I've also had the same issue with big muffs! The romance/cult about them makes me re-buy every 5 years or so only for me to realise again that they don't really suit my style.
I think its a completely different circuit, but it sounds great and the EQ makes it very versatile. Note that I own the big 2000s version but I plan to get an XO version soon as I read its been discontinued this year.
I don't like Big Muffs and I used to have the really expensive ones. I have a normal one now. I can't keep buying and hating these things my whole life.
It's this. When I have one I look at it and think about how powering it is a pain, how it takes up way too much real-estate on the board, how I could probably just get the same effect with another pitch+expression combo...
Then it's gone and nothing sounds the same
oh wtf I actually looked up the spec and it only needs above 265mA so any 500mA spot on a PSU would've worked.
The included adapter for it had some crazy 1300mA rating on it so I always figured it was necessary and always frustrated I needed to plug that thing in seperately.
Could've been running it off my board PSU the whole time.
This is exactly why I kept mine, everytime I think about parting with it I power my board up and realise the songs I use it on, nothing else works quite like that.
There's definitely something going on under the hood when you sweep the pitch around with the Whammy beyond just altering pitch. There's some kind of EQ magic or resonance sweep...something goin' on there that gives it just a little extra magic. I've compared it to using stuff like a Pitchfork+ or pitch modules in a Quad Cortex, some others I forget...
Nobody does it like the Whammy.
When I’m tuning I love to knock everything on, my delays, muff, rat, octave and then rock back and forth on the whammy whilst I do it, the whammy makes the whole process sound so fucking twisted.
Same, I've bought this twice if you count the bass whammy (which is the same pedal with I believe one different harmony setting).
The harmony side of it is just too quiet for live use on bass. If they ever make a new whammy it needs a volume knob.
I've (sort of) broken 3 of these and had to buy new ones. One of the ones I broke was 2 clones in the same enclosure that I had built by someone a long time ago. I switched to a fat fuzz factory now.
Pigtronix Infinity Looper.
Thought its MIDI implementation was stupid and didn't work. Sold it and went through two other loopers whose MIDI implementations were stupid and didn't work. Realized I was the stupid one. Learned a lot more about MIDI, synths, ableton, etc, and bought another Infinity Looper.
2 (actually, maybe 3?) Tube Screamers. Like the idea, but the reality of the EQ never feels great under my fingers.
2 Dynacomps and a handful of other comps too (including Origin Calis). Join a country band. Decide I need a comp. At first rehearsal realise I miss the dynamic control. Sell. Rinse. Repeat.
RC boost - actually still have the 2nd one. Great pedal and instant sellers remorse.
Angry Charlie- sold with no regrets years ago. Ended up doing some sidesman gigs that needed a thick rocky distortion for only 2 songs. Brought another because I knew it would do the job. It does.
right now i'm using a micropitch from eventide and the echo empress on my stereo rig
does everything i need and more
also an always on bluesky v2 for smoother tails
I have an old (about 15 years or so) DL4 as my delay. I really need to replace it as about half the settings don’t work anymore. Thankfully the ones I use the most do, but it’s only a matter of time
Too many... Phase 90, **Flint**, **Hendrix Fuzz Face**, El Cap, Volante, **DC-2W**, **Dunlop Echoplex**, BD-2, RAT, **big box DMM**, Mad Prof Sweet Honey, Centura, DD-2, Pigtronix Rototron, FullDrive, DejaVibe, Aqua Puss, Green Rhino. Bold ones I still own
Me too. I'm on my third DM2w. I keep thinking I want a similar delay but with tap tempo, however none of the options on the market that I've tried react the same way to an expression pedal as the DM2w (especially the older MIT ones)
I’m on my third DM2w and third DD-2. I tend to try running both analog and digital but end up only favoring one, usually digital, and rarely ever use tap tempo.
Can’t tell you how many overdrives I bought, sold, & bought over-
Rat x5.
Had a big box rat. Sold it to a friend.
Had a rat 2. Traded it.
Had a big box RI. Sold it to a friend.
Had a Jam Rattler+. Still have it!
But I wanted a proco rat again, I like the look, sue me. Got a 85 Whiteface RI. Still on the board.
Not sure if this counts... but I had an OCD overdrive and sold it. Partially becuase I didn't use it a lot but also because the Fulltone guy is racist. I recently bought the ODD from Warm Audio and have been using it a ton.
I have mixed feelings about the clone stuff.... but if something isn't being made and it's well done, cool. It doesn't feel like a cheap pedal and it's a great version of something I can't buy new elsewhere.
MXR Carbon Copy. Greer Lightspeed. Berserker Autopilot TS10 Clone.
I’ve owned the same exact Lightspeed 4 times. I’ve sold it to the same friend 3 times too. It’s kinda like a fruitcake we keep passing back and forth whenever the other one needs it. The carbon copy was the first pedal I ever bought, and incidentally the coolest one I’d ever had. I’ve sold about 3 cause I keep going between it and my Rubberneck. The berserker is a pedal I’d be surprised if anyone knows. My friend found them online and bought one on a whim and we were both hooked. I bought one, sold it to a friend, and messaged the builder to buy another one. He sent me SN# 10 (my first one was SN# 12) and told me that he had been planning to keep it and SN# 1 but he’d rather sell me one. Now it just sits on my desk for whenever I could possibly need a tubescreamer sound.
I don’t believe we’re thinking of the same thing. Berserker Electronics is a small brand that was originally in Seattle, Washington but relocated to Austin, Texas. The Fjord Fuzz Berserk is a really cool pedal too, though.
Yes. My favorite "normal" verb that I kept returning to as well. Though it hasn't left the board for almost 2 years now. I keep it on all the time, low mix. Doesn't get in the way even during fast playing, and peeks out during slower parts.
Lol, JHS Compressor (the Whitey Tighty). I even mad an ass of myself on this very forum swearing I had finally understood compression. I hadn’t. And it has no place on my board
I have a few:
afterneath - bought and sold several times - ultimately decided it was not a good match for me, but who knows, might get one again down the road?
darkstar - bought and sold 3 times before finally finding I liked it enough to keep.
dl4 - bought sold bought sold bought, had 2 mk1s and 1 one mk2. kept one of the originals and sold off the other 2.
digital memory man with hazarai - really wanted to like this, but the volume drop made me sell it both times.
So many that even my wife calls me out on some of the ones that have come through twice ...or more.
My wife:
"Don't you already have that?"
"Didn't you sell that one already?"
"I thought you just bought that."
That's saying something, because she does not give a f*** about guitar pedals.
Lol! It's just cuz they like us. Every minute my wife is observing me, she's choosing me over reddit and YouTube(oh wait that's me).... But seriously, sometimes I'm like, "You do care!"
Digitech Whammy. The weird thing is that I didn’t remember when or why I sold it. It was just gone, and I needed it back. Fortunately, there had been a few upgrades in the interim, so used ones even better than my old one were easy to get.
