Effects - Pedals, Multi-Effects, and Floor Boxes

[BHz_econo]

Let's get serious for a second.  All pedals aren't created equal and we should be rating these things at face value instead of hype.  Every pedal is not a 4/5 like a P&W CD! 

To get OVER a 3/5 rating a pedal needs to do something that no other pedal in its cateory does.  For instance - Don't tell me this new light/medium over drive is the BEST because it's touch-sensativity and blah blah blah.  It's just another tube screamer variate like JHS, klon, tim, or timmy.  

I have owned all the hype pedals from time to time. From light overdrives to expensive fuzzes and delays and $500 reverbs.  They don't make you play better.  They just don't.

 I have found that my $29 MIT Boss SD-1 is more consistent, reliable and EVEN SOUNDS better than any other fancy overdrive I have owned.

So just stop.  Right now.  Put down dem stars dawg.  Cause they ain't that good! 

Eat it.

[juri]

I agree, one of the biggest hyped pedals of the moment on TGP is the..... 

mini bone, buyer beware!

[goodhonk · Accepted solution]

this thread is 1/5 tops.

[RadioSilence]

I gave your post four out of five kudos.

[Aedes]

How many stars is the SD-1?  Is that 4/5?

[goodhonk]

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Aedes wrote:

How many stars is the SD-1?  Is that 4/5?

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sd-1 doesn't need stars, it makes them.   BOOM

[Aedes]

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goodhonk wrote:

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Aedes wrote:

How many stars is the SD-1?  Is that 4/5?

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sd-1 doesn't need stars, it makes them.   BOOM

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If I could give you multiple kudos I would.

[BrentMpls]

[Urinate Forever]

LISTEN,

PEDALS ARE NOT TO BE RATED. THEY ARE NOT LIVESTOCK. THEY HAVE FEELINGS, TOO, YOU KNOW?

[macadood]

OD-3 shits all over the sd-1

[goodhonk]

^ first part of that statement you got right.

[BrentMpls]

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macadood wrote:
OD-3 shits all over 

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gross, maca

[hangwire]

BOSS Turbo Overdrive OD-2r or its a SupraDistortion

[Lou Speed's Alt]

5.5 stars

[BHz_econo]

Played with an SD-1 and DD-7. Got compliments all day.

[PKTrono]

my ds-1 didn't sample very well, so i bought an mpc

[AimmarCair]

Klon gets a 5/5.

None moar hyped.

[Pedaltones]

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AimmarCair wrote:
Klon gets a 5/5.

None moar hyped.

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There's a coolest looking pedal thread on TGP and some plank has avowed the klon to be the fairest of them all. I can't see it myself, even in an ironic way. It's a plain, oversized, pretty featureless tin. But the gushing schoolgirl mentality is strong over there, often to the point of almost nausea. Fresh new pinups that are swooned over as the best ever and will never leave my board are required posting to fit in. This club phenomonen has distorted reality and overdriven hype with fuzzy logic.

Now there are knowledgable posters and even-handed reviewers there too, but goddamn do the gaggle of gushers wet themselves over every fanfare for the common trollop.