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Dingus
Silver Member
USA
472 Posts |
 Posted - 11/04/2005 : 21:22:03
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What is your least favorite effect period, not a certain pedal but like I personally find Flanging to be a cheesy useless sounding effect a lot of the time, so it is probably my least favorite. So out of you know like:
Chorus, Flange, Tremolo, Phase, Compression, Distortion/Overdrive (although I don't see that there would be many chiming in that they hate overdrive or distortion in general)
If there is anything you hate that I forgot please feel free to add that.
Although as much as I don't really like Flanging, I have more chorus pedals than anything else except overdrive/distortion ones. And I hardly ever use a chorus, but personally do not find it as blatantly offensive as a flanger.  |
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pawnshop_trash
Gold Member
USA
603 Posts |
Posted - 11/05/2005 : 00:05:03
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how about digital effects in general, except maybe digital delays? (PH-3 and BF-3, your ears should be burning.)
oh yeah, I'm also not too fond of digital 'modeling' amps or the way distorted guitars sound when recorded by ProTools. but that's the price of convenience, I guess.... |
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Goran
Double Platinum Member
Sweden
2203 Posts |
Posted - 11/07/2005 : 07:41:44
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Flanging I don�t like at all, I don�t know why but it just don�t sound "right" to me. If I use my BF-2 I always use it as a fast delay (all knobs on zero).
I like HF-2 a bit more, this one sounds more like a chorus, not so offensive. |
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walrus121
Silver Member
USA
187 Posts |
Posted - 11/08/2005 : 03:17:27
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I like my flanger (a 1981 MIJ BF-2 by the way) but haven't found a use for it yet.
I guess that I can't say a particular... well... I think that a weak one-band parametric equalizer is the stupidest idea, especially when it costs $500 (coughSP-1cough).
I don't like solid-state spring reverb. I can't comment digital reverb, I've never used on. I love tube reverb.
I don't like distortions that don't give a volume boost, which I guess includes the DS-1.
There are some overdrives I don't like. When a manufacturer takes a good overdrive (Ibanez TS 9 with the right chip) and turns it into a bad overdrive (extreme case being an Ibanez TS 5 with a bad chip) I don't like that. I guess that also brings up the whole Boss MIJ/MIT discussion (which also makes for a good or bad BF-2). Also some distortions might come to mind.
I haven't ever used a digital effect, but if it evokes an aura of, say, solid-state spring reverb, I probably won't like it. I've heard analog delay in recordings, so I can say that I like it. I thought that the backwards digital delay stuff sounded kind of cool when my friend used to do it at his shows, but it's still not a substitute for real-time backwards playing like you might be able to get out of an SG-1. He also used some kind of expression pedal effect, I don't know what it was or what it was called, but it sounded pretty stupid to me. Maybe if I used it myself I might take it differently. |
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Joel Terry
Copper Member
USA
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Posted - 12/03/2005 : 23:02:58
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Flanging is both my favorite and my least favorite, and I'll explain how:
--When flanging is generated electronically (that is, through a compact effect), I don't care for it; it's just a phase shifter with a sour disposition.
--When flanging is brought about through actual tape-time manipulation, it is an ethereal, Heavenly. An aural delight.
As an analogy, imagine the difference between the sound of an actual Leslie speaker, and a Danelectro Chicken Salad vibrato pedal.
Same general concept, two completely different sounds. (Of course, it's all a matter of physics: You really can't electronically duplicate the effect of physically manipulated tape.)
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Edited by - Joel Terry on 12/03/2005 23:03:47 |
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visserman
Platinum Member
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Posted - 12/06/2005 : 00:23:49
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Joel you are right, but you have to remember that the compact pedals designed to give us flanging [or phasing] were only designed to make life for a gigging musician easier: Not having to lug around Tape-Machines to create the sound of flanging on stage.