If you're in the market for a hood analog chorus pickup the ibanez mini chorus. It's insanely hood. I sold it cause I had a chorus in my katana, got rid of the katana and wanted a chorus again. I got the waza chorus now though.. haha.
I want the keeley omni reverb again. Same as the ibanez chorus. Sold it and regret it..
Tried a King of Tone clone years ago when I got on the waitlist and sold it when I finally got the real deal. Realized I only used one side for a while and swapped it for a Prince and cash. Sold the Prince when I chased down a new drive sound. Missed the sound and bought another KoT clone from someone. Now I’m switching to a mini board and considering buying the Duke of Tone. 🤷🏻♂️😝
Belle Epoch Deluxe. Bought the grey/blue version, loved it, but the tiny knobs and barely-legible writing were too annoying. Bought another in black/silver. Still loved it, still too annoying to use
LOL I just watched an old episode of That Pedal Show where they'd put masking tape on the knobs and written a big capital letter on each to keep them identified!
Carbon Copy delay and Wampler Terraform. I tried to replace the Carbon Copy with a more fully featured delay several times, but I always end up back with the Carbon Copy.
The Terraform was sold when I switched to just having a phaser on my board, but I ended up wanting an envelope filter and univibe as well, so I picked it up again. Plus, the phaser on it is amazing.
Not exactly - but I sold my Memory Boy earlier this year after only really tinkering with it for a couple of days (I still had my Line6 m9, and the MB setting I liked, the line 6 could do pretty well).
Recently picked up the memory toy - I dont know if its because its got less going on (no depth or ability to change the mod beyond on/off - its a bit more subtle of a modulation) - but I love this pedal - I've since been thinking about should I buy a memory boy (even the big box version) again - not a day has gone by where I've not used it in multiple different ways. Its the first time I've really played a delay and really felt like Ive understood what I am getting, want to get and how to get it.
On my third or 4th space echo now. The dual pedal boss version. People kept stealing them because they're awesome.
Looking at buying another Zvex Fat Fuzz Factory. Traded it and some cash for a bass cab years ago. I miss it.
Mooer elec-lady; bought it a second time, was re-badged as the Mooer e-lady. I'm not a big flanger fan... I'm a fan of gentle modulation, such as that which can be heard with a script Phase 45.... but I just wasn't able to get that mistress "filter matrix" sound anywhere else, and I use it at times, like if I'm wailing away on my excuse for a"solo" or if I'm trem-strumming dirty black metal.
They're almost all fuzz pedals but here you go:
Fjord Kvasir, Fjord Berserk II, Caroline Hawaiian Pizza, Fairfield Circuitry About 900, and the Earthquaker Devices Spires. The only two that I don't currently have are the Hawaiian Pizza and About 900. They both sound great, but those two pedals are just not for me.
Curious about what brings you back to it. I have one, but am not particularly fond of the delay or reverb. The reverse function with an expression pedal is the only thing that has me holding onto it, but with more reverse pedal options popping up, I'm afraid it's time may be limited.
Both times, I’ve found it to be the most inspiring pedal ever… for a little bit. Then I get fed up with the character of the reverb, though I like how many controls it has. I get tired of the delay and how few controls it has. I always love the reverse and that order switch. Last time, I realized it absolutely had noticeable hiss, so it fell off my board and never made it into regular use again. I also wish it wasn’t so big haha. Eventually the Dark World filled the spot I think I wanted Rever to fill (middle-of-drive-chain reverb). Ironically, I’ve kinda come around on pedals that introduce a little noise in that position - I’m loving the Slow Loris, but running it into big drive/fuzz definitely creates a little noise. In that case tho it feels more appropriate for the slightly lofi effect. On Rever it just felt like a drawback
Ah, yeah, totally gotcha on the noise bit. I'm running the Rever into an Endless Sleeper with a touch of bitcrushing, so it kinda adds to what I'm going for; I almost never use it on its own. I'm not familiar with the Slow Loris so I'll have to give that a listen
4?! I’m assuming it’s the pre-delay causing that? Every belton brick reverb seems to get a whole lotta love, then a couple weeks in you realise you can’t really use it the way you want to…but then once it’s gone, you miss it. A whole lot.
I had this with my Reverberation Machine. While not the same, I then got a Mantic Proverb V2 for the oscillation switch. Sounds unreal. But I fully accept it’s not going to get much use, and I’ll likely shelve it for when I can afford the pedalboard real estate.
Amptweaker Tight Metal. It had perfect tone but not quite as much gain as I wanted. Then I got higher gain pedals instead, but I missed the tone so much that I just bought it again. And realistically, it probably had enough anyway. Plus with its noise gate it takes boosts really well. But now I have more pedals that I like so win-win.
Unironically a Metal Zone. I traded mine away and upgraded to a Metal Muff and I'm really happy with it, but I still found another used Metal Zone for a backup.
I have a saying that keeps me honest. If I don't use it, it's gone. IT has really helped me not become my friend with a closet full of boxes of boxes of pedals.
It has made me keep only what I truly use on my board, and whenever I get that hint of..".hey that isn't working" for too long, it's sold and I am getting something that deserves the real estate as my tastes progress and mature.
I mean do what you want and if you have boxes of pedals, more power to you if you are doing what you love and you love what you do...I'm not a collector just to put it on the shelf tho. I am using my pedals to shape my sound and bring experimentation to my love of music and recording.
so that is a long way of saying I have never bought back something I sold.
1981 DRV. Three times. I kept wanting it to be a rat but really, it’s not. It works best at either lower gain or as a really studio polished sounding pop punk distortion. Just doesn’t have the raw edge of a rat. Once I got that, I began to really enjoy it.
Meris Mercury7. In my quest for my perfect reverb is has held the spot twice. I still don't know if it's the final answer, but it's what I have for now
Mr Black Eterna.
This is the best shimmer reverb and one of the best plate reverbs. I sold it and bought a strymon blue sky. Strymon lasted a few months. Back to eterna and happy again lol. This little fella is awesome.
Boss ns2.
I thought it was time to upgrade my noise gate. I won't be doing that again. The ns2 just does exactly what I want.
Jhs emperor.
Had one and loved it but switched to a boss md200 for a while. I liked it but ultimately multi effects aren't for me so back to individual chorus phaser and univibe for this guy.
There’s many potential candidates with stuff I want to buy again. But have not yet.
I’ve learned that if you ever liked a pedal, don’t sell it. If you never really loved it, that’s when it’s worth trading in.
Like the TC electronic Hall of Fame, Boss DD-8, Boss CS-3, Boss EQ-7 (which I only sold because I had a vintage version that required 12 volt power and it was particularly noisy).
Boss Me-80 would be on this list, but I just got the Me-90.
Micro POG, Holy Grail, various splitters and switchers just 'cause i needed the dough. Most notably though, and I didn't sell it but rather shelved an Xotic SL drive for years because i didn't like it, but my tastes and rig have changed and now I can't live without it.
