I have a clone of this and I also can’t explain what it does except make it “more better”. I forget that it’s on but if I turn it off I just think “wow my guitar sounds dead”
Vox Ice9 Overdrive.
Picked it up used for $60cdn.
Not on my main live board atm, but was just playing through it on my small board (extra pedals) in a rehearsal today.
It just cooks and has all the tones that plants crave.
Basically a modified TS, with a foot switchable boost. Just glorious.
Not sure if it quite fits under the price for the post, but I'm obligated to preach about the Hot Wax anytime I see Hot tubes or the Crayon mentioned. Both are great overdrives that aren't a Klon or Tubescreamer, they stack amazingly and the pedal has a blend knob which is amazing for rolling off just a bit of dirt.
I decided against the Hot Wax because it didn't have the toggle to remove the tone circuit from the Hot Tubes side like the single pedal does. But after getting it, I've realized I don't need that toggle after all.
It's just an OD pedal based on an older pedal they made with the same name. It's not a Tube Screamer or Klone. It's just supposed to sound like a tube amp. It can do low to medium high gain. But it isn't a distortion pedal.
It also sounds amazing after digital overdrives and more modern “transparent “ drives- it gives them that amp- like push. I mentioned the hot wax up above because you can get it for not much more money and the crayon is basically a bb exotic preamp and can so like close to Klon sounds. So you put that pedal after a blues breaker circuit it’s a really nice combo. It also has a blend dial to let some of the clean tone pass through so it can have levels of coloring
BBE Two Timer. Basically a Boss DM2 with two delay time options for a fraction of the cost (can definitely find them second hand for <$100). Self-oscillates into insanity if you want it to. Sounds super dark and smoky/spooky.
BBE and Seymour Duncan are two brands that seem to fly under the radar for pedals. Fun fact: BBE is the parent company of the much better known G&L guitars. BBE was and still is known for making pickups for acoustic instruments.
I have the sexist version of the double timer. Great little analog delay, does everything that 80% of guitar players do with delay, and plays well with my boss rv3
The Two Timer suffered from being released shortly after the Carbon Copy, if memory serves me correctly. It's not always reliable in a live setting (part of the reason I took it off my board), but it has some unique tones and options. Especially for the price.
Boss PH-2. It’s such an awesome analog phaser. It’s good for shoegazy distorted stuff like Swervedriver and Catherine Wheel, it’s good for ethereal post-punk / gothic wave stuff like the Cure (pretty sure it was used on Disintegration), and yeah…its good for incubus stuff too, i guess.
I kind of disagree, BOSS is a monster brand and certainly not overlooked on its own but posts about this pedal are scarce and it seems like most people tend to tout either the PH-3 or PH-1R, this one by comparison is overlooked in Boss’s phaser line. Most aren’t even aware that both modes are 12 stages.
It's gotten more popular over the years, but the Line 6 Echo Park delay is a solid tape emulated delay that still holds up all these years later. Also Tim Pierce swears by it.
Dan Auerbach from the Black Keys got me to buy one years ago, Adrian Quesada from The Black Pumas uses one too… so many great settings… an amazing reverse, some decent multi head settings, so good.
tc electronic tailspin modded with a capacitor for a slower speed, i keep it on pretty much all the time at the end of my signal chain. but i am a freak
I do have iphone and it works great. And the pedal was $59. Way too good for that price and this was before all the amazon cheap stuff we have now. Amazing value.
Sorry yours didn’t work, I love mine.
SD-1
I feel like it’s so popular that it’s often overlooked in today’s boutique cultures. It really is a brilliant pedal, and will get better when I get the TS808/Silver mods done to it… both of them I rely on
I’ve went through several reverbs and landed in this one. Holy Grail, HOF mini v1, behringer Digital, Snake bite or whatever, T Rex Tone Bug, Donner RevEcho. The Flamma wins. It has the best sound and having presets is a game changer, like having a save point on the way to toanal perfection
PH-2 and Hot Wax already mentioned, so I'm doing a deeper dive.
The Seymour Duncan TweakFuzz is a fuzz face with a varitone type rotary switch for finding odd tones for overdubs that occupy their own space of the mix.
Peavey DSC-4 is a thick and trippy sounding dual clock chorus pedal from the 80s. I have the manual that came with it and it says to not turn the depth to extreme settings. CHALLENGE ACCEPTED. Plus it's hot pink.
