Worst Pedal Ever?

therose789

After recently finding my old boss metal zone, i plugged it in and remembered just how awful the thing was! 

Just for a bit of fun (please play nice) what is the worst pedal(s) you have ever played? - forgive me if this has already been done! 

For me its 

Metal Zone mt2 

Sound Tank tube screamer 

Danelectro fab tone distortion

With an ad campaign like this you would rightly have very high expectations:

not_the_dj

I loved those soundtank ads in the US guitar mags back when I was first learning. 

Never tried one though...but I would have been disappointed that they don't actually have caterpillar tracks :-(

therose789

I can verify that there certainly weren't built like tanks! They were probably the equivalent of the plasticy behringer pedals! @not_the_dj ;

DesVegas

I was given a Rocktek Distortion by my last singer .. that was (and still is to be fair) very weak

Flanging_Fred

Rocktec compressor. Terrible pedal.

frankus

Rocktek delay pedal...

ThePrettyDamned

therose789;26798" said:

After recently finding my old boss metal zone, i plugged it in and remembered just how awful the thing was! 

Just for a bit of fun (please play nice) what is the worst pedal(s) you have ever played? - forgive me if this has already been done! 

For me its Metal Zone mt2 Sound Tank tube screamer Danelectro fab tone distortion

With an ad campaign like this you would rightly have very high expectations:

I liked the sound of the soundtank tubescreamer. It was a tubescreamer sound

Worst pedal I've tried is probably the Ibanez cf-7 I got for free.

But it remains in use because there is one sound in it that nothing else does and that makes it useful.

Most pedals are good at at least one thing... Sort of.

ICBM

Devi Ever anything.

Some of the concepts seemed good but none of the ones I've seen actually worked properly, because they were built like a DIY project by someone who didn't know the first thing about building things. Or maybe they were working properly but sounded shit.. it was hard to tell.

carlos

Wow, those soundtank ads take me back. 

This was absolute crap.

McToot

Ashton CR30 Chorus pedal.  It's modulation was soooo subtle you #kind of had to add a bit of waviness in your head while you played. 

I have to say I also moved a Vox Satchurator on pretty quickly as I found it nasty and I was never keen on the Boss Blues Driver thingy, but I know others seem to rate it quite highly.

Gassage

Bear with me- hype per reality then the El Cap by a mile. Sorry to offend.

sweepy

Controversial here, but the old TS9 tubescreamer , never really did it for me. harsh raspy and gutless

MikkiMcMurderer

EHX Holy Stain - it certainly was a stain but more of the shit kind.

lustycourtier

georgenadaintl said:

Wow, those soundtank ads take me back. 

This was absolute crap.

I had one of these in about 1993 Id completely erased from my mind. A quick google tells me it was all analogue, and was a TS808 inside....

JDE

Gassage;401450" said:

Bear with me- hype per reality then the El Cap by a mile. Sorry to offend.

I agree, but that's not actually the fault of the pedal, more down to TGP jizzbombz.

Personally, I thought the Proco BRat was woeful.

meltedbuzzbox

Fredric Effects pocket weasel by a country mile.

Turned it on, it raped my ears, turned it off and sold it as fast as I could

GavRichList

EHX Octave Multiplexer - It may well multiplex your octaves...but it doesnt track your notes any time soon. Next to useless.

Georgie

I had a go with a metal zone - only as I didn't have an overdrive pedal of my own and wanted to hear a difference - funny little pedal that could only be used for one job!! So I polished it, box it up and used it as a part ex for an overdrive pedal!!! lol

I don't like any pedals that make the guitar sound unmusical and more sci fi - like phasers and flangers.

Forge

meltedbuzzbox said:

Fredric Effects pocket weasel by a country mile.

Turned it on, it raped my ears, turned it off and sold it as fast as I could

I don't think you're supposed to keep your weasel in your pocket...maybe Richard Gere would know...

Forge

Death by Audio fuzz war for me, I never got one good tone out of that thing and it was so bright I did not need a tooth polish for ages. TBH it may have been that it didn't like EL84 amps.

mike_l

Georgie;401566" said:

don't like any pedals that make the guitar sound unmusical and more sci fi - like phasers and flangers.

Have you tried an MXR Phase90 on a slow setting? Neither of mine (Script or Block logo'd) go beyond 50%.....

Same with my MXR Microflanger.

Just enough to give a nice sound, not too much that it sounds like StarWarsTrek blasting through your amp.