Overhyped Effects

[foal30]

So that's what I've been missing.

My tone was a bit rubbery but later on my crocheting was admired by many

You win some you lose some I feel

 

[Harper]

Any pedal I can't afford or wasn't fast enough to buy before it sold out is definitely overhyped.

 

[kbarboza4]

Boss OC-2. It's ok, but I enjoyed the OC-3 and (currently) the MXR deluxe way more.

 

[mazdah]

Oh, disagree on that. I used the heck out of my Broughton HLPF over the weekend to tame the low end in a boomy room. Worked like a charm. It's probably the most useful pedal on my board for dialing in good sound. If I only had one pedal besides a tuner, that would be the one.

Well, for me the most boomy frequencies are around 90 to 250Hz - even in the worst of the worsts I rarely touch Low EQ in my amps (and I use Ampeg, SWR or Eden amps (it's on 12 o'clock) but sometimes I have to cut low mids to avoid overwhelming "lows" and fit in. I actually can't remember any problems strictly with low end - ever. Boomy D note, boomy F note - always low mids, (sometimes cabs with back bass reflex - they don't like some rooms).

I have HPF in my SWR Grand Prix preamp, this preamp was made from 1991 to 2001 - and no-one cared for HPF until recently.
I can't recollect any currently produced amp or preamp with HPF build in (well Darkglass X has "HPF" but only for drive signal, strictly to have clean lows)

 

[lomo]

I can't recollect any currently produced amp or preamp with HPF build in (well Darkglass X has "HPF" but only for drive signal, strictly to have clean lows)

Many amps have a hard wired, fixed HPF but it's usually set very low and not mentioned in their copy. Genzler amps (and Genz Benz before them) do, and I'm pretty sure AgedHorse said the current Mesas do as well. I find a variable one in pedal format extremely useful, especially when I want to boost lows on the amp head or via another pedal's eq. I'll always have one on my board. I was initially stunned at how much it helped.