Mah board is a fucking joke atm
Tore it apart for a overhaul but quickly realised I'm in dire need of some new shit. Bare with me plse, even though this might not be the right place for a pedal crisis, I'd still appreciate some advice/recommendations/insights from my fellow peddle geeks...
These didn't make the cut:
The ODB-3 and Fabtone both behave deliciously disgusting, but the whole high gain buzzsaw thing just doesn't stay fun and usefull for a long time
The a/b box will still be used now and than, I just don't need it permanently on my already tiny board.
The Digiverb is my buddy's. Fucking hate it, the level pot works like a blend control, killing your dry signal completely when it's turned all the way clockwise
And about to go to another home: Wren&Cuff Mercy Phuk, the Stone Deaf PDF-1, EQD Afterneath (in favor of an Avalanche Run).
So what I'm left with:
D&S: Oldie but a goodie. By far my favorite muff so far, and that's saying a lot. It lacks a led and dc bus though, and in bypass it bleeds off treble like a mother :s
Hotcake: Really nice at low and medium gain settings, kinda dark and muddy and meh at higher gain settings.
Mastotron: Has one or two awesome settings, but it feels stupid to keep it around just for that. There's gotto be something out there that can do a similar thing AND more, right? :ifk: Right now there's a bit of overlap with the FZ-2, which has been my favorite superfuzz-esque pedal forever btw. Also, horizontal peds are a nightmare for small boards.
Freeze: I don't use it enough to justify keeping it on a small board where every inch counts. Especially since this stupid pedlol apparantly needs a seperate shitty unregulated psu to not hiss, and I can barely fit just my main power supply underneath the boards :s
ES-2: Still an awesome bang for the buck analog delay imo, but the tap tempo is as inaccurate as it gets, and the shitty build quality is starting to piss me off. This is my second one, the first one died after a whopping two days
I couldn't care less about the silly modulation on it, the fader is flimsy and will NOT last long if I keep rocking it with my foot, the knobs are litterally falling apart,...
Apart from the annoying switch and dc input, the FX20 is actually okay. It's like a slightly upgraded small stone, not more not less. All I need from a phaser
Wish I could fit a Small Clone inthere too. The tiny ones don't have to mojo of the big vintage style ones, and neither have an actual depth control.
Srry, /rant
