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Old July 4th, 2008, 05:01 PM   #1 (permalink)
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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.
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Old July 4th, 2008, 05:06 PM   #2 (permalink)
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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.
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Old July 4th, 2008, 05:15 PM   #3 (permalink)
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i havent had too many pedals, but id say the digiteck screamin' blues was pretty terrible as far as im concerned.
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Old July 4th, 2008, 05:44 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Electro Harmonix Clone Theory- Chorus/vibrato pedal. The effect sounded amazing but the hissing noise that went with it was not so good.
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Old July 4th, 2008, 07:59 PM   #5 (permalink)
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nice.
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Old July 4th, 2008, 09:22 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Danelectro Burnt Toast distortion. It fed back so hard it damaged my hearing for days.
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Old July 4th, 2008, 09:34 PM   #7 (permalink)
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the Behringer acoustic simulator stunk! and the Digitech Eric Clapton thing I thought was a sonic disaster too (just my opinion)
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Old July 4th, 2008, 09:46 PM   #8 (permalink)
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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.
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Old July 4th, 2008, 09:47 PM   #9 (permalink)
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That horrible Boss Acoustic Simulator.....

I'm not sure anything can really be any worse.
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Old July 4th, 2008, 09:51 PM   #10 (permalink)
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ProCo Brat.

Turns anything into a horrible transistor stack.
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Old July 5th, 2008, 01:57 AM   #11 (permalink)
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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.
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Old July 5th, 2008, 10:09 AM   #12 (permalink)
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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.
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Old July 5th, 2008, 11:18 AM   #13 (permalink)
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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...
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Old July 5th, 2008, 11:44 AM   #14 (permalink)
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Any compressor.
OK...I'll be slipping into my Nomex undies now.
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morley bad horsie wah-I didn't like this wah, its too big and silly looking but a lot of people like them.
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ZOOM 505II.
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Carvin vintage wah: worst piece of **** ever, hands down.
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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.
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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.
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In the 70's I got a distortion+ as a gift. I thought it was horrible... turned out... it was me.
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that's easy...
...vintage 1970's FENDER BLENDER...yuck
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I tried friends digitech death metal. wow, just wow.
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The DOD Classic Tube pedal was pretty awful. I've still got it - but only cos no-one would take it off my hands!!
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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.
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Old July 6th, 2008, 12:53 AM   #25 (permalink)
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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??
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Old July 6th, 2008, 01:08 AM   #26 (permalink)
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