Pedals You Love And At The Same Time Hate?

[Progrockabuse]

what's yours?

mines the boss blues driver, which i like but that splatty decay fucks me off big style.

[Pens]

The RAT.

[Will]

Wah pedal - I feel like a dick every time I use it, but it just sounds so good...

[Pens]

I love the RAT. However, I've been using it as my only dirt pedal for about 11-12 years now, and sometimes I just get sick of the same sound.

[Mike]

what's yours?

mines the boss blues driver, which i like but that splatty decay fucks me off big style.

+1

It sounds good until you stop playing, when the pedal becomes an arse.

[dots]

any noise gate


any compressor/sustainer

[ultratwin]

EHX Micro POG: Love it on bass and experimental guitar use, sounds retarded on guitar for conventional 12-string sim.

EBS BASS IQ: The funk filter is amazing but has the potential to uncontrollably make speaker cones explode.

Frantone Cream Puff: Love it because it sounds like a sooper smooth scooped Big Muff, hate it because it sounds like a sooper smooth scooped Big Muff.

[RumorsOFsurF]

Fuzz Factory.....does some cool shit, but I can't get a sound I like on stage. At home it's great as a noise pedal and general Fuzz. Once in a live mix, it's either way harsh and nasty, or doesn't cut through. I love the weird sounds I can get, though.

[Sparky]

I love the sounds that my Dano Fab OD makes, but the 9v power cable is always coming loose, as is the cable coming from the output jack. The knobs seem to move themselves from time to time, but when everything is in order, it's really a great pedal.

Also, as much as I love my Electric Mistress, the rate knob is so damn sensitive. I'm not man enough to screw with any trimpots either.

[kim]

xp200 ... it's a bigass heavyass pedal and needs a special adapter but footcontrolled tremolo and phaser, flanger, swoooshyyy speeds ? awesome !

[paul_]

EHX Doctor Q Envelope Follower, the frequency sweep knob only seems to change at one position, between 7 and 9 o'clock. After that, there's so much hashy trebley noise you can't tell if it's changing. There's also a bass cut switch which takes away the envelope effect entirely, rendering the pedal nothing more than a ludicrous midrange spiker.

It replaced my Phase 90 when I went off phasers. It's one of the cheapest and simplest pedals around. It takes up it's sweet space on my board and most of the time I look down while playing I think "goddammit why do I have that big piece of shit on there."

Find that sweet spot though, and mutey strumming on a single coil fender pops like nothing. It's not really an envelope filter/autowah kind of thing either, it quacks like a duck.

The main thing I use it for is following a digital modulating delay, so that the repeats get more mellow each time they come around as they ease off the sweep of the Dr Q. After that it goes into my Poly Chorus so I sometimes work some slapback effects on afterwards as well for more craziness. Sometimes I set it to it's lowest possible setting with the effect coming through for a half-cocked wah kind of sound.

But yeah, mostly I'm angry that it's there being stupid like a square metal jerk.