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Goran
Double Platinum Member
Sweden
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 Posted - 11/20/2009 : 10:23:28
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Lately I�ve bought or traded some expensive pedals and of course I like them, but I had to pay lots for the tone performed.
So it would be fun to make two �boxes�, one with good cheap pedals and one with good (or bad) but overpriced units.
Cheap and good:
Danelectro Cool Cat series; I have Fuzz, Transparent Overdrive and Vibe, all of them are great pedals, true bypass, rugged metal casing.
Washburn Blues Overdrive, cost about 20 Euro, true bypass, metal casing and sound quite good.
Digitech Bad Monkey (of course)
Boss DS-1.
Expensive, overpriced units, but good:
This is hard�
Blackstar HT-Drive (not overpriced really but sound not so good)
Fulltone pedals
Boutique Fuzz Face clones
Boss DN-2, FZ-5, ML-2
Well, my opinions�.
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FRANZONI
Double Platinum Member
Ireland
3543 Posts |
Posted - 11/20/2009 : 12:10:09
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I dug up an old Zoom 505 the other day out of the bottom of the bands case with all our odds and ends in..i think it cost about �50 about 10 years ago......i plugged it in last night and lots of fun with the various pitchshifter modes and the reverb in it on the Hall setting is quite good through headphones..might use it for rehearsing with the OD-2 in front and use the zoom for a bit of delay and reverb...
Sorry to hear you didn't like the Blackstar,they have got quite good reviews and Ollie loves his...did you try experimenting with the tube inside..maybe a different make or type might make it better for you....12au7,12at7 etc... instead of the 12ax7,i've found JJ's to be pretty good in stuff ... |
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Goran
Double Platinum Member
Sweden
2203 Posts |
Posted - 11/20/2009 : 12:21:48
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Originally posted by FRANZONI
I dug up an old Zoom 505 the other day out of the bottom of the bands case with all our odds and ends in..i think it cost about �50 about 10 years ago......i plugged it in last night and lots of fun with the various pitchshifter modes and the reverb in it on the Hall setting is quite good through headphones..might use it for rehearsing with the OD-2 in front and use the zoom for a bit of delay and reverb...
Sorry to hear you didn't like the Blackstar,they have got quite good reviews and Ollie loves his...did you try experimenting with the tube inside..maybe a different make or type might make it better for you....12au7,12at7 etc... instead of the 12ax7,i've found JJ's to be pretty good in stuff ...
I did change to a J/J 12AX7, a tad better maybe. I didn�t like the Blackstar HT-Drive mostly because of the grainy distortion from it and that there was too little overdrive and too much distortion on tap.
So I traded it a week ago or so and got a Fulltone Fat-Boost, I like that much better.
And I also have a Vox Cooltron Big Ben Overdrive with a 12AU7 (until tomorrow, then trade it for Boss VF-1), this is a much better overdrive to my ears, I like it very much. The Vox is pricey but I wouldn�t call it an expensive pedal, because of the good sound produced.
Well, all is a matter of taste�.
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FRANZONI
Double Platinum Member
Ireland
3543 Posts |
Posted - 11/20/2009 : 12:45:51
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| Yep i'm the same ..i tend to lean pedals that produce overdrive more so than distortion,i find distortion a bit harsh for my ears as well.... |
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Goran
Double Platinum Member
Sweden
2203 Posts |
Posted - 11/20/2009 : 12:57:25
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Blackstar HT-Drive is supposed to be the overdrive in the Blackstar family, but (in my opinion) miss the mark almost completely.
I have heard that the Boost should be a good one, I don�t know�.
Build wise the Blackstar pedals are high end, no doubt about that!
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FRANZONI
Double Platinum Member
Ireland
3543 Posts |
Posted - 11/20/2009 : 13:09:31
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| If the SD twintube comes up on your radar for trade try it out... not as high gain a some other overdrives with more of a softer midrange..the crunch channel can go from a nice cleanish boost up to the effect of a small Fender amp flat out...sort of a princeton or a deluxe rather than the really small ones..but then i'm shoving it into a 130 watt combo with 2x12's plus the 1x12's off the rack so it spreads out nicely... the lead channel is thicker sounding with more gain on tap and a bit more mids,thickens up the sound of a strats single coils witout losing the sound of the strat coming through...going to bring the Yamaha tonight as a spare guitar,haven't used humbuckers in a while or with the new setup so i will report back on how it gets on.... |
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Laurie
Double Platinum Member
Canada
4854 Posts |
Posted - 11/20/2009 : 15:40:17
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Cheap and cheerful and recent:
- Boss OC-2 (I finally have one that will track properly)
- MXR Phase 90 (initial production run by Dunlop from 1987)
Expensive and ??
- Boss RC-20XL (nice)
- EHX Deluxe Electric Mistress (sweet)
- EHX POG (most expensive pedal in the collection - sweet)
- Digitech Jimi Hendrix (expensive, impulse buy, not so good)
- Digitech Whammy (current production - interesting, but a toy)
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zerksies
Double Platinum Member
USA
3406 Posts |
Posted - 11/20/2009 : 15:48:25
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zerksies
Double Platinum Member
USA
3406 Posts |
Posted - 11/20/2009 : 15:50:17
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| But i do like the JJ's 12at7 |
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Dirk
Platinum Member
Netherlands
1309 Posts |
Posted - 11/20/2009 : 17:03:41
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Very cheap:
A Behringer Ultra tremolo, 19 euros  The effect itself is decent, but it eats lows and highs, this is a pedal where even I hear the tonesuck.
+1 on the current Digitech Whammy, very expensive and a piece of crap that won't stay in tune on some settings. It didn't track very well either. |
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Goran
Double Platinum Member
Sweden
2203 Posts |
Posted - 11/20/2009 : 19:49:46
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Originally posted by zerksies
I am really liking tungsol 12ax7"s
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FRANZONI
Double Platinum Member
Ireland
3543 Posts |
Posted - 11/21/2009 : 19:59:47
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I have an original Mullard 12AU7 that i'm keeping up for a special occasion or the right amp/pedal... ... |
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