Worst pedal you've ever used?

Hey, I was just wondering what you guys would say the worst stompbox that's ever defiled your foot, guitar, and tone is.

A Memphis distortion box circa 1981. It was completely awful and boxy sounding. There wasn't a shred of convincing distortion to be had from it. I wish I still had it. :smile:

i havent had too many pedals, but id say the digiteck screamin' blues was pretty terrible as far as im concerned.

Electro Harmonix Clone Theory- Chorus/vibrato pedal. The effect sounded amazing but the hissing noise that went with it was not so good.

nice.

Danelectro Burnt Toast distortion. It fed back so hard it damaged my hearing for days.

the Behringer acoustic simulator stunk! and the Digitech Eric Clapton thing I thought was a sonic disaster too (just my opinion)

I've kept most of the pedals I've ever gone to the trouble of acquiring, even if some of them aren't sonic wonders.

The one that I ditched that I remember is the Voodoo Labs Overdrive. Very funny, since the Fulltone OCD is heavily based on it. I guess I'm the wrong person to ask.:wink:

That horrible Boss Acoustic Simulator.....

I'm not sure anything can really be any worse.

ProCo Brat.

Turns anything into a horrible transistor stack.

There's loads of cheesy pedals that sound horrible from jumpstreet.

As for circuits that I expected to sound great that, well, didn't: Stamps Drive-O-Matic and Prescription Electronics Dual Tone, which is sort of a puzzler to me; I've dug most of the Prescription Electronics boxes I've played, and at one point, Buddy Miller was actually using this one on his board. Must be a player-specific thing. I sounded awful through it.

That horrible Boss Acoustic Simulator.....

I'm not sure anything can really be any worse.

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Band member bought one cause he had problems making his acoustic sound 'like an acoustic' through the PA. All you could hear when he played was a constant scratching.. like nails on a blackboard. Totally zapped the all the tone from his Maton.

Didnt take him long to flog it on ebay... I feel sorry for whoever bought it though. :roll:

At least all those are analog pedals, and can be turned off with a stomp.

I sat in on a jam session once had to use a Boss ME-50 that was setup. The mediocre analog-digital-analog conversion in that makes it truly disgusting to play, even when "bypassed". Far worse than plugging direct to PA. Plastic doesn't even begin to describe it. Just thinking about it raises the hair on my neck...

Any compressor.
OK...I'll be slipping into my Nomex undies now.

morley bad horsie wah-I didn't like this wah, its too big and silly looking but a lot of people like them.

ZOOM 505II.

Carvin vintage wah: worst piece of **** ever, hands down.

DOD Supra-Distortion. It seemed OK in the store. I lived with it for a couple of years. I hadn't owned a distortion pedal in years and just figured it was me. It wasn't.

A friend of mine has one he uses with his bass for making it sound bad.

I had some sort of wah/distortion pedal made by Morley that was one of the first pedals I ever bought. Two for one right?
I could never understand why my tone sounded like sh*t all the time. The wah part sucked, and the distortion part did. I believe it even had a volume pedal built in.

In the 70's I got a distortion+ as a gift. I thought it was horrible... turned out... it was me.

...vintage 1970's FENDER BLENDER...yuck :!:

I tried friends digitech death metal. wow, just wow.

The DOD Classic Tube pedal was pretty awful. I've still got it - but only cos no-one would take it off my hands!!

Any compressor.
OK...I'll be slipping into my Nomex undies now.

Actually, I tend to agree. I fight compressors. I like being able to control my dynamics with my playing. They're necessary when recording, but I've never been able to do anything useful with one live.

The first generation ZOOM pedal..the silver box with two plastic pedals. I bought one on ebay for $6.00 and it was supposed to do ever effect in the universe.

$6.00 - I got what I paid for. What was I expecting??

JHS Wah ... I was a naive kid :lol:

That horrible Boss Acoustic Simulator.....

I'm not sure anything can really be any worse.

Yep. http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee231/big_lug/puke.gif?t=1215317985

Boss mega distortion.
I love pedals and I always try to find atleast SOMETHING cool about it!
Nope.
Not this one.

Even the crappy DOD Supra distortion had 1 cool sound when you cranked the gain and zeroed the tone.

