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What pedals have disappointed you lately?

#4
Only a minor complaint, mind you . . . I was disappointed in the chorus portion of the Stereo Electric Mistress. It's more metallic and not as smooth as I was expecting. I still love the flanger and especially the filter matrix, however, so it's still getting a lot of use. But I'm probably going to need a dedicated chorus pedal in addition
 
#5
Moog MF101. To be fair, it sounded exactly the way I thought it would. But I had been hoping to be pleasantly surprised, that maybe it would sound much better than I expected.

Also, the Boss CS-1. It's very cool in its own way, but nowhere near the awesomeness people hyped it with.
 
#7
EHX Holy Stain

I was disappointed with the pitch shift section, it had a noticeable delay and the range was smaller than I wanted. The pitch shift was why I was really interested in it in the first place...

Tried my friends Phase 90 and it didn't do anything for me...

um... cant think of any others...
 
#8
Hi Folks,

This is my first post, so I'll say hello first! Hello!

I bought an Ashdown Drive Plus pedal from ebay that I am massively dissatisfied with. It's not the fault of the seller; it was a brand new.

Anyway, I couldn't get any sounds from it that I actually like hideously trebly highs or nasty farty lows...:hmm:

The VU Meter (which is attached only by a bit of double sided sticky tape) fell into the pedal. :eek:

The screws that hold the whole unit together are cheap and nasty and so the heads of them became stripped when I tried to take the pedal apart to re-fit the VU Meter (despite using the correct screwdriver).:crying:

This is the same for the screw for the battery compartment which I now can't open...:help:

One 'good' thing is that if I turn down the drive dials and turn up the output I can use it a bit like a volume pedal. I just flick the switch for solos to give myself a boost without changing the tone too much...:)

I think I'll contact Ashdown to see if I can get some replacement screws and then I'll stick it back on ebay...

Jamie
 
#9
E~H Q-tron, at first I kind'a liked it but I always had to go through a lot of trouble to get it to play nice with my other pedals and it just wont sweep low enough for me, even in lowpass and Lo it's still more in the midrange area and with my rig that doesn't jive all that well. Cool watery sounds but no ass.
 
#10
Probably virtually every overdrive out there. I've tried almost all of them and haven't liked any of them. I've tried the HBE Hematoma, Tubescreamer TS9DX (analogman modified), GK Diesel Dawg, EHX English Muff'n, Sansamp BDDI, Ashdown Drive Plus, Humphrey modded Bad Monkey, DOD Preamp/Overdrive 250 and the list goes on and on. The Fulltone is about on par with most of these IMO but I liked that it could be powered with conventional DC power and didn't take up a ton of real estate. My second favorite was the DOD 250 but it was inconsistent (sometimes you would get breakup and sometimes you wouldn't) and it had a crappy bypass and staticy pots.

I think the problem might lie with my bass though because the Stingray puts out such a hot signal, I think I prematurely clip the FETS. I am in love with the Ray's clean tone so I just have to compromise and accept that I might not be able to get a satisfying Overdriven tone. I currently use a Fulltone BassDrive which is as subtle as I could find. It works but still isn't what I had in my head.

My current favorite pedal is a EH Nano Small Stone. Such a nice texturing effect that I had never considered using on bass previously.
 
#12
back in the day, i had a DOD bass overdrive that i thought was terrible. i picked up a black russian muff that was nowhere NEAR as good as the green one it replaced, and more recently i got a PBDDI that didn't do what i hoped it would, granted that is my own fault- i wanted to use it as an overdrive, which i didn't like. so, i used it as a preamp which i also didn't like. so, i have to get rid of that now. had to drive to cleveland to get it, because i couldn't find one around here, and now i can't sell it locally for the same reason no one stocks them locally.

wednesday night i picked up a fulltone bass drive and i LOVE it.
 
#13
My recent disappointments:

EHX Nano Clone: they need to discontinue and reissue this one to be like the Small Clone... I don't know what they were thinking when they made this disaster!

Blackbox Quicksilver Delay: Don't get me wrong - it's not bad-sounding. It's just not great. It didn't blow me away. The modulation was okay, and the delays weren't as clear as I would've liked. It did have some great features if you're into vintage delays. But the high price tag... oy. :hmm:

Other than that... I haven't had the cash to spend recently... too busy with work, school, and law school applications.
 
#15
I've been disappointed with everything BOSS has made since 1996. They used to have the greatest selection of some of the craziest pedals - this was before I started using EHX - and now it's limited to about fifteen crap-ass boxes.
 
#18
dunce180 said:
A WAL!!! :eek:
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Three, actually. :smug:
 
#20
Sir Edward V said:
EHX Holy Stain

I was disappointed with the pitch shift section, it had a noticeable delay and the range was smaller than I wanted. The pitch shift was why I was really interested in it in the first place...

Tried my friends Phase 90 and it didn't do anything for me...

um... cant think of any others...
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yep yep. I bought it, its a cool pedal but just lacks the edge i need. The distortion wasnt to bad but it gave me a whole lot of feedback and i thought the pitch shifter and the tremelo were useless i dont know why they put them on there.
 

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