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Re: Crap pedals you'd never want?

Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 8:55 pm
by laterallateral
Well I've found alot of the Danelectro mini effects to be pretty underwhelming. Even taking into account the very low pricepoint.
I had the DJ-1 for a little while and the parameters on it were a sad little joke. They should have invested what little money was dedicated to putting pots and knobs on these and used it to design a better base effect. Chalking it up to an okay sounding, on/off only device would have been a better idea.

Behringer gets my money in the dirt cheap effect game.

Re: Crap pedals you'd never want?

Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 8:58 pm
by Mudfuzz
laterallateral wrote:Well I've found alot of the Danelectro mini effects to be pretty underwhelming. Even taking into account the very low pricepoint.


I will admit to owning a chili-dog, it got in on El-bay for $17 a few years ago, it's in a box somewhere.....

Re: Crap pedals you'd never want?

Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 9:05 pm
by Ghost Hip
The buffers on the mini danos are fuzz-fuckers. I gave my milkshake chorus to my friend, it works quite well for him though.

Re: Crap pedals you'd never want?

Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 9:06 pm
by laterallateral
I gave mine away for five bucks at a gear swap to a dude that came by my table three times, trying to haggle the pedal down from 7 bucks. We chuckled as the dude walked away with it, imagining the face he'd make when he'd realize what a turd pedal he'd spent his paper route money on. :evil:

Re: Crap pedals you'd never want?

Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 9:16 pm
by Blurillaz
PumpkinPieces wrote:and some pedals just look fugly.

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Re: Crap pedals you'd never want?

Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 9:21 pm
by laterallateral
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Vrooom... VROOOM fuck off.

Re: Crap pedals you'd never want?

Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 9:41 pm
by effetebomb
PumpkinPieces wrote:
Blurillaz wrote:
PumpkinPieces wrote:And I'll never own a compressor.

But... Why?


I can't see myself using one... I don't get why people use them. I'm all about picking dynamics, and if I'm not mistaken a compressor makes you playing the same volume no matter how hard or soft you pick. It sounds too predictable and boring.


a properly set compressor turns guitars and basses into feedback machines instantly. I think you underestimate the advantages of tiny hum being compressed up to high volumes. compressor is one of my favorite effects and certainly not because it tames shit. because it don't.

Re: Crap pedals you'd never want?

Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 9:45 pm
by Blurillaz
Yes, I like using mine as an Overdrive, even sometimes Crank the amp and use it as a Clean/Dirty switch... not sure how it keeps it the same volume though...

And he is right, you can get clean guitars with feedback at some settings.

Re: Crap pedals you'd never want?

Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 9:51 pm
by eti
Any pedal made mostly of plastic. :mad:

But I'm not too picky insofar as I can usually find a use for just about anything. :stitch:

Re: Crap pedals you'd never want?

Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 9:58 pm
by godofthegrove
eti wrote:Any pedal made mostly of plastic. :mad:

But I'm not too picky insofar as I can usually find a use for just about anything. :stitch:



I agree with the Plastic pedals........what's worse is a really good pedal in poor housing that falls apart after a few stomps.

Re: Crap pedals you'd never want?

Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 10:01 pm
by laterallateral
If you mean the Dano Wah, I agree 100%, if not only for the weird bonus fuzz circuit.
Shame they had to make it look so risible.

Re: Crap pedals you'd never want?

Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 10:08 pm
by Ghost Hip
effetebomb wrote:
PumpkinPieces wrote:
Blurillaz wrote:
I can't see myself using one... I don't get why people use them. I'm all about picking dynamics, and if I'm not mistaken a compressor makes you playing the same volume no matter how hard or soft you pick. It sounds too predictable and boring.


a properly set compressor turns guitars and basses into feedback machines instantly. I think you underestimate the advantages of tiny hum being compressed up to high volumes. compressor is one of my favorite effects and certainly not because it tames shit. because it don't.


That's a part of the reason I use clean boost, it makes pedals feedback more easily. I'm not saying compressors are crap pedals, I was more focused on that I don't think I'll ever have one. The only one that has ever itnrigued me is the philosophers tone, but thats because of clean blend fuzz part.

Re: Crap pedals you'd never want?

Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 10:43 pm
by SilliusSodus
eti wrote:Any pedal made mostly of plastic. :mad:

...


godofthegrove wrote:I agree with the Plastic pedals........


Hey guys, meet ShortScaleGearDemos...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QL-6eTHSHQ[/youtube]

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Re: Crap pedals you'd never want?

Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 10:48 pm
by bigchiefbc
I own three different behringer pedals, two of which are on my boards and aren't going anywhere. And yet I also have owned half a dozen different pedals that each cost over $300 a piece. Some of them were great, some of them sucked. Same thing can be said of the Behringers. I wonder what it all means.

Re: Crap pedals you'd never want?

Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 10:53 pm
by Blurillaz
SilliusSodus wrote:Hey guys, meet ShortScaleGearDemos...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QL-6eTHSHQ[/youtube]

:lol: :lol: :lol:

:lol:
Plastic is pretty tough.

Except at my shows, I light all my pedals on fire at the end, and the plastic behringer and danelectro ones just melted away! Can you believe that!