Super budget pedals

[rfurtkamp]

If we're talking the DOD FX17, the sweep/throw of the pedal was atrocious is 90% of why.

I couldn't give mine away when I moved a few years back.

[maggot]

If we're talking the DOD FX17, the sweep/throw of the pedal was atrocious is 90% of why.

I couldn't give mine away when I moved a few years back.

I see what you're saying, but disagree. I never got along with all those Cry Babies and Voxes that sounded good all the way through their sweep. I've only loved oddballs like the DOD and the Morely Power Wah.

[maggot]

Another DOD winner:

The Metal Maniac sounded like crap on guitar, but amazing on bass. It let some kind of clear low end through with a fuzzy mess up top.

[rfurtkamp]

Wasn't about the sound all the way through, the actual sweep was so damn tiny.

I got one as a CV pedal and cried at how bad it was even with Digitech rack units it was designed for.

[ck3]

I just ordered a Donner Time Wave analog delay and Monoprice Tube Overdrive (and couldn't find photos of a reasonable size for posting here). The Monoprice OD looks like a Digitech Bad Monkey clone, and I'm guessing the Donner delay is modeled after the MXR Carbon Copy. Both were dirt cheap and will likely be key components in emulating a mid-80's Killing Joke vibe, i.e., modulated slapback delay run into crunchy overdrive. More when they arrive.

[frigid midget]

I just ordered a Donner Time Wave analog delay and Monoprice Tube Overdrive (and couldn't find photos of a reasonable size for posting here). The Monoprice OD looks like a Digitech Bad Monkey clone, and I'm guessing the Donner delay is modeled after the MXR Carbon Copy. Both were dirt cheap and will likely be key components in emulating a mid-80's Killing Joke vibe, i.e., modulated slapback delay run into crunchy overdrive. More when they arrive.

Isnt the bad mon'ey already a $30 tubescreamer clone though?

A clone of a clone of a clone...Kinda sounds like something from an Ahnuld movie

[ck3]

You have a point about pricing, though the Monoprice is true bypass, more compact, and it's not a too-mah. Now I want to listen to Austrian Death Machine.

[ck3]

I gave the Monoprice Tube Overdrive a test drive earlier this evening. So far, the only commonalities it seems to share with the Bad Monkey are the control layout and Tube-Screamer-style circuitry. It can become far more saturated and easily matches a Rat in terms of gain. I'm guessing it's more like a TS9DX in turbo mode or the GSP1101 Redbox OD effect. Also, Monoprice recently upgraded the design with an all-metal housing. Bonus.

[toothsome]

how did that delay turn out? wouldn't mind a carbon copy clone for under 60 bucks especially if it has any weird characteristics

[ck3]

The Wave Delay was kind of meh overall IMO, and I'm already flipping it on Reverb along with a few other recently-procured mini pedals. It is decently built, can self-oscillate like a mofo, operates quietly when not in spaceship mode, and pitch shifts when the time knob is tweaked, but sounds a bit too dark and has modulation that is too subtle for my taste.

I'll probably end up using the funds from these sales to try more mini pedals. A mini looper may be my next purchase.

Has anyone else noticed QC differences between the various Chinese mini brands? Mooer pedals have seemed to be the most solid of the bunch to me thus far.

[rfurtkamp]

My guess is that price point kicks in fast after an introduction - buy when a new variant pops up, then don't.

My initial run $35 Tomsline bitcrusher is still running 100%.