Your best and worst pedal hot takes? 🔥

What about Sabbath and Queen? Treble boosters.
sounds like they needed an amp with more treble
A lot of metal use an 808 as always on mid booster because the marshall can't do it by itself
sounds like they need an amp with more mids
What if you’re one of those always-on Phaser guys?
sounds like they need an amp with a built-in phaser.

also sounds like there's money to be made from an underserved market.
 
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And they created the archetype rock sound in our brain, so I use a vox and always on pedals
I think a load/input impedance in my vox would be great instead of an always on. For more than two decades I used a barber launchpad to "cook the input"
 
But they did make amps with another gain stage that had move assertive EQ , Soldando, Mesa, Bogner, Diezel… the list goes on and what did MFers do?…. They stuck a tube screamer in front of it… Its really boils down to undiagnosed mental illness… and yes I am aware this is the pot calling the kettle black.
 
I had one in the 90s and the phaser worked great! Sadly the punk band I was playing with wanted none of it. : (

I remember that cranking the Saturation on the lead channel sounded pretty lame by itself, but it could be coaxed into a half-decent "Sad Wings of Destiny" kind of sound with the right guitar and at ungodly volumes. Then adding an overdrive or distortion in front also gave pretty interesting results. plus I didn't have the channel switch, but I could mix the channels just by playing with the pre volumes. A TS9 and a Metal Muff in front gave us amazing black metal tones, and we recorded a few really filthy demos with it. The Black Widow spiders were completely rotten when I bought it, so I put V30s in it. Man I miss the times we didnt know shit about tone and gear... :LOL:
 
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