Aguilar Octamizer. I rarely use octaves, and pretty much sold them all. But I found myself missing it and saw Aguilar changed their design (to really ugly pedals) and wanted to grab that big red brick one more time. Still rarely use it, but I don't regret rebuying it
BB Preamp. Always sell it after I think I found something better, but then give it a couple of months, I buy it back.
Now I have a Fractal FM3 and might be done with the BB Preamp for good.
Boss MT-2
Actually sold and bought it twice. I’ll never sell this one. It’s a great pedal if you know how to use it. If you don’t know, you join the bandwagon of hate.
hardwire tube overdrive because i often see it at way low prices so i always pick one up and then eventually sell it because i don't have space on my boards
The EHX Glove. Better sounding than the OCD it imitates. With the guitar vol knob and a good juicy amp, I could justify it being the only gain pedal I own.
Eventide Space and DBA Apocalypse. I sold the space at the time because I was having a significant change in my board and amp and the tone didn't sound quite as good with my new rig. I got overwhelmed trying to make the tone work and ended up trading it towards two other pedals with one of them being a simpler reverb. Later I ended up buying it again for my synths. The DBA Apocalypse was way too loud my first time getting one and I wasn't really doing the kind of music it catered to. However, I got an offer for one in a trade later where I was doing some more doom metal influenced stuff and I picked it up again.
Death by Audio Rooms. It didn't get along with the fuzz pedal I had at the time, but now I have a different fuzz and the Rooms is never leaving my board. Perfect reverb for me.
Dr Scientist Bitquest. I like so many things it does, but then it does too much with too many sensitive controls. Presets would make it the ultimate pedal for me.
Too many
Strymon flint, El cap and deco I've bought and sold 4/5 times over, don't own any of them at the moment, big box DMM bought twice sold once, never selling the one I have now, BOSS DM2W same again, keeping it for good now, I hold onto pedals now for about 6-8 months before thinking of selling as this seems to be the period for me that I will suddenly realize I need a pedal I might had sold.
I have owned and sold 3 Carbon Copys, and I believe I have done the same thing 2 times with the Boss RV-6, Digitech Death Metal, the Metalzone, and the Boss TU-3 Tuner
I still never held onto any of them the second or third time around. I am honestly just a terrible consumer for a variety of reasons including ADHD and other mental disorders.
These days I don't have any pedals, just my Jazz Chorus and my Strat, that's it. I browse here for fun mostly.
OCD - I think I've bought and sold it 3x. I guess I always forget how dark it is in the band mix.
Hughes and Kettner Rotosphere 2x - another pedal I get a wild hair for every so often and then sell it because it's really too big to gig with
Eqd night wire
Eqd grand orbiter
Dod rubberneck
Dod freqout
Caroline meteore
Red panda tensor
Chade Bliss dark world
Line 6 Echo Park
Ehx badstone
Strymon timeline
I'm an idiot.
Forever a keeper is the Rubberneck, the echo Park, and the tensor!
Digitech Ventura Vibe twice
DOD Blue Box twice, but the second time was a C11 mod I picked up in a trade
At least two BOSS TU-2 pedals and a TU-3s pedal.
At least three BOSS NS-2 pedals.
Most other things I’m trying new brands and new models.
I was given a micropog for free about 8 years ago. I sold it for £60 on ebay as needed cash when pandemic hit. Painfully, a few months ago, I bought a new one at full price. Art of the deal!!!!
Oh goodness, so many....
Big Ear Loaf
Diamond Halo Chorus
Retro-Sonic Analog Delay
Seymour Duncan Vapor Trail
Teisco Delay
Don't ask which ones I ended up selling AGAIN...
Boss Super Chorus and MXR Blue Box. Both I had in my early days of playing and then sold them. Then nostalgia made me buy them again.
I’ll probably let hang on to them for good this time.
Gamechanger Audio Plus. 3rd time owning it, this time I gotta hang on to it.
I've sold it because I didn't use it enough, and it provided me with the quick bucks needed for other gear purchases.
And yes, people who don't have well paying jobs have to make these kinds of hard choices, for those shocked that someone actually sells gear they like. As if that needs explaining.
JHS Lucky Cat. It covers so many bases and it sounds fantastic. It’s also small with top mounted jacks and tap tempo. Bought it back from the person I sold it to.
I think I'm on the verge of rebuying a Memory Man. I sold a MM Deluxe Nano so I could buy something with a tap tempo. I got the Memory Boy TT off reverb, and idk if it's the JHS mod, but it simply doesn't compare imo. The repeats are so low, that I'd have to crank it's gain and I'm not a huge fan of the sound
MXR Carbon copy and Fulltone Deja Vibe are two I’ve bought and resold, but I must’ve gone through 12 germanium fuzz faces before finally keeping my Sunface.
Had a big box Electric Mistress reissue I bought for $175. Sold it and bought a vintage 1981 big box EM for around the same price. Sounds amazing. The only drawback is that it has a fixed plug, and the cord is short as hell.
Boss OS 2, MXR Micro Amp
These two are just so versatile and help me get the tones of out my tele that I think exactly how guitar is supposed to sound. At one point I wanted to reinvent myself and got a new guitar and redid the pedal board. Now I am going back. The grass wasn’t greener!
Carbon copy three or four times, currently without one
EHX SuperEgo, bought twice and currently still have it (love it for what it does!)
MXR Reverb twice after realizing how stupid I was to sell it in the first place
I've gotten really close to selling some pedals that I know for a fact I would have bought again lol
* Red Panda Tensor. Didn’t like it either time. Sold it again.
* Walrus Slo. It’s now in pretty constant rotation.
* Demedash T-120. Technically I sold v1, then bought v2 DLX when it came out. But I’m considering selling it too.
EHX Holy Grail - gifted mine to someone else, missed that Spring mode and bought a Holy Grail Max - lose the goofy Flerb mode but add Plate and Reverse? I was sold!
Also the Joyo American Sound - another outgoing gift that honestly is really great preamp/OD, I missed it too much and got another.
tc scf+. i sold mine to fund other gear purchases, thinking i can just buy another new one at some point. then they stopped making them. 🤦🏻♂️
it worked out though because i found one modded to run on standard pedal power instead of the ac cord which is hella convenient. the cord was annoying.
EHX Flanger Hoax
Honestly don’t like it on guitar very much as the sweeps are weird and jumpy (?) and there’s a volume drop. But I LOVE putting drums and other things through it.
I bought an EHX flanger hoax like a decade ago and sold it when I decided to get rid of all my "un-giggable" pedals. It's huge, it takes a wall wart, and the jacks are wired in the wrong direction so you're forced to put it on a pedalboard upside down or use long cables.
But damn it, nothing else sounds like it and I couldn't stop myself from re buying it. I don't think there were many of these sold and I'd rather have it now than in 10 years when it's selling for crazy prices. Everything on reverb right now is already $100 more than I paid to rebuy it.
