The most strange/gimmicky pedal you use regularly

[Achtane]

Utter Stutter

[GardenoftheDead]

My Ibanez Phaser is about the most hilariously harsh, unsubtle phaser on the god damn planet but I just can't get rid of it.

[Gone Fission]

Tube Screamer.

[The4455]

The EHX screaming bird and the Mole both suck a lot, they add an insane amount of treble or bass (respectivley) but rob you of the rest of your signals frequency's. So all you get is treble or bass, so your signal drops severely in volume, but I had the screaming bird never the less because it was cheap and new( at the time) and I thought, "hey why not?" But really, it has zero application because of the volume drop.

[askashrub]

I didn't think I'd use my Randy's Revenge for a whole lot besides wacky sounds. But I love how it mixes with my clean tone actually whether the mix on it is higher or lower.

Stooooop making me want one

Does it work well as a tremelo?

[Wes Mantooth]

I didn't think I'd use my Randy's Revenge for a whole lot besides wacky sounds. But I love how it mixes with my clean tone actually whether the mix on it is higher or lower.

Stooooop making me want one

Does it work well as a tremelo?

It's not exactly as flexible and its not a pure tremolo sounds but I actually really dig the trem sounds from it. You can do square and sin waves like boss.

[hatshirt]

Noisebox. Totally has no use other than to make insane noises.

noisebox for sure! i got the 3 knob prototype and it does some weird and crazy shit!

[jrmy]

If it interests me, I find a way to work it in. Or I just write a song around it.

[Jero]

The EHX screaming bird and the Mole both suck a lot, they add an insane amount of treble or bass (respectivley) but rob you of the rest of your signals frequency's. So all you get is treble or bass, so your signal drops severely in volume, but I had the screaming bird never the less because it was cheap and new( at the time) and I thought, "hey why not?" But really, it has zero application because of the volume drop.

They are both pretty much an LPB, so you could swap a part or two and have a good boost. Just removing the .1uf cap from the input to ground in the mole will help a lot.

[The4455]

The EHX screaming bird and the Mole both suck a lot, they add an insane amount of treble or bass (respectivley) but rob you of the rest of your signals frequency's. So all you get is treble or bass, so your signal drops severely in volume, but I had the screaming bird never the less because it was cheap and new( at the time) and I thought, "hey why not?" But really, it has zero application because of the volume drop.

They are both pretty much an LPB, so you could swap a part or two and have a good boost. Just removing the .1uf cap from the input to ground in the mole will help a lot.

Word, I sold the Screaming Bird about a year ago, although it did give a cool vintage bass tone.

[Ghost Hip]

But often the most unique and intriguing pedals also have the least musical application.

I think this is an interesting topic. I'm sure there are pedals on all of our boards that we use effortlessly and may seem absolutely normal and essential to our playing and sound, but put them in the hands of another and they're gimmicky and strange. When I play my Super Tri Fuzz it sounds just like another fuzz. Not to say it isn't unique sounding, but I've learned to how to play it just like learning how to play an instrument. But when someone else steps on it, it can sound like utter chaos and noise, or maybe just a fartyl old piece of junk. But in my hands, with my Epiphone Crestwood, through my English Muff'n and Classic 50... it is a huge, muffy, and oscillating fuzz with coolest note decay I've heard.

I think there are a lot of reasons, conscious or unconscious, as to why we choose a pedal over the other. Why one can sound great through a Muff but not so great through a fuzz face. Why I prefer a cosmichorus over a small clone, or a spring reverb over a hall. You have to find the noises that resonate with you and your playing and give the ones that don't to someone else.

[skullservant]

The Buzz Box is one pedal that I find myself using more and more often, in pretty much everything now

[WeHuntKings]

I say this a lot, but the great destroyer is almost always on these days in my setup. I like my clean tone hissing and crackling.

[bigchiefbc]

If it interests me, I find a way to work it in. Or I just write a song around it.

[GardenoftheDead]

I think this is an interesting topic. I'm sure there are pedals on all of our boards that we use effortlessly and may seem absolutely normal and essential to our playing and sound, but put them in the hands of another and they're gimmicky and strange.

The phaser I mentioned sounds like a broken wah pedal. I use it for noise solos.