What are your four ‘must-have’ pedals? That is what we ask our guests to share with you in our Four On the Floor podcast segment. Brian is a co-host of The Tone Jerks Podcast, a gear nut, and likes hot dogs. Fortunately, he did not choose 4 must-have hot dogs. If you are not familiar with Tone Jerks Podcast do yourself a favor and check them out. He gave us a fantastic interview too! You can hear the episode for yourself right here. Check out these choices for his Four On The Floor.
1. Coppersound Pedals – Foxcatcher Drive
“It’s his (founder Alex Guaraldi) take on the blues breaker for the drive section. It’s so great. I’ve been in like love with blues breakers recently. It’s not a huge gain range, but it’s the attack that it adds to it. I play punk rock and it’s totally there. You can add it on like neutral, boring-sounding amp, throw that on there and that’s your gain, or mix that with the amps gain and other stuff like that. Blues breaker style circuits and drive petals kind of have that tendency to get very like ice picky but with the Foxcatcher, you can dial that back with the Nature knob, which is basically like a presensce so that in conjunction with the tone knob and the gain and stuff like that, you can get super usable amounts of distortion, gain, and drive. Then the Gravity Bomb Boost knob, which is also a separate pedal in and of itself for Coppersound but has added to the Foxcatcher. It’s always on for me. It’s basically like a buffer and it just adds more clarity to everything. It’s just like kinda barely there, just sparkling out the sound and stack on the drive section. Cause they’re independent of each other. The boost and drive and then they have like a switchable order. So it’s super versatile pedal and really cool.“
Check out the Coppersound Pedals – Fox Catcher Drive
2. Southampton Pedals- Utility Knife
“It’s a phaser that sounds killer. It’s a flanger that sounds great. It’s a chorus that sounds good and a killer tremolo all in one. I use a lot of phaser and then every once in a while we do those eighties covers where I need a chorus. And so guess what, I like having pretty much the same settings for both phaser and chorus. I just go click it over in between songs and I’m like ready to go. It’s such a cool pedal. You know, you could have like those giant modulation computers or whatever but his thing just knocks it out of the park.”
Check out the Southampton Pedals- Utility Knife
3. Like My Pedals – Wells Delay
“It is an MXR size pedals so it’s not huge, but it has subdivisions and tap tempo all in one thing. It’s super easy to use. You’re not going to have like a million menus or whatever. It’s super fun, easy to use. Joseph the founder is really cool. I mean he’s a one guy operation out of Florida, hand soldering everything and he made this analog delay pedal with digital tap tempo and subdivision control and stuff like that. And then he’ll put it into a custom box for you with custom graphics. It’s so cool. I have one of his production models and then I liked it so much I ordered another one with a custom graphic. I like anime so he put one of my favorite characters on the pedal and he went like above and beyond. He color-coded the knobs to the look of the pedal, the sparkle paint of the base finish and the like, the like kid custom. He even found turquoise LED’s that matched and man, It’s so cool and so fun. And it’s a great sounding pedal.”
Check out the Like My Pedals – Wells Delay
4. Wampler – Mini Faux Spring Reverb
“I have found that I just like a basic, simple spring reverb. I want it easy to dial in and I want it to sound good. Sometimes when I play I just have it barely there— just a little splash of spring reverb. I love it.“
Check out the Wampler – Mini Faux Spring Reverb
Huge thanks to Brian for being a guest on our show and please check out Tone Jerks Podcast We wish him continued success!