Round 1
Overall
By
Pedal Selection
Pick 1
Pick 1
Yoel
1973 EHX Ram’s Head Big Muff
Pick 2
Pick 2
Eric
Rockbox Boiling Point OD
Pick 3
Pick 3
Phillip
Skreddy Lunar Module Mini Deluxe
Pick 4
Pick 4
Sam
EarthQuaker Devices Dispatch Master
Pick 5
Pick 5
Fletcher
Magnetic Effects White Atom
Pick 6
Pick 6
Nicholas
Strymon Timeline
Pick 7
Pick 7
Ian
EHX Deluxe Memory Man 1100 TT
Pick 8
Pick 8
David
Providence Anadime Chorus
The idea of
a “fantasy
pedalboard
draft”was a novel concept from
managed to snag his favorite drive pedal
right off the bat. “This is still the most
throaty-but-stringy, articulate and dynamic
OD I’ve ever played. And if I can’t get my
OD right, I can’t get my mojo working.”
The steal of the round had to be the
the start. Unlike fantasy sports, which are
Strymon Timeline at #6. I expected it to go
governed by complex scoring mechanics,
in the top three, so I’m sure Nicholas was
position scarcity and varying tiers of talent- happy to see it slide down to him at #6. He
based predictability, the determining
stated from the beginning that his strategy
factors at play here were considerably more was geared toward “max computational
subjective. And yet, seeing a vintage Big
power,” so starting with the current king of
Muff go as the number one overall pick
the megadelays is a fantastic first step.
made complete sense. In Yoel’s words,
“Every board needs a Big Muff, so why not
it was awesome to
start with the ultimate classic?”
see a couple of my favorite pedals go in the
The Rockbox at #2 still seems like a bit of
first round. The remarkably versatile Lunar
a reach in retrospect, but in what wound
Module and hauntingly ambient Dispatch
up being a drive-heavy first round, perhaps Master have both spent a considerable
Eric was just ahead of the curve. And he
amount of time on my real-life pedalboard.
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