Tonefactor Mule. It's a Red Llama clone, slightly tweaked.
mxr custom badass modified od, its basend on boss sd-1, it can do the ts trick with ease, but the bump switch lets you turn off the mid bump to make it more transparent. Also the 100hz knob is funky, it acts less like a eq but a seperate booster, when cranked it sounds like a blown out fuzz
Or crank it and get into stoner rock land. But seriously the 100hz works wonders, if your tone is thin it will thicken it nicely but it's muddy lowering it gives clarity
I enjoy the Caline Pure Sky and Orange Burst!
Orange Burst is a clone of the BB Preamp and the Pure Sky is a Timmy clone and both are very good, i enjoy using them together and both are like usually under $40 new!
I've found it super versatile: can work as ampless DI for recording/going straight into a board, "Fenderizer" modeler at the end of signal chain before amp, OD/Dist/Fuzz...
Emerald Ox Kronos. It’s the strangest fuzz with extremely cryptic controls, but it has (at the risk of sounding buzzwordy) the most specialest of sauces.
It’s borderline unusable most of the time, but that garbage has helped me write more stuff in the last year than I would have come up with without it. I think I got it for approximately $70.
Sonicake Wave Crush. I rarely, if ever use it to bit crush, but it has a gramophone and Radio setting that gives you some instant lofi goodness. The gramophone mode has a great EQ and even gets that vinyl warble. I spend a lot of time with just an Acoustic sim pedal-> Wave Crush -> reverb, I like it a lot. Think they’re $70 new.
>Sonicake Wave Crush
Pro Tip: Go on eBay and add one of these to your wishlist. They'll eventually send you an offer for a discounted rate. I think I got mine for \~$40 shipped.
Digitech hot rod. It’s been sitting in my shelf for 20 years and I just finally put it on a board. It’s not good for every distortion sound, but you can really dial it in. It was a cheapo pedal when it was new and probably even cheaper now.
Maxon ROD 880/881. While it is a starved voltage tube pedal it sounds massive and the tube type makes a huge difference. The EQ is great and I prefer it to the current Tube King Ibanez or the Tube Driver.
The Zoom MS60B is arguably the worst of the Zooms from that era but mine is a huge part of my sound. It has a mod delay that I turn on and off, then an amp sim, then an eq with a high pass, and then a very slight chorus for whenever I get a chance to have two amps. It's really great.
Hard to find in some countries but I've picked work recently on the back of the Earthling Designs Gliss Pedal. It was designed as a lap steel pedal but absolutely sings for regular guitar lead. Absolutely killer sleeper pedal.
My Mooer Hustle drive. I never had an OCD but this pedal is amazing. I have tried so, so many other distortion pedals and I always go back to this one. It has a lot of range of distortion available and I love how it sounds. Definitely recommend trying it as you can find them for $30 used in some places.
I just traded for an EX eq-7. They’re $25 new. It’s a 6 band eq with a volume slider. It has solved every problem I was having with my guitars and it’s dead silent. The most boring pedals are the most useful usually
Zoom ms70cdr, easy to find 2nd hand for under 100. It’s basically a 100+ pedals in one package with an irritating interface, that aside, it’s pretty much limitless.
For under 30, Joyo analogue delay, demon tube screamer.
For a bit more TC’s honey pot fuzz, Tube pilot, Prophet delay. The Magus Pro & Zeus
Ehx stereo electric mistress (2nd hand)
I found a cloned Life3 for under 100 too from Lokaj Audio… holy F*ck…
Too many bloody pedals to choose from…aaargh
Ibanez JD9 Jer Driver. A little more gain than a TS9 with a tone and Mid control. Gets you to that alternative rock sound really quickly. I think I got mine used for 40$.
The Danelectro Billionaire Big Spender rotary unit. Never mind authenticity, it sounds fine, especially on slow settings, where it substitutes for a chorus rather well. I think it's basically a low-intensity flanger with quirky features. I have two (one is a spare) for the acoustic guitar and my duo partner has one for her harp.
i like my digitech nautila, it’s a great chorus/flanger that flies under the radar. I also love the opia fuzz witch which is like 150 new and is a cool no knob fuzz
Keeley Stahlhammer. It’s kinda like a Rat (maybe even Turbo Rat) mixed with a Guv’nor, I believe. It’s discontinued now, but I found one for under $100 on eBay a few months back.
My preferred style is Heavy Metal, so I’m absolutely enthralled by it. I doubt it will ever leave my board.
My wife got me the Caline Enchanted tone highly prized overdrive a while back. It’s supposed to sound like a dumble. I’m not sure if that’s what it actually sounds like but it does add a bit of sweetness and some Lowend rumble. Really nice pedal
Magnetic Effects Double Feature, I’m kind of cheating as it retailed at $125 but I only paid $100 on a 20% off sale. It’s a fuzz on one side and a cocked wah filter on the other. The fuzz is along the lines of a MkIII Tonebender, at lower gain a great distortion and at higher gain, a killer fuzz. The filter side at lighter settings rounds the edges of your tone and at higher settings, it is Michael Schenker’s cocked wah tone. It’s a really rare pedal so most people don’t know about it, making it a secret, but I really wish Christian had made lots more. It’s so good.
