Most people here have distortion and OD pedals, delays, a Dyno (or Atomic), maybe a reverb tank or pedal, tremolo or chorus.

What are some of less common pedals that you use and love? What do they do for your tone?

(Easier for me to bring new toys into the house when they are stomp box-sized)

Bigfoot Magnavibe: Magnatone true pitch shift vibrato in a box. Add volume and shake.

Catalinbread ottava magus: Octave pedal with no downsides. As with every other CB pedal I've tried, warm and excellent sound.

MD

1. Korg CHR-1 - this was the main non-distortion pedal I used back in the 90s. They are of 80s vintage. It has two modes. Mode 1 is chorus, which is lush without getting into that over processed territory of sound, that so many chorses from the 80s were in, that made every guitar sound like it was from a movie soundtrack. Turn the rate up, and you can get cool octave overtones, that make the guitar sound sort of like a 12-string guitar. Mode 2 turns the pedal into a phaser. Crank the rate up, and you can get some cool, sick sounding helicopter sounds. I had to sell my first one back in 2000, when I got myself in a money bind, after foolishly lending a "good friend" hundreds of dollars (which she promised to pay me back, but never bothered to make the attempt to do). But I got my hands on another one last year, via eBay (they aren't very common). It's not as pretty as my old one cosmetically, but it works just fine!

2. Morley Sapphire Flanger - this is the pedal I have had the longest (I bought it new in early 1997). I like flanging as long as it isn't overpowering. But, most flangers I've tried out, seem to be all or nothing. They don't have much of a "middle amount" of flanging capability. The Morely is one of those exceptions to the rule. I don't use it all the time, but if it set it up for a middle level seting of sweep, depth, and rate, it gives me some very cool, otherworldly guitar tones. Morely hasn't made them in a long time, so I'm hanging on to mine.

Here's a photo of my 3 mainstay pedals. The Sapphire Flanger is the blue one in the middle, and the CHR-1 is the sort of beat up one on the right.

Arion Stereo Chorus Use two separate amps and set the chorus with just enough intensity and depth to add "texture" to your sound.

For our bass player it is most "uncommon" for him to use my tuner and we all "love" it when he does. He's used it twice this year. Once when he got his new bass and I told him they did not tune it at the factory, and once by band mandate. Kids. (no offense here to the kids that do tune)

Not factory tuned! Love it!

The only thing I usually use between my guitar and amp is an RE20. Sometimes, I'll use a Mesa recording preamp, tho it's not a pedal. It does have a multi button footswitch. More controls than I'll ever need.

Is JangleBox uncommon?

I love this, my old Roland Phase II. Sounds cool and so big and heavy you can use it as a doorstop.

I love my Ibanez FL-5 flanger. I just love the swoopy swirley sounds that it adds. Especially in line before the Fulltone Supa-Trem

BBeard, that story reminds me of this guy

Is JangleBox uncommon?

I woudn't have thought so - I have a Janglebox. I have to pair it with a GE7 rolling off the highs to take some of the shrillness out of it, though.

As well as a couple of others here, I also love my flanger, it's a guilty pleasure. It gets used sparingly, I promise.

Tubs, I had one of those Roland phasers back in the late 70s. Sounded pretty good, if I remember rightly. No idea what happened to it.

My only slightly oddball pedal is a Snarling Dogs Very Tone Dog (Varitone-dog....haha) which obviously is a stompbox version of the rotary choke thingy fitted by Gibson to guitars such as the 345 and 355. It can also act as a volume boost (clean or slightly overdriven) and, as it has two overall tonal ranges with bypass plus five tones on each, it offers more options than a normal Varitone, although I tend to use only two or three of them. It's OK with Fender single coils, but it's much better with P90s and even more so with Filtertrons, PAF humbuckers or DeArmond Goldtones.

That bad boy, right there. Nothing quite like the Spice pedal.

Mesa Boogie V-Twin.

Love it's clean and blues channels.

I used to play clean through my Roland JC-120, and use the clean channel on the V-Twin to sweeten the tone and make it a little less clinical. Worked like a charm.

Sandy, that is great! I sent that to our bass player. I think I hurt his feeler. He's a good kid.

Oh, and this one too.

It's a fact that there is no software that can emulate the Spice pedal.

Well, maybe Windows 95.

PS5, Boss Pitch Shifter. I just love it for weird stuff and also for reverb and delay modes.

Don't have one yet, but God knows I could really use one of these:

Come to think of it, BOSS makes one that costs slightly less than the "boutique version".

I use the Drive Thru. It's a handmade overdrive pedal made of the best components and with no circuit board. Only real big components.....:-)
I sounds great with my '60 Deluxe. I like that it's very responsive to picking dynamics and cleans up nicely when I turn the volume of my guitar back. Just like my amp would but at a better volume. And the overdrive sound is truly great.
Drive Thru

And the Tone Americana Reverb Pedal. I needed a reverb pedal because my '60 Tweed Deluxe doesn't have reverb. I tried many pedals but didn't really like any. Then I found this pedal. I like that it has just one knob like the reverb on an amp would have. It's fat and dripping and doesn't sound very digital, I like that.
Tone Americana Reverb

I appreciate those who have posted actual pedals that they own and love. Thanks for starting this thread, we can ignore the non contributors.

I love my first issue DOD phasor 201, its subtle phase effect in slow mode and reminds me of this sound in George Jones bartender blues http://youtu.be/CTFXRIY6-fE

BUT once you get the speed up half way it sounds like a nice light univibe, all watery and hendrix-ish. Its real claim to fame is its fast mode. Couple it with an overdrive and you can pull off the SRV "live alive" fender vibratone sounds.

I have a long knob on it because a slight move of your foot lets you simulated leslie braking and ramping. I love it and the only thing not stock on it is the DPDT switch for true bypass.

There were other versions of this Phasor201 and reissues but they dont sound anything like this early version, and its bullpucky that this is essentially an MXR phase 45, those stupid things distort when you dig into em and this 201 stays clean.

Tavo, every time you post about one of your vintage pedals, I experience a "Where did he get all those wonderful toys?" moment.

It's always educational, and you should do it more often.

Echolution, freeze feature is alot of fun too.

I'd love to play with some of these pedals and see what they do!

This isn't even that odd, save that I've only met one other person in person who uses one of these. When I was trying to order it, half the guitar store guys weren't aware it existed. One particularly snobby one looked at me like I was on crack.

I sometimes use the tape echo for a bit of texture. I probably use it more with my ukulele though.

Mesa Boogie V-Twin.

Love it's clean and blues channels.

I used to play clean through my Roland JC-120, and use the clean channel on the V-Twin to sweeten the tone and make it a little less clinical. Worked like a charm.

I used to have a v-twin back in the mid 90's . . . strangely enough I traded it in the late 90's for a volume pedal and this little number . . . a Voodoo Labs Micro Vibe (so old it doesn't have the LED light).

As of the last couple of mos., I`ve been using the Carl Martin Quatro. Simple, and covers alot of bases.