Worst pedal you ever bought!

[ridethespiral]

Another one for the Boss ODB3. Sounds like crap. I have a feeling I'm going to be selling off a few of my pedals, including the ODB3.

I don't really like the Boss LMB3 either. I can't really find an ideal setting on it, especially when I'm switching up basses it is a pain.

 

[Hopkins]

I've never heard a Boss pedal sound good, but that is expected

Probably the most disappointing pedal I've ever bought was a Fulltone OCD. Useless, and unlike most pedals I don't keep I just couldn't understand why anyone would want one. Awful. I guess I'm spoiled by good dirt pedals!

That's true for me as well for the most part. But its funny, I have tried a bunch of different chorus pedals, but I haven't found one that sounds as good to me as my Boss CH-1


My least favorite pedal is one I had high hopes for, a Pigtronix Creamsicle (Polysaturator) I just cant get a good overdrive out of it. Also with the way its laid out, I hate the way it sits on my board. As far as overdrives go the Pigtronix doesn't come close to being as good as my cheaper than dirt Digitech Bad Monkey (modded with a couple of capacitor changes)

 

[Thrillhouse]

I think for me it'd be the very first pedal I ever bought for bass, a DOD envelope filter (or maybe it was a flanger...it was a long time ago). It was impossibly noisy, the effect was total trash and it broke after a couple of weeks.

 

[Stingray317]

Mxr bass overdrive and bass fuzz deluxe...I love mxr pedals but the tones out of these pedals were terrible...couldn't get anything to sound decent

 

[Syxz_ML]

Maybe I'm lucky to say the worst one I've bought has been the EBS Multidrive. Not that it was THAT horrible of a pedal but I just couldnt dial in any tone/sound that was pleasing to my ears. I've purchased around 40+ pedals and thats the first one I've sold.

 

[brianrost]

Zoom 506

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Just sounded awful, tuner was finicky.

 

[mpdd]

joyo ultimate octave - stuck knobs, weird muted sound, and no balls(sounded like a synthesizer with a dead battery)

 

[Flabass]

Behringer Overdrive.

 

[6stringpanda]

Ibanez PD7...great tone but stupidly noisy!

+1

Ibanez pedals awesome sound/tone-horrible noise makes them unusable.

 

[necropain]

joyo ultimate octave - stuck knobs, weird muted sound, and no balls(sounded like a synthesizer with a dead battery)

which is what makes it awesome

 

[Ric5]

Worst pedal you ever bought!

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1 - Digitech BP-80 amp modeler.

2 - Behringer compression pedal

3 - pretty much any bass synth

4 - pretty much all octave pedals

 

[topo morto]

3 - pretty much any bass synth

+1

4 - pretty much all octave pedals

-12

 

[hrodbert696]

+1 on the Fishman Fission. Great idea but the tracking was horrendous. Maybe they'll do better with a future version.

 

[Lonnybass]

The MXR El Grande Bass Fuzz had an almost unuseable gain structure that was so blazingly hot that I was nervous I was going to blow up something expensive. Gonzo from el boardo!

The Eden WTDI sounded SO amazing as long as I didn't clip the input gain...which happened WAY too early and with literally no margin for error between "usable" and "terrible." A huge design flaw that I know others have complained about as well.

Lonnybass

 

[topo morto]

.. sounded SO amazing as long as I didn't clip the input gain...which happened WAY too early

Oh yeah, that reminds me:

Lovely pedal at 12v - I mean really beautiful sound - but please don't claim that something works at 9v when it basically doesn't with any guitar with more than 3 turns of wire on the pickup.

 

[bobbybass85]

Boss FBM-1 Bassman Pedal. Unbelievably awful on bass, terrible on guitar, and impossible to mod (what I was told by many modders, but never looked myself) because of it's PCB design

 

[topo morto]

Boss FBM-1 Bassman Pedal. Unbelievably awful on bass, terrible on guitar, and impossible to mod (what I was told by many modders, but never looked myself) because of it's PCB design

Well it's digital, isn't it? Not so much a question of modding it as reprogramming it...

 

[bobbybass85]

It is digital, but to my knowledge there's no way to access the programming

 

[topo morto]

It is digital, but to my knowledge there's no way to access the programming

exactly

Kind of rubbish to have a modelling pedal that only models one thing though anyway.

 

[P-oddz]

I've definitely bought some very useless pedals in my day. Here were some of the worst.

1. MXR Blow Torch - I know some people will disagree. To me it just sounded like splattery fart.

2. Fuzz Hugger Arc Flash. Pretty much just useless.

3. Ibanez TS9B.