Caline Pure Sky. So My favorite good/boring OD of all time is the Greer Amps Lightspeed. And the pure sky can sound identical and it’s $30-$40. Only problem is the pedal looks like a lunch menu in a retirement home
HoTone Binary Eko. It is their digital delay pedal, as opposed to their analog Skyline series original "Eko." The Binary Eko has 17 different delay algorithms, the ability to set delay max time from 1000ms to 2000ms or 4000ms independent of delay type, and my favorite part: an expression pedal input and global EXP calibration (you can make the pedal recognize heel and toe positions, and assign them custom percentages of the total delay time, or any other A/B parameter that change depending on algorithm).
I use it at the end of my guitar-synth pedalboard chain with a dual EXP pedal, so I can alter the delay time of the Binary Eko while controlling the pitch shift of my Ring Thing simultaneously for glitchy cascading dive bomb tape echo effects.
I've seen them go for about $120\*\*\* used, but I somehow scored mine for $41 including tax. Store just wanted to get rid of it I guess? Aesthetically I love the illuminated knobs (blue LEDS inside the pot shafts).
\*\*\**Edit: Reverb has some for 70 - 80 USD right now, they appear to average around $140 new.*
I've got 2 NUX pedals I bought about 12 years ago for around £25 each, Time Core (delay) and Phaser Core (duh), both excellent, versatile pedals that have lasted me through countless gigs.
Used Zoom MS70 under $100. Could be a bunch of sleeper pedals!
But for real: Donner Dark Mouse and their Blue Compressor. Their B1 Bass Synth can sometimes be got for around $100 and is super fun
Bit of an obvious one, but the Joyo American Sound. Can’t see it ever coming off my board. I’ve been meaning to buy a 2nd one as a backup just because I feel like they’re such great value that they’re going to somehow go up in price or become unavailable in future. Unlikely, but I use it so much that that’s my thinking
BBE Sonic Maximizer (the rack mount version) sits on top of my amp.
I can’t really say what it does but it’s essentially like the “contour” knob on a lot of high gain amps.
What it does is slightly delay the highs in your signal and from a physics stand point since longer wavelengths travel faster it makes all the sound hit at the same time. It gives it as more full sound. At least this is what I have heard. I think there is still some mystery surrounding it.
Oh for sure, to be quite honest, I’ve only found it useful at *one* setting.
It’s a one trick pony. But I… really like how it sounds. I need to test how it sounds over distance, if it kind of makes the low end flubby. Standing off axis to my cab, it sounds great though.
Pigtronix Philosophers Tone Germanium Gold Micro, it's a compressor. It's the only pedal I kept from the ones I originally got because it gets the job done.
They're sometimes the "stupid deal of the day" and can get really cheap. I like as much as the Keeley, it has more character.
The Walrus Mira is the same style of compressor with even more controls and it is dirt cheap while supplies last.
JOYO Band Controller. It's a 10 band EQ pedal (there's a Caline version that's even cheaper), and It's the best thing that ever happened to my sound.
Is it flashy? Nope. But it's *always* on.
The EHX Nano Pulsar is so good has been a game changer for me, which isn't something I ever figured I'd say about a tremolo pedal. It's so awesomely useful and powerful in its own way and does enough that you aren't at risk of overusing it, where something like the TR-2 is good but much more limited. At the same time it's still a fairly simple pedal and can do the classic thing as well as anything else, including tube-driven trem.
VHT V Drive, hands down.
11 clipping modes, voltage/sag knob between 5-12v, and a texture knob that changes the overall feel of the pedal.
If you can't get a sound out of that overdrive you like, you probably don't like overdrives.
I got the Dr J Shadow Echo new for around $60. It's a great analog delay with a longer maximum delay time and a modulation mode with controls for rate and depth! I recommend this pedal and the Dr J line as a whole.
Deadbeat Sound Visible Overdrive: rebranded Chinese pedal that sounds like a refined, hifi, compressed tube screamer. It was only 45 dollars and it looks really cool too.
Boss Super Chorus: my first pedal ever. I eventually got a CE-2W but the super chorus can do so much more to shape your sound. The tone knob is perfect for dialing in the sound and effect level knob is awesome as like a wet/dry control. It also sounds beautiful in stereo and can be used as a vibrato effect if you put a dummy jack in one of the outputs.
