I like EHX stuff, but i could never buy only EHX pedals. Boss pedals I’ve never had much love for. Even the RE-20 as much as I’ve tried haven’t been blown away with it. Sadly I have to admit that I’m big on design and the boss enclosures kind of seem boring and plan.

I agree. I mean when I bought it I knew it wouldn’t sound 100% like the real Space Echos. I still have my RE-20 hoping one day I’ll find the sweet spot. For the moment though its my two Memory mans.

if electro harmonix made a real pedal board, it’d have to be 10×20 feet in surface area so i could carry all their pedals at once.

I think the DS1 from Boss is a great first pedal buy, very versatile and cheap distortion. I think most of their pedals are good but too clinical for my taste. I like the more creative element you get with EH gear. As for pedal boards, I prefer to build my own. You only need a few bits of wood a jigsaw and some screws and you can make it to fit your personal pedal collection. Much more satisfying and you will save a bundle of cash that you could spend on another pedal!!!

The trouble I always had and still have with pedal boards is that sooner rather than later they restrict the number of pedals at hand (or foot) over a period of time such as a tour or a string of gigs. I like changing around pedal loops and experimenting with different pedal sequences which can give awe-inspiring results with EHX. Building a pedal board which enables such versatility is more than complicated.
Boss pedals are certainly OK and I have used them in the past however for me they lack that golden touch of inspirational madness that all EHX pedals offer. The non-EHX pedal I use is a Maestro Oberheim Phaser, otherwise I sometimes use rack-mounted Lexicons.

I dont mean to be a douche…but I think the DS1 is quite possibly the worst distortion pedal I have ever heard.

Oh it’s not that bad I do pedal mods and the one I have done the most is the Ultra/All Seeing Eye mod to the DS-1 and that transforms it into a beast for only a few more bucks! Throw a double stacked Burr Brown Opamp in there too and I bet it will compete with any distortion on the planet. Sorry…that was off topic!

I buy all kinds of pedals and don’t feel guilty at all. I love EHX the most though!

Yeah I only have one ehx pedal right now and have traded/sold a lot of ehx. I don’t feel guilty at all. The Small Stone is all I need. But I want a polychorus.