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best:
misty cave and the IndustE Reverb. both amazingly flexible in different ways.

worst:
none of the pedals I bought this year were bad

Best purchases:

VM Jazzmaster-DBA Reverberation Machine- RV 3

Worst Purchases:

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Slurpeesss!!! Slurp pee???

Favourite: Possessed + Echo Degrader + CT5 create sounds that get me ever closer to the dream sounds.

Worst: Ibanez Echo Shifter is a flimsy piece of shit that died after two months. Reluctantly want to mention my Recovery Bad Comrade because it arrived half-broke. Won't function with any other pedals plugged into it. Amazing when it does work, but needs fixed and I really, really hate having to deal with that shit.

Best of the last year: Count To Five just about steals it for the second modes sputtery, glitchy loop function. Makes me happy.

Honourable mention: The 80 Tape Limbo II is a bit special.

RM-1N is the best for me, I think.

Such a good thread. Especially people's differing reasons as why the same pedals made peoples lists.

Best: montreal positive. Just sounds so great.
Runner up: météore. Might be winner but we are still honeymooning.
Worst: procession. Just couldn't make it work and didn't dig the sounds unless it was buried with other stuff.
POTY: rm-1n? I haven't tried one but it is the longest running gas.

Best purchase: Eventide Eclipse. Got a steal thanks to a tip from ILF fuzz brethren, and it is all that--I totally get on with it, I just need to keep learning it. Honorable mention: Digitech IPS-33B. Doesn't do as much, but a very good intelligent harmonizer that I got for a steal, as well. I'm trying to figure out how to use them simultaneously for total pitch bending awesomeness.

Worst purchase: Boss VF-1, only because I didn't check the power requirements before buying it sans supply. 14v ac?! Who the fuck does that? So I need one of those. Stupid, stupid, stupid. Hopefully it'll all be worth it.

Best pedal of 2015: uh, I'm not sure I bought any pedals this year. I must be doing it wrong. I need to wrap up my twin to the Bosstone-based pedal I built for Terminalvertigo, though--exceeded expectations in a big way, as I hope it is doing for him.

Yea, the IPS-33B is a decent unit.

If I didn't have those needs covered, I'd grab one, and let's be real, for the right price I'd buy two anyway!

The little half-rack and equivalent rackmount stuff has weird power requirements half the time. If I read you the backs of stuff on the rack, you'd wonder if I was running a forgotten ac adapter store out of the closet here.

Dungus wrote:Reluctantly want to mention my Recovery Bad Comrade because it arrived half-broke. Won't function with any other pedals plugged into it. Amazing when it does work, but needs fixed and I really, really hate having to deal with that shit.

Ha, my recovery cutting room floor broke recently. I think it's just the switch (hope its jus the switch)...Dudes not responding to email on reverb. Sucks cuz it is my fav.

phantasmagorovich wrote:

I guess the Masf Epilepsy and the Arcane Analog HM-2 were disappointments, even though I have only borrowed them both.

I have never made an HM-2 clone. Where did you find this?

It's from Anarchy Audio, I know because it's my pedal.
I think it's a great one to boot but for some reason it didn't play well with Mick's guitars.
With my Strat or ES335 through my Vox or Marshall however, it sounds killer.
This thread is a million years old anyway, maybe it's fun to start a new one.

Good to know - this was brought to my attention as someone wanted me to build them one. I said I had never built one before but I could and the person directed me to this thread.

It's hard to imagine a more dangerous thread to my pocketbook...

Best: Fairfield Circuitry Randy's Revenge. Every time I hate the sound of guitars, this pedal returns me to a proper state of interested melancholy.

Worst: Fuzz Goddess Atomizer 4k. I suppose it's not Devi's fault that I'm bored of fuzz sounds.

2015 Pedal: I'll also defend the Warped Vinyl MKII - replaced the lofi junky/vb-2 combo I'd been using.