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Pedals you wanted ...until you tried them.

#121
avgonzalez said:
sold all of my pedals to have this instead and immediately HATED it. I was able to attain better synth tones with:
3leaf octabvre
3leaf wonderlove
3leaf YOURE doom.

i felt cheated when i sat down and had to deal with horrible latency issues. Not worth the money at all.
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You had issues with the Panda , or with the 3leaf pedals?
 
#124
bolophonic said:
32 years of playing and I’ve only tried the one pedal for a few minutes. I feel like I should keep trying, though. I guess I add a little “sizzle” with some fret buzz on my punk bass when I want to sound rude.
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If it ain't broke, don't fix it. You should only keep trying if you feel your current sound may be lacking in some way. If you're just looking to explore sonic options for it's own sake it could get costly and time consuming
 
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#125
Pretty much all of them. They come and they go. Except for my Ovnilab Smoothie. It goes everywhere and I’ll never let go of it.

I ended the cycle by buying a used Line 6 HD500X. Added the Ampeg and GK amps models. This thing will keep me busy forever. Not bad for $300.
 
#126
cnltb said:
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.
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echolution

nice pedal, but way too complicated for my needs
 
#134
Cowboy in Latvia said:
None yet. I've found every pedal I've bought to have a few good sounds to be had. Of course I've mostly bought fuzz or distortion which I already know I like.

Soon I'll be getting into delay/echo which I love so hopefully my luck will continue. I've bought a couple like a Behringer chorus that I thought I would hate but turned into one of my pedalboard standards.
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I find this a bit amusing only because I wonder how you got to the point of "I think I'm going to hate this. I'll buy it." Unless of course you tried it out in store in spite of low expectations and were surprised.
 
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#135
avgonzalez said:
sold all of my pedals to have this instead and immediately HATED it. I was able to attain better synth tones with:
3leaf octabvre
3leaf wonderlove
3leaf YOURE doom.

i felt cheated when i sat down and had to deal with horrible latency issues. Not worth the money at all.
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I have had zero latency issues with mine. I was playing in a 70's 80's dance party band with lots of synth bass parts and was able to get a wide array of very usuable synth sounds out of it with no latency at all.

Was it latency or tracking problems you were having? As a monophonic synth it does require that you play very clean with good muting technique. If it gets two pitches like from ringing open strings or a fretted note not cut off before moving to the next note on another string, it will throw off the tracking and do weird things.
 
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#136
catcauphonic said:
If it ain't broke, don't fix it. You should only keep trying if you feel your current sound may be lacking in some way. If you're just looking to explore sonic options for it's own sake it could get costly and time consuming
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I watched a demo video of the C4 Bass Synth pedal and I feel like I could potentially reinvent the second half of my bass career if I had that one.
 
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#137
DanGroove said:
I find this a bit amusing only because I wonder how you got to the point of "I think I'm going to hate this. I'll buy it." Unless of course you tried it out in store in spite of low expectations and were surprised.
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Good point. There was a shop nearby blowing out their Behringer pedals at 15 bucks apiece. I've hated the other chorus pedals I've tried and, if some on TB are to be believed, Behringer pedals are all terrible. At $15 each I couldn't help but grab whatever they had that said "bass" on it and I was pleasantly surprised.
 
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#138
Darkglass B3K

Bought it from a fellow TB’r, had never tried one and wanted to see what all the fuss was about. It was cool and fun to play with and when I sold it I got what I paid for it.

I’m more of a plug and play kinda guy, translation: lazy.
 
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#140
Bryan R. Tyler said:
Octavius Squeezer. Holy terrible UI, Batman!
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Love the pedal, hate the UI but bought this more than 5 years ago and it will never leave.

But to stay on topic...

EHX POG2 (owned 2 but eventually got a HOG2 and never looked back)

Digitech Rubberneck (can easily replicate with other things)

EBS Octabass (too smooth for me)

EHX Bass Big Muff (too farty)
 

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