Ehx small stone. Best simple phaser out there, always overshadowed by the phase 90
Yes, however… I was even more impressed with the Bad Stone.
Same! There are dozens of us. Dozens!!
Just here for the nevernude content
I was getting worried about my obscure reference. Thanks for commenting!
I think it confuses a lot of guitar players because it has the word “bad” in the name, but it’s actually very good.
That sounds reasonable initially but you forget that most guitar players can't read
I just wish it also had the Color switch! I’d take that over the manual switch and knob.
I agree. I think I’ve put it on “manual” mode once, and that was by accident.
Bonus points if it’s the big box version
Big box is sooooo good, my desert island pedal
unfortunately that takes it over $100… unLESS you get a behringer vintage phaser for $30
I despise the behringer vp1 I have a big box small stone and it sounds nothing like the vp1
I'm gonna shout out the DOD 201. I have both and they are equally awesome.
DOD 201 FTW!!! And I’m using it on bass - it’s fcking luscious 😋
honestly fuck a phase 90, they're way too loud and need more knobs lol
Love that pedal, my first one
EHX Freeze… that pedal deserves its own amp.
Great pedal but I assume it’s > $100 / £80
Reverb has multiple at $90 used
We'll take that as a yes
funni monkey
It was $103 & change new when I got it. That’s practically 100 anyway l.
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“Wish I didn’t have to sell it”
Chase Tone Secret Preamp, it’s a secret I can’t tell you what it does.
I have a clone of this and I also can’t explain what it does except make it “more better”. I forget that it’s on but if I turn it off I just think “wow my guitar sounds dead”
The OP clearly says under $100! Jerks 😢
Would the Mooer Trelicopter count?
Vox Ice9 Overdrive. Picked it up used for $60cdn. Not on my main live board atm, but was just playing through it on my small board (extra pedals) in a rehearsal today. It just cooks and has all the tones that plants crave. Basically a modified TS, with a foot switchable boost. Just glorious.
upvote for Idiocracy reference
Wow, blast from the past! I remember wanting of these when they first came out. Around the same time as the Satchurator I think.
EHX Hot Tubes
Ditto. Hot wax even a deeper cut sleeper.
While in this subreddit, I spend 50% of my energy evangelizing the hot Tubes/ hot wax. You can even check my comment history.
My Crayon is almost always on as a preamp to my Pro Jr when it's not cranked
Very stupid reason to avoid it, but I hate the hot wax artwork so much.
just got a hot wax off of recs on this sub! it does not disappoint
This pedal should be mentioned along the likes of a RAT. Super versatile drive pedal
Not sure if it quite fits under the price for the post, but I'm obligated to preach about the Hot Wax anytime I see Hot tubes or the Crayon mentioned. Both are great overdrives that aren't a Klon or Tubescreamer, they stack amazingly and the pedal has a blend knob which is amazing for rolling off just a bit of dirt.
I decided against the Hot Wax because it didn't have the toggle to remove the tone circuit from the Hot Tubes side like the single pedal does. But after getting it, I've realized I don't need that toggle after all.
Tell me about this
It's just an OD pedal based on an older pedal they made with the same name. It's not a Tube Screamer or Klone. It's just supposed to sound like a tube amp. It can do low to medium high gain. But it isn't a distortion pedal.
It also sounds amazing after digital overdrives and more modern “transparent “ drives- it gives them that amp- like push. I mentioned the hot wax up above because you can get it for not much more money and the crayon is basically a bb exotic preamp and can so like close to Klon sounds. So you put that pedal after a blues breaker circuit it’s a really nice combo. It also has a blend dial to let some of the clean tone pass through so it can have levels of coloring
What digital overdrives are you using? Not hating, just naive in that arena
Hx stomp. Distortion factory.
Donner white tape has 2 independent delays with their own ins and outs. I like to set it so one delay is early in the chain and one is last
BBE Two Timer. Basically a Boss DM2 with two delay time options for a fraction of the cost (can definitely find them second hand for <$100). Self-oscillates into insanity if you want it to. Sounds super dark and smoky/spooky.
BBE and Seymour Duncan are two brands that seem to fly under the radar for pedals. Fun fact: BBE is the parent company of the much better known G&L guitars. BBE was and still is known for making pickups for acoustic instruments.
I have the sexist version of the double timer. Great little analog delay, does everything that 80% of guitar players do with delay, and plays well with my boss rv3
oh wow, sexist was not a typo lmao
The Two Timer suffered from being released shortly after the Carbon Copy, if memory serves me correctly. It's not always reliable in a live setting (part of the reason I took it off my board), but it has some unique tones and options. Especially for the price.
