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Get good with a soldering iron and the sky is the limit. Tagboardeffects blog has all kinds of great layouts for circuits.

Echo park is a great delay.

It seems like most of the sleeper pedals have been outed over the years and people have caught on and are asking more for them.

I haven't tried it, but the hotone Wally looper seems like an excellent ditto type thing but with tempo/pitching

Zoom Power Drive, Tri-Metal, Hyper Lead are pretty incredible for how cheap they go (Ultra Fuzz as well, but usually not snaggable under $100). The majority of Ibanez 10 and L series stuff, too.

Wally is lots of fun, but has problems. My buddy's started breaking down into awful digital noise whenever the loop got long/complex it seems, and now it doesn't work at all.

Biyang Tri-Verb and MXR Black Label Chorus are staples on my board.
Hotone Whip and Joyo Ultimate Overdrive are great dirt pedals.
I picked up a Michael Angelo Batio signature delay recently and while it's not perfect it suits my needs.
Some Black Arts stuff you can oftentimes find used under $100 and definitely worth picking up at that price.

frodog wrote:Wally is lots of fun, but has problems. My buddy's started breaking down into awful digital noise whenever the loop got long/complex it seems, and now it doesn't work at all.

Oh no! And I was really planning on getting one

Can I really own a thing that does only one thing

I actually have the Wally here, gutted. Literally just gonna blow on it and then try it in my setup. Let you know if it suddenly starts working again.

frodog wrote:I actually have the Wally here, gutted. Literally just gonna blow on it and then try it in my setup. Let you know if it suddenly starts working again.

Appreciate it! It was essential to my hypothetical sub-100€ alternative board conjured in my imagination and pedalboardplanner

Dang, it doesn't work in any way. But it's still worth trying one, you can have days of fun before it maybe crumbles or you could be lucky and get a good one. Holla if you want a new enclosure, I'm painting this one dark grey.

I received an EHX Crayon recently as a Christmas gift and I doubt many overdrive pedals within the same price range would surpass it. I'm not sure how it should be categorised in terms of its genealogy but it is probably quite a conventional/vintage style overdrive and it has active controls for bass and treble which seem pretty useful.

MXR Blue Box and Phase 90, Devi Ever stuff

penelope tree wrote:I received an EHX Crayon recently as a Christmas gift and I doubt many overdrive pedals within the same price range would surpass it. I'm not sure how it should be categorised in terms of its genealogy but it is probably quite a conventional/vintage style overdrive and it has active controls for bass and treble which seem pretty useful.

This is a good one. It's versatile and the extra bass knob is helpful. The bass never gets out of control either.

Pete wrote:MXR Blue Box and Phase 90, Devi Ever stuff

I have both the Blue Box and Phase 90. Both great but you need a clean boost with the Blue Box. It has a nasty volume drop but it sounds great. I read that Buzz Osborne used one with a Rat, which DOD supposedly replicated with the BuzzBox ...

penelope tree wrote:I received an EHX Crayon recently as a Christmas gift and I doubt many overdrive pedals within the same price range would surpass it. I'm not sure how it should be categorised in terms of its genealogy but it is probably quite a conventional/vintage style overdrive and it has active controls for bass and treble which seem pretty useful.

I've heard several people say it's a Colorsound Overdriver/Power Boost. Can kinda hear that in it, and makes sense with the name, but no idea if it's actually true. One of my students has one, it's a killer little box.