Music Radar’s Top 10 Guitar Pedals

Recently Guitarist magazine wrote an articale on the top 100 guitar effects pedals. It was a good read, the usual suspects cropped up in various places in the pecking order and some odd ball effects where thrown in (researching them now for my own use thanks Guitarist magazine !).

The Future Music group that publish Guitarist magazine has an internet forum (you’ll see it in my links section) musicradar.co.uk I decided to ask the guitarists and musicians on that forum what their top 10 pedals would be, didn’t have to own them, just what they would want/have/use. You can see the rules here. On Christmas eve I closed the forum thread and the results are finally in. The responses where limited due to minor variations in the pedals types, eg: Boss TU2/TU3, so I’ve taken a little liberty in grouping a few pedals together to get a more honest picture, but here are the top ten pedals that people wanted/used.
There is no order as a few pedals shared the same number of votes, but what is interesting is that the Guitarist magazine number one pedal is also the music radar forum’s number one pedal.

1.) Dunlop Crybaby Wah
2.) TS 808 (or clone)
3.) Boss CE2/3
4.) Boss TU2/3
5.) RAT (Proco)
6.) Fulltone OCD
7.) EHX Small Stone
8.) MonkeyFX Valvesporker
9.) Boss SD-1
10.) Keeley Compressor

Now I’ve had to expand beyond 10 due to the number of tied results
11.) Eventide Time Factor
12.) Digitech Whammy

A lot of pedals that I personally expected to see make it into the list didn’t make it, looking at the results this is due to people wanting specific versions of pedals that have multiple versions. The EXH Bigg Muff and Klon Centaur sat on the edge of making it into the list.

There is it.