Another vote for the Boss AC2


"In the end there can be only one"

Digitech Death Metal
Line6 Uber Metal
EHX Dr Q Nano
Boss AC-3

I've had a long list of pedals that i used to have... and I've got to say that most of the disappointments were the metal high-gain distortion pedals.

Luckily for me I never bought the Digitech...

I actually like EHX but the past 3 EHX pedals i had so far (sold all of them already) generated so much noise that they were unusable. what a disappointment.

A RAT that I bought new in 2006. I bought it on an impulse and got rid of it soon after--just a cheesy, bright, tinny, crappy-sounding distortion that was awful using live. I've heard that older RATs are much better.

Well lets see. A Morley Rotating Wah, which was basically a giant piece of machinery with a pedal attached to a big silver box. Totally impractical for live use and noisy as well. And it sounded like s#*t.

A Dallas Arbiter Fuzz Face. I know its a classic and there are a legion of fans who swear by it but I could not get this thing to sound good. Maybe they are better going through a EL84 amp than a Twin.

A Boss Flanger or any flanger in general. To me its an effect that just does nothing. On the other hand I do have a vintage MXR Micro Flanger that does a pretty convincing fast Leslie effect

EH Big Muff. I can not stand these things. Had a NYC one as opposed to a Russian made one. There are better pedals out there that do the job better in a smaller footprint and are a lot less noisy.

Nowadays I try to steer clear of pedal fads and trends and try to stick with pedals that have some staying power and a lot more flexibility.

the Behringer acoustic simulator stunk! and the Digitech Eric Clapton thing I thought was a sonic disaster too (just my opinion)


hated my behringer acoustic thing! it was baad.

Vestax delay. Ugh.

ROSS Distortion. Just plain bad. But then again, I had it in '87 and I was 17, playing an Ibanez Blazer (strat copy) or a Kramer flying V copy, through a Peavey Classic. The pedal could have been the only good thing in that signal path. Add to that, I was an aspiring shredder who worshiped Yngwie.

A few years later, a Rocktron Distortion Generator. Just Aweful. It sounded like the distoriton Boston gets. I was 21 (1991) and played a Heavy Metal Strat through a Fender M80 Halfstack and was more into Napalm Death and Morbid Angel. So Boston styled distortion was not for me. In retrospect, my entire rig at the time sucked.

In the late '90s as my taste and ablities changed for the better, post Nirvana era, a Russian Sovtek Big Muff was the most dissapointing (Strat & Tele, Pro Reverb, playing Alternative Rock)

As my tastes, ears and abilities improved.... I'd say the Danelectro Fab Tone is the one that has been the most offensive that entered my signal path for any length of time (three years ago, Strat & Tele, Pro Reverb, playing southern rock, blues, and Grateful Dead covers).

Currently I use one pedal, a Vox Valvetronix Tonelab SE (Strat & Tele, no amp, direct to PA, playing modern rock covers, '90s covers, '80s covers, '70s covers, '60s covers, originals.... and Grateful Dead covers..) . It does not suck. But I bet I could program some aweful sounds into it.

A Dan-o Psyco Flanger.....way over the top swirly

Fulltone Distortion Pro.

This is not the worst pedal I've heard, but it was the most disappointing. I bought it as soon as they came out expecting great things. I've had it for several years and have tried many times to like it but this pedal just doesn't cut it for me.

DOD Supra-Distortion. It seemed OK in the store. I lived with it for a couple of years. I hadn't owned a distortion pedal in years and just figured it was me. It wasn't.

A friend of mine has one he uses with his bass for making it sound bad.

I'm going with the same thing. That pedal was so plain and cheap, ugh. I think my mom uses it as a paper weight now, it's the best use for that pedal.

1987 RAT. Just sounded buzzy and metallic to me...

Dano sitar swami. Yikes!!!

Dano sitar swami. Yikes!!!

oh man! I love mine! if you don't want it... send it to me! I love reading the HC reviews of that pedal... people don't play with it enough to find its coolness...it gets horrible reviews! ha ha!

I even liked the slide it came with... ha ha! different strokes for different folks1

1987 RAT. Just sounded buzzy and metallic to me...

I didn't care for the RAT, but I notice that quite a few people do. Keeley even mods those pedals.
But from my own personal gear:
1. Bespeco Volume pedal: I can't even give mine away!
2. Danelectro Danowah: Cool wah housing, crappy fuzz effect, too many wah presets...what was I thinking?
3. Korg Toneworks 411 fx Superfx multi-effect pedal. I bought the pedal for $200, the programmability function went out on me, and I can't even get Korg to take their product back! The presets still work though...

