Moogerfooger 104
Electric mistress deluxe
My favourite distortion is a clone of the Revv G4 my friend made. I can’t comment on the authenticity of the parts, however he has a very good ear and has worked for the likes of Vox and Blackstar. It sounds so sweet, it nails every distorted tone I could ever want.
I love delay pedals. If I could only have one pedal it would be a delay, and that delay would probably be a Line 6 DL4 because of how fond I am of them. Love the looping functions, the Tweak and Tweez controls, the chunky green-ness of it. Takes me back to the golden days of seeing weirdo math rock bands in Shoreditch.
The EHX POG 2 and Pitchfork are two contenders for favourite pedal, so creative and useful from a songwriting perspective.
Gamechanger Audio Third Man Records Plasma Coil. It,s my latest pedal purcase and works on all my gear. The most aggressive distortion I have and it glows in the dark 
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Pedal for synths… here are some of the ones I’ve used.
I used to have a rock/electro duo where my mate played guitar with a biiig pedal board, I played with a smaller pedal board, we both sung and a MDUW was out drummer. My pedal board contained a Tech 21 VT Bass for the Little Phatty on bass duties, and I played more polyphonic stuffs on a G2 through:
- A ProCo Rat with just some gain, just to make the synth more guitarish, to merge it with my mate’s guitars
- A Subdecay Quasar DLX: great sounding, flexible phaser. Haven’t seen any other than mine out there.
- A MF104M: my favorite delay so far… all MoogerFoogers are keepers anyway.
- An EHX Cathedral.
In a couple other bands, I use just this combination for the Little PHatty -not on bass duties :
- Tech 21 Blonde amp sim
- Boss RE20.
I like amp sims as they can give a synth a second personality. Amongst other dirt boxes, few gave as good results as those Tech 21. The MiniFooger Drive did, though. Wild.
As far as reverbs, I’m on the dirty side too 
I don’t like very much all the last 10-15 years lush reverbs. The RE20 reverb is the reason I did not switched to the El Capistan: it has a direct control (the El capistan v2 seems to have it too though) and sounds just…well, it give a totally dfferent character to a synth.
Another very fun comb was the EHX POG2 and the EHX Freeze: those two can tansform a piano sound into something both familiar and strange, by removing the attack and sustaining the sound. Works amazing on Clavinets two, maybe not on synths.
For synths specifically, I love the filter alternatives the SpaceMan Artemis or the Fairfield Circuitry Long Life offer, and the Fairfield Circuitry Shallow Water for that LoFi sound. The Vermona Reverb Lancet is another keeper for sure: analog “playground” multieffects.
MXR Carbon Copy. Just sounds right to me.
And Xotic EP Booster. I never turn it off. When I do, I get sad.
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I’m revisiting math rock with Dave Konopka from Battles and Dave Knudson from Minus the Bear, the DL4 MK2 is appealing. Still no delay seems to authorize retriggering like this one or X2 speed in a glimpse.
The form factor though is very 90’s.
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Not many demos in the wild of this beast on synths…would love to hear it…
I have ‘only’ 3 good pedals, Eventide Space + TimeFactor and Fairfield ShallowWater.
But in recent years I have been using FX modules more and more:
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I’ve already thought about Eurorack FX. looks very interesting. Personally, I’m afraid that it will develop into a GAS effect, so I’m staying away from the Eurorack stuff and sticking with classic FX and synthesizers.
I just scored a second hand Eventide Space at a remarkable price. Very excited about that one.
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