Tempted by a few of these from Amazon. I have the Behringer Tube Screamer clone, that seems to do Tubescreamery things.
Also Donner seem to do cheap pedal boards, the cost of which has always astounded me considering they are three or four bits of aluminium welded together.
Anyone purchased Donner or Behringer kit that didn't work out, or care to recommend it?
I could punt for the Boss versions, but it would be an investment of several hundred instead of one hundred for a board with the pedals I need (I'm going "Champagne Supernova" as my marker, so need a TS, Chorus (which I have) and would need to add a Tremelo pedal and a Compressor to "start".
Thoughts?
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The Caline Orange Burst is an outstanding overdrive. It's a copy of Xotic BB preamp pedal.
The other one is the Caline Pure Sky overdrive which is more of a boost than a drive. It's supposed to be a copy of the Timmy pedal, I dunno never tried one. Handy if you want a 'more' pedal with eq.
Both of these pedals seem well made and have proved reliable.
I've seen quite cheap pedals on pro boards ( IIRC Stevie Young from ACDC uses a Mooer boost and Pete Thorn uses a tc fuzz from their budget line for example). However, these are either always on or in switching systems - they aren't relying on the mechanical operations of these pedals. You do / do not like the sound of a pedal wether it's £30 or £300 but if you are regularly gigging it's the reliability that is the potential issue ( not that there aren't unreliable boutique pedals).
So the general opinion is, say, for a Compressor, just buy the Boss CS-3 and stop being a tight wad?
Just need a couple of pedals for jams, apart from that I have a Katana and an old GT-8 with all the FX in the world.