EHX Focus: Your favorite Electro-Harmonix pedals

[Laurent]

Electro-Harmonix has a growing stable of interesting pedals which never lack in personality. List your favorites.

Mine are:

Bass Micro Synth
Germanium OD
Bassballs
Big Muff PI, Sovtek Bubble Font T PCB (Sept 1995)

 

[ugly_bassplayer]

Favorite: Vintage Tall Font Sovtek

Hated: Bass Big Muff, a freakin piece of garbage.

 

[superdick2112]

Talking Pedal (prefer the original, but the reissue is pretty good and affordable)

Enigma

Stereo Polyphase

 

[NotTylerHendley]

The Black Finger! I hate I sold mine, but that classic issue of having bills reared its ugly head.

 

[necropain]

well.....I LOVE EHX firstly


Holy Stain my personal most fav

then
these
Nano Muff
Holy Grail
Vintage Poly Chorus
Vintage Worm
Frequency analyzer
Vintage Memory Man

and i know its not a effect pedal but i love the random tone generator

 

[skulletwhip]

I really enjoy the old Green Muff and the Micro Synth. I also enjoy their delay pedals for the most part.

 

[XXL]

Stereo Memory Man with Hazarai for me, with the KnockOut coming in second.

 

[Bassmike62]

I love EHX and like a few others around here, I see their stuff as mostly hit or miss, with nothing much in between. I've had quite a few of their pedals and I see my present board set-up as being slightly naked without one.

My favs: Neo Clone, Micro Q-Tron

 

[bassbrad]

NYC BASS BALLS Luv it so much I have 2 on my board!

 

[Unrepresented]

I still love my Bass Microsynth and enjoy messing around with my POG.

 

[beggar98]

I currently have a Stereo Polyphase, Stereo Electric Mistress and POG2 on my board. I've also used and really liked the Bass Micro Synth (both versions), Bassballs, Nano Small Stone and the Little Big Muff.

 

[Calaverasgrande]

The original Doctor Q. Way better than Qtron, Qballs etc.
The double muff is pretty cool, but then I modded mine.
Frequency Analyzer=Instant Devo.
Who doesn't love Devo!

 

[Bassist4Eris]

Hated: Bass Big Muff, a freakin piece of garbage.

Funny how this is a "love it or hate it" pedal. I love the sound of mine. But my favorite EHX pedal? The Enigma Q-Balls.

 

[behndy]

most of their stuff is garbage. sometimes decent ideas, almost always executed in asinine ways. with horrible layouts. it's like no one there actually plays the stuff in a live setting before they release it. and almost every single thing that's interesting has some ugly flaw that makes it pure blegh.

only thing they do that i like is the Freeze and the Super Ego.

so...... Freeze or Super Ego i guess. WOOOOOO. two right out of like a GILLYUN.

YAY.

 

[sillyfabe]

Dig the Q-Tron (was my first pedal) and have owned a few through out the years but now I only have 2 BUT there are very important and won't leave the board

Sovtek Big Muff with Guttmouth Mods (bigger caps, true bypass, bias, gate and feedback switch

EHX HOG with foot controller

 

[LSMFT6]

My Ring Thing will always be on my board until someone releases something better, which is a pretty tall order.

 

[insomniac2295]

Micro POG (and POG2, for that matter).

All others can burn in hell!!!



.....Except for the Holy Grail, Superego, Voice Box, Ring Thing, English Muff'n, and Freeze (in no particular order)

 

[FilterFunk]

Qballs. Best sound and feature set, and biggest variety of usable tones, of any envelope filter pedal I've ever tried, and I've tried most of the top-quality ones. The Start/Stop frequency control, instead of just an up/down sweep switch, is brilliant. I love the huge range of the Attack and Decay controls, and the distortion/fuzz puts the filter into fat, vintage analog synth city!

 

[fasto]

Hated: Bass Big Muff, a freakin piece of garbage.

+1, also NO love to this pedal, i don´t even want to try the new Deluxe edition.

also tried, not liked & sold: EHX Tube Zipper & EHX Q-Tron+

Are the black & green Sovtek Big Muffs = EHX? If so, much love!!!

Want to try: EHX Bassballs Nano

 

[spankdaplank]

Tube Blackfinger, Bassballs, POG are the ones I use the most.

I have owned Bassballs since it first came out about 30 years ago. Yeah, it's been around that long.
I always seem to wind up going with that one when it comes to envelope filters and I got several other filters. Probably just familiarity.

But lately the Blackfinger is the EHX pedal that seems to be getting a used the most in my home studio.

I have a some other EHX pedals but they are more like toys in the way I use them.