oh and Tuner pedal if im doing live shit. but that's all

[@oscarpalaciosbustamante4029]

Wonderful lessons! Thanks A LOT!

[@AlexisVolta]

Thanks very much for this - great video!

[@caseonfire]

beautiful guitar

[@MichaelBanfieldGuitar]

Hey thanks!

[@gcvrsa]

"How many pedals you need" is dependent on so many factors that it's sort of a pointless question to ask. It's genre-dependent, situationally-dependent, and player-dependent. Some people don't need anything more than a tuner; an instrument, a good amp, and a lead will go very far, even if you are not a virtuoso player, especially if your amp offers more than one level of gain and has built-in reverb. For a small pedalboard, a tuner, an overdrive or boost, and a reverb pedal make an excellent and versatile combination. In fact, for jam sessions on guitar, where I might be bringing my guitar, and a small mono combo amp, I think that showing up with a gigantic pedalboard is kind of crass, so I have a small pedalboard built on a meat defrosting tray that's about 7" x 11", and I have boost, overdrive, and reverb, and that's it for effects. I do also use this small board for practice and songwriting, so it also has a looper and riff recorder on it, but I now keep my tuner separate from my pedalboards, so I can use the tuner on its own. For a medium sized pedalboard, I'm right now building my main guitar pedalboard to be a fly rig that fits into an underseat flight tote and still leaves room enough for a change of clothes, a quart baggie of toiletries, my personal electronics (iPad/iPhone/chargers), and an in-flight snack. That fly rig is designed to be used direct to PA or recording desk, based around the DSM & Humboldt Simplifier line of products. After that, I'm transitioning my main bass pedalboard to the same model. For a large pedalboard, the sky is the limit. My personal style of playing is shoegaze/dreampop, and that genre tends to be effects-heavy. But, while I do prefer individual effects, I've made the decision to limit myself to that fly rig board (390 mm x 290 mm, about 15.5" x 11.5"), one flat layer, so it fits a maximum of about 8 standard pedals, or possibly up to 12 if I used all mini pedals. I'm using a mix of pedal sizes, but for maximum flexibility, although I'm sticking with the Simplifier and analog drive pedals, I'm choosing to migrate my modulation/delay/reverb needs to a Boss GT-1000Core, which can also provide me with the digital multiband compression and acoustic enhancement effects I prefer to use with piezo pickups on both guitar and bass, as well. And TBPH, I *could* just use a GT-1000Core, and dump everything else, because the GT-1000 platform is that good, and the Core with just one or two external switches would be capable of meeting virtually all my needs on either guitar or bass. But, since the Core is so small, being about the size of only three standard pedals, I still have plenty of space on my board for a few other units with which I don't wish to part. The digital overdrives in the Core based on Boss' "X" series of pedals are actually really good, and if I had to compromise, I could without much in the way of regret, but the Core is small enough that I can still bring my favorite analog drives with very little size/weight/cost/complexity penalty.

[@sudan47]

Great channel, great video !! Keep sharing, sir..

[@MichaelBanfieldGuitar]

Thank you!

[@BustaBeatMooses]

Your guitar is super sick 🤘

[@MichaelBanfieldGuitar]

Hey thanks! It's got stripes!

[@mikeroadblock]

True.

[@brian91145]

I have over 30 stompboxes... I like having one of each effect just to play with!

[@MichaelBanfieldGuitar]

I like your thinking!

[@itai679]

Question is if its to go or sit in the studio, for the studio i prefer to have all my favourite pedals connected and ready to kick in without hassle. So i have tuner, wah, compressor, several fuzz, low gain distortion, delay, reverb, other modulation.

[@1Rockstok]

Digitec RP50, Donner Yellow Fall Delay. Kokko Comp. Sorry skeptics. I’ll take the RP50s you don’t want.

[@donald-parker]

Good vid. I've collected a lot of Boss pedals over the years and I like the sound better, but for the last few years I've just used a Zoom G5N. Compat, light weight, no patch cable or power supply hassles, has all the features I want, and a built in audio interface is nice for connecting to my computer at home. The biggest drawback to me is that it sounds shitty when I turn down the volume on my guitar. It seems to get "squishy". So I end up programming the same patch several times at different output volume levels becasue I can't just turn down my guitar. I wonder if this is a common problem with digital multieffects?