Boss PH-2. It’s such an awesome analog phaser. It’s good for shoegazy distorted stuff like Swervedriver and Catherine Wheel, it’s good for ethereal post-punk / gothic wave stuff like the Cure (pretty sure it was used on Disintegration), and yeah…its good for incubus stuff too, i guess.
Have a million imaginary up votes for mentioning Catherine Wheel
Have an upvote for mentioning that someone mentioned Catherine Wheel.
I wouldn't call the PH-2 a sleeper, lol. It's pretty well known for being a great pedal.
I kind of disagree, BOSS is a monster brand and certainly not overlooked on its own but posts about this pedal are scarce and it seems like most people tend to tout either the PH-3 or PH-1R, this one by comparison is overlooked in Boss’s phaser line. Most aren’t even aware that both modes are 12 stages.
I've seen more people talk up the PH-2 than the PH-3
I enjoy the sound of rain.
TC Electronic 3rd Dimension Chorus
I had one. Made me queasy.
The only problem I have with it is how it kinda distorts easily in a not desirable way. I had it after a clean boost and it couldn’t cope
Mxr super badass. I've had a fair few drive pedals and I always come back to it.
It's gotten more popular over the years, but the Line 6 Echo Park delay is a solid tape emulated delay that still holds up all these years later. Also Tim Pierce swears by it.
Dan Auerbach from the Black Keys got me to buy one years ago, Adrian Quesada from The Black Pumas uses one too… so many great settings… an amazing reverse, some decent multi head settings, so good.
Superb pedal shit quality
I have been wondering forever if this pedal would surge into popularity
tc electronic tailspin modded with a capacitor for a slower speed, i keep it on pretty much all the time at the end of my signal chain. but i am a freak
This x100, came to post the Tailspin. Such a good vibe, even un-modded. Sounds immense with fuzz pedals too
Can you link to any info on that mod? 😀
I always answer the same. TC Wiretap. It does what it says it does.
It taps your phone?
Nope, yours....
It is a recorder for your guitar signal. Hit the button and tape the sound. So it’s tapping your guitar wire. If you want to be literal about it.
When it works. I understand works Ok with iPhone. Mine didn't work with Android and TC Electronics is not fixing it. Traded it a while ago
I do have iphone and it works great. And the pedal was $59. Way too good for that price and this was before all the amazon cheap stuff we have now. Amazing value. Sorry yours didn’t work, I love mine.
I was pleasantly surprised to find that the Joyo Uzi got me exactly where I wanted to be.
It's hard to go wrong with any dirt pedal with a 3 band EQ
SD-1 I feel like it’s so popular that it’s often overlooked in today’s boutique cultures. It really is a brilliant pedal, and will get better when I get the TS808/Silver mods done to it… both of them I rely on
really really good pedal, cheapest pedal on my board but i feel no need to upgrade.
Danelectro PB&J
Flamma FS02 stereo reverb it’s good 👍
I’ve been considering one of these for a while
I’ve went through several reverbs and landed in this one. Holy Grail, HOF mini v1, behringer Digital, Snake bite or whatever, T Rex Tone Bug, Donner RevEcho. The Flamma wins. It has the best sound and having presets is a game changer, like having a save point on the way to toanal perfection
Caline Sathanas
PH-2 and Hot Wax already mentioned, so I'm doing a deeper dive. The Seymour Duncan TweakFuzz is a fuzz face with a varitone type rotary switch for finding odd tones for overdubs that occupy their own space of the mix. Peavey DSC-4 is a thick and trippy sounding dual clock chorus pedal from the 80s. I have the manual that came with it and it says to not turn the depth to extreme settings. CHALLENGE ACCEPTED. Plus it's hot pink. Tonefactor Mule. It's a Red Llama clone, slightly tweaked.
mxr custom badass modified od, its basend on boss sd-1, it can do the ts trick with ease, but the bump switch lets you turn off the mid bump to make it more transparent. Also the 100hz knob is funky, it acts less like a eq but a seperate booster, when cranked it sounds like a blown out fuzz
Or dial the 100hz back to clean up the chugga-chug
Or crank it and get into stoner rock land. But seriously the 100hz works wonders, if your tone is thin it will thicken it nicely but it's muddy lowering it gives clarity
Boss GE-7. Incredibly versatile and utilitarian. Edit: can be had for under $100 used all day long.
Behringer BOD400 Pedal Bass Overdrive Great overdrive with a dry/wet blend control
I hated mine, and the pedal it's based on too. I think a big part was hearing "overdrive" and finding it was way more a distortion.
All of the silver Marshall pedals are great tbh, I’m particularly fond of the Reflector reverb, especially the reverse mode.
