Basically, the idea is to come up with a chain of the worst sounding pedals. Now, these have to be pedals that ACTUALLY attempted to fulfill the role of "decent-sounding" pedal. It has to be an honest effort by a pedal builder/company. It has to be an honest effort that ended up sucking. It cannot be a pedal that was intentionally created to sound bad.
Let me start off with what I believe it the thoroughbred of an honest effort that absolutely sucked:
* The DOD Distortion 555-A
Or as I like to call it, the DOD "Fart in a Box 555-A". My best friend (Ben) who played bass had another friend (Aram) who played guitar and owned one of these, and at the time, I couldn't believe he (Aram) even bothered spending money on it. Then I was joking around with Ben one time and said, "We should use that pedal and a bunch of other crappy pedals and record a song titled 'Shitty'."
Ben laughed, affirming it was a funny idea.
After these years, the idea is still with me. I picked up a 555-A a couple of months ago on eBay. $15.00. I still need to find this its proper 1/4", 18-volt AC adapter (yes, the power jack is the size of a guitar jack). 2(!!!) 9-volt batteries will have to do in the interrim. That this much suck requires this much power surprises me, though it shouldn't.
Here's the part that, to me, makes it interesting: Using these shitty pedals, the idea is to chain them up in such a way so as to actually make a great sounding (ok, let's be reasonable, a decent-sounding) tone.
Anyone else care to help with a song that will break the charts and turn all of these cheap, crappy sounding pedals into $500.00 eBay gold mines?
