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Re: Worst Pedal Names?

Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2020 12:14 pm
by Jwar
JonnyAngle wrote:I kinda feel like EQD has been coming up with the most vanilla names recently too. Westwood, Plumes, Swiss things.

Their older stuff has great names: dispatch master, bit commander, organizer, tentacle, rainbow machine etc
When you lay it out like that, I start to realize something. Not many pedals have good names, like at all. LOL! Or they are some kind of nonsense that has nothing to do with the pedal. Some of them sound cool as shit though. Here's what I have just laying on the floor next to my desk.

Empress Echosystem (yea I get it, it's a delay LAME)

Montreal Assembly CT5 (jack is right here, I can't count to at least 6) I do like this name because I have no fucking clue what it means but it actually sounds good with the pedal.

Industrialectric Incinerator...this is a favorite of mine. Pedal and name. BURN MOTHERFUCKER BURN!!!!

ADD and MAE Dark Grime Deluxe (I like it, but I feel like grime is a gross word and that by playing it I am the grime. So obviously that's why it's right here, so I can play it.)

EQD Life Pedal...sigh. Ok. So, I fucking LOVE this pedal so much that I bought a clone and testing Dino's clone and am also waiting on V2 to come. What I don't love is the name. Life Pedal instead of Life Metal... I would have almost preferred if Sunn 0))) would have just let them use their name. SUN O)))) That's it. Name is aight, but it's not creative at all.

Procro Rat. Never understood this name and have always thought it was dumb as hell. I've heard and been around those rats and they don't sound like this damn pedal. SO, why?


I have a few filing cabinets full of pedalsĀ and I guarantee 90% of them have really dumb names.

Re: Worst Pedal Names?

Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2020 1:06 pm
by lordgalvar
Jwar wrote: Procro Rat. Never understood this name and have always thought it was dumb as hell. I've heard and been around those rats and they don't sound like this damn pedal. SO, why?
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Scott Burnham raced a AA/gas Rat powered Anglia.


That's my story that I made up and I'm sticking to it.

Re: Worst Pedal Names?

Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2020 5:29 pm
by jrfox92
Maybe a hot take: Death by Audio has, for the most part, the best pedal names.

Re: Worst Pedal Names?

Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2020 6:03 pm
by coldbrightsunlight
Bartimaeus wrote:One pedal name that bugs me personally is the caroline shigeharu, but that's partly just because the japanese on the front doesn't even spell out the name lol
Oh what the hell that's such bad design :lol: :lol: :lol: I kind of wanted one of these but this is... dumb.

Re: Worst Pedal Names?

Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2020 6:20 pm
by jrfox92
coldbrightsunlight wrote:
Bartimaeus wrote:One pedal name that bugs me personally is the caroline shigeharu, but that's partly just because the japanese on the front doesn't even spell out the name lol
Oh what the hell that's such bad design :lol: :lol: :lol: I kind of wanted one of these but this is... dumb.
I thought it was supposed to be some sort of inside joke because they're located in Columbia?

Re: Worst Pedal Names?

Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2020 6:29 pm
by coldbrightsunlight
I clearly have no idea what the Japanese writing on the pedal says. :lol:

Re: Worst Pedal Names?

Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2020 2:16 am
by Bartimaeus
jrfox92 wrote:
coldbrightsunlight wrote:
Bartimaeus wrote:One pedal name that bugs me personally is the caroline shigeharu, but that's partly just because the japanese on the front doesn't even spell out the name lol
Oh what the hell that's such bad design :lol: :lol: :lol: I kind of wanted one of these but this is... dumb.
I thought it was supposed to be some sort of inside joke because they're located in Columbia?
You're probably right that they did it as a joke, since most people wouldn't be able to tell. It just bugs me lol
JonnyAngle wrote:I kinda feel like EQD has been coming up with the most vanilla names recently too. Westwood, Plumes, Swiss things.

Their older stuff has great names: dispatch master, bit commander, organizer, tentacle, rainbow machine etc
Westwood and plumes are both very vanilla pedals, especially compared to their way cooler old stuff, so maybe they do a good job of naming appropriately haha

Re: Worst Pedal Names?

Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2020 3:19 am
by Blackened Soul
Bartimaeus wrote:I remember when I was a young teen I wanted a big muff and a super hard one because I saw the pros using them... I literally had no idea what they meant and threw my parents for a bit of a loop haha
:lol: I remember being in a guitar center in my teens and this guy obsessed with Frank Gamble was talking to me about getting some sound or something and I said just get a big muff [this was when they were still making the green ones and you could get one new for $75.00] and he says "I don't know man if I could use something called that :lol: To be honest I never thought of the name until then :idk:

Re: Worst Pedal Names?

Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2020 8:21 am
by lost in music
I have since learned that Westwood is the name of the street where EQD was founded, but every time I see it, I still think either UCLA or the Westwood One Radio Network (which hosted the Dr. Demento show when I was a kid).

Re: Worst Pedal Names?

Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2020 8:33 am
by coldbrightsunlight
I think of Command and Conquer

Re: Worst Pedal Names?

Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2020 9:08 am
by dubkitty
I used to sit by the radio and tape the Westwood One live concert recordings. fuck, but i'm old.

Re: Worst Pedal Names?

Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2020 9:35 pm
by Chankgeez
"Team Medic"??? :idk:

Re: Worst Pedal Names?

Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2020 9:40 pm
by $harkToootth
You freaking goof balls! The answer was so easy for this one and here we are 13 pages later.
BOOM!
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We're done. Everyone can pack up, take your trash, and bring it to my house. :snax:

Re: Worst Pedal Names?

Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2020 10:25 pm
by kaeth
I want to say the colon is weirdly out of place here, but I guess it isn't.
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Re: Worst Pedal Names?

Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2020 2:03 am
by Olin
$harkToootth wrote:You freaking goof balls! The answer was so easy for this one and here we are 13 pages later.
BOOM!
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We're done. Everyone can pack up, take your trash, and bring it to my house. :snax:
Worst thing about this is that it's a phaser.