Any effects petals for acoustic guitar that people recommend?

I am a huge howie day fan and I am a musician. I was wondering what sort of petals out there that people would recommend for use with an acoustic guitar?

Any effects petals for acoustic guitar that people recommend?
Sweet man, Howie Day is awesome. I'm a big fan of his too and I have built my setup to be very similar to his.





Let me give you a list of cool effects, I'd recommend going with the loop station first, because if you're a fan of Howie, then you know the power of the loop station.





1. Boss RC-50 Loop Station - $499


http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/R...


The possibilities are endless. It's basically on the fly recording. You lay down a track, then you keep laying stuff over the top of it. Howie opened the doors. You can lay down drum beats, bass line, solo, and jam.





1(a). Boss RC-20XL Loop Station - $250


http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/R...


It's a loop station, just not as many options as the RC-50.





1(c). Boss RC-2 Loop Station - $180


http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/R...


A compact stomp pedal looper. It doesn't have as many options as the ones above.





1(d). Line 6 DL4 - $250


http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/D...


This is what Howie uses to lay down loops. It does the delay effect as well as allow sound over sound looping. The loop station on this is not the same as the Boss RC series, as you this one does decay looping. Meaning you eventually cap out, and sounds start disappearing as you lay down more and more layers. Howie mastered that though.





2. DD-20 Digital Delay - $220


http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/D...


Howie uses the DD-3 which isn't made anymore. But you can use this on the guitar or vocals for the echo effect, called delay. The delay pedal sounds great with the acoustic guitar.





3. OC-3 Octave Pedal - $120


http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/O...


This Octave pedal lets you drop down two octaves or up two octaves. What it actually does, is allows you to play a bass with your acoustic, it's how Howie does his bass line in songs like Ghost.





4. Boss GE-7 Equalizer - $100


http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/G...


This is just an equalizer. Howie will throw this on his vocals to give another effect. You can manipulate the EQ on your voice to make it sound different.





5. Line 6 Space Chorus - $120


http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/S...


Howie doesn't use the Chorus effect. But it's another type of delay sound that works well with the acoustic.








The big thing with Howie Day, is he has two pedal boards. One for his vocals and one for his guitar. That's why he has two DL4's in his setup. It allows him to do Vocal Loops as well as Loop his guitar. But if you get a loop station, two delay pedals, an OC-3 pedal, and an GE-7, then you can cover Howie songs perfectly.





I recommend doing Ghost or Sorry so Sorry, both are great looping songs.





If you have any further questions feel free to email me.
Reply:Great advice man, im going with ur list myself! Just to clarify though, Boss is indeed still selling the DD-3 :-) Report It