Worst Pedal Names?

[Blood_mountain]

Granny Puker, Big John Hairy Balls

So gross.

[Blackened Soul]

Soda Meiser
Pickle Pie
Tube Screamer
Hot Cake
Fuck
Big Muff
Wolf Computer
Memory Man
You can go on forever... all are dumb, who cares but a bunch of forum dweebz? so what? now what?

[coldbrightsunlight]

And yet two things can be different degrees of not great and both of them still not great. But again, was never saying "don't make pedals or other products and media referencing the Soviet Union ever".

You drew an explicit parallel between the Raptio/Nazi iconography on pedals/etc. with Soviet iconography - and your reasoning was basically the Stalin crime list.

That was the fundamental point - the history of the USSR was much longer and more varied than just the Stalinist era. Just like the history of Belgium, the UK and the US (all of whom committed genocides of their own).

You can't divorce Nazi iconography or references to specific crimes of Imperial Japan from their horrors - they were rather single-minded for the entirety of their existence. This just isn't true of the US, UK... or the USSR

This is absolutely true in a general sense from the perspective of the outside Western world. However my point was that for some people from former Soviet countries this is absolutely not the case and these symbols very strongly represent the suffering of them and their families - not just under Stalin but right up to the end many people were oppressed. Again, not systematically murdered like the Nazis were doing so I'm not saying the two are "equal".

I think this is less true for atrocities in British or Belgian history because while the effects are still being felt not many people from then are still alive. I'm not arguing the two are entirely directly equivalent but was drawing the general parallel.

Also worth pointing out I was originally being flippant, NOT advocating an immediate end to all media using Soviet (or Khmer Rouge or etc etc) imagery. a pedal with swastikas on is fairly tasteless in the West, and even outside there it's worth thinking about before distributing things widely. This can similarly be true for other imagery, in some contexts. Discussions on the internet are hard

And on the basis that I was originally joking I'm not really sure why I kept arguing

[Snufkino]

Sine Labs Audio seems to have a weird thing of using the suffix "tard" for all their pedals: https://sinelabsblog.wordpress.com/pedals/

[coldbrightsunlight]

Oh that's... Not amazing. Not only is it kind of offensive they're also just really bad names

[Eivind August]

That's weird. I guess they had a pun with BassTard, sort off, but DelTard? Not to mention RevTard...

[lost in music]

Yeah, was gonna say that it seems like the Basstard was at least a pun but...

Reminds me of the YouTube channel Shaytards, in which the "tard" was supposedly a reference to a unitard, but fucking come on, we see what you're doing there, man.

[lost in music]

Because I'm trying to keep it about non-offensive names that are nonetheless terrible:

DigiTech CabDry VR

[lost in music]

Moog ClusterFlux

[dubkitty]

You would if you're French.


(This is a joke).

or Dutch.

[lost in music]

Soul Power always had some "gems".

Can't find the old shop website though. Here is his WordPress: http://spi-soulpower.com/wordpress/
Here are some photos http://spi-soulpower.com/wordpress/?page_id=125

Instrumetns.

Say what you want, I really like this. I think Tomkat did something similar as well.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN3MrEX7mus[/youtube]

[Jwar]

Granny Puker, Big John Hairy Balls

So gross.

Hah I wanted both of those.


I guess I just have never put much thought into what pedals name meant. I mean, ever. If they are unique names, I don't even think about the why. Is that odd? Maybe? Apparently because a ton of you seem to have known some shit that I had no idea on. Like, I've never heard the word rapito outside of that pedal. I used to watch a fuck ton of old Italian horror movies too, so now I think maybe I'm the tard here.

On that note. This is all the names from that dudes website. Either everything is kind of tarded in his mind or that shit means something else? The names are bad though regardless and for that he should feel bad. hah


ToneTard

Freshly ground fuzz

BassTard

FuzzTard / FuzzTard plus

BuzzTard / BuzzTard plus

TwinTard

RepTard

DelTard

RevTard

[VREEEEVROOOOOW]

Interestingly, it barely improves at all to keep in mind that "tard" means "slow".

[Jwar]

Interestingly, it barely improves at all to keep in mind that "tard" means "slow".

Here's what the Oxford dictionary has to say


to make the development or progress of something slower

synonym delay, slow down

The progression of the disease can be retarded by early surgery.
The lack of a rail link retarded the town's development.


Now, obviously that's not to say that it doesn't mean the other thing but it's a slur.

[Snufkino]

The lack of interest and sales was retarded by the insulting naming conventions.