Your best and worst pedal hot takes? 🔥

[Fama]

Adding a clean blend to your shitty distortion circuit doesn't make it a bass distortion: it makes it a shitty distortion with an additional useless control.

Is this maybe related to some recent new Big release?

 

[Guardians of the analog]

Adding a clean blend to your shitty distortion circuit doesn't make it a bass distortion: it makes it a shitty distortion with an additional useless control.

The real issue is using shitty distortion pedals in the first place.

 

[Mentaltossflycoon]

Adding a clean blend to your shitty distortion circuit doesn't make it a bass distortion: it makes it a shitty distortion with an additional useless control.

 

[Guardians of the analog]

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Truly, instagram is the center of measured and rational discourse

Some of these are factual, some are debatable but the bd-2 is anything but smooth

 

[Aleph Null]

Is this maybe related to some recent new Big release?

Yes, but I've seen it done a dozen times. I clean blend could be part of a good bass distortion design, but most often it's tacked on to a circuit that is otherwise optimized for guitar. I think there are more thoughtful approaches that yield better results.

 

[jessenator]

Some of these are factual, some are debatable but the bd-2 is anything but smooth

what I was expecting when you saw the SD-1:

 

[vigilante398]

Adding a clean blend to your shitty distortion circuit doesn't make it a bass distortion: it makes it a shitty distortion with an additional useless control.

EXACTLY.

 

[jcpst]

I found a PCB I lost a while back in my laundry. Hot take open to interpretation.

 

[Paradox916]

It’s not my rig I dislike so much, it’s my playing..

 

[Guardians of the analog]

I need to re-evaluate my new builds because I'm starting to think every new build is worse than the last and its really discouraging and disappointing. I think my pedalboard was already perfect for me.

 

[Guardians of the analog]

 

[BuddytheReow]

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Nah. You've just got a great amp.

 

[Aleph Null]

I found a PCB I lost a while back in my laundry. Hot take open to interpretation.

Is it a clean boost?

 

[jcpst]

Is it a clean boost?

No, it’s a ppcb dingo, so a rat with three extra useless controls.

 

[jubal81]

Guitar player: "Pedal X is the greatest pedal evar. It's so dope. It's obviously well designed because it sounds great with my rig with all the knobs at noon and I don't ever have to adjust them."

What do you think about Pedal Y?

Guitar player: "It sounds awesome, but it's not as good as Pedal X."

Why is that?

Guitar player: "Pedal X has more knobs."

 

[Aleph Null]

Guitar player: "Pedal X is the greatest pedal evar. It's so dope. It's obviously well designed because it sounds great with my rig with all the knobs at noon and I don't ever have to adjust them."

What do you think about Pedal Y?

Guitar player: "It sounds awesome, but it's not as good as Pedal X."

Why is that?

Guitar player: "Pedal X has more knobs."

Can confirm: designed a one-knob overdrive and no one wants a PCB.

 

[Aentons]

Can confirm: designed a one-knob overdrive and no one wants a PCB.

I'm gonna need a 16 knob OD. I don't care what the knobs do

 

[Erik S]

Can confirm: designed a one-knob overdrive and no one wants a PCB.

shoulda added a clean blend.

 

[jessenator]

I'm gonna need a 16 knob OD. I don't care what the knobs do

The extras are producer knobs

 

[Aentons]

The extras are producer knobs

And they have to be really hot so I can't touch'em for very long