Full-on batshit crazy pedalboard in a rock band?

[John]

I have a personal rule that pedals on my main board have to be used for more than one or two songs or they are inessential. At home and in the studio is a different sitch, but for playing with a band especially in front of an audience, I need that justification. Maybe if I was playing on big stages like Idles then I'd get a bigger board and just pig out.

Pedals with two or more settings are cool, like a fuzz that you can play rock songs with but that also has a self-oscillation footswitch. coupleonapkins mentioned BOSS digital delays and the Hold function, which reminded me of my DD-8 and the little Saturnworks dual momentary switch pedal, which adds the options of tap tempo and runaway feedback. Pretty basic pedal but can go gazerk.

All that said, the pedal I got from my Secret Santa is bananas and I'm trying to justify adding it to my setup. I think I'm going to do a mini sidecar board just for recording and jamming, and if there are sounds that become essential then I'll have to rethink my whole identity and shit

[Kacey Y]

I don't have much practical input, being someone who has vacillated between pedalboard minimalism and batshit over the top over the years myself, but I just wanted to say your band sounds cool Zork

[Zork]

Oh, thank you!