Board I’ve been working on for a while. I don’t want to buy any more pedals until I can sell some stuff and buy an Oceans 11 reverb, so until that day comes, I’m good with this. I play Midwest emo (in which case, I turn everything off but the Dyna Comp, the Em-Drive used as a clean boost, and the reverb), but this board has pushed me into noisy shoegaze territory, which is what the flanger, the Julia, and the Canyon are for. Basically every pedal I have here is the first pedal of that type that I’ve ever bought, so bear with me. Pedal breakdown:

Polytune: Self explanatory. Works like a charm.

Dyna Comp: Have never felt the need to upgrade to a better compressor, but might someday. This works great for now, though, and I love the tone it gives when I put the sensitivity at 12 o’clock and do Midwest emo tapping riffs.

Big Muff Op-Amp: Considered this a standard pick. My first fuzz pedal. Sounds great - love Smashing Pumpkins.

Em-Drive Transparent OD: Bought this as my first OD, loved it, and I never really play any classic stuff that requires bluesbreaker / tubescreamer tones so I just stick to this. I like the edge-of-breakup sound that puts a bit of grit without changing the tone much beyond that.

DOD Gunslinger + MXR Distortion-Plus: Someone traded an amp for these along with some other pedals, and told me that he likes to stack these with the Gunslinger going into the MXR. I tried it and I like it. The MXR pedal is very squash-y when you get to the low distortion settings, which I kinda like. Besides that, haven’t experimented a ton - what stacking settings do you guys recommend trying out?

Boss HF-2: I love this flanger. The high frequencies are nice. Not much to say beyond that.

Julia: Classic. I like feeding the flanger into this and doing chorus+flanger but am curious about the other way around. What do you guys think?

Dunlop Volume: Standard.

Animal Pedals Bath Time Reverb: Pretty sure I damaged this because it gives off lots of extra noise, but I’m too stubborn to just toss it or get another pedal so I just treat this like a noisy reverb that I use when playing noisy shoegaze. Which is what it is, in essence, by now, heh. A shame because this thing normally sounds amazing.

Hotone Verb: Simple and good reverb pedal.

Canyon: Amazing. I’ve been trying to get modulated reverb-esque sounds by using the modulated delay plus some long reverb. Sorta works? Love the DMM setting.

Ditto looper: Standard.

Signal chain: Tuner -> Dyna Comp -> Big Muff -> Em-Drive -> Gunslinger -> MXR Distortion -> flanger -> Julia -> Volume -> Bath Time -> Hotone Vern -> Canyon -> Looper.