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I feel that my contributions to the forum have been mostly gushing reviews so I'm adding this to balance that out abit.
Boss BD-2: It was decent low gain, but if you turn the gain up, the infamous fizz really spoils the sound*. Also the tone knob is very very harsh* above 10 o'clock, and this is using a humbucker-loaded guitar on the neck position. The Keeley BD-2 solves all these problems.
Danelectro Fish and Chips: the pedal itself was decent but the construction was woeful. The switch had absolutely no feedback and felt like it could break at any time. I assume this is the same for all pedals of the same line. However, I do approve of the cool cat line.
MXR 6-Band EQ: Terrible terrible pedal. noisiest one I've ever had. The danelectro fish and chips worked better. And the Source Audio EQ blows the above 2 pedals out of the water.
Jim Dunlop 535Q (18V): Could not get this to work for me. The travel was too narrow* and didn't allow for any sort of expressive* playing.
Boss VB-2: I don't use vibrato, so this is not a real non-recommendation. I just have to ask the question: why is there a bypass mode that doesn't do anything? I cannot comprehend the logic.
TC Spark Booster: Again, not a real non-recommendation. Good* sounds but awful* switch, the most unsatisfying click ever (bar the danelectro fish and chips).
*YMMV
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The Guyatone ST2 - I hate that compressor -- it's the worst compressor ever... just hate it if you have one put it on eBay for a really low buy it now... as I'd buy another one in a heartbeat.
Dod FX57 - just dire.
Voodoo Lab Sparkle Drive - it didn't sound like a Tube Screamer which you could blend clean signal with, it sounded like a broken overdrive pedal with the clean sound completely separate from the drive, and not in a good way. The TS part sounded as middy and nasal as they usually do. Probably the worst overdrive pedal I've ever had.
Dunlop Jimi Hendrix Fuzz Wah - bought on Ebay when slightly drunk and missing my old Sound City FuzzWah. The Dunlop isn't a fuzzwah, it's a wah and a distortion in the same casing, neither of which really sound anything like any sound Jimi ever used. I have avoided anything with the words 'Jimi Hendrix' on it ever since.
Line6 DL4 - it was actually pretty good until it had some kind of glitch at a gig, and started playing the loop sample from the previous song - no amount of button pressing or knob turning would stop it until I finally pulled the power plug out. After that I lost confidence in it and replaced it with a couple of Boss delays, at which point I was suddenly aware how much tone the Line6 had been sucking.
Roger Linn AdrenaLinn - it's probably a great tool in the right hands, but not mine. The first one wasn't too bad, but I found it made me play "same different" stuff all the time, very much a one-trick pony for me, and it was very hard to integrate into a standard live guitar setup. When they brought out the III I wondered if they'd changed enough to make it worth giving it another go, and foolishly bought another direct from the US to take advantage of a special offer - but after being ripped off by UK Customs and Parcel Farce it actually cost *more* than buying one at retail here... and I still didn't like it.
But none of that comes close to my Roland GR-09. Probably the single worst gear purchase I've ever made financially and because of what I did to my favourite old guitar to fit the GK-2A controller... which seemed like a good idea at the time. Just don't go there.
"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
Pretty much any of the plastic Behringers, I bought a load of them when i first got into fx and while they sounded good ( the boost and the octaver in particular) every single one of them broke for no apparent reason, or was noisy as hell with a psu.the metal box ones were a totally different story though
I'm sure it's great in the right hands but the name is misleading. It's only 'classic' in that it's Morley's own standard years-old design. In terms of classic wah tones (White Room/ Jimi/ Shaft/ Slash/ John Squire) it will probably disappoint.
It sounds more like a filter to me and the top end is clinically proven to split eardrums. The CIA probably use it as a torture device.
Weighs a ton.
Seriously, try before you buy. More of a 'oo-ohhh-ahhh' pedal than a 'wah'.
I love mine but it has taken years to get my head round it. Some fantastic sounds in it. One of the tricks is to turn the A3's hissy reverb off at all times. And upping the Comp Drive a touch seems to eliminate tone suckage. Mine sounds fab now and the behringer fcb1010 works great with it with the EurekaProm chip. But it's a fiddly bastard, no question. Pedals i have hated? Blackstar HT Dual. Nasty. Also the Mooer Shimverb, horrible digital noise
Marshall Bluesbreaker 2. Awful.
Boss DD6. Tap tempo was horrible to use - had hold the pedal down for 2s. When you wanted to turn the pedal off again you had to hold the switch down for another 2s to get out of tap tempo mode and back into normal switch mode. DD7 is ok as you can plug in an external tap tempo switch. Don't know why they didn't have that on DD6.
TC Nova Delay. Had two of them go wrong on me.
Planet Waves Pedal Tuner (can't remember model name). Made high pitched hum when turned on. Maybe partly a power supply issue though. Velcro wouldn't stick to bottom.
Korg Pedal Tuner (long time ago not sure what model). Sucked tone.
MXR Microamp. Sucked tone. Had to put it in a TB loop. Have now built myself one with proper true bypass.
I feel we might be quite different people