Danelectro Wasabi Chorus/tremolo- geez, could NEVER get it to stay at one setting, ever. Pain in the butt knobs, so-so chorus, took forever to get the levels right, and sucked betteries like a DDL... cool lights on the fins, though...

Nobels Tremolo- another pedal that was too cute for its own good-tone control (?) just didn't work right, another level control that needed to get dialed in on every gig, and it would spaz out every once in a while when it was on... BAAAAADDDDDDD pedal!

Plenty of others, too, but these were the worst...

Franc Robert
Back Alley Blues Band

The yellow DOD overdrive/preamp pedal from the early 80s (or maybe it was from the 70s... I got it used in the early 80s). That thing was so awful sounding that I got rid of it and didnt buy another overdrive pedal for 20 years.

Late '70s Big Muff. Worst $36.00 I ever spent. On top of being a signal loading piece of trash it died within two weeks.

I have major hate for my old boss sd-1
depending on its position in the chain it would either do nothing, or turn everything harsh, suck the life out of the tone, and the bottom end magically dissappeared.
ugh
luckily i managed to sell it for twice what i paid (sale)

Late '70s Big Muff. Worst $36.00 I ever spent. On top of being a signal loading piece of trash it died within two weeks.

thats a shame
i have the reissue and i love it so much

that is easy to answer:
ibanez ts 7: cheap tubescreamer that did not sound good to me.
digitech grunge: way over the top distortion
that behringer acoustic modeler

i agree about the digitech grunge
its only really got one sound
and its not a very useable one
cheap and characterless

Hey, I have the digitech grunge... and I like it! Actually, I like it for the one thing that it does... and I think it does it very well. It sits comfortably on the shelf waiting to be played. I agree, it is not versatile, but it does what it does.

Oh, yeah... another pedal, almost as bad as the ZOOM I mentioned earlier is a Behringer distortion pedal I tried once. It was so noisy I just could play it. Yuck!

ugh ive had bad experiences with the behringer pedals
the compressor
ugh
enough said

DOD Buzz Box because it sounded like someone put a knife through your speakers and shredded the cones. In fact, the guy showing it to me at the store initially thought there was something wrong with the amp when he first plugged it in to show it to me...

Blackbox X-Ray.

Someone said something about a modified TS9 circuit, but the volume/gain knobs were essentially backwards(forgivable) yet even with full product description it was hard to get a decent drive sound out of it, ending up sounding like "annoying low-gain buzzy dirt". It turned out to be a less-than-clean boost pedal with confusing color options.

Unjustifiable $150 flipped as soon as I could find a buyer.

DOD Milk Box compressor

Korg Toneworks anything......bluck--aaaahhhckkk!

Danelectro Reverb Pedal... its not even a reverb, its a crappy slapback...

ugh ive had bad experiences with the behringer pedals
the compressor
ugh
enough said

You can put a behringer 9volt into a keeley TS-9 and it would make the pedal suck.

Dano Pepperoni Phaser....ick

digitech rp 80...worst thing on the planet!

Electro Harmonix Clone Theory- Chorus/vibrato pedal. The effect sounded amazing but the hissing noise that went with it was not so good.

I still have one. It has one or two good sounds, a lot of nauseating sounds, and a constant sound of the ocean in the background. Ugh.

I absolutely love echo and reverb, and so my 2 stinkers are in that category.

1. Boss DM-2 analog delay. This gets raves in some quarters, but all it produces is a muddy, grainy echo that turns your sound into mush. I swear, the delayed signal has nothing in it above 1kHz, useless. It is still in my closet.

2. Echoplex EM-1, pictured here:

http://www.regiscoyne.com/echoplex/EM-1_01.JPG

Can you say "thinly engineered"? This thing had the worst sounding analog mixer I have ever heard. I rebuilt it several times, replacing many substandard parts but I could not overcome the inherent wretchedness of the design. I wrote out many parts of the schematic by hand, and often could not believe what I saw - bad design and dozens of band-aids just to make it stable. The older tube Echoplexes might be worth fixing, but this thing just screams "bow wow!"

