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Old 01-08-2011, 12:29 PM   #1
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What are some of the pedals that are widely known to be great pedals but you personally couldn't get the hype?

For me it was the OCD. I know lots of people can get some killer tones with this pedal, but for the short time I messed with it it just seemed to bassy for me. I have no doubt that if I spent more than an hour with it that I would for sure be able to come up with some great uses for it, but I guess I was just expecting it to be a plug-in-and-play kind of pedal (I was borrowing it from a friend for a short time).

What about you guys?

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Old 01-08-2011, 12:58 PM   #2
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Never owned one, but my bro-in law did - a 60's Vox Tone Bender Fuzz. That thing sounded awful.
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Old 01-08-2011, 01:18 PM   #3
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Tubescreamers. Ugh.
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Old 01-08-2011, 02:46 PM   #4
It's over 9000!!!!!!!
 
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BOR. Just could not stand that thing. Sounded terrible all the time.
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Tubescreamers, fulltone distortion.
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Old 01-08-2011, 03:40 PM   #6
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Tubescreamers, fulltone distortion.
Have you tried the Fulltone Plimsoul?
It's fairly new, and it is ridiculously awesome.

As for pedals I don't like...oh man...there is lots. I work at a guitar store and play with almost everything that comes in.

The LovePedal Kalamazoo is really not for me.
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Have you tried the Fulltone Plimsoul?
It's fairly new, and it is ridiculously awesome.

As for pedals I don't like...oh man...there is lots. I work at a guitar store and play with almost everything that comes in.

The LovePedal Kalamazoo is really not for me.
Haven't. In the past, I have not really dug fulltones.
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Old 01-08-2011, 04:08 PM   #8
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Never have liked any Lovepedals.....and I've tried a few.
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Old 01-08-2011, 04:14 PM   #9
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I really can't recommend it enough. I took it home from work for two weeks and just couldn't stop using it

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Never have liked any Lovepedals.....and I've tried a few.
I really like the Picklevibe and the Amp 50, but the rest don't do it for me.

Actually, I like the sound of all the small pedals they make, but internal trim pots kill me.
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Old 01-08-2011, 04:25 PM   #10
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Chorus. In general. The only time I ever enjoyed chorus was when I modded my Small Clone to a vibrato sound.

And the Boss CS-3. *shudder*
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Old 01-08-2011, 04:55 PM   #11
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Another pedal for me would be the Modded DS1. Again, I know there are some good tones in it, but alas for what I was playing I could never get great sounds. I've had two different modded DS1's and I couldn't convince myself to keep either of them.
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Old 01-08-2011, 05:22 PM   #12
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Tubescreamers.
I have Tubescreamer in front of my AC15 and I love it.

However, when a friend of mine was looking for a new pedal, I let him try it with his Twin Reverb and it sounded like crap.
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+1 for chorus in general. Also tubescreamers that aren't made by SBN. Probably the worst was the ZVEX distortion though. I hated that thing.
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+2 on chorus, especially when used in a live context....

the sonic equivalent of a mint green polyester leisure suit; too bad both were not abandoned in the 70's
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Old 01-08-2011, 08:38 PM   #15
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BOR. Just could not stand that thing. Sounded terrible all the time.
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The Box of Rock was terrible. I really don't understand it's popularity.
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