[@xsamitt]

Interesting....!

[@-Pol-]

@donald-parker - I have a hybrid pedal board or regular pedals plus a pedal sized Zoom MultiStomp multi-effect pedal. This gives me my preferred authentic drive sounds (Boss F(uz)Z-1w, Blues Driver, Rat and Bad Monkey followed by the Zoom MS-50g for compression, EQ, modulation and (sometimes) amp sims. The Zoom is a phenomenal little swiss army knife covering most effects you'd ever want to explore, with a huge community of patch builders behind it building patches to emulate all manner of effects that would cost many times that of the humble multistomps. You'll have a sense of this perhaps from the G5N already?

[@billvenner25]

Great informative video

[@patriot8554]

" How many effects pedals do you need? " ... Easy answer.... ALL OF THEM !!!! ;)

[@danielatkins9002]

I would put overdrive first then distortion because then you can drive the distortion to get a fatter sound

[@ciceroromero15]

All of them.

[@MichaelBanfieldGuitar]

Good choice!

[@earthsteward9]

It's better to invest the money in lessons than pedals but for how many you need: depends on what you need

[@Niscate]

Hey Michael, I always wondered what brand that Les Paul-style guitar is. Please tell! Great video btw.

[@cheenu711]

For me that really depends on the amp I'm using.

[@Mr.Steve-O]

Great clip Michael, I too own the Nautila and wanted to ask your thoughts on that pedal, thx !!

[@claudiosuarez1256]

great video 😃👍 ( i notice you are also a Catalinbread fan too 🙊🙊🙊 )

[@_viy]

Whoa.. never knew you can dial high gain sound with OD & DS pedals on at the same time.

[@MichaelBanfieldGuitar]

Welcome to the wonderful world of pedal stacking and cascading gain stages!

[@_viy]

@@MichaelBanfieldGuitar but why OD after DS? And by the way have you saw videos of GE-7 as cabinet simulator? Got myself one too to duck some artificial frequencies that Digitech Drop ads when i turn my guitar into a bass by dropping one active down. And now there is another way to use it))

[@V1VISECT6]

A BCB-60 got me by for many years and still would if they still fucking made them. I have a BCB30 for my bass rig (tu-2 bass muff geb-7) hooked into a GT1b (modulation). My old board got melted a bit so now it won't close (my old DS1 battery compartment doesn't even open up anymore cause of that) and to my dissapointment they stopped selling them and only the 90 and 30. My main gtr rig is a 6 pedals and a wah. Lately i've been swapping out a DS and OD (my old HM2 heavy metal will never leave along my mods) and now I bought a compressor. I have one spot to swap a pedal. So either I keep the old bastard and use my 30 or get a BCB-90 and use the old one for my bass rig. I'll upgrade if i snap. Running three power supplies for a rig will piss me off. I was okay with two.

[@KoayChooChin]

Regardless how big your board, there is no reverb pedal on there. May I know why?

[@randall6304]

-How many pedals do you need? -YES

[@BryanClark-gk6ie]

Yes what's that suppose to mean? You're probably one of those who thinks they need every pedal made. All you need is a good tube amp and a telecaster or strat' that and a few simple pedals ' I only have 13 on my main board and 7 to 8 on each of my other 3 boards. Yea I'm old' school only been playing 53 years so I know what I'm talking about' less is better. People like you need to learn to tune by ear also.

[@SWBest]

great video! :)

[@christophkropp4238]

Hi - super Video! What beautiful guitar - which is it? VG from LA(ndshut) 😄 near Munich

[@lylecampbell9036]

The answer is as many as i want

[@frankfrank7921]

I have nearly 50 pedals, a Helix LT and a Fractal FM3 so for me I don't know the answer to that "how many" question.

[@ericktomashernandez43]

hello beautiful guitar

[@MichaelBanfieldGuitar]

Guitar: Well hhhello Erick

[@matzer8846]

Nice ... you are going all the way and even include multi-FX n' load box! Thanks a lot for sharing!

[@sumrandomguy2297]

How many pedals that daisy chain can powered?

[@MichaelBanfieldGuitar]

Depends how many milliamps the power supply provides and the current draw of each pedal. Hope that helps