Life's too short. I gave it away.

I had a Distortion Pro too. I could not keep it from sounding buzzy.

Late '70s Big Muff. Worst $36.00 I ever spent. On top of being a signal loading piece of trash it died within two weeks.

I bought one for one day in the late 70s. Got it from a guy at high school, brought it home & it sounded awful. Called him up & he told me it needed a new battery. Popped a new one in and it still sounded awful. Instead of giving him $25 the next day I gave him back the pedal. He was not happy.

This was supposed to be the holy grail of distortion pedals back then. Turned me off of them for decades.

The yellow DOD overdrive/preamp pedal from the early 80s (or maybe it was from the 70s... I got it used in the early 80s). That thing was so awful sounding that I got rid of it and didnt buy another overdrive pedal for 20 years.

I totally played one of those from the same guy who sold me my 80's rat. Completely useless, and the noise!!

DOD Buzz Box because it sounded like someone put a knife through your speakers and shredded the cones. In fact, the guy showing it to me at the store initially thought there was something wrong with the amp when he first plugged it in to show it to me...

yeah but that may be the intended effect
after all thats how ray davies got the distortion on you really got me.

yeah but that may be the intended effect
after all thats how ray davies got the distortion on you really got me.

I think actually it was supposed to be a more exaggerated version of the MXR Blue Box if I remember, so yeah, that probably is sort of what they were looking for, but I still think its funny that the guy at the store thought the amp was broken at first...:lol:

well the blue box sounded like crap so i get what you mean.
could be interesting as an effect if you wanted to inflict horrible noise on someone.

Boss pedals in general are a turn-off for me: I had an SD-1 which sounded awfully thin with my twin reverb and a CE-3 which seemed to be on when it wasn't.

I had an OD-2 as well which sounded OK for certain things until I put it next to a tubescreamer. Never looked back.

I tried a TU-2 and put it next to a Korg DT-10. The TU-2 sucked treble.

I still have a Boss GT-3 for fiddling at home, but I only use a couple of presets. Most of the stuff in there is useless and/or tonesucking. Maybe I'm too lazy to tinker with it further, but then again, I know it won't come anything near a stage again.

Other pedals that sucked:

Dimarzio Volume Pedal that still used a lamp bulb and LDR. Somehow it didn't work properly.

Vox supa-wah-swell... what swell???

MXR Compressor... just because it was a compressor I guess.

Zoom 3000... zooooooooommmmmmmm.... Actually I heard another guitarist getting great sounds out of this one but no not me. However, I sucked at the time I had the Zoom.

(1. Boss DM-2 analog delay. This gets raves in some quarters, but all it produces is a muddy, grainy echo that turns your sound into mush. I swear, the delayed signal has nothing in it above 1kHz, useless. It is still in my closet.)

Brad , are you sure someone didnt mess with the trim pots inside ?
I love both my DM-2 , and the 2 DM-3´s Ive got .....If you just dont like it , put it on eBay , and use the 2-300 $ you´ll get to buy something else,LOL..

Its funny how we see ( hear ) things differently , but maybe the different amps , music styles and so have a part in this ? I love my SD-1 , Ive had it forever , and prefer it to any Tubescreamer....

My son bought the Behringer acoustic pedal, and it is useless. It doesnt just sound bad , but there is hardly anything different in th sound , only noise!

I had one of the first Zoom things , I tried and tried for 2 weeks to get decent sounds out of it , but failed

I'm surprised that compressors are copping are hammering on a Tele board.

Not a pedal, but Pocket Pod is my worst effects device in that it promsed the world and didn't deliver. I'm not shy about trying out effects in-store after buying that. Probably a "Der Fred" but plastic-sounding. Definitely not "platinum-album selling" quality. Can't return non-faulty items here.

Hands down the worst ever is the Boss Accoustic Simulator. No wonder MF had it on sale so cheeep. Whoever Beta tested that unit must have had ice-picks rammed in their ears when they were very young. My WEED EATER has more "accoustic" sound than that pedal. I was MORE than happy to return it.......pure petrified JUNK

I still have one. It has one or two good sounds, a lot of nauseating sounds, and a constant sound of the ocean in the background. Ugh.


the ocean noise was too much and I returned it for a Boss Ce 5 which makes the 2 noises I use chorus for well enough.

