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.
Roman has been providing all of us fantastic guitar, amp and pedal demos for many years on his YouTube channel Shnobel Tone. He also likes some pretty coveted pedals. If you are not familiar with Shnobel Tone do yourself a favor and check him 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. BBE- Ben Wah
“This wah pedal is a little controversial. Apparently, there was a guy would take a BBE Ben Wah and badge it as his own wah called the Vertex Axis Wah, claiming he hand wired it or something. He would change a few parameters around and some values and then he would “goop” which is flooding the board with epoxy or other material like that so you don’t know what the components are. Then he sold them for like twice the amount of money. But I love the sweep and range of this wah in particular. Later after all this had been discovered BBE tweaked the actual Ben Wah with the mods he made and now they are standard on that pedal.“
Check out the BBE – Ben Wah
2. Analog Man – King Of Tone Overdrive
“The King of Tone has a low gain chip or something like that where it’s even lower again than the standard low gain on a Prince Of Tone. Like on my Les Paul, if I am using the Prince Of Tone and I roll the gain back all the way it’s like aTube Screamer, It doesn’t clean up. But for me, I love the king of tone for that ability to get a clean tone. If I’m on the Les Paul, I use that really low gain side with a low gain option on it and it cleans up really well and gives you a lot of dynamic range. Also, I found that the king of tone works really well with many different amps, like a Vox, Fender, and Marshall. It’s very versatile, probably one of the most versatile overdrives, because sometimes drives don’t work as well with certain amps.“
Check out the Analog Man – King Of Tone Overdrive
3. Pete Cornish – P1 Fuzz
“This is a Big Muff style fuzz, actually a copy of the Ram’s Head Big Muff. He builds his pedals with buffers on the input and output. This makes it a very stable version of the Big Muff and a very proper one. I always come back to this one for a high gain fuzz. It’s just really great–but really expensive.”
Check out the Pete Cornish – P1 Fuzz
4. TC Electronic – Alter Ego Delay
“I’m a big fan of delays and mainly maybe because I’m not that great of a guitar player and you know, like one time I was watching the edge interview from YouTube and he’s like, I discovered the echo and it was like I had a second guitarist next to me and it was bouncing off, you know, and uh, I love delays. My approach is I love simple things that sound great. Ever since I got the Alter Ego, I’ve used it on all the demos that I’ve done. I just kind of turned it on once in a while when I’m demoing like a distortion pedal, I need to fill up space a little bit. It’s easier to play certain things with a little bit of delay. Andy Martin formerly from Pro Guitar Shop, now with Reverb, designed the delay sounds for this pedal. It’s like modeling old Echoplex, Oil Can Delays, the Benson Echorec, and the EHX Memory Man, etc. When I flip through the sounds it’s such an inspiring pedal. I love the feedback and the warmth of the sounds. It’s very organic even though it’s digital. I just gravitate towards because it’s really simple and it’s easy to dial in a great warm delay sound.“
Check out the TC Electronic – Alter Ego Delay
Huge thanks to Roman for being a guest on our show and please check out Shnobel Tone. We wish him continued success!