u/DeadPants182

Hello r/guitarpedals! Up until a couple years ago I had been relying on various modeling amps and plugins to get my guitar tones, and rarely used pedals. I switched to an inexpensive hybrid amp that would stay out of my way and let me just play my guitar. Lately I've built up a modest pedal collection. Not every pedal I own is on this board because I wanted to focus on the basics. Each individual pedal shown here is priced at $100 or less, which I guess makes this a budget board?

Starting off, I have a tube screamer going into a DS-1. This lets me quickly switch between three different levels of overdrive/distortion (tube screamer for low gain, DS-1 for moderate gain, and both for high gain). For modulation, I have chorus and tremolo, where I admittedly went for cheaper options because I don't anticipate using them super often. Still, they sound good and are nice to have. Then I have a JHS 3 Series delay, which is so good that I'm kicking myself for not buying a delay pedal sooner. Last but not least is a cheap reverb pedal I got off of Amazon. All of this is going into an Orange Micro Dark amp with a JHS Little Black Amp Box in the effects loop.

Overall I'm very happy with my setup. Does it have room for improvement? Probably, but what I have right now is more than enough for jamming in my home office. I'm trying to find other musicians in my area to play with, so time will tell how well this holds up in a live application.

Hi there. You may know me as the creator of the original Tsukasa Enjoyers server. I'm not super active on Reddit or Discord these days, but I wanted to pop in here and talk a little about Tsukasa because I love her so much.

For context, I am a younger twin, and when we were growing up, my older twin was basically the golden child. He excelled in both baseball and tennis, got straight A's, and was a social butterfly. It seemed like anything I could do, he could do better. I had a deep-seated inferiority complex well before high school.

My only respite was playing video games and watching anime alone in my room. I got into Lucky Star the summer after my freshman year of high school, so I was fifteen years old (this was in 2008). When I was introduced to Tsukasa, it really felt like we were kindred spirits. Here was someone who also struggled with being outshined by their older twin. Not to mention she was, to my teenage self, breathtakingly beautiful. By the time I got to the beach episode, and especially when she daydreamed while holding that seashell up to her ear, I was in love. I wanted to hold her tight and tell her how wonderful she was, because I didn't think she heard that enough.

At the time, I thought my feelings were something to be ashamed of. I cried because I couldn't imagine myself as someone Tsukasa would want to be with. Even so, I couldn't fall out of love with her. In the years that followed, I wrote fanfiction and poems about her, acquired merchandise of her, raved to my weeb friends about her, and spent countless nights with her on my mind. I think it's safe to say that I've thought of her every day for the last 17 years.

I used to think that my feelings would naturally fade with time, but they never did. She's still my angel.

I've been playing guitar since 2009 but finally got around to building a "serious" pedalboard.