Wow - 72 posts and not a single trashing of the Boss MT-2. I simply cannot believe it.

And I would have been one of those who trashed it too, until I finally de-gained and tweaked it (took me 4 months and a lot of trial and error).

Fab Tone in stock form is fairly horrid, but also pretty cool when de-gained and revoiced.

Still have a 1st gen Zoom 505. I occasionally pull it out for one use only - fuzz with single repeat stereo pong delay. It hisses like a mutha, though.

Wow - so much Big Muff dislike. I guess I understand, though. Very noisy, bypass sucks (literally), and doesn't cut through live, unless it's properly modded. Just getting rid of the sucked mids really brings it to life - a swap of a single cap and a single resistor. Lower gain transistors (or bypassing an entire stage) really makes a difference. The original hand made boards are bulletproof and very easy to work on.

The very idea of acoustic sim. from Boss turned me off.

The Brat - another paperweight, for certain. Never owned one, for good reason.

The Dunlop dynacomp and the Boss CS3, I can't deal with those sounds
Jim

Digitech multi effects pedals...all first rate P.O.S. in my book.

:cool:

DOD American Metal, Lots of DOD stuff is pooh, I wonder how they stay in business.

Digitech multi effects pedals...all first rate P.O.S. in my book.

:cool:

at least they are better than zoom or berhinger....

Dunlop Crybaby - The Wah is actually pretty good, it's the incredibly nasal tone it gives you when activated (which isn't anywhere near as bad in other Wahs), and the tone sucking it does while bypassed.

I could honestly tell blindfolded if that pedal was in the signal path on bypass.


Maybe not the worst pedal ever, but certainly the most overrated.

Line 6 - POD V2 Sounded Processed & Synthetic. Just couldn't get a good
sound out of it. Manual went to great lengths to mention
the Classic Pedals they had modeled....... I went and
bought those classic pedals.......they sound nothing like
the POD. They have Character, Tone, something modeling
processors can't duplicate to my ears.

The DOD Classic Tube pedal was pretty awful. I've still got it - but only cos no-one would take it off my hands!!

YES! I bought one of these for $5 at a garage sale a long time ago, and gave it away almost immediately. Couldn't play very well at all then, but I knew enough to know that dod's "classic tube" sucked. A lot. :mrgreen:

http://www.micro-mania.net/~nworth/Pictures/FX53.gif

A little plastic dano pedal. It worked for 3 hours and then gave up the ghost. I only paid about $4 bucks for it though so I wasn't too heartbroken about it.

I voted for the DOD 250 Overdrive in a previous post on this thread... now here it is in action!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_3cvUu6d7w&feature=related

Listen to the chord he (she? I cant tell) hits at 1:53. In spite of the garbled quality of the sound in the video, that is exactly what this pedal sounds like.

The new, cheap, plastic Danelectro FAB distortion....horrible. Couldn't get a good sound even in front of a vintage Blackface. Next would be the Danelectro Free Speech Talk Box. Nice idea and concept, but the feedback was uncontrollable. I have no idea how that one even made it past the R&D Dep't to the sales market.

...vintage 1970's FENDER BLENDER...yuck :!:

Hey, I had one of those too and it sucked but you can get big money for 'em on eBay. Wish I still had mine .... so I could sell it.

Somebody has probably already said it but- ALL of them. :twisted:
Pedal BAD :twisted:

pedals bad? how can you call anything that can be used creatively bad? they're the only way anyone can do anything inventive or interesting these days!

pedals bad? how can you call anything that can be used creatively bad? they're the only way anyone can do anything inventive or interesting these days!

:confused:

They may be the only way some people can be inventive or interresting, but for a musician, invention and interest comes from the fingers and soul. I am not one to bash pedals. I have them and use them. I love how they can enhance my sound, but they are NOT the source of my sound or creative ability.

That being said, I have a mid-eighties BOSS OD-2 Turbo Overdrive that I can't give away.

Maybe I am just too impatient to get a pedal dialed in correctly but to me it seems that while they can do wonders for a bad amp, they tend to ruin most nice amps making them sound too sterile. I'm sensitive to the amount of presence in my sound. I have been known to plug a modeler or a PRO-Co rat into a sound system though.