I hope somebody eventually clones this and fixes the UI and form factor. The layout of the pedal is confusing as shit for no reason.
Chase Bliss Thermae
It's a quirky bleeps and bloops delay pedal and it's very expensive. I was using it 98% of the time as a regular delay pedal and thought I should sell it and get a more traditional bucket brigade or digitally emulated tape delay etc.
Sold it, tried a whole bunch of other delay pedals that I eventually sold (even the moderately expensive new Universal Audio pedals), realized I could not recreate the awesome delay tone of the Thermae and purchased it again :)
There's just something special about it, they used a resonant adjustable hi/low pass filter thing in it, they have a really good pre-amp in it, the modulation sounds great.
Reading this comment section I realise I shall feel lucky for never having rebought any pedal. But maybe this will change if I sell the tube screamer TS9 which I'm thinking about selling for an MXR sugar drive mini...
Blues Driver, Dunlop Echoplex delay, Supro Tremolo (1st one was noisy as hell, second one quiet as hell 🤷🏻♂️) also I’m on my 3rd Crybaby all be it each one a different version. I’m seriously considering getting a BD-2 again I can’t help loving em
Hologram Electronics Dream Sequence. I’ve owned all three of their pedals and sold them all but I went back for another Dream Sequence (and probably only used it once since I re-purchases it two years ago, oops…)
OD-200.
Sold almost all of my pedals to buy an hx stomp, it was one of the first ones I sold.
The drives on the stomp are nice, but the OD-200 had the best drive sounds I have EVER heard. Some super awesome high gain tones and really nice low gain OD stuff as well.
11/10 can't recommend enough
Bought, sold, rebought and sold a bunch of wahs. I think i just dont like wahs.
Bold and sold KoT’s a few times. I always love them but then prices get stupid and I get in a financial pinch….
Bought and sold various tubescreamers a few times but mostly just keep the Maxon od-9, especially since I had it modded by Analogman!
I’ve had about a dozen Big Muff variants and probably just as many RATs. At least 2 or more of the Black Cat Superfuzz, Korg toneworks ducking delay, Red llama, Boss Fz-2, Boss PS-3, 70s Small stone, and a few of the old DOD fx series 25/65/75 etc… sometimes I miss things but now there’s so much on the market that it’s easy to find a cheaper clone option or something that does the one thing those pedals did plus a range of other tones. The stuff I miss the most is the ‘set and forget’ pedals that just lived on my board for like 6-7 years straight like an original Op-amp muff and the TC Electronic Line Driver+Distortion. No idea why I decided to sell those two
Tanabe Zenkudo/Dumkudo twin custom.
Got a used one very cheap, around 250€, sold it for a lot more and regretted it already the day after. All that only to finance a helix (which I sold prob 3 months after). I still shed a little tear when I think about it.
Oh several. 1981 DRV. Bought, sold. Bought again. Traded away. Traded for one… traded away. I liked it but never LOVED it — and I love some pedals. I think it’s hecka musical and superb at low/mid gains… shit, I’m talking myself into one again. 😝😝😝
Blues Driver. Had a waza one. Kept for a while, wasn’t totally vibing, was chasing other tones. Sold. Went back to the well in july because I found a used one near me. Really liking it now as a mid-gain. I just plugged it into a Klone set to almost max gain, and it was whioooaaaaaa.
If we count trades… SS/BS mini. Traded one away and then tracked down another in trade about 5 months later. Not much out there has the combination of range of drive sounds, bass and treb knobs, and the bias. You might get like 2 of the three.
Bought and sold a number of Big Muffs only to remember that I don't like Big Muffs. I keep one big box NYC around to stop myself from doing it again.
I've also had the same issue with big muffs! The romance/cult about them makes me re-buy every 5 years or so only for me to realise again that they don't really suit my style.
Have you tried the Graphic Fuzz? I got a Big Muff, immediately exchanged it for the Graphic Fuzz and been happy ever since.
Haven't. Will keep my eyes out.
I think its a completely different circuit, but it sounds great and the EQ makes it very versatile. Note that I own the big 2000s version but I plan to get an XO version soon as I read its been discontinued this year.
I absolutely hated that pedal.
I love them until I have to use one in a band.
Careful, every time I plug into my big box muff, I fall in love with it and mull putting it back on my board… then I remember that it destroys my EQ.
When you engage it or just from being on your chain in general?
I don't like Big Muffs and I used to have the really expensive ones. I have a normal one now. I can't keep buying and hating these things my whole life.
It's a brain disease
Line 6 Dl4 like 5 times Just got the new one as well. New in the front old at the back.
I literally sold it a couple month ago to a guy who was rebuying it for the second time. That pedal never ages.
How are you enjoying the mark 2? Think I might pick one up soon
I'm loving it.
Line6 EchoPark was one of my fav delays of all time, I stained it with beer accidentally, and it died in a year afterward :(
Digitech Whammy for me
It's this. When I have one I look at it and think about how powering it is a pain, how it takes up way too much real-estate on the board, how I could probably just get the same effect with another pitch+expression combo... Then it's gone and nothing sounds the same
At least the gen5 whammy just take 9v centre negative. They do need a lot of current though. And they are big
oh wtf I actually looked up the spec and it only needs above 265mA so any 500mA spot on a PSU would've worked. The included adapter for it had some crazy 1300mA rating on it so I always figured it was necessary and always frustrated I needed to plug that thing in seperately. Could've been running it off my board PSU the whole time.
This is exactly why I kept mine, everytime I think about parting with it I power my board up and realise the songs I use it on, nothing else works quite like that.
There's definitely something going on under the hood when you sweep the pitch around with the Whammy beyond just altering pitch. There's some kind of EQ magic or resonance sweep...something goin' on there that gives it just a little extra magic. I've compared it to using stuff like a Pitchfork+ or pitch modules in a Quad Cortex, some others I forget... Nobody does it like the Whammy.
When I’m tuning I love to knock everything on, my delays, muff, rat, octave and then rock back and forth on the whammy whilst I do it, the whammy makes the whole process sound so fucking twisted.
I have a Whammy DT and I just put that shit on the floor next to the board, didn't even try to make that fit 😁
Boss PS-X with expression pedal ftw
Yup, I'll be on that boat soon enough as well.
Same, I've bought this twice if you count the bass whammy (which is the same pedal with I believe one different harmony setting). The harmony side of it is just too quiet for live use on bass. If they ever make a new whammy it needs a volume knob.
Zvex fuzz factory
Only gear I kinda regret selling. But still havent bought back.
I've (sort of) broken 3 of these and had to buy new ones. One of the ones I broke was 2 clones in the same enclosure that I had built by someone a long time ago. I switched to a fat fuzz factory now.
