If you only could have ONE pedal ......

[bruno]

It's therefore still the APE for me then, but it needs a donor delay pedal for it's full feature. You can use it as just a preamp/booster though, that just thickens the sound

[AndyR]

Oh.  ..... well ..... yeah. ...... all right ......

I guess I should have been clearer.... I did mean one single pedal.  Not multi fx.

So maybe .........


This was what I wrote before getting distracted by my son ....... and  when I picked this up again Andy had come to my rescue

I did of course mean a singe pedal, I could make it even more precise and say 1 analog pedal! No fancy modelling stuff and no multi fx. I would make an exception for 2 things: a  digital delay and a digital reverb.

     

Phew! A Spark boost still qualifies

[AndyR]

It's therefore still the APE for me then, but it needs a donor delay pedal for it's full feature. You can use it as just a preamp/booster though, that just thickens the sound

And this one sounds very interesting... but wouldn't be a "one pedal" pick for me.

[Geir]

To be honest, I don't really want ANY pedals.

I like a "guitar, guitar-lead, amp, and ROCK!" approach.

I could live without boost or wobbles.
I could definitely live without echoes and ambience.
I don't need anything but a usable sound that responds to my input.
And I HATE all those extra boxes and wires and crackles and stuff unless I really need them...

So I might have wasted the last hour or so...
But that would've been less interesting!      

I'm with you on keeping it simple.  The last year or so I've been limiting myself to just that : a guitar, a cable and an amp. Mind you I do fall off the wagon all the time and buy some new pedal and rearrange my pedal board, but I do like the simplicity of just using the pickup selector and volume pot to control my sound.

That said, to answer my own question......

if you asked me two weeks ago I'd said either boss cs-3 compressor or an analog delay pedal.

 BUT I just got the mooer e-lady and tho it's an almost unusable pedal as the only pedal, it's just so much fun ..... so that or the one it's s a copy of.....



Ps. Glad I could amuse you for an hour or so Andy 

[Odi]

Fine... Lol.
If I can only have "ONE"... gimme'a looper!

PS;
The CATALYST is a single channel with a built in BOOST... Just sayin' 

[AndyR]

Fine... Lol.
If I can only have "ONE"... gimme'a looper!

PS;
The CATALYST is a single channel with a built in BOOST... Just sayin' 

I checked out the Catalyst after seeing your post... looks cool (I've got a POD 2.0 and a fully loaded POD XTLive hiding in a cupboard somewhere, and a bunch of Variax instruments hiding in the loft - I kinda like Line6 stuff... just not using any of it at the moment).

I did kinda think the Catalyst qualified as the amplifier in this game

[Odi]

Fine... Lol.
If I can only have "ONE"... gimme'a looper!

PS;
The CATALYST is a single channel with a built in BOOST... Just sayin' 

I checked out the Catalyst after seeing your post... looks cool (I've got a POD 2.0 and a fully loaded POD XTLive hiding in a cupboard somewhere, and a bunch of Variax instruments hiding in the loft - I kinda like Line6 stuff... just not using any of it at the moment).

I did kinda think the Catalyst qualified as the amplifier in this game

Cool thing about the "CAT" is a built in mini-POD (mono) with cabs-n-mics, and USB interface 

[Farrell Jackson]

There are many to choose from but the one that gets hit the most on my pedal board is the MXR Prime Distortion....or maybe an Akai Compressor or....

[Odi]

Will somebody please make me a CATALYST amp icon for my signature?
And a BOSS VE-8 

[Blooby]