Pedals you wanted ...until you tried them.

[DoctorZee]

Joyo Ultimate Drive. "$30 and a huge cult following on TB? Sounds great!" After 15 minutes I knew it wasn't right for me.

 

[Slade N]

Can you be any less specific?

sure they have been less specific, they could have just said "yes"

 

[Grapevine921]

Catalinbread Bicycle Delay: I loved it for a few days but it spends too much time in crazy land and can't double as a normal delay. Very creative pedal but didn't suit me needs.

Source Audio C4: The best tracking and sounds I've ever experienced out of a synth pedal, but I don't think anything out there can de-thrown my Moogs and my OC-2.

Honorable mention of a pedal I did not purchase but had the opportunity to try at Chicago Music Exchange: Original Maestro Brassmaster. This was probably the thinnest sounding fuzz/distortion I've ever plugged a bass into.

 

[ObsessiveArcher]

Darkglass BK3. Even at full gain, the affect to the signal was much more subtle than I was expecting and desired.

 

[Ryan L.]

Red Panda Bitmap. Great pedal, just couldn't make use of it.

Broughton PLL. Bought on a whim. Never could figure out what the hell it even was. It was fun to annoy bandmates with though.

EHX Bassballs. Meh.

Zoom B3. Again, meh.

TC Sub n Up. Worked great, didn't care for the sound too much.

Aguilar Filter Twin. Clipped too easily with hot output basses.

There's been others too, these are just the ones that stick out in my head right now.

 

[JimmyM]

The most classic example of this for me is the Digitech Whammy Pedal. It is the best and most fun pedal I have zero use for.

 

[Al T.]

I bought a Dave Hall Amps bass tube overdrive. It was the noisiest POS I ever plugged into. I couldn't stand the noise so I packed it up after about 30 minutes and I sold a year or so later.

 

[ThumpBump]

Sansamp VT Bass

Turns out I just don't like the SVT sound that much

 

[Driven Crane]

hundreds of them

 

[non]

A few years back I was (and still am) looking for a good synth sound. I purchased and returned EHX Bass MicroSynth and a Behringer BSY-600. A few years later I decided to get the BSY-600 again and now use it but - just ordered the Boss SY-1 so I'm not sure what's gonna leave - Digitech Dirty Robot or the BSY-600. Whichever pedal is booted off my board, I'll probably keep it around.

i have never tried it but the new source audio c4 synth sounds good from the demos i saw.

 

[dBChad]

Big Muff Pi: I know plenty of people who can get a good tone out of them, but there's no subtlety. I like a more edge of breakup sound where clean or dirty depends on attack and playing dynamics. BMP is just always on.

Snarling Dogs Blue Balls Wah: I loved the concept (wah mode, distortion mode where the pedal was a sweepable gain, or both together), but the one I owned (bought used without testing) didn't work. Probably a great wah pedal, I just happened to be an unaware buyer at the time.

 

[Driven Crane]

i have never tried it but the new source audio c4 synth sounds good from the demos i saw.

С4 and Matryoshka were in my wishlist. Future Impact has gone - it was good enough, but...
Matryoshka is the great one. I really like it!

 

[axwell26medison]

TC Electronic Sub n' up. I just couldn't put up with the latency and "digital" octave tone. The editor tools and app presets were interesting but I never could get any of the sounds that I wanted. On a somewhat related note, I love my Synth Voice but I'm hoping the octaver in the C4 will hopefully scratch my itch for perfect 80's synth emulation.

 

[bassbrad]

So many of the pedals that get raved and romped over here are utterly disappointing when i try them, but then my approach to efx is not as a normal bass player anyhoo.

 

[JimmyM]

Sansamp VT Bass

Turns out I just don't like the SVT sound that much

LOL! I'll admit you can get some sounds that are pretty close with it, but if you're judging by the presets they include in the manual, it ain't SVT sound.

 

[zombywoof5050]

I posted this back in '06 about envelope filters:

"I sent back the Maxon AF-9 because I didn't like the volume jump when turning it on, and it had annoying volume jumps while operating at some settings.

I sent back the MXR M188 Bass Auto Q because I didn't care for the sound.

I kept the Emma DiscumBOBulator....balanced volume levels between on & off, no annoying volume jumps during operation, and very good sounding."

 

[Charlzm]

Title says it , really.
I'm interested to hear about those situations when you felt that you wanted a certain pedal, until you tried it. After trying it you no longer wanted the pedal.

I'll start;
Dwarfcraft: 'The great destroyer' - I just lacked the patience and time to find settings and sounds that would have been useful or interesting to me.

Before trying it, I nearly bought it.

Darkglass B7K Ultra. Got some great capabilities, but it isn't for me.

 

[pellomoco14]

Pedals you still wanted... after trying. Would probably get alot more specific answers.
Oc2, TAFM, tc elec. ditto, fea db-cl (I rented one last year), mark bass compressore w/jj or Russian mullard.

 

[Lowbrow]

LOL! I'll admit you can get some sounds that are pretty close with it, but if you're judging by the presets they include in the manual, it ain't SVT sound.

Jimmy - you've got to compile and re-post your series of obsessive/compulsive VT Bass setting posts from like 10 years ago. That'll teach 'em.

 

[Rib 13]

Boss ME-20B bass processor, many moons ago.....GREAT effects........but very noisy