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What winds me up - and this is not aimed only at the King Of Tone - is when a pedal which sounds OK but nothing outstanding into a clean amp is justified by "yes, but you can't judge it like that - it sounds amazing into a cooking valve amp at gig volume." (Usually with the implication that if you don't appreciate that, you're a 'bedroom player'.) Well of course it does! ...the clue is in the cooking valve amp at gig volume bit . *Any* pedal that adds a bit of dirt and level is going to sound pretty good going into an already good-sounding amp which is already overdriven and compressed - what you're hearing is mostly the amp, not the pedal.
A £30 Chinese Tube Screamer copy sounds great into a cooking valve amp at gig volume...
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
I should say,did seem;
The new origin effects drive is very different. It behaves like an overdriven amp, sustain, sensitivity etc
and apart from sounding glorious, it can achieve this into an amp at modest volume
A lot of these things are subjective and dependant on your own technique - I detest the DS-1, yet I know folks that love it. Steve Rothery manages to make it sound epic, for example. Likewise, I think TS-9s are the spawn of satan (muddly, middly things) but then - I don't need to add mids, an awful lot of folks do for their solo sound.
I think that's probably why my two favourite manufacturers are Boss and EQD. Boss do the simple stuff really well, in a great form factor and at a sensible price. EQD do lots of mad stuff that others don't. I'm fucked if I'm spending hundreds on a tweaked tubescreamer.
That's not to say that there aren't other companies out there doing genuinely innovative, worthwhile stuff. If *nobody* was doing anything new then the whole industry would die.