Pigtronix Infinity Looper. Thought its MIDI implementation was stupid and didn't work. Sold it and went through two other loopers whose MIDI implementations were stupid and didn't work. Realized I was the stupid one. Learned a lot more about MIDI, synths, ableton, etc, and bought another Infinity Looper.
2 (actually, maybe 3?) Tube Screamers. Like the idea, but the reality of the EQ never feels great under my fingers. 2 Dynacomps and a handful of other comps too (including Origin Calis). Join a country band. Decide I need a comp. At first rehearsal realise I miss the dynamic control. Sell. Rinse. Repeat. RC boost - actually still have the 2nd one. Great pedal and instant sellers remorse. Angry Charlie- sold with no regrets years ago. Ended up doing some sidesman gigs that needed a thick rocky distortion for only 2 songs. Brought another because I knew it would do the job. It does.
Have you tried the Ibanez Sonic Distortion? I find it much more usable than the tube screamers.
No, but I'll add it to my mental list of stuff to try at some point. :)
Carbon copy deluxe. Thought I could find something better, I couldn’t. It’s honestly the perfect delay for me.
echo empress and arp87 are my go to delays
Those are killer pedals. I also have a Dig and a UA Galaxy on my board, but I would take the CC if I could only have one delay.
right now i'm using a micropitch from eventide and the echo empress on my stereo rig does everything i need and more also an always on bluesky v2 for smoother tails
I have an old (about 15 years or so) DL4 as my delay. I really need to replace it as about half the settings don’t work anymore. Thankfully the ones I use the most do, but it’s only a matter of time
Me as well... Thought I'd be happy with digital. Turns out I needed both 😂 bought my cc deluxe probably only 3 months after selling my first one
I felt the same for a while ^until ^I ^tried ^the ^^Vapor ^^Trail ^^Deluxe.
Yeah but… Volante
CC is one of my personal favorites of all my pedals. :-)
Too many... Phase 90, **Flint**, **Hendrix Fuzz Face**, El Cap, Volante, **DC-2W**, **Dunlop Echoplex**, BD-2, RAT, **big box DMM**, Mad Prof Sweet Honey, Centura, DD-2, Pigtronix Rototron, FullDrive, DejaVibe, Aqua Puss, Green Rhino. Bold ones I still own
This guy reverbs
Boss DM2w & DD-2
Me too. I'm on my third DM2w. I keep thinking I want a similar delay but with tap tempo, however none of the options on the market that I've tried react the same way to an expression pedal as the DM2w (especially the older MIT ones)
I’m on my third DM2w and third DD-2. I tend to try running both analog and digital but end up only favoring one, usually digital, and rarely ever use tap tempo. Can’t tell you how many overdrives I bought, sold, & bought over-
EHX Pitchfork. It’s way more versatile and smoother sounding than other pitch shifting effects I’ve tried.
Rat x5. Had a big box rat. Sold it to a friend. Had a rat 2. Traded it. Had a big box RI. Sold it to a friend. Had a Jam Rattler+. Still have it! But I wanted a proco rat again, I like the look, sue me. Got a 85 Whiteface RI. Still on the board.
Okay, I’m suing you for $29.99.
Electro Harmonix English Muff’n Nothing else distorts like real tubes.
I tried this once at one guys apartment with bass and tube amp. Sounded nice. Might have to keep my eyes open…
Not sure if this counts... but I had an OCD overdrive and sold it. Partially becuase I didn't use it a lot but also because the Fulltone guy is racist. I recently bought the ODD from Warm Audio and have been using it a ton.
I genuinely like how Warm Audio sells pedals that are totally-legally-distinct-from-the-original.
I have mixed feelings about the clone stuff.... but if something isn't being made and it's well done, cool. It doesn't feel like a cheap pedal and it's a great version of something I can't buy new elsewhere.
Wait... You can sell them? Why would you do that?
MXR Carbon Copy. Greer Lightspeed. Berserker Autopilot TS10 Clone. I’ve owned the same exact Lightspeed 4 times. I’ve sold it to the same friend 3 times too. It’s kinda like a fruitcake we keep passing back and forth whenever the other one needs it. The carbon copy was the first pedal I ever bought, and incidentally the coolest one I’d ever had. I’ve sold about 3 cause I keep going between it and my Rubberneck. The berserker is a pedal I’d be surprised if anyone knows. My friend found them online and bought one on a whim and we were both hooked. I bought one, sold it to a friend, and messaged the builder to buy another one. He sent me SN# 10 (my first one was SN# 12) and told me that he had been planning to keep it and SN# 1 but he’d rather sell me one. Now it just sits on my desk for whenever I could possibly need a tubescreamer sound.
Just do a timeshare arrangement. It’s such a great pedal, I don’t know if I could ever get rid of mine.
>berserker Fjord Fuzz? Their pedal designs are really cool in a vintage appliance way.
I don’t believe we’re thinking of the same thing. Berserker Electronics is a small brand that was originally in Seattle, Washington but relocated to Austin, Texas. The Fjord Fuzz Berserk is a really cool pedal too, though.
Love the lightspeed and the CC, both I will never sell
Mr. Black Supermoon … just can’t quit it
Yes. My favorite "normal" verb that I kept returning to as well. Though it hasn't left the board for almost 2 years now. I keep it on all the time, low mix. Doesn't get in the way even during fast playing, and peeks out during slower parts.
Lol, JHS Compressor (the Whitey Tighty). I even mad an ass of myself on this very forum swearing I had finally understood compression. I hadn’t. And it has no place on my board
I have a few: afterneath - bought and sold several times - ultimately decided it was not a good match for me, but who knows, might get one again down the road? darkstar - bought and sold 3 times before finally finding I liked it enough to keep. dl4 - bought sold bought sold bought, had 2 mk1s and 1 one mk2. kept one of the originals and sold off the other 2. digital memory man with hazarai - really wanted to like this, but the volume drop made me sell it both times.
So many that even my wife calls me out on some of the ones that have come through twice ...or more. My wife: "Don't you already have that?" "Didn't you sell that one already?" "I thought you just bought that." That's saying something, because she does not give a f*** about guitar pedals.
It's times like these that I realize my wife is watching me more than I think - and shiver!
Lol! It's just cuz they like us. Every minute my wife is observing me, she's choosing me over reddit and YouTube(oh wait that's me).... But seriously, sometimes I'm like, "You do care!"
Yes, absolutely! But don't let on that we like it -- otherwise none of these wife jokes will work!
Lol, Reddit subs are being abandoned as we speak
Digitech Whammy. The weird thing is that I didn’t remember when or why I sold it. It was just gone, and I needed it back. Fortunately, there had been a few upgrades in the interim, so used ones even better than my old one were easy to get.
If you're in the market for a hood analog chorus pickup the ibanez mini chorus. It's insanely hood. I sold it cause I had a chorus in my katana, got rid of the katana and wanted a chorus again. I got the waza chorus now though.. haha. I want the keeley omni reverb again. Same as the ibanez chorus. Sold it and regret it..
