I’ve been down the synthesizer rabbit hole, I’ve been down the modular rabbit hole and now I think I’m ready to take the plunge into the effects pedal rabbit hole.
However I know nothing about pedal boards or setting them up or anything.
I found a couple of websites that are basically like Modulargrid.net but for pedal boards, one is called pedal playground and the other is pedal board planner .com. First I want to ask which site would you guys recommend using to plan my pedal board?
Next I’m curious about the basics, Powering everything and which pedals are 100% needed and which pedals do you guys recommend in general?
I’ll be building this pedal board for tons of effects that I can run my synths and other instruments though, Think Jonny greenwood and radiohead in terms of what I’m going for. But I’m also looking to get the most out of it in terms of taking sounds and turning them into soundscapes/mashing and mangling/overall weirdness and also just basic stuff like compression/EQ/Delay etc
Starting out I don’t have a lot of money to invest in the pedal board at the moment but I plan on investing in more and more over time like I did when I was first starting out in modular so I want a pedal board that has a little bit of room to grow but nothing massive. Also I was curious what you guys had for suggestions on cheap pedals too. I plan on adding some more expensive stuff like the eventide pedals and the more specialty ones later when I can but I want to get started with some basics and some fun stuff then add on as I go. Also what are your thoughts on multi-effects pedals? A lot of them seem to do a lot but be the king of nothing though some of them seem cool and useful like the eventide h9.
Anyways all input and suggestions are welcome, I’m starting my research now but I wanted to have feedback from you guys as well.