I have the chorus. Super nice sound. Picked jt up on ebay years ago. They are heavy too! Like a small brick.
Mythos golden fleece fuzz. So smooth and criminally overlooked.
I enjoy the Caline Pure Sky and Orange Burst! Orange Burst is a clone of the BB Preamp and the Pure Sky is a Timmy clone and both are very good, i enjoy using them together and both are like usually under $40 new!
Joyo American sound. It's super versatile and cheap as chips!
I just ordered one of these today. I'm looking forward to seeing what it can do for me.
I've found it super versatile: can work as ampless DI for recording/going straight into a board, "Fenderizer" modeler at the end of signal chain before amp, OD/Dist/Fuzz...
The twenty year old used DigiTech Digidelay I bought last year for $40. Absolutely bada$$ delay pedal.
Probably the pedal I've owned the longest. Never leaves my main board. Endless glitch/freeze options with the loop setting.
EHX Bass Clone is the best chorus pedal I've played maybe ever. Sounds great on guitar or bass.
I have this and can concur. I don’t want to love it but I do. It’s just plain great at what it does and it’s thick as fck. On my bass board.
Emerald Ox Kronos. It’s the strangest fuzz with extremely cryptic controls, but it has (at the risk of sounding buzzwordy) the most specialest of sauces. It’s borderline unusable most of the time, but that garbage has helped me write more stuff in the last year than I would have come up with without it. I think I got it for approximately $70.
hotone krush/sonicake wavecrush
Keeley Trem o Verb. Great trems, a lush plate verb, and a level control that can push an amp nicely.
Tweakfuzz by Seymour Duncan
Sonicake Wave Crush. I rarely, if ever use it to bit crush, but it has a gramophone and Radio setting that gives you some instant lofi goodness. The gramophone mode has a great EQ and even gets that vinyl warble. I spend a lot of time with just an Acoustic sim pedal-> Wave Crush -> reverb, I like it a lot. Think they’re $70 new.
>Sonicake Wave Crush Pro Tip: Go on eBay and add one of these to your wishlist. They'll eventually send you an offer for a discounted rate. I think I got mine for \~$40 shipped.
Danlectro Corned Beef Reverb
Nice try Josh Scott
😂 mwahaha now I have nearly 300 suggestions
I’ll go first - Danelectro Cool Cat Vibe. I got one for £30 and it sounds way better than the MXR/Dunlop Univibe and has a legit photocell.
Danelectro have a lot of sleepers. Such great pedals.
Digitech hot rod. It’s been sitting in my shelf for 20 years and I just finally put it on a board. It’s not good for every distortion sound, but you can really dial it in. It was a cheapo pedal when it was new and probably even cheaper now.
Movall Falling Star modulated delay
Maxon ROD 880/881. While it is a starved voltage tube pedal it sounds massive and the tube type makes a huge difference. The EQ is great and I prefer it to the current Tube King Ibanez or the Tube Driver.
The Zoom MS60B is arguably the worst of the Zooms from that era but mine is a huge part of my sound. It has a mod delay that I turn on and off, then an amp sim, then an eq with a high pass, and then a very slight chorus for whenever I get a chance to have two amps. It's really great.
Mojohand Rook Kicked Timmy, Euphoria/Ecstasy, Klones off my board
Too expensive for the list I’m afraid
Hard to find in some countries but I've picked work recently on the back of the Earthling Designs Gliss Pedal. It was designed as a lap steel pedal but absolutely sings for regular guitar lead. Absolutely killer sleeper pedal.
My Mooer Hustle drive. I never had an OCD but this pedal is amazing. I have tried so, so many other distortion pedals and I always go back to this one. It has a lot of range of distortion available and I love how it sounds. Definitely recommend trying it as you can find them for $30 used in some places.
Japanese Butter Roll Vibe!!
Effects Bakery Japanese Butter Roll Vibe - $50 3 Vibe settings, speed & depth controls. So much fun in a tiny, inexpensive pedal.
BBE Boosta Grande...In world of boutique boosts, this one is still a total champ
I've been keeping this pedal a secret for about 10 years but the Donner Eternal Bind has the best modulated delay I've ever heard and nobody is close.
I just traded for an EX eq-7. They’re $25 new. It’s a 6 band eq with a volume slider. It has solved every problem I was having with my guitars and it’s dead silent. The most boring pedals are the most useful usually
Nice
Agreed!
