What are your "always on" pedals

[Beo]

This thread stemming from my "how many pedals" thread.

Some players always have a compressor on. Metal guys often have a noise gate always on. Some gurus always have an overdrive, maybe using guitar volume control to adjust their clean/dirt.

So this thread is asking: what pedals are in your regular chain that you keep always on as part of your underlying tone?

[FuzzFanatic71]

I always have my DIY Matsumin Valvecaster on. It's last in the chain and makes everything before it sound better in my opinion. Guitar or bass. Its really just adds a nice old school warmth and colour to the tone. I'm planning on building another one for my dedicated bass board and I'm not even going to put a bypass switch in that one.

[lars-musik]

Ever since I built it, the KLON is first and always on in my chain (firstly the Madbean Sunking, then a Pickdropper 1590a). It succeeded the Orange Squeezer in its place. Both are/were set to a boost setting that just adds a little "more" to the sound.

[Granny Gremlin]

None.  I mean, there's probably something on at any given point, but no one thing that is always on. 

[blackieNYC]

Burst Box in Burst-On Mode!
On my one and only single coil guitar, a Tillman preamp. Just 3dB of boost, but I have a hard time dealing with single coil vs humbucker interns of driving the amp, cables, and the pedals.
My MXR custom comp is pretty much always on. A delay, possibly quite short, is on so much that removing it is an effect in itself. I may replace that mxr with an engineer's thumb though it is an excellent comp.

[therizky]

Distortions mostly, it's either Electra or Ross.

[alexanderbrevig]

If always means 90% then;
I always have a gate before signal chain (and after mic).
I always have a graphical equalizer on and available (after mic).
I always have a tuner on.

[midwayfair]

This one, though I really should replace it with one that I don't mind messing up the paint job on.



The El Cap on my board is on most of the time if I'm using an amp without verb (or if I'm standing on a bouncy wooden floor and stomping will cause the reverb to freak out).

[Kipper4]

El cap Jon? You lost me there.

I hate this kind thread normally especially since it would probably be better off in the lounge or some place else but here goes.

Always on
Zen drive or mad prof sweet honey.

There I did it.😀

[LightSoundGeometry]

I have my rangemaster on more than its off

[wavley]

My Moog MF Boost is always on and my foot is almost always on the expression pedal.  I use it more as a volume pedal but toe down is a pretty hefty boost.  The first thing my guitar goes into is always on too, it's a little Masco tube mixer that I modded to look like an amp input so I can mix my guitar and lap steel.

My RE-101 Space Echo is also pretty much always on.

[lapsteelman]

My reverb pedal. The one I use for gigging doesn't even have a bypass.

Depending on the guitar, my compressor. Some of my old steel guitars have really uneven output. (Some strings are considerably louder than others) and the pickups are non adjustable.

[vigilante397]

Buffer, compressor, and reverb.

[samhay]

Compressor (sometimes with ratio turned down so it is just a buffer/boost) and reverb.
Seems like a popular choice.