llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Tue Mar 17, 2026 10:46 am Oh, thread idea - maybe a list of vintage gear that is too risky or best avoided because of obsolete or too expensive parts?

Any discontinued digital audio console. You buy a 15 year old console and you are asking for it.

Kniferide wrote: Tue Mar 17, 2026 9:39 amThose green EH pedals are total crap.

Are you talking about the originals, the reissues, or all of them?

I don't need another fuzz pedal at all but I kind of want one of these new ones.

DaveA wrote: Wed Mar 18, 2026 8:46 pm

Kniferide wrote: Tue Mar 17, 2026 9:39 amThose green EH pedals are total crap.

Are you talking about the originals, the reissues, or all of them?

I don't need another fuzz pedal at all but I kind of want one of these new ones.

The Sovtek Green ones from the 80's-90's with the bit terrible feeling chunky switch and crappy pots and plastic jacks. They were really terrible pedals. Noisy, unreliable garbage that are all "vintage" and expensive now. Avoid.

I never could make Big Muffs work for me anyways. I would rather just boost a small amp to hell, but I did always really like the sound of Tonebenders. I even think the crazy ass Macari jobs are really cool, but I didn’t even use fuzz in a noisy rock band so there’s really no way I could justify its use now playing quieter spooky stuff

For gear shames and blames:

I have bought and sold Moog Ring Mod, Traynor YBA3, Deluxe Memory Man and the ZVEX Machine more times than I can count. At least 3 or 4 times each.

Moog Ring Mod i don’t feel like I need to explain
Traynor YBA3 because I needed funds figured they were always going to be $500
Deluxe Memory Man because they veer from the best delay in the world to total pieces of shit. I have tried them all, ended up with my friend’s, which was the dragon I was trying to chase, ordered Dr Balls’ on a lark and sold off all the others. The Balls version wasn’t just as good as the others, it was better and still had all the quirks that give it character.
Zvex Machine because I had one that wasn’t so squelchy, bought another one for cheap and accidentally flipped the good one. I never even plugged them in to see if they were the same, I just found out when I stepped on it at band practice and a load of shit came out (which is the point of the pedal tbf)

Oh yeah and I’ve played bass forever and only owned a Fender for a couple days before I returned it. I love them but always played oddball T40s, Magnums, Tbird, etc.

llllllllllllllllllll wrote: Thu Mar 19, 2026 4:33 pm I never could make Big Muffs work for me anyways.

I've never wanted to do anything with one other than unplug it. Worst fuzz imo. ToneBender or Fuzzface all day.

I've been using my Helix as a pedalboard with one or two small combos in my non-loud band. Since I'm not using any amp models, I need to get a standard "rock distortion" sound. So I went through all the distortion and overdrive models in Helix and my favorite for my current needs is... the OCD model. Gross.

But yeah, Klon model for a little OD into an OCD model for a mid gain crunch. They stack well and both sound good individually. I'm such a knob.

I play my Jazzmaster a fair amount. I only used the tremolo bar for like 5 minutes the first day I got it. I pulled it off and it's been sitting on a shelf for years.

Once thought a new, two button pedal (regular effect, and a second modifying effect) had a broken regular channel. It didn't do anything when I switched it on, and only came to life when also turning on the modifying effect. It turned out that, in the low light, I had mistaken the left side as the regular effect, and the right as the modifying effect. It was the reverse. Pedal was 100% good.

This was yesterday.