Have You Bought Any Pedals Lately In 2025?

[primeholy]

The screamer and the sub.

 

[Dave Lewis]

The screamer and the sub.
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Is that a Keeley Noble Screamer ?

 

[Dave Lewis]

This arrived from Andertons earlier

 

[primeholy]

Yessir

 

[Dave Lewis]

Yessir

Have you tried it against any others ?

 

[joezlo]

I'm learning towards 2 pedals this year. (That's called self control)

The Boss Roland Delay EVH in the stomp box setting & the MXR Rockman. Both used if possible, at some point.

 

[primeholy]

Have you tried it against any others ?

I have not. I bought it after watching the Andersons demo of all the 4 in one pedals. I kinda want the super rodent as well. The only other screamer type pedal I’ve had was a plumes that I didn’t dig.

 

[gearJunkie]

I kinda want the super rodent as well.

That's the one that piqued my interest, but it has not earned a permanent spot on any of my boards. It might be time to pull it out of its box and give it another shot.

 

[Dave Lewis]

Bugger they have both grabbed my interest
I love a Rat my original gave up a few years ago during the first covid lockdown .
So I bought a new one and it’s been excellent.
After watching a JHS vid ages ago on there rat that has years of rat settings in it to choose from.
I thought I’ll give that a go.
It’s a really good pedal but it just gave me option paralysis .
Choice is a good thing but some times you can be spoilt with to much

 

[Sascha Franck]

Only pedal I bought was a Wampler Triumph. Became a stable on my main board instantly.

 

[Dave Lewis]

Only pedal I bought was a Wampler Triumph. Became a stable on my main board instantly.

Tried any horses into your stable?

 

[Sascha Franck]

Tried any horses into your stable?

Not yet. I'm pretty happy with what I have. Might get a NUX Horseman on my next Thomann order.

 

[EOengineer]

Yes! G.A.S. is ever present.

This year, it's been:

1981 BOSS MIJ BF-2 Flanger
Keeley Halo Core Dual Delay
Ernie Ball MVP Volume Pedal

Diamond Dark Cloud Delay

Walrus Audio Canvas Power 15 Power Supply

Rock Stock Pedal Company Bright Switch set, plus extra LED lamp, to light up a board

Long live the addiction :| :-).

Bonus points on the MIJ BF-2. You don’t see those in that kind of shape every day.

I’ve picked up some used MXR pedals recently:
-MXR Timmy
-MXR Duke of Tone
-MXR Classic 108 Fuzz

I also bought some new stuff while they were being discounted:
-Earthquaker Devices Disaster Transport Legacy
-Fulltone OCD Ge

I saw a demo of the OCD GE the other day and thought it sounded great. How’s it working for you?

 

[Sascha Franck]

Only pedal I bought was a Wampler Triumph. Became a stable on my main board instantly.

Oh, I was lying. Bought a Bad Monkey along with it from the same guy as it was cheap. Will possibly find a spot on my yet-to-be-built home board which will just be all pedals I don't use live. Not particularly impressed with the BM but it may see some usage as I like pedals with bass and treble controls.

 

[metropolis_4]

This is what I’ve bought so far this year:

 

[david57strat]

Bonus points on the MIJ BF-2. You don’t see those in that kind of shape every day.

I purchased my first BF-2 in the mid-80s, along with a DD-3, CE-3, and a PH-1R (my very first digital delay, chorus and phaser, ever).

Wish I had never sold them.

When I purchased the BOSS GX-700 rack unit in 1997, as I transitioned over to rack equipment, I figured I'd never need those pedals again, since I had those and so many more, built into that unit, but that was a huge mistake.

I waited a long time to get my hands on a MIJ BF-2 in that shape, that wasn't $500.00, hoping BOSS would come around and issue a Waza version of it, but they never did - much to my disappointment.

I'd hate to admit how much I paid for this one (It was nowhere near 500 bucks, though).

It was worth every penny :-).

 

[david57strat]

This is what I’ve bought so far this year:

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Quite the amazing selection!

The SDE-3000D is on my wish list (along with tc's 2290P). But, I already have literally 18 delay pedals, so it's hard to justify - but I'll still pick up one of each of those two - eventually :-) - probably sooner than later, knowing me.

Delays and reverbs are my favorite effect of all (with modulation coming close, at third place), and they get spread over numerous boards, and rotated on and off of them, as needed or wanted.

The micro flanger was the very first effect pedal I ever purchased, used, from a friend, back in 1983. I sold it decades ago. The BF-2 became my go-to, not too many years later.

I loved that pedal.

 

[EOengineer]

I purchased my first BF-2 in the mid-80s, along with a DD-3, CE-3, and a PH-1R (my very first digital delay, chorus and phaser, ever).

Wish I had never sold them.

When I purchased the BOSS GX-700 rack unit in 1997, as I transitioned over to rack equipment, I figured I'd never need those pedals again, since I had those and so many more, built into that unit, but that was a huge mistake.

I waited a long time to get my hands on a MIJ BF-2 in that shape, that wasn't $500.00, hoping BOSS would come around and issue a Waza version of it, but they never did - much to my disappointment.

I'd hate to admit how much I paid for this one (It was nowhere near 500 bucks, though).

It was worth every penny :-).

FWIW if you ever need a backup, IIRC the early Taiwan manufactured models used the same parts and kinda fly under the radar. Same with the DS-1 and a number of the boss pedals.

Mine is a Taiwan model and has an intermittent crackling issue I need to chase down. Awesome sounding pedal though, especially with a delay. I’ll often use it with a MIJ DD-2 delay.

 

[DrewJD82]

I can't remember when I got them, if it was late December or early January, but just those two PastFX pedals, the Patriarch and TD-7. Both of which got ignored pretty quickly just because I joined that new band and have spent the last few months focused on that stuff rather than Gilmour tones.

I need an attenuator so I can bring this amp out of the house, after that I want to get back to my original idea of a pedals/mostly analog board to pair with the amps.

 

[david57strat]

First time I've seen the Bright Switch. I'm definitely going to check it out. I am currently using a rechargeable light I picked up for $25 on Amazon.

It's supposed to run for 100+ hours on a single charge. I haven't needed to charge mine since January. It's not as slick as the Bright Switch pedal, but it's hard to beat for the performance and price.

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Amazon.com

I like the color temperature pictured on this light, way more than that of the Bright Light (which didn't have color temp options). Looks to be around 4500K - a neutral tint that looks a lot like daylight sun. Very nice color. This tint makes it possible for a lot of late night use, without burning out your eyeballs. It's really color accurate, unlike the typical, Blue, Green, or Purple-sih tints most cheaper LEDS seem to have.

My sister gifted me a similar light for my keyboard sight-reading, and it has a similar color temperature but it doesn't have the rechargeable LiPo battery feature in it. Nice!

I'll be ordering one of the lights you listed here. Thanks for the reference!

I'm also a flashlight fanatic and I EDC this Zebralight SC600w Mk IV Plus HI (a 4500K light), all the time. Powerful, nearly indestructible, and crazy flexible little light.

Neutral light is the best!