What the title says 
Share your favorite cheap guitarpedal for use in a electronic set-up
I’ll start with the boss bass overdrive - that thing is a beast, and can turn anything into rough heavy electronics!
Also the zoom 70cdr is a modern day classic!
EHX Platform. Compressor/Limiter/Drive pedal.
Well, these aren’t really cheap, but still a great proof that you don’t have to sell a kidney to buy an awesome delay or reverb: Digitech Polara and Obscura. The only bad thing about these is that they can’t be 100% wet.
Lots of decent Chinese clones of classic pedals, I have the Mooer Blues Mood (BD-2 clone) and it rocks.
If you’re using drive/dirt pedals, Boss NS-2 or its Behringer clone is your best friend.
Of the half dozen dirt pedals I’ve tried with my synths, the Blues Driver has been my favorite so far. The MXR Carbon Copy (~$150) is also fantastic. I’ve gotten into making DIY pedals, where each pedal is maybe 20-50$ for parts, and especially like my homemade BF-2 Flanger (analog, TC Thunderstorm is the only one I know of in production) and Mutron Phasor 2.
Another one in the “not that cheap but still a steal for that money” category: Blackstar HT-Dual. Got it for something like $100, it’s my favorite dirt pedal for synths, nothing I’ve tried is even half that good in my opinion.
Noisy as hell, of course.
Not really a guitar pedal but in the price range, FMR audio RNC or RNLA do the job and have all you need. Not as solid as a stompbox I guess, but they last a long time anyway.
Joyo or Haley Benton True Tone Amp Modelers like the American. I use it for guitar and it has a really warm crunchy sound.
EHX Platform has a low pass filter too! The tone knob. Also it has the “swell” knob which creates a kind of choppy gated effect though it’s not so useful on sources other than just a guitar.
Also it’s stereo in/out, which can be frustratingly hard to find on guitar pedals.
Perhaps not the cheapest at USD 180 I think, but the only one that really transitions from my guitar rig to my music making computers rig constantly:
Eventide TimeFactor is good (dual delays), cheap (second hand is half the price new), sounds great and is solid as a tank.
Zoom MS series are my favorite.
I find the Analog Drive rather good for warming up the DX-7’s smoother sounds, and that was going very cheap for a while; not so sure if second-hand prices have gone up now.
+1 for the MS-70CDR; it rarely leaves my aux send, though it’s not the most tweakable of pedals live, so I just tend to set it and go, switching between presets more than changing individual tone or delay levels for instance.
What’s that pedal doing?
Yeah - the second hand prices a really something! I saw one online (over here in ze europe) for as little as 200€ - and that is really insane for as much quality the eventide pedals packs! Have you worked with the pitchfactor and modfactor?
Yeah these FMR devices are really good value. Very nice build too. I had the RNLA and it was always somewhere in my live signal chain. Eventually sold it cause I’m now using the OT’s compressors to glue certain elements of my live sets.
I like my TC Electronic Nova Delay and Nova Reverb for bread & butter. They are stereo, built like a tank, cheap and sound great.
Just bought one for $130. Crazy deal for a pedal that does so much, and in stereo.
Oh nice, great deal!
With a little « click » when engaged.
Like too noisy?
I’ve had bad experiences with EHX pedals in the past, one burnt without warning and the switch is so damn hard and noisy it pissed me off each time i had to engage the pedal on stage.