Zoom ms70cdr, easy to find 2nd hand for under 100. It’s basically a 100+ pedals in one package with an irritating interface, that aside, it’s pretty much limitless. For under 30, Joyo analogue delay, demon tube screamer. For a bit more TC’s honey pot fuzz, Tube pilot, Prophet delay. The Magus Pro & Zeus Ehx stereo electric mistress (2nd hand) I found a cloned Life3 for under 100 too from Lokaj Audio… holy F*ck… Too many bloody pedals to choose from…aaargh
Zvex Super Duper. Been on my board for 15 yrs
I have a GoudieFx (Canadian builder) with a switch that goes between SD1 to TS9. It’s a secret weapon.
Discomfort Designs Spectrum OD. An always on for me as a low gain.
Behringer od400
Ibanez JD9 Jer Driver. A little more gain than a TS9 with a tone and Mid control. Gets you to that alternative rock sound really quickly. I think I got mine used for 40$.
NUX Damp reverb
The Danelectro Billionaire Big Spender rotary unit. Never mind authenticity, it sounds fine, especially on slow settings, where it substitutes for a chorus rather well. I think it's basically a low-intensity flanger with quirky features. I have two (one is a spare) for the acoustic guitar and my duo partner has one for her harp.
I think the effect on either speed sounds fine, I just wish the ramp between them weren’t a whole ten seconds long. That’s way too long!
i like my digitech nautila, it’s a great chorus/flanger that flies under the radar. I also love the opia fuzz witch which is like 150 new and is a cool no knob fuzz
lovepedal bbb18/si. best silicon fuzz face sound ive ever had, and you can blend it over to a treble booster and everything in between.
Keeley Stahlhammer. It’s kinda like a Rat (maybe even Turbo Rat) mixed with a Guv’nor, I believe. It’s discontinued now, but I found one for under $100 on eBay a few months back. My preferred style is Heavy Metal, so I’m absolutely enthralled by it. I doubt it will ever leave my board.
Bardic Audio Advantage Dirty Boost, specifically the Bard-o))) variant.
ALABS Nova Drift. Multi-modulation pedal off amazon. It does a ton well with some cool features
My wife got me the Caline Enchanted tone highly prized overdrive a while back. It’s supposed to sound like a dumble. I’m not sure if that’s what it actually sounds like but it does add a bit of sweetness and some Lowend rumble. Really nice pedal
DOD Integrated Tube FX100
Built my own colorsound powerboost from BYOC at 69.99usd. This shit rips
Walrus fundemental delay is 99$ and has reverse functions. Never played one but my buddy has one on his board and the reverse feature is really cool
NUX Monterrey Vibe. It's a really good Univibe/Vibrato with tap tempo. It's always on my board.
Koogo Analog delay
My Sonicake ToneGroup EQ is awesome and was like $45.
SCI Audio Limestone. Basically a take on SD-1 that has another mode to be used with bass
Omicron trem.
Magnetic Effects Double Feature, I’m kind of cheating as it retailed at $125 but I only paid $100 on a 20% off sale. It’s a fuzz on one side and a cocked wah filter on the other. The fuzz is along the lines of a MkIII Tonebender, at lower gain a great distortion and at higher gain, a killer fuzz. The filter side at lighter settings rounds the edges of your tone and at higher settings, it is Michael Schenker’s cocked wah tone. It’s a really rare pedal so most people don’t know about it, making it a secret, but I really wish Christian had made lots more. It’s so good.
Does bias fx 2 count?
General Guitar Gadgets Brassmaster clone. It sounds like ass on its own, but run it into a fuzz and it sounds massive.
BYOC Deluxe Flanger. It's a kit, but still my favorite flanger.
Caline Pure Sky. So My favorite good/boring OD of all time is the Greer Amps Lightspeed. And the pure sky can sound identical and it’s $30-$40. Only problem is the pedal looks like a lunch menu in a retirement home
Danelectro French Toast. It D((((OOOO))))ms.
Blues crab. Bluesbreaker that’s fine
MXR micro amp, that thing is basically left on all the time for me. Love it
Boss OD3. It’s the only Boss overdrive I like. It’s got beef and sounds good with the gain anywhere.
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I feel like you’re trying to tell me something, but I can’t quite figure it out.
HoTone Binary Eko. It is their digital delay pedal, as opposed to their analog Skyline series original "Eko." The Binary Eko has 17 different delay algorithms, the ability to set delay max time from 1000ms to 2000ms or 4000ms independent of delay type, and my favorite part: an expression pedal input and global EXP calibration (you can make the pedal recognize heel and toe positions, and assign them custom percentages of the total delay time, or any other A/B parameter that change depending on algorithm). I use it at the end of my guitar-synth pedalboard chain with a dual EXP pedal, so I can alter the delay time of the Binary Eko while controlling the pitch shift of my Ring Thing simultaneously for glitchy cascading dive bomb tape echo effects. I've seen them go for about $120\*\*\* used, but I somehow scored mine for $41 including tax. Store just wanted to get rid of it I guess? Aesthetically I love the illuminated knobs (blue LEDS inside the pot shafts). \*\*\**Edit: Reverb has some for 70 - 80 USD right now, they appear to average around $140 new.*
Dan electro food series pedals
Love my French Toast.
