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Pedals that (far) exceeded your expectations...

#161
I have a few of these;

MI Audio Tubezone. Difficult to dial in, but it's sooooo flexible for guitar or any bass I've thrown at it. Killer pedal.

EAR AD4096 delay. It's a love/hate kinda pedal. I love it for ambience and noise making.

W&C Tallfont. It's the only muff I've found (bought sold many many other muffs that were almost always meh) that can retain clarity at volume. A rare beast, maybe it's defective?

Sansamp VT bass. Surprised me. I didn't expect this pedal to be any good. I ran it it into a 200w tube slave amp at band volume. Then I compared that to my SVT at band volume through the different cabs I own. Blew me away, good pedal.
 
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#163
IE Xerograph Delux is an amazing pedal - it makes any synth pedal sound way better, and if you plug in an expression pedal you can really get some amazing sweeps.

Broughton Messenger - preamp in a pedal. powerful EQ (w/ low-pass & high pass), very transparent (not a "character" pedal), great DI. plug the output of this into a power amp and you are set.
 
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#164
smo said:
I have a few of these;

MI Audio Tubezone. Difficult to dial in, but it's sooooo flexible for guitar or any bass I've thrown at it. Killer pedal.

EAR AD4096 delay. It's a love/hate kinda pedal. I love it for ambience and noise making.

W&C Tallfont. It's the only muff I've found (bought sold many many other muffs that were almost always meh) that can retain clarity at volume. A rare beast, maybe it's defective?

Sansamp VT bass. Surprised me. I didn't expect this pedal to be any good. I ran it it into a 200w tube slave amp at band volume. Then I compared that to my SVT at band volume through the different cabs I own. Blew me away, good pedal.
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Agree on the Wren and Cuff Tall Font, a VERY nice pedal!
 
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#166
The MXR Bass Chorus Deluxe. Bought it for the tone controls and because I wanted to get a better chorus for a song. Found out I vastly preferred the sound of the flanger to any other flanger I had tried, and replaced the chorus in the song with flanger and it sounds killer.

EHX Green Russian re-issue. I went back and forth on selling this thing until it finally really clicked with me, and now I'm planning on selling my Blower Box (which I thought I'd never do) and keeping this as my "big sound" distortion.
 
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#167
Joyo voodoo octave.
Bought it as a gimmick for 6 strings but actually is a responsive fuzz/distortion for bass as well.

DJ Bebop said:
This thing:
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I found it to be a fun little pedal.

Up to 5 effects in a chain in any order, looper, basic drum machine, turner, expression pedal,
store up to 100 patches, select from 105 effects. Sounds good enough in a band setting, to me.
Fun! :)
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Got one as well. Can't live a day without its Acoustic 360 model. Unfortunately its pitch shifting sounds like cai xukun.
 
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#169
Adding the Airis Effects Savage Boost this week has really had a positive impact on all of my other effects. The MXR Bass Chorus Deluxe is so much more pronounced now and all of my other pedals have all come alive more.
 
#170
REV said:
The Bearfoot Blueberry is a really good bass distortion pedal. It can be fairly transparent and give you either just a bit of grit or a lot of grind but what really gets it for me is when I use it with guitar. So far, after comparing it to a multitude of distortion pedals it is still my favorite.
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My favorite as well. Used with the diamond bass comp jr, it's amazing.
 
#172
Iristone said:
Joyo voodoo octave.
Bought it as a gimmick for 6 strings but actually is a responsive fuzz/distortion for bass as well.


Got one as well. Can't live a day without its Acoustic 360 model. Unfortunately its pitch shifting sounds like cai xukun.
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Where in your chain did you place the Voodoo Octave? Before or after other dirt pedals?
 
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#175
BUMP

Had a HUGE reminder of what makes an HPF great.

Due to HK's protests, I arrived just in time at a recent gig to just get on stage and play; I didn't have time to install a new battery in my FDeck HPF+. So, plugged straight in for the first set and I couldn't hear myself even with the backline pointed at my head and cranking the volume. The sound was as flubby as my intonation.

First break, changed the battery in the FDeck and the second set went without a hitch — I could turn down the volume and still hear my bad intonation clearly.

I love utility pedals.

HPF POWAH!
 
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#179
Aguilar TLC.: Everyone's mentioning the Cali76, but for those on a budget... I was not satisfied with EBS, Carl Martin, TCE, any Zoom simulation, or amp-bound limiter. I am totally satisfied with the TLC. Very clean and pretty flexible.

Aguilar Twin Filter: of the 5 or so boutique filters/wahs/autowahs I tried, this finally made me smile. Very musical, pretty flexible.

MXR Bass Octave Deluxe: my 4th or 5th attempt at an octave-down, the first one I kept. Best tracking, and allows a barely-audible sub to thicken subtly in a way that doesn't sound synthy.

For the record, I play mostly jazz, so I don't use many crazy effects. I need organic, subtle, musical. Thanks for this thread BTW, very interesting.
 

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