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Pedals you wanted ...until you tried them.

#63
Nearly everything.

I've owned so much stuff.

Stuff I no longer have and do miss:

Bass v-amp pro
GB99

Stuff I no longer have and do not miss:

Bass pod xt
Pod 500
Pod xt live
Pod x3

Every boss pedal with the word "bass" in the name.

Various Ibanez and boss distortion pedals

Ibanez hi band flanger (apparently I'm strange for not liking it compared to other flangers)

Boss ce-2..... noisy

Various zoom pedals....

The list goes on

The stuff I still have or recently got and like:

TC Nova System
Bad monkey
Many dano pedals... Dan-echo, daddy-o, the little phaser pedal....
Many behringer pedals... bdi21, tuner pedal, noise gate pedal
Morley mini stereo volume (it's huge, not mini at all, but soooooo nice)
EBS Multicomp (really only nice on bass... not a fan on guitar etc.)
Behringer fcb1010 is still my midi pedal control surface of choice.

I'm not an elitist. Lol. Cheap is great if the pedal works great. Idiosyncrasies can be solved often with a loop switch pedal for bypass unity gain, etc..
 
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#64
My last pedals were the Markbass Chorus Flanger and the Tube Compressore. The CF worked and sounded ok, but I couldn't really tell much difference with the Compressore. I wouldn't say that I was completely disappointed with them, but at that time I was starting to go through my back-to-basics approach (bass-->cable-->amp) and so the pedals were the first things to go. These days I can't stand ANY pedals. Even watching my guitar player friends messing with their pedalboards drives me up a wall (although I know pedals are essential for guitar).

I have been thinking about trying out a Sennheiser XSW-D Wireless instrument system. But again, it may be something that just complicates things.
 
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#65
birminghambass said:
These:
Aguilar Agro
Solidgoldfx Beta
EXH Soul Food
EBS Multiwave
Pork Loin
Tech 21 XXL Bass
DG Vintage
EHX Crayon
Terraformer
Phat Phuc
Boss ODB3
Barbershop
MXR M85
Tech21 Bass Comp
Tech21 Boost Comp
Tech21 Dug
Empress Comp
MXR Bass Comp
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:) you have been through a few!!

I am curious: What soured you on the Empress comp?
 
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#71
chandman1004 said:
Oh no..i have such bad gas for this pedal.
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I can't say an *objectively* bad thing about it - sound is good, and other people go bananas for it. But the one thing I expected - to be able to switch from clean to drive with roughly the same volume without turning any knobs - has pretty much eluded me, with most everyone saying they use it either full bore or bypassed. Just makes me think it shouldn't have a separate switch for the drive then.
 
#73
The Diamond Compressor. I was on the fence for a long time on this pedal. I finally pulled the trigger after reading soooo many glowing reviews. When I got it I was really anticipating a nice fat sound. I couldn't find anything I liked and when I stepped on the switch it made a popping sound. I returned it immediately.
 
#74
I was disappointed in the Foxrox Octaver. I bought it for the Octave up effect, not really knowing that all analog octave up effects sound like something Jefferson Airplane would have used on their third album. I'm a child of the 80s.
 
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#78
Most every Darkglass pedal I've tried. I WANT to like them, but they always seem to run out of breath, so to speak. Like, the highest settings are like middle settings on other pedals. I dunno, I get along well with lots of other pedals, just not those.
 
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#80
ugly_bassplayer said:
Barbershop.
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Keepin it real! It was honestly the only pedal that has remained a constant on my board since I picked it up having no idea what it was in a trade some years ago. I’m committed to dumping it...some day.

For me some big disappointments were:

EHX:
Soul Food
Bass Soul Food
Bass Balls

Chalk all of the above up to inexperience and not knowing *** I wanted from each particular unit (aside from what they described in the sales lit, lol).

MXR:
M89 Bass Overdrive
M81 Bass Pre-amp (yes it’s clean...but it’s also extremely redundant for my needs)
M87 Bass Comp = Little more than a wire between input and output jacks with fancy lights in the middle to show signal path. Save the $$$ and buy the Joyo green Compressor. Same. Exact. Sound. With. Less. Knobs.

Boss:
OC3 (maybe I just need to give it a third chance?)
ODB3 = This one I think I would now enjoy quite a bit...at home, by myself. When I first got it....BLECHKULBUKCH...not for me me. Context is everything...

Diamond:
Bass Comp = I’d put this squarely in the “compressor for people that don’t like compressors” pile. I don’t think I’ve ever been more thoroughly disappointed by any stompbox. In retrospect, I can see it’s utility as a stand-alone warmer-upper, but it is useless as far as utility goes in my less than skilled hands.
 

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