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I've bought and sold a fair number of overdrives, distortions and fuzz pedals over the years. I have been trying to think of ones I have regretted getting rid of.

The only one I really regret quite a bit was my special edition pink Germanium B:Assmaster. Wasn't particularly flexible but it had some great gnarly, old school bassy fuzz. It sounded great.....but I could never get over the fact that I had spent about $300 for it.....just seemed to be too much for the amount I used it.

I kind of regret getting rid of my White Spider.....It had some trebly harsh dirty cleans that reminded me of early 80's Post-Punk.....but I didn't find myself using it all that much....though I still think about it once in a while.

I don't have many or any regrets about the other dirt pedals I have sold/traded.

Some high profile examples of not particularly missed:

Dwarfcraft Eau Claire Thunder (though I really regret having traded a Moog Ring Mod for it. )
Devi Ever Ruby
Lumpy Led Bender
Basic Audio Spooky Tooth
Death by Audio Interstellar Overdriver Supreme (regretted getting rid of it the first time and bought another! - now gone forever)
Menatone Top Boost in a Can
Retroman Dumbox
Damage Control Womanizer

There are a fair number more but I am having a hard time remembering them all.

No dirt boxes - but i still hate myself for selling back in 95 my vintage orange 4x12 cab...

Most of my regrets are due to something else in my setup changing or adding something new.
For example I had a Hoof last year that I would love to hear in combo with the Pharaoh I have now.
The Hoof just wasn't right at the time but I think it would fit now.
The good thing about this is that Hoofs are readily available.

I also traded my Mountainking Heavy Machine, which wasn't working with my guitar rig, at about the same time as I was building my VI.
Once I got the VI together, I plugged it in and instantly thought about how awesome it would sound through the Heavy Machine which was already half way around the world.
On the bright side, if I hadn't traded the Heavy Machine, I would have never ended up with the OX Dark which I really like.

It's like my good friend Tootie Ramsey used to say:
You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there you have the facts of life, the facts of life.....

In a way all of them... even if I actually still hate them...

I've only missed three pedals I've ever gotten rid of, and two were dirt. Dwarfcraft TGD (the oscillations on it were like nothing else, and I could use them musically! WHAT? I KNOW RIGHT?) and a 3K Mellowtone Singing Tree (it made everything just sound ballsier, though now, in retrospect, I realize I was using it waaaaaaaaaaaay too much when I had it.).

Sold an original Big Muff, not ramshead or triangle, probably an IC model, I think in '94. For $60. Who knew? I was looking for a purer sound back then. I could always clone one now, but If I had waited 15 years, the payoff would have been nice.

In the not miss column, the only other dirt pedals I've let go of were Dan-o Fab Metal and a Fab Overdrive pedals. The OD is kind of like a crappier, faker sounding TS -- feh. The Metal isn't bad for screaming, excessive distortion. My Rat covered enough of that territory, and my recently acquired HM-2 is probably better for that genre for me

only sold/traded a few and i only miss one. the electric apple. i couldnt be happier about where it is but that thing was awesome!

The two that I regret the most is the Mad Professor SHOD, and MXR D+. I also would love to have the Twosome, and Deep Trip BOG back. I will at least replace the first 2 one day.

For fuzz, I miss the ab-synth and the never drive. Those are the two that I would have a use for right now.

I had a custom Effector 13 Soda Meiser Plus that I will always regret trading.

I am the only person i know of who bought a seppuku fuzz overloader during the brief time thwy were made. I traded it to someone on ilf but cant remember who...

Its funny, i originally thought the shoegazer was my holy grail fuzz, but couldnt find a good deal on one, so i tried a wolf computer, but was disappointed, tried the fuzz overloader and liked it, but still wasnt happy. I think i traded it when i finally found a deal on a shoegazer. I kept the shoegazer for a long time, but sold it because i only really liked the tp side. In the mean time, i bought another wolf computer because i missed it as soon as i sold it. Its still on my board, but ive been reconsidering it...

Anyway, long story short, i miss the fuzz overloader, and would love to see how it would bond with other amps. Unlike the wc and sg it turned out not to be the kind of pedal that i could always just pick up another of again.

I was given a triangle Big Muff in 1984 or thereabouts ... which I traded ... for a Boss HM2

The only pedal I've since parted with I really regret is the '66 Sam Ash Fuzzz Boxx -- hunted for that thing for a decade, sold it, WTF?

I miss my super sweet pink-with-bronze-splatter TAFM, but it is in a good place and there's no way I could have gotten the SGV-300 without selling it. It was a requirement, there was absolutely no way I was letting that go.

Some of the lower-gain settings on the TAFM I felt made my setup sound too muffled, but everything else it absolutely excelled at. I never messed with the trimpots, though, so perhaps that could have been tweaked. I'd like to pick one up again someday.

I also really liked my Noisemaker Crush Fuzz, it was great on bass -- but I gave it to the dude who sold me my amp instead of paying for the shipping.

I sold my Shoegazer for $40 and later learned that all the wiring I did was correct (I even replaced a footswitch before I knew anything at all about what I was doing with a soldering iron) but a single cold solder joint was fucking it up. At the time though I just didn't want to look at it sitting on top of my amp anymore.

Devi Ever Dark Ruby. It's not one I'm kicking myself over, but it is one I might have to get again in the future.

Black Sovtek Muff... even tho it was always getting lost in the mix is should have kept it and just turn it louder

not a dirt pedal but my all time regret is Boss PH-2... i'll buy it again some day