What 3 pedals have you either bought or built but sold multiple times?

bluedmc777

bluedmc777

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I know I’m not the only one. I’m gonna go with a few that I’ve bought only to sale again probably 3 times or so because I haven’t built multiples of anything.

1. Visual Sound Liquid Chorus V2. I love this chorus because not only does it have you standard rate and depth but also has controls for width and delay time! Also has a great buffer and is stereo though not true stereo. Can also be set to true bypass. Apparently it was designed by RG Keene! It’s only downfall and the reason I always sell it is because it doesn’t have a level or mix control. It’s all or nothing.

2. TC Electronic Alter Ego delay. They did a really good job capturing the sounds of the older delay units on this although some have too much modulation. The Space Echo is my favorite. I also really like the Copikat tape delay, EP-3 and think they nailed the DM-2. Also true stereo ins and outs.

3. Probably the most boring but worth noting is the old Boss BD-2 that can still be modified.

Honorable mentions are the OCD. Don’t like version 2 though. Also the classic EHX Small Clone.

Others I have bought multiple times but still have is the EHX DMM. It’ll never go. Also the EHX Russian Muff. I settled on the more affordable first version Black Russian muff in the large enclosure. Has the same board as the Bubble font and sounds pretty much identical to the coveted Civil War and Tall Font. Believe its version 7D.
 
I was mainly referring to pedals you bought in the past but doesn’t look like many of you guys buy anything or haven’t in a while. I assume most of you play lol.
 
I had a Boss RT-20 back in the day, and a few years ago bought another to relive my glory days. I sold it when I got deeper into the Rotary rabbit hole

I've bought an MXR Il Diavolo twice and sold it both times, and then built one and sold it too. They sound good for about two months and then I realize there are other sounds I like more. But I now have yet another board I need to build out
 
I DO have a candidate! My favorite effect pedal of all time was the Danelectro Black Licorice. A “perfect” grind/deathcore distortion/octave down. It’s what the Blue Box and Buzz Box wish they were. Super cheap and extra crappy when new. They were sadly built in a disposable manor. I’ve killed or sold nearly a dozen of them. They’ve dried up. No idea what’s inside. The lack of DIY availability and the extra destructible packaging of the original makes this my most regurgitated pedal.
 

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Blooze said:
I’ve never gotten rid of any pedal I’ve bought or built. Same with guitars except for one acoustic. I’m a hoarder by nature and despise having to deal with selling anything.
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I'm pretty much the opposite. I can't afford the $$ or the space to keep stuff. I used to love buying and selling guitars and amps but I'm at the stage where I finally (after 40 years or so!) have worked out what I like. My amp is home built. My dirt pedals are all home built. I don't get into delays too much because those I can buy are better.

Things I have bought more than once? Strymon Timeline, Deco (well it was one Mk I and one Mk II) and El Cap. I love the Deco but never used it, liked the Timeline but found I could get away with smaller pedals which I liked the sound of better (UA Starlight - amazing sounding pedal!) and thought I should like the El Cap but didn't. For whatever reason it annoys me.

I have kept my TC Flashback mainly because it still sounds great and I would get next to nothing if I sold it. It's the single first version and I like how it sounds. The UA Starlight gets used though because it sounds fantastic and has a preset. If it had 5-10 presets it would be my favourite delay pedal ever.
 
Betty Wont said:
I DO have a candidate! My favorite effect pedal of all time was the Danelectro Black Licorice. A “perfect” grind/deathcore distortion/octave down. It’s what the Blue Box and Buzz Box wish they were. Super cheap and extra crappy when new. They were sadly built in a disposable manor. I’ve killed or sold nearly a dozen of them. They’ve dried up. No idea what’s inside. The lack of DIY availability and the extra destructible packaging of the original makes this my most regurgitated pedal.
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Interested
 
I will say that the ehx stuff is the one thing I keep coming back to. In my youth I played a lot of the 90s reissue stuff that while sounding good was built crappy. Sold for boutique in the early 2000s and then bought the nano offerings of many of them to be underwhelmed by poor quality yet again and sold when I started building pedals in the 2010s. Built a lot of ehx but sold those as I wasn't happy with my rig and changed things up again. And now my dumbass is on an ehx kick now one last time🤦
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Betty Wont said:
I DO have a candidate! My favorite effect pedal of all time was the Danelectro Black Licorice. A “perfect” grind/deathcore distortion/octave down. It’s what the Blue Box and Buzz Box wish they were. Super cheap and extra crappy when new. They were sadly built in a disposable manor. I’ve killed or sold nearly a dozen of them. They’ve dried up. No idea what’s inside. The lack of DIY availability and the extra destructible packaging of the original makes this my most regurgitated pedal.
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How does it sound?

"Bad. Honking, plasticky and thin, despite the basic octave divider circuitry. Where Dunlop’s Blue Box sucks with its way too low output, this one sucks with everything else. Divided octaves sound reasonable good, but the distortion part is just bad. Worse thhan Fab Metal (more on that later…). Definitely one of the worst (re)designs in this series. Wouldn’t recommend it, unless you are a true down octave aficionado. And even then. This may be good only for trying it once. My first encounter in this series that sounds exactly like it looks. Too cheap. This may be the one Danelectro effect that won’t ever let you get your pennies back."

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Via: https://mirosol.kapsi.fi/2013/09/danelectro-dj22-black-licorice/
 
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I've not sold any pedals I've built, but I have bought and sold the Roland JC-77 2x10 amp several times. When I lived in southern California in the mid 2000's people would post them on craigslist for $75-150 and I could resell them to the jazz guys for about $250-300. They all sounded just a little different and I kept one the where the input is just a bit gainier than normal.

I've also bought and sold several Ibanez TS9DX for the different mods that were done to them. This was before I got into diy.
 
I'm a sucker for the ehx big muff, specifically the big box version. I have a fairly current NYC reissue modded to my liking but over the years I've had several NYC reissues, black sovteks (they used to be cheap and plentiful), even an original op amp version.

ye olde sd-1 because they're cheap as chips, easy to mod, and easy to replace when you get tired of it, sell it, then decide you need that cheap one on marketplace

which brings us to the rat. I don't really like it enough as a pedal to justify the amount of times I've bought one, eventually modded it, then sold it to someone more enthusiastic about it than I am ... then did the same thing over again. the cost of the chips finally got me to stop but I do have a rat 2 with the proper chip and tone cap I keep mostly as a reference pedal
 
I’ve built and sold 3 or 4 ones and 3 or 4 tube screamers. I would build them for myself and someone would see it and want to buy it. I wasn’t trying to build and sell, it kind of kept working out that way. This was probably 15 years ago before everybody and their mother wanted to start their own pedal company.
 
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