What pedals have disappointed you lately?

[MarkAndHisBass]

Tbh, my Turbo Rat is beginning to lack the sound I want. Sounds too muffed together.

Then again I was playing Hysteria when I made that decision, but I dunno. Might plan on buying some other pedals soon. All my pedals seem to be ****

 

[OhThePeacock]

I've been slightly disappointed wit my FX35 only because it's broken on me for the second time now, I love the tone on it.

 

[pickles]

[keeley RAT] has been the biggest disappointment of ANY pedal I've had.

Mines gone too. Sounded great to me blended with the tweeter OFF, but even with the filter all the way down there is some HF squizz that sounds nasty through a tweeter. Definitely a guitar effect.

Got an AGRO now, and its the ****.

 

[Altitude]

So, Pickles is chasing me around and he's going to throw me under the bus for this post just like he did on the AGRO thread, but...

I sent back my Octron 2. I bought it because I was interested in the octave up. In truth, the octave up tone sounded very overdriven and fuzzy, and I could not figure out how I would be able to use it. The rest of the pedal's functions were exemplary, but I couldn't justify the cost.

 

[pickles]

My tone must have been lost in translation on that other thread ... extra smiley added to clarify that I was yankin your chain

 

[Altitude]

My tone must have been lost in translation on that other thread ... extra smiley added to clarify that I was yankin your chain

And I yours.

 

[RickenBoogie]

I love most anything Ehx puts out, but not so much the micro Qtron, or any nano pedals other than bassballs.

 

[selfblessed]

MXR Octave. Thought that I would like it alot. When I got it...not so much. I am still playing around with it...It does seem to thicken up some modulation effects. But now I GAS for an Octave Multi Plex or a Micro Pog. Maybe both eventually. That is a WHOLE nother can of worms though.

 

[Benji5678]

the AMT electronics Capitalist pig. was the loudest overedrive ive ever heard interms of just noise. also a very hollow tone.

 

[Mudfuzz]

MXR Octave. Thought that I would like it alot. When I got it...not so much. I am still playing around with it...It does seem to thicken up some modulation effects. But now I GAS for an Octave Multi Plex or a Micro Pog. Maybe both eventually. That is a WHOLE nother can of worms though.

I just shows how not everything works for everyone , I have a MXR M-88 Bass Octave and really like it but I also have a MULTIPLEXER on the way. I'm probably going to do thread of short reviews on the MULTIPLEXER, M-88, OC-3, Chillidog and FX 35 when I get it.

 

[OhThePeacock]

Is there any chance you could fit the micro POG in there to? I've been gassing for one but I don't really know how it is in comparisson to the FX35.

 

[Mudfuzz]

Nope sorry, my list is based on pedals I own [and have in the post].

Also I have never really had much interest in the POG, I've just never really been captivated by the samples I heard of it. If I was going to spend that kind of money on a octave I'd get a Octron.

 

[bbe]

my sansamp seriously disappoints me. its defiantly not as great of a box as everyone makes it out to be.

 

[Andrew.Glose]

my sansamp seriously disappoints me. its defiantly not as great of a box as everyone makes it out to be.

Thank you.

 

[OhThePeacock]

I'm confused, is the octave multiplexer a sub octave or octave up?

 

[born2play55]

Boss TU-2 Chromatic Stompbox Tuner

 

[RickenBoogie]

I'm confused, is the octave multiplexer a sub octave or octave up?

One octave down, but it has high and low filters, that's where the magic comes in.

 

[nickbear]

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.

i own a stingray and i must also say that i have trouble getting a good overdrive sound with it.. i also own a rickenbacker and it sounds great with an english muffin and a band monkey but they pedals do sound rubbish with my stingray. i actually found a good stingray overdrive by using a boss blues driver or a marshall blues breaker in boost mode. maybe combined with an EQ pedal to EQ out some of the harshness..

the blues pedals work well because they are quite low gain pedals that retain the low end well.

 

[The Lurker]

Moog LPF. Sounded good, but the design drawbacks were just too much for me to stomach.

 

[pickles]

i own a stingray and i must also say that i have trouble getting a good overdrive sound with it.. i also own a rickenbacker and it sounds great with an english muffin and a band monkey but they pedals do sound rubbish with my stingray. i actually found a good stingray overdrive by using a boss blues driver or a marshall blues breaker in boost mode. maybe combined with an EQ pedal to EQ out some of the harshness..

the blues pedals work well because they are quite low gain pedals that retain the low end well.

Try the AGRO. Its the first distortion I've used that doesn't seem to care if your bass is active or passive, it always sounds great. Seems like the first bass distortion where they really thought through what a bassist needs out of an overdriven tone.