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I allways come back to MXR. What is wrong with me !

#41
They make great pedals. I have the bass pre, bass dist, and the carbon copy bright that are imo awesome pedals. I also like my bass envelope filter (although for my bigger board, I'm considering the wonderlove), and the phase 90.
 
#44
winterburn69 said:
Tim Lefebvre also uses one.

They don't pop up very often, being they're so old. I've only seen one or two here on TB and I jumped on it as soon as I could. It's really beat up, most of the MXR and almost all of envelope filter is worn off but it's still the best filter I've ever tried.

They pop up on Reverb quite often though.
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So I learned today that Analog Man is making an updated version of this guy, wonder how it sounds...

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I've found that the best sounding musicians simply use what works well for them and consider the label/brand name to be of little to no significance unless they want to get another one or order parts. YMMV!
 
#46
If MXR made a tuner (either 1590A or the Phase 90 sized box, with switchable true or buffered bypass, just in case they're reading this) then many of us could make an entirely MXR board and be happy with it. My own board currently has the Script Phase 90 and M81 DI on it, and I've owned several other MXR pedals in the past. They're good stuff.
 
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SanDiegoHarry said:
They make good pedals. They didn't used to - 1970's era MXR pedals were noisy and mediocre at best, but I too have seen how much better they are. My two main pedals are MXRs.
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All pedals were noisy in the 70's. That was the days before decent bypassing. Back then, the signal got routed through the pedal circuitry whether it was on or not. But I thought even back then, MXR made some good ones, except for the noise.

Anyway, I relate to what the dude is talking about. True, nobody really cares what kind of pedals you use, but now and then I would see musicians who used all the same brand of pedals, and I always thought it was weird. I call them "endorsement boards" :D like the musician was trying just a little too hard to prove his/her loyalty to one brand, especially if they had pedals on their boards that everyone knew sucked. But now that I'm older and slightly wiser, I really don't care as long as they're happy with them, even if they use pedals I don't like.
 
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Nothing wrong with MXR. They've been good stepping stones in educating me about what I'm looking for in certain effects. I still keep a small board with a Bass Preamp, BOD, and Micro Amp on it. I use it them with my fretless when I'm backing up a couple of singer/songwriter friends and don't need to haul an amp.
 
#58
My first pedal was an MXR M69 Prime Distortion. I only bought it because it was on sale for $25 new at GC...

I didn't like it. Even for a $50 pedal, it was extremely noisy and hard to dial in a useful sound (for me).

Took a while for me to even look at MXR again. But I realized that it was silly to judge the brand on a single one of their cheapest pedals. So I recently got the M87, which I am liking so far, and the BOD and BEF are, at the very least, on my GAS list... :)
 
#59
If you want a super diverse env filter check out the EHX Riddler/ enigma. The latter is the bass version but I have the guitar version and it has plenty of low end.

They are 200$ new but occasionally I see used ones for 100$ or so which is a serious deal for all the controls!

It's only downside is it is very complex. Works for set and forget stuff but if you don't like knob tweaking it will be too much I bet.

But the controls are pretty simple, 3 filter modes, start/ stop frequency points, Q and sensitivity and attack decay. It also has built in distortion with an internal trim pot and separate switch. I generally just use a dirt pedal before it or play it into a hot amp though. But it still is a cool feature to have sometimes.
 
#60
I'm as die hard an Electro Harmonix fan as you'll find but I still find use for quite a few MXR items. The Carbon Copy to me is one of the best delays for bass. Sure it's not as feature packed but it just works so well and tracks damn near perfectly. (The EHX Delays specifically the Memory Boy tend to get WAY too modulate-y for me). MXR makes some damn fine pedals and the quality is still superb. I love the Bad Stone from EHX but I also have a block letter Phase 90.
 

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