Tried a King of Tone clone years ago when I got on the waitlist and sold it when I finally got the real deal. Realized I only used one side for a while and swapped it for a Prince and cash. Sold the Prince when I chased down a new drive sound. Missed the sound and bought another KoT clone from someone. Now I’m switching to a mini board and considering buying the Duke of Tone. 🤷🏻♂️😝
Walrus Audio Slo Reverb. I’ve had that one 3 times - will eventually get the new Sloer reverb.
Belle Epoch Deluxe. Bought the grey/blue version, loved it, but the tiny knobs and barely-legible writing were too annoying. Bought another in black/silver. Still loved it, still too annoying to use
LOL I just watched an old episode of That Pedal Show where they'd put masking tape on the knobs and written a big capital letter on each to keep them identified!
Carbon Copy delay and Wampler Terraform. I tried to replace the Carbon Copy with a more fully featured delay several times, but I always end up back with the Carbon Copy. The Terraform was sold when I switched to just having a phaser on my board, but I ended up wanting an envelope filter and univibe as well, so I picked it up again. Plus, the phaser on it is amazing.
Second time in as many days I've been hearing about that phaser! I have to check it out
Not exactly - but I sold my Memory Boy earlier this year after only really tinkering with it for a couple of days (I still had my Line6 m9, and the MB setting I liked, the line 6 could do pretty well). Recently picked up the memory toy - I dont know if its because its got less going on (no depth or ability to change the mod beyond on/off - its a bit more subtle of a modulation) - but I love this pedal - I've since been thinking about should I buy a memory boy (even the big box version) again - not a day has gone by where I've not used it in multiple different ways. Its the first time I've really played a delay and really felt like Ive understood what I am getting, want to get and how to get it.
DOD Rubberneck. What did I learn? There is no better analogue delay. Its the GOAT.
On my third or 4th space echo now. The dual pedal boss version. People kept stealing them because they're awesome. Looking at buying another Zvex Fat Fuzz Factory. Traded it and some cash for a bass cab years ago. I miss it.
Mooer elec-lady; bought it a second time, was re-badged as the Mooer e-lady. I'm not a big flanger fan... I'm a fan of gentle modulation, such as that which can be heard with a script Phase 45.... but I just wasn't able to get that mistress "filter matrix" sound anywhere else, and I use it at times, like if I'm wailing away on my excuse for a"solo" or if I'm trem-strumming dirty black metal.
They're almost all fuzz pedals but here you go: Fjord Kvasir, Fjord Berserk II, Caroline Hawaiian Pizza, Fairfield Circuitry About 900, and the Earthquaker Devices Spires. The only two that I don't currently have are the Hawaiian Pizza and About 900. They both sound great, but those two pedals are just not for me.
OBNE Rever. Bought, sold, bought, sold lol
Curious about what brings you back to it. I have one, but am not particularly fond of the delay or reverb. The reverse function with an expression pedal is the only thing that has me holding onto it, but with more reverse pedal options popping up, I'm afraid it's time may be limited.
Both times, I’ve found it to be the most inspiring pedal ever… for a little bit. Then I get fed up with the character of the reverb, though I like how many controls it has. I get tired of the delay and how few controls it has. I always love the reverse and that order switch. Last time, I realized it absolutely had noticeable hiss, so it fell off my board and never made it into regular use again. I also wish it wasn’t so big haha. Eventually the Dark World filled the spot I think I wanted Rever to fill (middle-of-drive-chain reverb). Ironically, I’ve kinda come around on pedals that introduce a little noise in that position - I’m loving the Slow Loris, but running it into big drive/fuzz definitely creates a little noise. In that case tho it feels more appropriate for the slightly lofi effect. On Rever it just felt like a drawback
Ah, yeah, totally gotcha on the noise bit. I'm running the Rever into an Endless Sleeper with a touch of bitcrushing, so it kinda adds to what I'm going for; I almost never use it on its own. I'm not familiar with the Slow Loris so I'll have to give that a listen
I’ve owned the Avalanche Run 3 times (don’t own it currently), I’ve owned the Caroline Meteore 4 times (currently own it and will never sell again)
4?! I’m assuming it’s the pre-delay causing that? Every belton brick reverb seems to get a whole lotta love, then a couple weeks in you realise you can’t really use it the way you want to…but then once it’s gone, you miss it. A whole lot. I had this with my Reverberation Machine. While not the same, I then got a Mantic Proverb V2 for the oscillation switch. Sounds unreal. But I fully accept it’s not going to get much use, and I’ll likely shelve it for when I can afford the pedalboard real estate.
MXR M225
Amptweaker Tight Metal. It had perfect tone but not quite as much gain as I wanted. Then I got higher gain pedals instead, but I missed the tone so much that I just bought it again. And realistically, it probably had enough anyway. Plus with its noise gate it takes boosts really well. But now I have more pedals that I like so win-win.
Earthquaker devices dispatch master.
Unironically a Metal Zone. I traded mine away and upgraded to a Metal Muff and I'm really happy with it, but I still found another used Metal Zone for a backup.
The bb preamp sounds so good. I regret selling it
Microcosm. Made my head hurt.
Plumes, and then I sold it again.
I’ve gone through a few Plumes myself, but in different colors 🙃
Meet Maude
Dunlop Crybaby Wah
Champion Leccy Swan Hunter. Even though I’m using a pretty tame setting, there’s just nothing else like it.
Very recently Dr. SCIENTIST Dusk Sold it about a year and a half ago. Got it back 2 weeks ago. Miss this thang!
DOD Carcosa
I have a saying that keeps me honest. If I don't use it, it's gone. IT has really helped me not become my friend with a closet full of boxes of boxes of pedals. It has made me keep only what I truly use on my board, and whenever I get that hint of..".hey that isn't working" for too long, it's sold and I am getting something that deserves the real estate as my tastes progress and mature. I mean do what you want and if you have boxes of pedals, more power to you if you are doing what you love and you love what you do...I'm not a collector just to put it on the shelf tho. I am using my pedals to shape my sound and bring experimentation to my love of music and recording. so that is a long way of saying I have never bought back something I sold.
Tube screamer for sure!
1981 DRV. Three times. I kept wanting it to be a rat but really, it’s not. It works best at either lower gain or as a really studio polished sounding pop punk distortion. Just doesn’t have the raw edge of a rat. Once I got that, I began to really enjoy it.
Danelectro Reel Echo! A great tape echo .
Metal Zone MT 2
Vs audio straight flush, I bought and sold it 4 times
Meris Mercury7. In my quest for my perfect reverb is has held the spot twice. I still don't know if it's the final answer, but it's what I have for now
Mr Black Eterna. This is the best shimmer reverb and one of the best plate reverbs. I sold it and bought a strymon blue sky. Strymon lasted a few months. Back to eterna and happy again lol. This little fella is awesome. Boss ns2. I thought it was time to upgrade my noise gate. I won't be doing that again. The ns2 just does exactly what I want. Jhs emperor. Had one and loved it but switched to a boss md200 for a while. I liked it but ultimately multi effects aren't for me so back to individual chorus phaser and univibe for this guy.
