"It's good, but not for me"

[remcult]

What are pedals (up to 3) that you recognize as being of good quality, or where you in some way understand why it appeals to others, but you don't like to use yourself (or just plain don't like)? Like how someone might enjoy how a Stingray looks or sounds, but when they play it something just doesn't work them

 

[bholder]

EHX Bassballs. I want to love it, but it's just too "over the top", hard to find musically useful sounds.

 

[mmbongo]

OvniFX Smoothie. Fantastic compressor, but never could get the dual volume controls dialed in right.

 

[birminghambass]

Blowet Box. Amazing pedal, too much for me though.
Tech21 Boost Chorus. Lush, 3D chorus. No use for it unfortunately.
Catalinbread SFT. Great vintage Ampeg tone. Doesn't fit my band.

 

[lz4005]

What are pedals (up to 3) that you recognize as being of good quality, or where you in some way understand why it appeals to others, but you don't like to use yourself (or just plain don't like)? Like how someone might enjoy how a Stingray looks or sounds, but when they play it something just doesn't work them

Darkglass preamps. They sound amazing in genres of music I don't and probably never will play.

 

[DDXdesign]

I keep wanting to love the dUg pedal. I've had a few of them but just turn it right around after a day or two.

The Empress Compressor I was unable to get set in a way that really blew my skirt up. Huge quality, just didn't fit my thing.

 

[FilterFunk]

3Leaf Audio Groove Regulator, GR2, and Proton v3.

All sound great, none can make a bad sound, all are quality-built. They just don't go far enough for me; they just don't have the grit and grease that I need.

 

[Jakeman]

Source Audio BEF Pro. I wanted to love it so bad. The variety of sounds was killer and I had high hopes. Took it to it's first gig and at several points needed to tweak on the fly. Nope. Ended up going largely unused that night simply due to interface/user issues. Now I use an IE Xerograph Deluxe, a 3Leaf Wonderlove, and a 3Leaf Proton to cover my needs.

 

[kesslari]

The contrast between the two previous posts is a beautiful illustration that one person’s meat is another’s poison.
For me it’s dirt pedals, pretty much every one I’ve tried.

 

[FrenchBassQC]

Bitcrusher pedals, I have a Bug Crusher that I bought here on TB that I only use in my shed because I find it way too marginal to take it out for any of projects I'm part of.... Jojo Mayer, can I sub for you once in a while?

 

[Fuzzbass]

Tech 21 YYZ. Loved the demos I heard, had to try it for myself. Result: I liked it, but it didn't crack my top 10 (which includes Tech 21 DP-3X, Darkglass B7K and X7, Idiotbox Blower Box) so I sold it

Mentioned this in another thread, but it applies here: all the fuzz pedals I've owned (most recently: TAFM, EHX Green Russian). Despite my TB/internet handle I finally realized I'm not a fuzz guy: I prefer stacked distortions for heavy bass tones

 

[johnk_10]

I keep wanting to love the dUg pedal. I've had a few of them but just turn it right around after a day or two.

funny, i had the exact same experience after owning two of them.

 

[DDXdesign]

funny, i had the exact same experience after owning two of them.

All it needs is a second volume control to balance the dirt channel with the clean channel I think - I finally made peace with its flavor of dirt which initially threw me for a loop =0)

 

[johnk_10]

All it needs is a second volume control to balance the dirt channel with the clean channel I think - I finally made peace with its flavor of dirt which initially threw me for a loop =0)

yeah, i think it needed an extra volume control too, but i just couldn't 'make peace' with its distortion, and i really tried hard to like it.

 

[cnltb]

Anything EHX apart from freeze.
I see the appeal but just don't like ehx as I have found all of their pedals i tried somewhat lacking. The one ehx pedal I like is freeze for doing something I have not seen done by anything else.( heads up appreciated!!)
Anything Darkglass I tried.
I just didn't warm to them but may well try again.

 

[REV]

Diamond Compressor, EHX Bass Soul Food.

 

[BassBrass]

Anything EHX apart from freeze.
I see the appeal but just don't like ehx as I have found all of their pedals i tried somewhat lacking. The one ehx pedal I like is freeze for doing something I have not seen done by anything else.( heads up appreciated!!)
Anything Darkglass I tried.
I just didn't warm to them but may well try again.

The Freeze has a big brov, the Superego, and there's even a fat Superego called SuperegoPlus, both have an auto sample function as well as what Freeze does and a send return for putting other effects in the frozen/sustained/sampled whatever tone. (thats there I put my Rainbow Machine and always a phasor) Then there's This: Invalid Link Removed

i would trade an EQD Tentacle (just a clone of an old homemade pedal, the dan armstrong Orange Squeeze) for an Aftershock because even though Aftershock "does so much" none of it sounds as good to me as the simplest analog circuit. I Love the new SA synth, btw. I have kept a lot of pedals that have been replaced on my boards (2) but they are all mostly great, just a little imperfect vs what I use now.

 

[patrickj]

Digitech Synth something or other (it was green). Never found a use for it.

 

[Seashore]

EHX Big Muff - never found the sound I wanted, still keep it around just in case
MXR 10-band EQ (the new version) - wrong EQ points for me, wish it had worked out

 

[Ron Berenato]

Anyone tried one of these? It was given to me and it needs a new tube so I haven't really tried it. I know it's a guitar pedal but I thought it might be cool.