Blues lead/rhythm player. I mostly flatpick a Martin now, but played blues/blues-rock for many years in ATL bars until a couple years ago. I still fill in sometimes, and I still use:
My rig : old Strat (I have two early 60s and 2 late 50s - not for sale until I'm dead), sometimes an ES-345, or old yeller ("58 LP Special w/ P-90s) -> "65 Fender reverb "tank" -> effects -> tweed Deluxe or Bandmaster (Clark Tyger), depending on bar size. Sometimes I used a blackface Pro Reverb or Deluxe Reverb and left the tank at home for convenience. Boss tuner plugged into input 2 of the amp, and later I got a Turbo tuner (stomp) I use as first in chain. I only use 4 pedals :
1. Homemade tremolo based on Electronic Arts trem published long ago, handwired on perf board, "true bypass", with several improvements (as published) and mistakes fixed. A lot of blues tunes you need tremolo, like for Magic Sam tunes, Slim Harpo, swampy feel stuff - you know. Mine has great speed range, and shape can be set for hard (square) to sine with a knob. I mostly leave that knob in one place and adjust the speed to match the tune, and the level so there's no vol change when I kick it in/out (unity). This is the trick with tremelo: adjust the speed to match the song tempo!
2. Wampler Ego: a very musical compressor, used mostly on slow blues, hell, it sounds great on everything. You need a power supply, though, no batteries.
3. Roger Mayer VooDoo-1 fuzz: near as old as me, used as a clean boost for leads only, with drive set for just a little tiny bit of sizzle. The bass gets big, deep, and tight which is what endeared me to this black box.
4. Homemade tube screamer: My own design and build Tube Screamer clone based loosely on an old green Ibanez a friend had that I reverse-engineered, plus mods of my own. I made it over 15 years ago and do not have the schematic anymore. I recall I put in a mil-style machined pin socket for the op-amp, and tried many many different amp chips, and one day stuck in a Analog Devices amp designed for video and voila - nothing like it. Set mostly as a boost with a little grit, switched on especially with Strat when covering a certain Texas player. I handwired this one on perf board.
Honestly, I played a ton of gigs with no pedals. Blues, ya know. Always got more compliments on my tone than my playing, go figure. LOL