Your most ridiculous pedal

Midfour · #1 03-02-2013, 09:08 PM

I vaguely feel like this belongs over in Miscellaneous. If so, please move.

Anyway, what's the strangest/most weirdly specific/most ridiculous pedal you own?

For me it's my Danelectro Sitar Swami, which can be made to sound only vaguely like a sitar, and even then only with considerable effort, though it can produce some cool noise-punkish sounds considering that it's basically just like four phlangers stuffed into one box. I bought it on impulse for fifty bucks from a guy who was getting rid of it because he bought on impulse and then couldn't possibly think of anything to do with it.

I also feel slightly ridiculous with my Boss MD-2 Mega Distortion because those things were designed specifically for nu metal (though I have it for Fugazi-type solid punk chugging on guitar, and because it has enouh low end for bass-friendliness).

sillyfabe · #2 03-03-2013, 12:24 AM

My ridiculous but still practical pedal would go to my EHX H.O.G. It can do whammies,dive bombs, volume, Wah Wah, LPF and many other conventional things. But it can also sound like birds chirping, a digital harp, and it can even do shimmer reverbs!

Another ridiculous one would have to be my Ibanez SF-10 Swell Flanger. It's really good for jet takeoffs but I maxed out all the internal trimpots. Now it's res max is at noon (before its max was well at 5:00). Anything past noon NOW equates to jets taking off in a demented time warp, UFO's, sirens, ghosts, ring mod like tones and other fun stuff.

taurus1 · #3 03-03-2013, 12:59 AM

without question my WMD Geiger Counter

Plays_For_Dog · #4 03-03-2013, 01:26 AM

EHX Ravish Sitar, altough I sold it recently. Probably pick up an Earth Quacker Devices Organizer soon.

sillyfabe · #5 03-03-2013, 06:56 AM

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Originally Posted by taurus1

without question my WMD Geiger Counter

Ohhh yeah forgot about this crazy guy!

Midfour · #6 03-03-2013, 07:22 AM

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Originally Posted by taurus1

without question my WMD Geiger Counter

I would give anything to find out that this is a literal Geiger counter that you plug your bass into.

Seriously though what is this? A google search turns up nothing bass-relevant.

TwentyHz · #7 03-03-2013, 07:38 AM

Fender Sublime. Sonically it's a fine fuzz, but it's footprint is over-the-top ridiculous.

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Skrogh · #8 03-03-2013, 08:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Midfour

I would give anything to find out that this is a literal Geiger counter that you plug your bass into.

Seriously though what is this? A google search turns up nothing bass-relevant.

This?
It's a digital distortion/waveshaper (a waveshaper is just a distortion with a really ****ed-up distortion curve) with bit-crush and sample-rate reducer.
There are some clips and a list of distortion curves on their website. I'll have to build myself one of these one day. It sounds quite nice.

Adamixoye · #9 03-03-2013, 10:48 AM

As someone's whose primary playing outlet is a praise and worship band in a church of only a few hundred, I realize it could be easily argued that all of my effects are ridiculous.

Despite that limitation, I have worked in plenty of overdrive (even distortion, depending on the song), and I also own a Mark Bass Super Synth and Eventide Pitchfactor. I have used semi-effectively in context.

bigchiefbc · #10 03-03-2013, 11:31 AM

Definitely my custom Dwarfcraft dual fuzz:

left side is Hair of the Dog, right side is The Great Destroyer. The amount of fuzz tones I can get out of this combo is simply insane. And The Great Destroyer even by itself would still be my most ridiculous pedal. That thing is simply obnoxious, ugly, grating and awful sounding, in the best possible way.

omie · #11 03-04-2013, 10:09 AM

McNeece Mayhem Fuzz

Lives in a Blender loop... Drive Knob takes the pedal from Angry Fuzz to various shades of Angry 'grindy' Fuzz. Blend Knob is NOT a clean blend.. its a dirty, dirty blend which only controls 'The Weirdness' (Gate/Sensitivity/and the GIANT pitch knob) which combine to make all sorts of twittering, oscillating, pitch affected, octave type.. ummm... hatefulness. There are no subtle settings... it's either an angry fuzz or a hateful noise maker + angry fuzz. Since I did the video, I've learned how to better control some of the madness, but generally the pedal sounds like an evil alien attack.

Being in a blender can help tone it down to a useful fuzz... but I don't get to use any fuzz with my current gig.

So, for now, I love randomly kicking it on at band practice and getting uncomfortable chuckles from my band mates...

One day.....

Valerus · #12 03-04-2013, 10:11 AM

You guys still have crazy pedals!

I've mellowed out somewhat.
So for my board...I would say my Pickle Pie B because it's my heaviest distortion.
Woo...

AshtonDrake · #13 03-04-2013, 10:20 AM

Rainbow machine! Try getting some tones that don't piss off your guitarist outta that thing... it's do able but you definitely have to work at it

**grygrx** · #14 03-04-2013, 10:31 AM

Sonic Crayon - Anti-nautilus

It's a reverse pitch-bending glitch delay

omie · #15 03-04-2013, 10:44 AM

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Originally Posted by grygrx

Sonic Crayon - Anti-nautilus

It's a reverse pitch-bending glitch delay

ugghh..

I think I NEED this...

How could I possibly need this?

I don't need that.

I need it.

slipitin · #16 03-04-2013, 11:46 AM

May well be the Stanley Clarke bass wah I just bought, which is my metallic red midlife crisis sports car of a pedal, does anyone else have one and should there be a volume drop in the first three settings? Setting 4 however, is just fine.

Derek Balonek · #17 03-06-2013, 05:45 AM

I sold off most of my ridiculous noise-making effects, unfortunately.

I still have a few though. I'll call one the... sub-something-or-other. It's a heavy lowpass that cuts out most of the G-string on one side and a square wave on the other. It makes fat synth noises. I tried to get triangle wave too, but it didn't work out.

I've also got a tremolo floating around, which is kind of odd to see on bass.

skulletwhip · #18 03-06-2013, 06:47 AM

I have a heavily modified Green Ringer a friend made. It glitches and has a tone somewhere between Ring modulator and fuzz. He has no idea what he did to it as it was a late night boredom experiment.
I use it live as a between song ambience for tuning and stuff. I haven't put it in a song just yet.

the explode man · #19 03-06-2013, 09:48 AM

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Originally Posted by omie

ugghh..

I think I NEED this...

How could I possibly need this?

I don't need that.

I need it.

This.

**speak2planets** · #20 03-06-2013, 11:38 AM

Its gotta be between these 2:

#1 - Moog Ring Modulator - You all know the deal with ring mods and this one is no exception. I get some crazy cool sounds outta this guy

#2 - Digitech Expression Factory - Just got this guy a little while ago. It simulates 7 different classic amp distortions and 7 different effects including Vox & Dunlop wahs, Digitech Space Station and Whammy,and a Leslie emultor. I have used this more with my guitar but I get some really whacked out flavors while running my bass through it. Getting all those sounds for $95 (eBay) was a no brainer for me

Honorable Mention would be my EHX Ravish Sitar