The $22 pedal thread

[rfurtkamp]

And this is why if I bottom-feed these days I look for new Chinese crap!

I'm trying to be a bottom feeder but the world seems to not want this to happen. What do you currently like? I have Amazon Prime but all the cheap stuff actually sounds really good and "warm" sounding. I am after a harsher/colder sound (and quite frankly probably have plenty of gear that does that already but alas, here we are )

I don't use Amazon Prime stuff for that, I go with the Bay, as it's generally the lowest-price on the stuff. I haven't bottom fed like that in quite a while, since the $30 "Tomsline" bitcrusher came out.

Delay I am so stupid set on it's laughable, from an actual Space Echo to a literal+ dozen other things.

I remember when they fired my shitty colleague at my shitty job (that I quite liked actually) a few years ago. You literally had to try your hardest to get fired from there. I think it took her like 100 lates and every time she came in she would start throwing up per copious alcohol consumption from the night before. She was not a team player.

Yea, some jobs are quite difficult to get canned from. Thankfully before I got sick, I hadn't worked *for* somebody (versus consulting/private stuff) since 2000.

[Warpsmasher]

Ha, I've heard those Arion compressors are really bad.

I like Yamaha pedals. That Yamaha looks totally whipped.

Somebody should offer The Mothership $22 for this:



https://reverb.com/item/4827393-korg-10 ... distortion

Want one of these eventually. One of the awesome things about eurorack drums is finding the right distortions to use on each drum sound, and I have always loved having pedals with cab sim for home recording. Currently loving the one in the Digitech Grunge. As with all of those Digitech dirt pedals that have a separate "mixer" output, that is a fixed cab sim that stays active whether the pedal's dirt is on or off.

How are the digitech cab sims are they just a lpf or are they more real deal? My guitarist has a digitech overdrive and it sounds pretty nice though I haven't played with it much though it sounded good into my fx loop send so that has to be a good sign. It would be cool to have one for the cabsim if its viable for removing the awful harshness DI-distortion makes

This is exactly why I love them for the mixer, removal of harshness and bringing out the beastly amp sound the distortion was meant for in the first place. I don't know if the cabs are different on all the dirt pedals or not. The only other digitech I have right now is the RP360, which has a treasure chest of awesome amp and cab sims. It was mostly all about the Bassman sound for me, but that chase led me to lots of other cool discoveries.

[$harkToootth]

Delay I am so stupid set on it's laughable, from an actual Space Echo to a literal+ dozen other things.

Thank you for the response. I should have figured that on the delay front. I still think of your gear advice regarding racks. Btw there is a GL-100 on Reverb for $200+

[rfurtkamp]

Yea, and it'll be there for ages.

I paid $50 for another one six months ago or so.

[Chankgeez]

F'ing "Metal Rocker"! Make Jack an offer:



https://reverb.com/item/7361848-vintage ... tal-rocker

[coupleonapkins]

Good review of the Denio Metal Rocker (identical otherwise?):

I really had high hopes for this one as a cheap, nasty back up for my much loved boss HM2

but it sounds like shit. sputtery, gated, with some weird intermodulating fuzz action, almost octave up overtones.

oh well...

[Chankgeez]

sputtery, gated, with some weird intermodulating fuzz action, almost octave up overtones.

Not sure what seems shitty about that. Seems awesome to me.

[coupleonapkins]

IKR?

[Dandolin]

sputtery, gated, with some weird intermodulating fuzz action, almost octave up overtones.

Not sure what seems shitty about that. Seems awesome to me.

Goop, rebox, profit

Plutonian Death Rattle

[BLOOD EAGLE]

my early noise “career” was built off of whatever cheap @ss used pedals i could snag off ebay...
i got SO MANY.... it was awesome.

i always went for cheap pedal lots, that is where there were some great deals to be had.

[rfurtkamp]

That thing sounds awful.

I want five.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDa_V-pZsN0[/youtube]

[Chankgeez]

Good find, furtkamp, didn't even think to search for a demo.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj6M5UFcgHg[/youtube]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj6M5UFcgHg

[molokaio]

Aha, Hold on , I have 2 danio pedals somewhere, an orange one and a black one. They were my first pedals... gotta check them out again!
Unubtanium shit! ^_^

[Chankgeez]

I like what somebody did with this:

https://reverb.com/item/9144088-joyo-cl ... nger-jf-07

[Kacey Y]

Meets the technical requirements for this thread, but posting for the demo video.

https://reverb.com/item/7621334-rocktek ... sed-cheesy

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZftDP1CAODs[/youtube]