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. Jesse places a great deal of importance on the quality of a pedal build, and that is reflected in the four pedals he chose. If you are not familiar with Rude Tech Pedals 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. Boss – OS-2 Overdrive/Distortion
“So I love the show and I really have more fun when people have like a theme to their four on the floor. So mine is the pedals that I first became aware of when I was in high school and first like learning that, uh, adults could change my sound, you know, whatever. The OS-2. It’s that blend between an overdrive and a distortion signal, and that blew my mind. It sounds so totally different than a DS-1 or something like that. I still play it to this day.“
Check out the Boss – OS-2 Overdrive/Distortion
2. DOD – FX54 Attacker Compressor/Distortion
“I got this pedal in either 1999 or 2000. And what I really like about it is the little onboard compression knob. Uh, it’s not a fantastic compressor, but when I was playing it, I was like, Whoa, I’m way better than I thought I was. Man. I’m really good! Hehe! This is great. And I didn’t know why as because it has that, uh, compressor on board. But I still really like it partially because I saw a video of Mark Mothersbaugh from Devo. You know how he has that Stratocaster that he duct tapes a bunch of pedals onto it and that pedal was taped to one of the horns of his Stratocaster. I was like, Oh my God, my pedal is even cooler than I thought it was. I thought it was just some $25 thing that I got. But now it’s extra cool.”
Check out the DOD – FX54 Attacker Compressor/Distortion
3. Boss – PH-2 Super Phaser
“I first saw this because in my first band ever I was a freshmen and I was in a band with some of the seniors in high school the dude who was a senior played this phaser and I was like, holy crap, this is the first effect that I’ve heard that wasn’t like a drive or anything and got to hear and play with it in person right there. It was like swirling around and was blowing my mind, like, this is bizarre! And you know, it’s just a simple phaser. I mean, there are so many pedals now that’ll do so much crazier stuff. But I mean, it blew my mind at the time. I really liked that one cause it’s one of the boss phasers that was still analog before they switched it over to digital. And uh, sounds amazing.”
Check out the Boss – PH-2 Super Phaser
4. Diamond – Memory Lane Delay V1
“I used to do, uh, repairs for Eastside music here in East Nashville and I would repair every pedal you could think of. And I remember just noticing, some of them were like, man, why would you ever build a pedal this way? You know, it’s going to break when you, uh, say solder the foot switch directly to the PCB and then have the pots mounted to the face of the pedal. It’s going to flex lightly over and over and break eventually. Then I came across a Diamond Memory Lane. I opened it up and I was like, Oh my God, this is designed to never break ever. Like if I saw a real beat up scratched up memory lane on reverb let’s say, and somebody was like, yeah man, I don’t even know if it works. I haven’t plugged it in. It’s a really trashed, you know, offer what you want. I would, you know, offer anything in a heartbeat just cause I know for a fact that pedal is gonna play. That inspired me to design my pedals to be super well built and rugged —I take a lot of cues from just opening up that first memory lane being like, Oh, people can make really smart design decisions. It’s an amazing pedal.“
Check out the Diamond – Memory Lane Delay V1
Huge thanks to Jesse for being a guest on our show and please check out Rude Tech Pedals. We wish him continued success!