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View Poll Results: Which Pedal do you choose | |
Pedal 1
|    | 42 | 72.41% | |
Pedal 2
|    | 6 | 10.34% | |
Both, explain.
|    | 2 | 3.45% | |
Carrots
|    | 8 | 13.79% |
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11-12-2008, 05:37 PM
|  | Lookout! Here comes the Fuzz! Moderator | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Columbia, MO | | | Affordable Distortion - Audio Challenge
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Pedal 1 VS Pedal 2: - Imagine each pedal cost exactly the same
- Imagine the only knob on each pedal is volume
- Attempted to record at equal volume
- Same bass, same settings.
- You must choose one of them, hot gig tonight and you need OD/Dist
Which would you buy, and why?
Pedal 1 Sample Line Notes and Introduced Noise
Pedal 2 Sample Line Notes and Introduced Noise |
11-12-2008, 05:51 PM
| | βΘИΞКЯŲŜĦÏИĞ ŦΘИΞ® #1 | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Florida | | | Pedal 1. |
11-12-2008, 05:51 PM
| | Lookout! Here comes the Fuzz! Moderator | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Columbia, MO | | Quote:
Originally Posted by OptimusPrime  Pedal 1. | Explain!  |
11-12-2008, 05:53 PM
| | βΘИΞКЯŲŜĦÏИĞ ŦΘИΞ® #1 | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Florida | | Quote:
Originally Posted by grygrx Explain! | Pedal 2 was to brittle and harsh for me. That's my only reason for my choice. I can't stand brittle distortion/fuzz. |
11-12-2008, 05:58 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Los Angeles | | | Number 1, hands down. It's warm and full, dark in a good way. Sounds like a bass.
Number 2 is brittle and cheap-sounding, for lack of a better term. Sounds like a blown speaker.
I'm really curious to find out what Number 1 is... |
11-12-2008, 06:00 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: San Diego, California | | | pedal 2 because I wanna cut through the mix! |
11-12-2008, 06:08 PM
|  | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | | Pedal 1,
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11-12-2008, 06:20 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Michigan | | | What kind of a band are you playing in in this scenario? |
11-12-2008, 06:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Victoria, Australia | | | Neither, they both sound poo.
But if I had a gun to my head I select pedal 1.
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11-12-2008, 06:21 PM
| | Lookout! Here comes the Fuzz! Moderator | | Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Columbia, MO | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark Olson What kind of a band are you playing in in this scenario? | If it matters that much... choose both! |
11-12-2008, 06:22 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Metro Detroit | | | I think I would choose #1, because it seems more of the instrument is coming through, but I don't really like either one. It could be the bass I don't like the sound of. It's kind of boxy. |
11-12-2008, 06:25 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Michigan | | | No... I don't think I would bring the second pedal with me anywhere. The first one, I guess if I absolutely had to have dirt from a pedal in my sound I'd go with that one, but only if there wasn't anything else available and I couldn't get any grind out of my amp. |
11-12-2008, 06:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Mexico | | | Pedal 1, I don't find it amazing its better than ok but Pedal 2 its too undefined if that makes sense...
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11-12-2008, 06:34 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Maine/Vermont | | | If I wasn't going to be competing with any guitarists, I'd run pedal one. It sounds nice, but I'm pretty sure that it would get swallowed up with the guys I usually play with.
Pedal Two I would never run, as its just not a sound I'd ever A)want to be associated with or B)want to hear anywhere.
So Pedal One wins it out, even with my misgivings. |
11-12-2008, 06:48 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Whitby, Ontario | | | I liked one the best. It was less brittle and harsh than two. I could see some neat uses for it in industrial techno or NIN kinda stuff.
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11-12-2008, 06:53 PM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Michigan | | | You know what? No matter how cheap these pedals are if you could stop by a music store quick and swap for an EHX Nano Muff Overdrive I actually got some decent sounds out of that thing and it's real cheap. |
11-12-2008, 07:02 PM
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EXAR pedals rep for North & Central America | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: PDX, OR | | | The first one still had some bassy balls once I turned it up loud enough. At lower volume it was a blur. The second one had a harsh top edge that you could hear even at low volume, but it did not have bassy balls at any volume, and it lacked any midrange guts. I would pay someone to take #2 out of my chain, and I would tolerate #1. |
11-12-2008, 07:27 PM
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11-12-2008, 07:47 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Portland, OR | | | I didn't like #1 at all (kind of farty low end, but I could see #2 doing something harsh enough to make a difference in my tone (I like well timed ripped speakers). If I was doing a milder OD, which is what I think of when I listen to #1, I would rather go without (based on that clip).
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11-12-2008, 07:55 PM
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Endorsing Artist: Spector Basses | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Mountains of Colorado | | | 2, for she be nasty.
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