+2 for the DOD Classic Tube. Total Crap.

Lots of DOD stuff is pooh, I wonder how they stay in business.

1. Please keep thinking that so i can keep scoring fx-90s, Fx96s, FX25s, Fx52s, FX30s, FX60s, FX65s, FX80s, FX75s... [the list goes on and on] for dirt cheap. For every crap pedal DOD made, they also made one that is freaking awesome. The FX52 is a damned good fuzz, the FX90 (& 96) are are two really killer analog delays that would give the DM2/DM3 a run for the money. The FX60 is a wonderful analog chorus. DOD is one of the very best (and most innovative) pedal companies ever in the history of music. DOD Rules!

I wonder how they stay in business.

Sadly, they didn't. They are now owned by (and the same company as) digitech. Digitech is pooh. DOD is awesome! Everyone loves that Bad Monkey? You know what that is? It is the DOD juicebox relabeled.

RIP DOD. You don't know what you have till it's gone!

(half my board is DOD, laugh if you want. They made some great all analog circuits back in the day, even their crap is great... I run my synth through a DOD Grunge. It is unholy. Buildings loose pieces of brick, women hide the children when i step on that thing. I would never use it for guitar on a pop tune, but creative misuse potential is sky high on this pedal -- totally through the roof. I gig mine. I kid you not. it is awful. I love it.)

Guess I shouldn't get oner of their American FX80 comps?
Jim

:confused:

They may be the only way some people can be inventive or interresting, but for a musician, invention and interest comes from the fingers and soul. I am not one to bash pedals. I have them and use them. I love how they can enhance my sound, but they are NOT the source of my sound or creative ability.

That being said, I have a mid-eighties BOSS OD-2 Turbo Overdrive that I can't give away.

I never said they are the source...
but they do facilitate creativity.
i know he is lame...but the edge proves a great example there

http://www.guitarampsonline.com/Boss_AC_2.jpg


:oops:

The worst pedal on earth.

Dano Black Coffee distortion.

Oy.

:-(

MXR Phase 90 reissue - total tone sucker

one of those little Digitech multi-effiects boxes.. horrid.

Back in the late 60's and 70's there was a pedal called a Boomerang. It was a combination wah-wah pedal and volume pedal. When the wah was switched off it became a volume pedal and vice versa. I don't remember what it sounded like, but there were two things wrong with it. One is that the wah effect was backwards. In other words, pushing the pedal forward gave the bassier tone and backwards gave the trebly tone. This is very counter-intuitive. I guess it was the only way they could figure out how to make the pedal do both functions. The other problem is that it's almost impossible for a guitar player standing up to control a volume pedal. It was just not a very practical design. I ended up selling it to my keyboard player who didn't seem to mind, being that he played sitting down.

I tried a Danelectro Fab Tone once, and I could only get one sound out of it no matter how many times I tweaked the knobs. It wasn't a terrible sounding pedal but it wasn't my cup of tea. Too much fab, not enough tone I guess.

I have a mid-eighties BOSS OD-2 Turbo Overdrive that I can't give away.

You can give it away to me.:razz:

I tried a Danelectro Fab Tone once, and I could only get one sound out of it no matter how many times I tweaked the knobs. It wasn't a terrible sounding pedal but it wasn't my cup of tea. Too much fab, not enough tone I guess.

In stock form, that pedal is fairly useless. But it's pretty neat if you rework it a bit - it actually uses the same 4558 chips as a Tubescreamer!

And it's not as involved as one would think - there are three "gyrator" tone shapers in the circuit - the first is a fixed mid booster, and in the middle is a "dual notch" shaper. By tweaking or removing the first shaper, you can remove the nasal midrange quality, and by tweaking the dual notch setup you can flatten out the eq substantially. The cool thing about tone shapers is you can pull a couple of caps and it disables them.

There are two other things that I do to high gain pedals to tame them - pull out the pair of diodes to ground, and bump up all of the "bright" caps in the feedback loops to 220 pF or larger. Once again, not very involved at all -we're only talking about four caps, and cheap little Rat Shack ones will work fine.

The FabTone is a real sleeper, IMO, as is the Daddy-O, which is a Marshall Guv'nor clone.

