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Worst pedal you ever bought!

#223
topo morto said:
I would agree with you that it's not the most versatile thing. The way I use it, it's a tool to take a typical passive bass pickup's output, and allow you to add the things that you need to sound better in a modern rock mix - more bass, a little presence, some drive and compression. It's a well-made tool for that job, hence its generally good rep.

I've not really had problems with it being muddy or ice-picky, although it does have a wide range of control. What bass were you using it with?
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+ 1 .... Even with a product as popular as the BDDI there will always be someone who hates it ... usually with no fault of the product.
 
#225
I'm going to say Mxr's m80 DI. I didn't like much the distortion channel, but it could have been a useful tool if it didn't break so fast! A couple of years of light use at home and it's already unusable. The DC plug works randomly, while most of the knobs are so scratchy that is a pain to tweak the pedal.

I was expecting a reliable unit for that price tag.
 
#230
EHX Enigma Q Balls. Even after I figured out the power requirements all it was was noise. Just could not find a useful sound. Replaced it with a Micro QTron. Much much better.


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#231
Little Big Muff from the 70's. It sounded bad on bass and had 1 purpose with only the volume and tone switch. I am sure there are worse things but that was the worst I ever paid for. I recouped it playing guitar in another band and it fared much better.
 
#233
dannybuoy said:
There's your problem right there - most multis are sh1t.
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+1 ... I have not tried the Zoom B3 (which everyone seems to love) so it may be an exception, but almost every multi I have tried was good for very little except a brief introduction to effects on bass.

I also did not like the Digitech Whammy IV. I couldn't get much use out if for its size and I felt like it always made my tone sound too digital - even when not engaged.
 
#238
Digitech Death Metal... So much distortion that anything I played was just an unintelligible mush of digital ****, and it squealed like a horror movie girl being butchered alive (so fitting description for such a pedal name :bassist: )

I only have vague drunken memories of randomly grabbing it, look at it for a while and then stuffing it into my backpack after a gig (reads: stealing), so it was probably karma working.

edit: I did try to give it back but the owner didn't want it either! :roflmao:
 
#240
FrenchBassQC said:
T-Rex the sweeper bass chorus I just don't like it. For me it sounds like it doesn't keep the fundamental tone of the bass, it alter it and adds the chorus effect to it as to me it should simply add the chorus effect to your original tone.
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I agree, i used to own this pedal myself and thought the effect was too saturating, it gave off too much of a shimmer/buffered sort of sound when engaged. It was quickly sold on. I suppose if an 80s sound is your thing, then this pedal fits the bill. But that wasn't what I was after.
 

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