distortion pedals?

benadrian_Archive

distortion pedals?

PEPPER! wrote:I bought a thing called a "bad monkey" made by the digitech company. they cost $40 and are probably available at every Guitar Satan store in every strip mall in America. it's pretty mild - just a gain boost with tone knobs really - but I tried a number of different pedals but this one just sounded the best with my particular amp ('79 YGM-3). it shows its cheapness in that it sounds better with a battery. at least it doesn't eat batteries too quickly. I'd always used big muffs before, but with this amp they were too kazoo-like for the music I'm making.

I've actually had a lot of online friends who have talked about really liking the Bad Monkey. These are gear snobs who have owned $200 and up overdrives saying the cheap-o digitech pedal is pretty good.

Really, I'd like to see/conduct a double blind overdrive test with gear snobs.

Cheers!
Ben Adrian

six acre lake_Archive

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102 by six acre lake_Archive

I too would like to see a blind test with gear snobs. Not so much inb the overdrive arena but the analog delay realm. I would love to see if gear snobs can truely hear the 400 dollar difference between the Diamond Memory lane and the EHX deluxe Memory Man.

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benadrian_Archive

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103 by benadrian_Archive

six acre lake wrote:I too would like to see a blind test with gear snobs. Not so much inb the overdrive arena but the analog delay realm. I would love to see if gear snobs can truely hear the 400 dollar difference between the Diamond Memory lane and the EHX deluxe Memory Man.

Yeah, it' be fun to do a blind test w/ the memory lane, DM-2, Memory Man, DD-3, Line 6, and Ibanez DE-7 pedals. I'm sure a difference can be heard, but what would the gear snobs prefer if doing it blind?

Ben Adrian

PEPPER!_Archive

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104 by PEPPER!_Archive

I have liked a lot of the high-end pedals I've played through, but somehow I can't bring myself to pay more than $300 for an amp or electric guitar or $50 for a pedal. I know it's silly. the odd part is that I've played acoustics I'd happily pay seven times that for if I ever had that kind of money. all of my current electric guitars cost between $0 and $200. I guess I've just heard too much good music made on crappy guitars, I don't know.

is there a catch-all cheapo gear thread?

Little Atlas Heavyweight_Archive

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105 by Little Atlas Heavyweight_Archive

PEPPER! wrote:is there a catch-all cheapo gear thread?

feel free to start one.

i like gear threads. i'm a nerd.

somebody help me. i can't help myself.

mrarrison_Archive

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106 by mrarrison_Archive

Xotic RC Booster for Guitar. Love everything about it, except the "Comic Sans" typeface on its dials...

Little Atlas Heavyweight_Archive

distortion pedals?

107 by Little Atlas Heavyweight_Archive

mr.arrison wrote:Xotic RC Booster for Guitar. Love everything about it, except the "Comic Sans" typeface on its dials...

man, i love comic sans. it looks almost like my handwriting.

somebody help me. i can't help myself.

mrarrison_Archive

distortion pedals?

108 by mrarrison_Archive

Little Atlas Heavyweight wrote:
man, i love comic sans. it looks almost like my handwriting.

you'd make a great kindergarten teacher with handwriting like that font.

Little Atlas Heavyweight_Archive

distortion pedals?

110 by Little Atlas Heavyweight_Archive

mr.arrison wrote:
Little Atlas Heavyweight wrote:
man, i love comic sans. it looks almost like my handwriting.

you'd make a great kindergarten teacher with handwriting like that font.

i would but i was never very good at colors.

or shapes.

or writing my name.

somebody help me. i can't help myself.

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