Least Necessary Boutique Reboot Possible

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Least Necessary Boutique Reboot Possible

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After discussing the completely unnecessary Gonkulator reissue, I have been thinking, what pedal is least deserving of a boutique remake? Which ones already exist?

Boss Super Chorus CH-1: Worst chorus ever? i play goddamn New Wave music and can't find a use for the fucking thing. I can't imagine how you would make it useful.

Danelectro Fab Tone: Okay, I actually thought about this one. In a decent enclosure, with some component swaps, I think it might be serviceable. I just shudder at the thought of charging someone $200 for a Fab Tone clone. Fab Clone... Fuck, someone will be selling one of these before I finish this paragraph.
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IMO anything Boss or DOD. I'm I just don't get the point.

Fuzz Face, please stop. For the most part muffs (haha I'm coming out with one too!).

Anything "vintage". Vintage to me equals boring as fuck. I've NEVER been interested in vintage shit. Especially when I builder clones a vintage circuit to the T and tries to make it look the same as the original. How fucking boring and lame.

Yea also, fuck Dano. Anything Dano can just die already. They suck ass.
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The idea of a Boss DS-1 boutique reboot makes me shudder to the bone. It would have to be out there already wouldn't it... it's such a mundane and recognisable sound that nobody should really be giving it much thought.

Also the fact that JHS ripped off the Devi Hyperion into an overpriced boutique pedal is still pretty hilarious i think.

The gonkulator sort of makes sense because it is still a pedal that fetches more now than what they cost when they were new, but a strange choice yeah.

Also any ibanez soundtank pedal :lol:
jwar wrote:IMO anything Boss or DOD. I'm I just don't get the point.
for the most part i agree, but there are boss pedals out there that sound fucking amazing and the prices keep going up on them, so boutique clones actually make sense - VB-2, CE-1, DC-2, SP-1 etc.
people ask fucking $600 for VB-2's now. i've tried a lot of new boutique chorus/vibrato pedals and not to diss on any of the awesome builders out there now, but nothing has been anywhere near as good, not even in the ballpark, some of those old boss circuits are magical.
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i think that master power boss pedal is a contender here. would be a funny reissue.

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Tubescreamer.
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Dr. Sherman Sticks M.D. wrote:i think that master power boss pedal is a contender here. would be a funny reissue.

"so u didn't nkow what the old one was for? now you can not know what the new is for either! Boss"
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backwardsvoyager wrote:
Dr. Sherman Sticks M.D. wrote:i think that master power boss pedal is a contender here. would be a funny reissue.

"so u didn't nkow what the old one was for? now you can not know what the new is for either! Boss"
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they should just cut the crap and actually market it as a doorstop this time :lol:
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Ibanez Thrash Metal Soundtank.

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I didn't realize the Fab Tone was discontinued.
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jwar wrote:IMO anything Boss or DOD. I'm I just don't get the point.
Yea also, fuck Dano. Anything Dano can just die already. They suck ass.
I'm glad someone said it. All that mass produced garbage is only fit for a doorstop or a paper weight. Not to mention the Boss weed smoking pipe on the Beavis audio site. Best use of a Boss pedal ever. And don't get me started on Danogayhateletro.
I had to edit out the vintage comments. I know they have been done to death as you said. But I love the sound of Ge Fuzz Face and the Harmonic Percolator.
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futuresailors wrote:Tubescreamer.
Don't let pope hear you say that. But yeah I tend to agree with you about that.
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KaosCill8r wrote:
futuresailors wrote:Tubescreamer.
Don't let pope hear you say that. But yeah I tend to agree with you about that.
Same here. One of the most boring ways to throw away 200+ ever. I don't care who hears me. Even the Pope.

The Blue Box was copied by DOD as the Buzz Box and that copy has been copied by a ton of people. Always struck me as a bit silly but they are usually cheaper.

Boutique mods on a boss Metal Zone to make it sound good: why not just buy the good pedal first? (that said I used the heck out of one years back in a punk band to sound bad and cut...I was going for that Confuse/Tranquilizer sound haha).
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KaosCill8r wrote:
futuresailors wrote:Tubescreamer.
Don't let pope hear you say that. But yeah I tend to agree with you about that.
I just saw the D.A.M. toobscreemer for $1200 and would have to agree as well.
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BUT WHAT ABOUT THOSE SWEET HANDMADE/PAINTED BOOTEEK CHORUS PEDALS MODELED ON THE LEGENDARY CE-2?

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