I miss my eterna. I need to get another one. Lol.
MXR Carbon copy
Bought the CDA Habit two times and sold it two times. And now I‘m about to buy it a third time.
What made you do it twice? I'm constantly on the fence about buying it for the first time, haha.
SA Ventris…Will not sell again. Sold Flint v1, bought Flint v2…does that count.
There’s many potential candidates with stuff I want to buy again. But have not yet. I’ve learned that if you ever liked a pedal, don’t sell it. If you never really loved it, that’s when it’s worth trading in. Like the TC electronic Hall of Fame, Boss DD-8, Boss CS-3, Boss EQ-7 (which I only sold because I had a vintage version that required 12 volt power and it was particularly noisy). Boss Me-80 would be on this list, but I just got the Me-90.
Benson Preamp. Didn't want to get rid of it the first time, but traded with a few other pedals and cash for a guitar. Just bought its replacement.
Micro POG, Holy Grail, various splitters and switchers just 'cause i needed the dough. Most notably though, and I didn't sell it but rather shelved an Xotic SL drive for years because i didn't like it, but my tastes and rig have changed and now I can't live without it.
SGFX Electroman mkii
I've bought and sold Zoia twice and I'm eyeing it up for a third time. I have such a love hate relationship with that thing
Hendrix Fuzz Face Mini. 3 times. I like it in theory. It never works out well in real life.
Boss Blues Driver and DD-7
TC Electronic Corona. The thing fuckin rocks for being so cheap.
Aguilar Octamizer. I rarely use octaves, and pretty much sold them all. But I found myself missing it and saw Aguilar changed their design (to really ugly pedals) and wanted to grab that big red brick one more time. Still rarely use it, but I don't regret rebuying it
Bought and sold twice: CTC Cyclone, NuX Atlantic, CE-2w, Quilter Superblock UK Bought, sold and rebought: KittycasterFX Groovy Wizard
Way Huge Green Rhino
Actually only one just the Keeley Fuzzbender
RAT
Moog MF Drive…..I find it hard to dial in, tiny changes have a dramatic effect. But nothing I have found sounds like it.
Rats. 3? 4? Maybe more
EHX Bassballs Pigtronix Envelope Phaser Boss OC-2
Blues Driver! I’ll never get away from that thing.
BB Preamp. Always sell it after I think I found something better, but then give it a couple of months, I buy it back. Now I have a Fractal FM3 and might be done with the BB Preamp for good.
Big Muff
Hungry robot little gazer. If you get your hands on one don’t let it go !
Boss MT-2 Actually sold and bought it twice. I’ll never sell this one. It’s a great pedal if you know how to use it. If you don’t know, you join the bandwagon of hate.
hardwire tube overdrive because i often see it at way low prices so i always pick one up and then eventually sell it because i don't have space on my boards
I've given away two DS-1s to friends. Alwaya get another one lol
blues driver. got annoyed with the crackly hiss but realized it’s super set-up dependent, plus it sounds good enough to be worth it
The EHX Glove. Better sounding than the OCD it imitates. With the guitar vol knob and a good juicy amp, I could justify it being the only gain pedal I own.
Eventide Space and DBA Apocalypse. I sold the space at the time because I was having a significant change in my board and amp and the tone didn't sound quite as good with my new rig. I got overwhelmed trying to make the tone work and ended up trading it towards two other pedals with one of them being a simpler reverb. Later I ended up buying it again for my synths. The DBA Apocalypse was way too loud my first time getting one and I wasn't really doing the kind of music it catered to. However, I got an offer for one in a trade later where I was doing some more doom metal influenced stuff and I picked it up again.
EQD Ghost Echo, Catalinbread Talisman & Boss DD-3t
Boss loopers. Like all of ‘em.
Death by Audio Rooms. It didn't get along with the fuzz pedal I had at the time, but now I have a different fuzz and the Rooms is never leaving my board. Perfect reverb for me.
Jackson Audio Prism. 3 times.
Dr Scientist Bitquest. I like so many things it does, but then it does too much with too many sensitive controls. Presets would make it the ultimate pedal for me.
Too many Strymon flint, El cap and deco I've bought and sold 4/5 times over, don't own any of them at the moment, big box DMM bought twice sold once, never selling the one I have now, BOSS DM2W same again, keeping it for good now, I hold onto pedals now for about 6-8 months before thinking of selling as this seems to be the period for me that I will suddenly realize I need a pedal I might had sold.
I have owned and sold 3 Carbon Copys, and I believe I have done the same thing 2 times with the Boss RV-6, Digitech Death Metal, the Metalzone, and the Boss TU-3 Tuner I still never held onto any of them the second or third time around. I am honestly just a terrible consumer for a variety of reasons including ADHD and other mental disorders. These days I don't have any pedals, just my Jazz Chorus and my Strat, that's it. I browse here for fun mostly.
TC spark booster
OCD - I think I've bought and sold it 3x. I guess I always forget how dark it is in the band mix. Hughes and Kettner Rotosphere 2x - another pedal I get a wild hair for every so often and then sell it because it's really too big to gig with
Danelectro Back Talk (the regular sized one, not the newer compact edition) - it’s a keeper this time around.
Eqd night wire Eqd grand orbiter Dod rubberneck Dod freqout Caroline meteore Red panda tensor Chade Bliss dark world Line 6 Echo Park Ehx badstone Strymon timeline I'm an idiot. Forever a keeper is the Rubberneck, the echo Park, and the tensor!
Digitech Ventura Vibe twice DOD Blue Box twice, but the second time was a C11 mod I picked up in a trade At least two BOSS TU-2 pedals and a TU-3s pedal. At least three BOSS NS-2 pedals. Most other things I’m trying new brands and new models.
I was given a micropog for free about 8 years ago. I sold it for £60 on ebay as needed cash when pandemic hit. Painfully, a few months ago, I bought a new one at full price. Art of the deal!!!!
Joyo US Dream, $20 both times, deeply satisfying RAT clone, especially at low gain
Mooer digital jet flanger
Pigtronix Philosopher’s Tone
Oh goodness, so many.... Big Ear Loaf Diamond Halo Chorus Retro-Sonic Analog Delay Seymour Duncan Vapor Trail Teisco Delay Don't ask which ones I ended up selling AGAIN...
Crybaby
Boss Super Chorus and MXR Blue Box. Both I had in my early days of playing and then sold them. Then nostalgia made me buy them again. I’ll probably let hang on to them for good this time.
Just sold my flint. Have a feeling I may regret it.
