What's your most under-rated pedal?

Fez

Marshall Ed the Compressor. Broken record time - Marshall re-package those effect pedals.

earwighoney

peaches said:

My favourite is to have 3 quick repeats all at the same volume after the note played, gets a weird tremolo picking effect.

Do you have the settings for that sound?  

The EHX MMH is a incredibly versatile pedal.  I've had mine for a while but sometimes struggled to get the best out of it as there is so much it can do, it can overwhelm!  

fendergibson

My good ol' volume pedal, family all love it 

fendergibson

fendergibson said:

My good ol' volume pedal, family all love it 

On silent 

Teetonetal

Boss FZ2. Picked it up in the tail end of 2016 and I keep finding myself reaching for it. nice little fuzz.

bbill335

professorben said:

Vertex Axis Wah. 

Hey, we have similar taste in wah! 

JezWynd

earwighoney said:

peaches said:

My favourite is to have 3 quick repeats all at the same volume after the note played, gets a weird tremolo picking effect.

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The EHX MMH is a incredibly versatile pedal.  I've had mine for a while but sometimes struggled to get the best out of it as there is so much it can do, it can overwhelm!  

Beautiful sounding repeats on that pedal but I couldn't get to grips with the controls, iirc they vary depending upon which type of delay is selected - very confusing.

ToneControl

Joyo graphic EQ
I have two, one set with a scoop, one with a mid-boost
then I can  fix any pickup to fit the mood

wayneirie

Naga viper, muy bueno

ThePrettyDamned

Digitech bass synth wah

Or maybe the boss df-2. I only know of one other person in the universe who likes it. 

ICBM

ThePrettyDamned said:

Or maybe the boss df-2. I only know of one other person in the universe who likes it. 

Not only likes it, thinks it's the best distortion pedal ever...

Heartfeltdawn

peaches said:

EHX Memory Man Hazarai doesnt get the love it deserves I don't think, its actuually pretty crazy. It's actually kinda in between a delay and a real time sampler in some respects, like you can control the volume of each subsequent repeat independently of number of repeats, unlike the standard feedback control on most delays. My favourite is to have 3 quick repeats all at the same volume after the note played, gets a weird tremolo picking effect.

Agreed. So many good sounds in this unit and very hands on. Takes some time to learn what the knobs do in each function but it's worth learning. 

builttospill

I'm really warming to my CTC Blackface Stardust.  Finally found a drive that works with my Princeton... gives any thing from light grit to full on crunch! combined with the Hotcake I've been able to get some suprisingly good Pavement tones.

builttospill

Works amazingly well at low volume too

UnclePsychosis

DOD201, does everything I could want in a phaser and costs about £50 second hand. Job done. 

Honorable mention for the Jumbo Tonebender that @juansolo makes. Feels hard to "underrate" a pedal made by a guy who does it for fun and transistor money but it's absolutely cracking and not something that's really available elsewhere. 

Teetonetal

Agreed the dod 201 is a wonderful phaser. 

ThePrettyDamned

ICBM said:

ThePrettyDamned said:

Or maybe the boss df-2. I only know of one other person in the universe who likes it. 

Not only likes it, thinks it's the best distortion pedal ever...

I'm not a massive fan of it at high high gain, but for rock crunch it's really great and for low gain overdrive, it's absolutely the bomb. Never heard better. 

Not good for boosting an already driven amp, but it is good for adding distortion (or overdrive) to an already driven amp with the level at unity, too. 

I'm also going to tag @mike_l for his suggestion. If it was called the parametric fuzz bomb or something, it would be received better. Also good at high gain heavy marshall rhythm tones, but needs dialling. Very underrated. 

ICBM

ThePrettyDamned said:

ICBM said:

ThePrettyDamned said:

Or maybe the boss df-2. I only know of one other person in the universe who likes it. 

Not only likes it, thinks it's the best distortion pedal ever...

I'm not a massive fan of it at high high gain, but for rock crunch it's really great and for low gain overdrive, it's absolutely the bomb. Never heard better. 

Not good for boosting an already driven amp, but it is good for adding distortion (or overdrive) to an already driven amp with the level at unity, too.

Yes - I never use it with the gain above halfway. I never use any overdrive pedal to push an amp harder either, only to add dirt to what's already there at roughly unity volume, so I suppose that's why I've found the same!

I did think it was a bit more widely known about though, which is why I didn't pick it as my 'most under-rated' first - the Dunlop 535 is almost unknown, let alone under-rated.

mike_l

ThePrettyDamned said:

 
I'm also going to tag @mike_l for his suggestion.

3rd comment fella. And I'll stand by what I said.
Most reject it as they haven't used it with a decent amp/guitar and set the gain too high.

ICBM

mike_l said:

ThePrettyDamned said:

  I'm also going to tag @mike_l for his suggestion.

3rd comment fella. And I'll stand by what I said.
Most reject it as they haven't used it with a decent amp/guitar and set the gain too high.

Or spent the time to work with the EQ and find out how powerful and sensitive it is. Many guitarists seem to want to just whack the controls anywhere and if it doesn't automatically sound great - let alone try to dial it in accurately - pronounce the gear as crap.