PumpkinPieces wrote:Usually pedals with the word metal in title. However the Boss HM-2 has always tempted me. Although I'm totally open to trying a pedal if its within my grasp.
Those Ibanez sound tanks, they're just ugly. And I'll never own a compressor.
Came across a Metal Core and a Hyper Metal the other day and was tempted to buy them just because they have to be horrible.
Any pedal with cute names for the controls, like meat, splooge etc. Any pedal with a name thought up by a 7th grader, or named for the trend of the day.
Modeling pedals. And.. any with just bad graphics.
Oddly there are quite a few badly made crappy pedals that sound fantastic and a few highly rated boutique numbers that don’t.
Most boutique overdrives (not that some aren't great for "tone", but they are simply not much use to me)...
Any Tubescreamer pedal...
Most Line 6 (esp. Tone Core) pedals (with a couple exceptions)...
Most sweatshop-made, mass-produced, boring, uncreative "standard issue" effects (Chorus, Distortion, Flanger, OD) that the market is already over-saturated with...
metalmariachi wrote:Any pedal with cute names for the controls, like meat, splooge etc. Any pedal with a name thought up by a 7th grader, or named for the trend of the day.
Hit me up if you find a cheap DOD Punkifier, Thrash Master, Metal X, Corrosion, Big Fat Pig, Buzz Box or Meat Box, then!!!
lol @ DOD Punkifier. Some weekend warrior, mid 40's type dudes that used to rent a slot at my old studio used to favour a beat to shit Punkifier pedal we had lying around. Although I've never had the honour to hear them rehearse, I am told that badly rendered versions of little wing sound spectacularly awesome trough it.
I actually own (and use) a Nobel's DISTORTION XTREME. It sounds like some kind of cross between a Rat and a MT-2.
I've never heard the stock Metal Zone do something I dug... and I love noise. I really dislike Tubescreamers, not because they sound bad, I just find them really boring. Also,anything with a really severe mid scoop where you can't dial some mids back in.
Anything ibanez made that came in one of those raw metal looking boxes where the knobs locked when you pushed them into the pedal. Cool design, but i mean, what fucking good is a "7-string" Distortion pedal. GOd that thing blows. Funniest part? it sounded much worse on a downtuned instrument
i used to have a dano-wah. I don't know what the fuck that thing was good for. I think i used it 3 times.
I've got a fuzzbox and i'm not afraid to use it
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Dan Electro, Digitech, BOSS and Behringer for me.. except under certain circumstances where they can be modded to take the horrible buffers out cause then they can be a bargain, plastic casing doesn't bother me aslong as it's durable like the behringer as opposed to the Dan Electro type casing, but rehouses aren't too hard anyway and I will buy some Japanese knock offs if they work out cheaper than something vintage of the same design and can take some modding.
Also nothing by Bootweekers that cost £300 for something that costs £50 (most of Zvex, I will give him the box of metal as it's 5 SHO in one plus a gate... so that kinda evens out at the same cost of just one SHO and the loop junky is fun and an interesting design, so i'l give him that to) and isn't even an original design and no bad digital (there's some very good digital) so I don't really like Line 6 series either (plus I hear they break alot)
Finally no company that releases Re-Issue pedals, they always sound awful and just get redesigned badly and no Artist series pedal (unless it's a very versatile pedal), I don't want someone elses sound, I want mine.
Any company could sway me though with an obscure pedal or something that doesn't comform to there normal range, Digitech horribly swayed me with there Hardwire series, BOSS occasionally release something really nice (I don't think i'd ever have more than 1 BOSS on my board at once though) and at the end of the day, if it sounds good, it's good.
of all the so-called crap pedals--Arion,Behringer, Dano, DOD, Ibanez Soundtank et cetera--Behringer is the only one i don't own. it is not becuz i think they are crap pedals, it is becuz i never got around to buying one yet. i still want to try the Behringer DD600. i may get that first. IDK if i would want a Behringer distortion pedal though...
mr. sound boy king wrote:
Organic apples are not normal, they are special, like analog, whereas normal apples, like digital, taste sterile and lack warmth.
Any pedal with cute names for the controls, like meat, splooge etc. Any pedal with a name thought up by a 7th grader, or named for the trend of the day.
Any overdrive that comes in a lime green box. If you want to emulate a Tubescreamer sound, get a Tuberscreamer. What is the point of a clone that costs 3 times the thing its cloning? I want to blind taste test a 'screamer with a cheapo and a boutique . Slap a big WTF on the forhead of the "holy grail of tone" snobs. I've been trying to curdle the cream on my tone for years. We don't need any more Stevie Ray Treywannabes. Save the lime green paint for huffing.
Although I'm totally open to trying a pedal if its within my grasp.
I want to blind taste test a 'screamer with a cheapo and a boutique . Slap a big WTF on the forhead of the "holy grail of tone" snobs. 