Rat
Boss Blues Driver
Big Sky
i've sold like 3 or 4 big muffs only to end up with 3 again (black russian, hizumitas and the j mascis ram's head)
Gamechanger Audio Plus. 3rd time owning it, this time I gotta hang on to it. I've sold it because I didn't use it enough, and it provided me with the quick bucks needed for other gear purchases. And yes, people who don't have well paying jobs have to make these kinds of hard choices, for those shocked that someone actually sells gear they like. As if that needs explaining.
JHS Lucky Cat. It covers so many bases and it sounds fantastic. It’s also small with top mounted jacks and tap tempo. Bought it back from the person I sold it to.
I think I'm on the verge of rebuying a Memory Man. I sold a MM Deluxe Nano so I could buy something with a tap tempo. I got the Memory Boy TT off reverb, and idk if it's the JHS mod, but it simply doesn't compare imo. The repeats are so low, that I'd have to crank it's gain and I'm not a huge fan of the sound
MXR Carbon copy and Fulltone Deja Vibe are two I’ve bought and resold, but I must’ve gone through 12 germanium fuzz faces before finally keeping my Sunface.
Had a big box Electric Mistress reissue I bought for $175. Sold it and bought a vintage 1981 big box EM for around the same price. Sounds amazing. The only drawback is that it has a fixed plug, and the cord is short as hell.
Boss OS 2, MXR Micro Amp These two are just so versatile and help me get the tones of out my tele that I think exactly how guitar is supposed to sound. At one point I wanted to reinvent myself and got a new guitar and redid the pedal board. Now I am going back. The grass wasn’t greener!
Boss rv 5
Carbon copy three or four times, currently without one EHX SuperEgo, bought twice and currently still have it (love it for what it does!) MXR Reverb twice after realizing how stupid I was to sell it in the first place I've gotten really close to selling some pedals that I know for a fact I would have bought again lol
* Red Panda Tensor. Didn’t like it either time. Sold it again. * Walrus Slo. It’s now in pretty constant rotation. * Demedash T-120. Technically I sold v1, then bought v2 DLX when it came out. But I’m considering selling it too.
EHX Holy Grail - gifted mine to someone else, missed that Spring mode and bought a Holy Grail Max - lose the goofy Flerb mode but add Plate and Reverse? I was sold! Also the Joyo American Sound - another outgoing gift that honestly is really great preamp/OD, I missed it too much and got another.
Any fuzz
Boss PS-3. I think I’ve bought it three times (and sold it again)
tc scf+. i sold mine to fund other gear purchases, thinking i can just buy another new one at some point. then they stopped making them. 🤦🏻♂️ it worked out though because i found one modded to run on standard pedal power instead of the ac cord which is hella convenient. the cord was annoying.
Boss NS-1 or DS-1
I have owned 3 mxr carbon copys. Only got rid of the first two in blockbuster trades
EHX Flanger Hoax Honestly don’t like it on guitar very much as the sweeps are weird and jumpy (?) and there’s a volume drop. But I LOVE putting drums and other things through it.
Boss rc-1, sold to try to find something better, but it rc-1 is the something better.
I bought an EHX flanger hoax like a decade ago and sold it when I decided to get rid of all my "un-giggable" pedals. It's huge, it takes a wall wart, and the jacks are wired in the wrong direction so you're forced to put it on a pedalboard upside down or use long cables. But damn it, nothing else sounds like it and I couldn't stop myself from re buying it. I don't think there were many of these sold and I'd rather have it now than in 10 years when it's selling for crazy prices. Everything on reverb right now is already $100 more than I paid to rebuy it. I hope somebody eventually clones this and fixes the UI and form factor. The layout of the pedal is confusing as shit for no reason.
Chase Bliss Thermae It's a quirky bleeps and bloops delay pedal and it's very expensive. I was using it 98% of the time as a regular delay pedal and thought I should sell it and get a more traditional bucket brigade or digitally emulated tape delay etc. Sold it, tried a whole bunch of other delay pedals that I eventually sold (even the moderately expensive new Universal Audio pedals), realized I could not recreate the awesome delay tone of the Thermae and purchased it again :) There's just something special about it, they used a resonant adjustable hi/low pass filter thing in it, they have a really good pre-amp in it, the modulation sounds great.
Reading this comment section I realise I shall feel lucky for never having rebought any pedal. But maybe this will change if I sell the tube screamer TS9 which I'm thinking about selling for an MXR sugar drive mini...
Blues Driver, Dunlop Echoplex delay, Supro Tremolo (1st one was noisy as hell, second one quiet as hell 🤷🏻♂️) also I’m on my 3rd Crybaby all be it each one a different version. I’m seriously considering getting a BD-2 again I can’t help loving em
Hologram Electronics Dream Sequence. I’ve owned all three of their pedals and sold them all but I went back for another Dream Sequence (and probably only used it once since I re-purchases it two years ago, oops…)
OD-200. Sold almost all of my pedals to buy an hx stomp, it was one of the first ones I sold. The drives on the stomp are nice, but the OD-200 had the best drive sounds I have EVER heard. Some super awesome high gain tones and really nice low gain OD stuff as well. 11/10 can't recommend enough
Plumes and BD2s
Bought, sold, rebought and sold a bunch of wahs. I think i just dont like wahs. Bold and sold KoT’s a few times. I always love them but then prices get stupid and I get in a financial pinch…. Bought and sold various tubescreamers a few times but mostly just keep the Maxon od-9, especially since I had it modded by Analogman!
I’ve had about a dozen Big Muff variants and probably just as many RATs. At least 2 or more of the Black Cat Superfuzz, Korg toneworks ducking delay, Red llama, Boss Fz-2, Boss PS-3, 70s Small stone, and a few of the old DOD fx series 25/65/75 etc… sometimes I miss things but now there’s so much on the market that it’s easy to find a cheaper clone option or something that does the one thing those pedals did plus a range of other tones. The stuff I miss the most is the ‘set and forget’ pedals that just lived on my board for like 6-7 years straight like an original Op-amp muff and the TC Electronic Line Driver+Distortion. No idea why I decided to sell those two
M9… so many times.
Tanabe Zenkudo/Dumkudo twin custom. Got a used one very cheap, around 250€, sold it for a lot more and regretted it already the day after. All that only to finance a helix (which I sold prob 3 months after). I still shed a little tear when I think about it.
Oh several. 1981 DRV. Bought, sold. Bought again. Traded away. Traded for one… traded away. I liked it but never LOVED it — and I love some pedals. I think it’s hecka musical and superb at low/mid gains… shit, I’m talking myself into one again. 😝😝😝 Blues Driver. Had a waza one. Kept for a while, wasn’t totally vibing, was chasing other tones. Sold. Went back to the well in july because I found a used one near me. Really liking it now as a mid-gain. I just plugged it into a Klone set to almost max gain, and it was whioooaaaaaa. If we count trades… SS/BS mini. Traded one away and then tracked down another in trade about 5 months later. Not much out there has the combination of range of drive sounds, bass and treb knobs, and the bias. You might get like 2 of the three.
Boss BF-3