The worst pedal I ever had was a "Coloursound" volume/wah. It must have been the same design as the one GADDIS described, but as well as being difficult on the volume and backwards on the wah it would go from one to the other if you put your toe down!
I gave it away (I think the bloke i gave it to passed it on as well) and it put me off effects pedals for years!

DOD Grunge pedal what a crappy sound ,just like the the musical genre ! Hey what are the chances!

Boss mega distortion.
I love pedals and I always try to find atleast SOMETHING cool about it!
Nope.
Not this one.

Even the crappy DOD Supra distortion had 1 cool sound when you cranked the gain and zeroed the tone.


I agree on the The Boss Mega Distortion. Maybe I got a bad one, but it was extremely noisy just sitting there. I gave it away.

1. Please keep thinking that so i can keep scoring fx-90s, Fx96s, FX25s, Fx52s, FX30s, FX60s, FX65s, FX80s, FX75s...

Get an FX17 Wha pedal.
They are completely different to Vox/Crybaby and the like.
Much smoother- almost hifi sounding- great for funk playing or using a lot of gain.

It's a toss-up. The original D.O.D. "Grunge" pedal was attrocious...it was like taking the worst grunge tone you could find, and then listening to it under water. Next would be this little multi-effects deal that is marketed under several names, including "Dinosaur." It's a box (either blue or black) that measures about 6-7" wide, and maybe 9" long. In the center is a wah pedal, which is so bad that when you use it, you actually HEAR the gears on the pot crank back and forth. On one side is a distortion pedal, which sounds no better than the worst starter amp out there. On the other side is a chorus effect, which wouldn't suck...except that it adds so much hiss and static and hum when it's activated that you can barely hear anything aside from the noise. I'm also of the belief that most octave pedals out there make your tone sound like crap (though I love the Digitech Whammy), and the same goes for almost any Flanger that can be had for less than about $150.00.

http://www.guitarampsonline.com/Boss_AC_2.jpg


:oops:

The worst pedal on earth.

This pedal is certainly not the worst. It's about managing your expectations. If you were expecting this to make your LP sound like a Martin then you'll be disappointed. For me, it does a decent job of simulating an acoustic in a live platform and helps me reduce the gear I bring to a gig. Worth the $27 I spent on ebay.

I'll bet Johnny DiMarco could make any of the above pedals sound awesome. I'm quite serious. :razz:

DOD Vibro-Thang. Couldn't dial it in to be useful. Replaced it with a Voodoo Lab MicroVibe.

Danelectro Reverb Pedal... its not even a reverb, its a crappy slapback...

+1

Danelectro Milkshake Chorus was worse though. I have heard better sounds come from my butt...Had less than $10 in them and got it back via ebay, so not all was lost

If you think the Boss Acoustic Simulator is bad, try the Behringer Acoustic Simulator which is supposed to be a clone of the Boss. Worst $30 I spent on a pedal. :mrgreen:

the absolute worst pedal ?
a Tychobrahe Pedalflanger back in the day....my God what a hunkajunk that was !
i really wanted to like it, an' i fought with it for almost 2 years before i finally gave it up, but it had waaay too much hiss an' noise, an' it seriously sucked tone when switched off....
i recently learned of a reissue Pedalflanger (http://www.chicagoiron.com/) that i'd like to try (if i can find a demo), hopefully they've fixed the problems....

Does a Cyber Twin qualify? It should at least get an honorable mention. Anyway... I just bought the Boss RE-20 'Roland Space Echo RE-201' that I can't seem to coax a decent sound out of. It tops my overpriced-crappy-effects-pedal list for the time being.

Realtube Blue Tube.
Realtube Tube Driver (?)--the three knob cheaper model, not the EJ big box.
Some DOD overdrive that was supposed to sound like a Big Muff. Made the guitar seemingly inaudible whenever it was turned on.

Crybabies unless they're buffered. At least the three pedals above only sounded bad when they were turned on...

ProCo Rat. Lamest distortion pedal ever.

JHS Wah ... I was a naive kid :lol:
Hey Flat357....BADASS version of Harlem Nocturne on your Myspace!!!!

DOD Supra-Distortion. It seemed OK in the store. I lived with it for a couple of years. I hadn't owned a distortion pedal in years and just figured it was me. It wasn't.

A friend of mine has one he uses with his bass for making it sound bad.

+1000

I hada few danelectro pedals that were pretty awful.