Which cheap pedal utterly exceeded your expectations?

Gassage

What pedal has blown you away for the money?

I was trying to find that impossible dream, the all analog multi modulation pedal. Still to this day the TC SCF is the most versatile I've come across.

However, about a year back I scored one of these and was utterly blown away by it. The flange, phase and reverb were brilliant, the chorus OK and the trem I never bothered with as I have it on my amp.

It is digital though, but excellent nonetheless.

Highly recommended.

The ZCat QMod.

http://www.zcatpedals.com/?dir=view&id=q-mod

ThePrettyDamned

Boss OD-3.  

My god, it kicks all kinds of arse.  

Gassage

ThePrettyDamned said:

Boss OD-3.  

My god, it kicks all kinds of arse.  

So does the BD2.

IanSavage

Thing is, I wouldn't call eighty-odd quid 'cheap' for a guitar pedal

Personally, if the Danelectro Tuna Melt tremolo had a decent casing it'd be on my 'board to this day, and the purple Nobels trem that routinely goes for twenty or thirty notes secondhand is my trem of choice.

Boss SD1, natch...and the Dano Rocky Roads, actually; again, victim of cheapy casing and my uncomfortableness with stomping on 'em too hard. 

daveww

Joyo Vintage Overdrive

hugbot

All the mooers really save the few shitty ones. 

I cant help but reminise about when they were something stupid like £25 each.

vasselmeyer

Joyo AC Tone. £25 and incredibly flexible sounds.

ThePrettyDamned

Gassage said:

ThePrettyDamned said:

Boss OD-3.  

My god, it kicks all kinds of arse.  

So does the BD2.

Apparently, they're quite similar circuits - or more closely related than the SD-1/SD-2.  

I couldn't believe my ears, I thought it was a boutique drive pedal - sounded fab.

digitalscream

Mooer Ninety Orange (is £60 cheap?). Blew me away, still my absolute favourite phaser.

benmurray85

does the EHX Soul Food count as cheap? I got one last month on a whim and in all honesty its the best pedal I've ever owned. It might not be all fireworks and fancy features but it just does exactly what you want and it does it WELL!

I was supposed to be giving up gigging at the end of this year and this pedal has singlehandedly made me decide to continue!

Gassage

benmurray85 said:

does the EHX Soul Food count as cheap? I got one last month on a whim and in all honesty its the best pedal I've ever owned. It might not be all fireworks and fancy features but it just does exactly what you want and it does it WELL!

I was supposed to be giving up gigging at the end of this year and this pedal has singlehandedly made me decide to continue!

Everyone I know who has tried one has said precisely the same. Almost like a BK Tubedriver.

Branshen

Line 6 otto filter. No decent demos online but this thing funks like no other in the filter mode. Don't use the auto Wah mode..

Fuzzdog

Behringer PH-9 phaser.  The housing is awful.  The switching is awful.  It's about £15 new.  But it's the best phaser I've ever had for sticking in front of some overdrive for that chewy swirly sort of thing.  Bought it on a whim, ended up rehousing it and it has never left my pedalboard.

Paul_C

Joyo Tremelo - to my ears as nice as a Keeley-modded TR-2 I once had

dogload

I am currently in love with a one knob Tonebender that I bought off someone over on the OSG forum for 20-odd quid. Apparently a Poodle Pedals kit build, it is simple and fab!

ICBM

Zoom B3.

OK it's not a single pedal, and at just over £100 it's not 'cheap cheap', but considering that it contains 12 amp simulators, 99 effects, a looper, a tuner and a DI box, I think it's cheap. And it sounds genuinely good, not just good for the money.

I bought it just to mess about with and try loads of wacky effects I wouldn't want to buy individually, but I took it to a band practice a couple of days after I got it and I haven't used anything else since. I've sold off all the pedals from my old bass pedalboard and have no desire to replace them.

It's not perfect, but the flaws are acceptable given how well it does what it does.

There's even a built-in basic drum machine if you need to work out something without a drummer.

monquixote

Excluding clones the Hardwire Overdrive is a massive bargain at the moment.

Iamnobody

Gassage;23094" said:

What pedal has blown you away for the money?



I was trying to find that impossible dream, the all analog multi modulation pedal. Still to this day the TC SCF is the most versatile I've come across.



However, about a year back I scored one of these and was utterly blown away by it. The flange, phase and reverb were brilliant, the chorus OK and the trem I never bothered with as I have it on my amp.



It is digital though, but excellent nonetheless.



Highly recommended.



The ZCat QMod.



http://www.zcatpedals.com/?dir=view&id=q-mod

That looks ideal to compliment my T-Rex Soul Mate for seldom used modulation. But as Ian said it's not really a cheap pedal...

Might add it to the list for future consideration. Certainly don't need it now...

Gassage

Iamnobody said:

Gassage;23094" said:

What pedal has blown you away for the money?



I was trying to find that impossible dream, the all analog multi modulation pedal. Still to this day the TC SCF is the most versatile I've come across.



However, about a year back I scored one of these and was utterly blown away by it. The flange, phase and reverb were brilliant, the chorus OK and the trem I never bothered with as I have it on my amp.



It is digital though, but excellent nonetheless.



Highly recommended.



The ZCat QMod.



http://www.zcatpedals.com/?dir=view&id=q-mod

That looks ideal to compliment my T-Rex Soul Mate for seldom used modulation. But as Ian said it's not really a cheap pedal...

Might add it to the list for future consideration. Certainly don't need it now...

My point is maybe more for what it does it's very cheap. They come up on eBay quite often for c. £60. Really nice things.

Iamnobody

A lot of pedal for the money I guess if it's decent. I like that the reverb is independent...

I always wondered about these:


http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/400766730844

Cheap as chips.

timmysoft

I'm a big fan of the metal muff, it's bloody cheap but a really versatile high gainer. I'm really into Rats which are definitely cheap by today's standards, they're a hard to beat for distortion, overdrive and fuzzy goodness.