Keeping that in mind I think that there are some amazing pedals available to us today. |
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boss freak
Gold Member
USA
663 Posts |
Posted - 01/08/2006 : 03:21:56
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| I can't really thibnk of any effects that I dislike other than auto-wah. It just isn't my thing. |
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Dingus
Silver Member
USA
472 Posts |
Posted - 02/06/2006 : 19:06:06
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| I will agree on auto-wah. I don't really enjoy them although I do think the premise of an envelope filter is interesting if used properly. |
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stahlhart
Platinum Member
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Posted - 02/07/2006 : 00:35:48
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Another vote for auto wah. In my view this has to be an expressive effect -- I can't see the point musically of every note modulating exactly the same way.
I think that a phase shifter running a fast sweep works better (i.e. Led Zeppelin's "Good Times Bad Times" or Cheap Trick's "Oh Candy").
C.K.
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strat714
Silver Member
USA
156 Posts |
Posted - 02/07/2006 : 16:49:40
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| Volume Sweller (ala slow gear) are fairly useless to me as I use a volume pedal. |
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ace
Bronze Member
Netherlands
77 Posts |
Posted - 02/23/2006 : 23:48:42
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Overdrive for bass........it really sounds silly to me (but i think that bass sounds best when kept clean) |
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Dingus
Silver Member
USA
472 Posts |
Posted - 03/15/2006 : 18:34:10
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| I am pretty sure after seeing lots of local bands lately and one man acts in bars and nightclubs that my new least favorite effect is *drum-roll please* the overuse of a chorus pedal. As in a really wet signal chorus being used on every song. Drives me absolutely insane, I'm all for a little chorus here and there, or a real subtle chorus. But please, use this effect in moderation. |
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stahlhart
Platinum Member
1318 Posts |
Posted - 03/15/2006 : 20:29:26
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quote:
Originally posted by Dingus
I am pretty sure after seeing lots of local bands lately and one man acts in bars and nightclubs that my new least favorite effect is *drum-roll please* the overuse of a chorus pedal. As in a really wet signal chorus being used on every song. Drives me absolutely insane, I'm all for a little chorus here and there, or a real subtle chorus. But please, use this effect in moderation.
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stahlhart
Platinum Member
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Posted - 03/15/2006 : 21:57:33
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You know, mabye I need to get out more, but I haven't noticed that at all in my neck of the woods -- guitarists in these parts seem to favor the cabled-straight-to-amp sound, mabye they've got a BD-2 or a Tube Screamer of some sort. It actually left me under the impression that modulators were passe'... you read a lot of the comments over at HC and guys are hating on them for sounding "too '80s". Almost seems as though an Andy Summers type of guy would be way out in left field doing a club gig today.
But then also I'm middle-aged and hanging out in establishments catering more to the boomer crowd -- the bands playing in younger crowd places must be cut from a different cloth. (?)
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s0ulzer0
Copper Member
USA
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Posted - 03/16/2006 : 02:59:03
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Originally posted by strat714
Volume Sweller (ala slow gear) are fairly useless to me as I use a volume pedal.
+1 on that. 
As to the chorus, chorus is in my top 3 of most loved effects. |
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Dingus
Silver Member
USA
472 Posts |
Posted - 03/16/2006 : 14:44:11
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yeah don't get me wrong I'm not saying I hate Chorus by any means, I own almost as many Chorus pedals as I do Overdrive/Distortion pedals. I'm just saying an overuse of it, like I'll go see a guy play an acoustic solo act and what one effect pedal does he have besides the occasional TU-2? A CH-1 Super Chorus or a CE-5 Chorus Ensemble and I'll be damned if he doesn't have that thing turned up all the way for every single damned song.
Also I got my Boss WP-20g Wave Processor in the mail yesterday and it reminds me how hard it is to incorporate the Ring Mod effect a song. So I can't say I'm particularly fond of Ring Modulators as far as effects go either. |
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Your Least Favorite Effect (not pedal)