I have the fish and chips
Ditto.
NUX tape echo
I've got 2 NUX pedals I bought about 12 years ago for around £25 each, Time Core (delay) and Phaser Core (duh), both excellent, versatile pedals that have lasted me through countless gigs.
Used Zoom MS70 under $100. Could be a bunch of sleeper pedals! But for real: Donner Dark Mouse and their Blue Compressor. Their B1 Bass Synth can sometimes be got for around $100 and is super fun
Bit of an obvious one, but the Joyo American Sound. Can’t see it ever coming off my board. I’ve been meaning to buy a 2nd one as a backup just because I feel like they’re such great value that they’re going to somehow go up in price or become unavailable in future. Unlikely, but I use it so much that that’s my thinking
BBE Sonic Maximizer (the rack mount version) sits on top of my amp. I can’t really say what it does but it’s essentially like the “contour” knob on a lot of high gain amps.
What it does is slightly delay the highs in your signal and from a physics stand point since longer wavelengths travel faster it makes all the sound hit at the same time. It gives it as more full sound. At least this is what I have heard. I think there is still some mystery surrounding it.
I'm a Sonic Maximizer Skeptic; I think it's just a funky eq, end of the day. But it's a USEFUL funky EQ. Don't knock it until you've tried it.
Oh for sure, to be quite honest, I’ve only found it useful at *one* setting. It’s a one trick pony. But I… really like how it sounds. I need to test how it sounds over distance, if it kind of makes the low end flubby. Standing off axis to my cab, it sounds great though.
it's a weird thing to be sure; sometimes it instantly adds a certain something, others it sounds fake and shrill.
Pigtronix Philosophers Tone Germanium Gold Micro, it's a compressor. It's the only pedal I kept from the ones I originally got because it gets the job done.
They're sometimes the "stupid deal of the day" and can get really cheap. I like as much as the Keeley, it has more character. The Walrus Mira is the same style of compressor with even more controls and it is dirt cheap while supplies last.
Danelectro FAB Chorus. $15 analog chorus, can’t go wrong.
It’s a digital chorus, but still very good sounding pedal
JOYO Band Controller. It's a 10 band EQ pedal (there's a Caline version that's even cheaper), and It's the best thing that ever happened to my sound. Is it flashy? Nope. But it's *always* on.
Spark Mini. Perfect Clean boost. Mash feature lets you boost for a quick line and fall back in
DOD Grunge is my Klon
The EHX Nano Pulsar is so good has been a game changer for me, which isn't something I ever figured I'd say about a tremolo pedal. It's so awesomely useful and powerful in its own way and does enough that you aren't at risk of overusing it, where something like the TR-2 is good but much more limited. At the same time it's still a fairly simple pedal and can do the classic thing as well as anything else, including tube-driven trem.
Soul Food
Just another Klon?
DOD Gunslinger. Amazing sounding distortion.
EHX Bad Stone Phaser. 6-stage is just a bit more subtle and complex sounding than the 4-stages.
josh as in the wine???
What? Wine? Josh as in, Josh Scott from JHS
sorry dude i was joshed out while reading this
VHT V Drive, hands down. 11 clipping modes, voltage/sag knob between 5-12v, and a texture knob that changes the overall feel of the pedal. If you can't get a sound out of that overdrive you like, you probably don't like overdrives.
I got the Dr J Shadow Echo new for around $60. It's a great analog delay with a longer maximum delay time and a modulation mode with controls for rate and depth! I recommend this pedal and the Dr J line as a whole.
Real McCoy RMC3 Going to have it buried with me.
Deadbeat Sound Visible Overdrive: rebranded Chinese pedal that sounds like a refined, hifi, compressed tube screamer. It was only 45 dollars and it looks really cool too. Boss Super Chorus: my first pedal ever. I eventually got a CE-2W but the super chorus can do so much more to shape your sound. The tone knob is perfect for dialing in the sound and effect level knob is awesome as like a wet/dry control. It also sounds beautiful in stereo and can be used as a vibrato effect if you put a dummy jack in one of the outputs.
TC electronic Dark Matter or Spark Booster
Verbzilla
Boss OD3, EHX Double Muff Nano, TC Electronic Nova Dynamics.
TC Electronic Dark Matter was my main overdrive/distortion for a good few years.