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distortion pedals?
Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 12:37 pm
by benadrian_Archive
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
distortion pedals?
Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 3:42 pm
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.
distortion pedals?
Posted: Fri May 04, 2007 5:27 pm
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
distortion pedals?
Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 4:51 pm
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?
distortion pedals?
Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 7:11 pm
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.
distortion pedals?
Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 8:29 pm
by mrarrison_Archive
Xotic RC Booster for Guitar. Love everything about it, except the "Comic Sans" typeface on its dials...
distortion pedals?
Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 9:18 pm
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.
distortion pedals?
Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 10:10 pm
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.
distortion pedals?
Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 4:33 am
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.
