u/Born_Farmer5221

I’ve become really close with my now-best-friend during my senior year and her junior year since meeting each other snd becoming friends about 10 months ago. I’ve never felt so close to someone; it really feels like she’s my sister sometimes. I love her so much and wish we had more time together and had known each other sooner. Every day that graduation gets closer I think about it more and get more sad even though we will still have all summer until I move away.

I haven’t really found many songs that reflect this feeling of nostalgia/sadness/happiness/dread. Here’s a few that are sort of the vibe:

1979 and Today - the Smashing Pumpkins

Screen - Brad

No Surprises - Radiohead

My Lucky Stars - Tupperwave

Wait For the Moment - Vulfpeck

Pop In My Step - KGLW

Time - Pink Floyd

Doesn’t necessarily have to be niche songs although I’d appreciate anything; I‘ve been blanking on some obvious ones (Time and 1979) until just now and might just need to have my memory jogged.

I’m moving to Nashville for school this fall and hope to be gigging quite a bit, as well as aspiring to become a professional musician. I’m working on a list of things I’ll need to buy for gigging and recording—a good gig bag, DI capabilities, DAW, audio interface, etc., that I’ll be saving up and using grad party for.

In my limited gigging experience in my hometown, I’ve never felt that a pedalboard was entirely necessary. I’ve borrowed my friend’s (overdrive, chorus, flanger, and octave) a few times and mainly used it for beefing up my tone when the only guitarist was soloing and getting certain tones more accurately. But I always felt like I would have been fine without it. I’ll tune with my clip-on tuner or Positive Grid app and have a good enough ear to adjust things during the set if need be.

I have my own Digitech RP250 unit that’s fun to mess around with, but it’s not really viable for gigging because some of the sounds aren’t the best and it absolutely sucks having to cycle through all of the presets in linear order. Also it’s annoyingly finicky with pushing both buttons at once to use bypass/tuner.

A pedalboard, pedals, power supply, and a case for it all is a pretty big investment, and I don’t know if I’d want to deal with figuring out a less expensive multi-effects unit. Is it even necessary to have pedals? If so, what should I get? From my limited knowledge a tuner is a necessity, and compressor and chorus are the most useful for bass. Should I try to just make a small 4-pedal board with a good tuner, compressor, chorus, and something else? Overall I’m really lost and both don’t want to spend money I don’t need to or end up without something I need.