Your best and worst pedal hot takes? 🔥

Guardians of the analog said:
All these new releases lately having me feeling like the gear industry is lost. First up is the whole artist signature models. Joe B has like a million signature models of pedals, amps and guitars for a guy who claims gear doesn't matter. So he gets a guitar and amp release. Fender releasing a non fender parts guitar for Tom Morello is major clown energy.

Why is lovetone coming back? Who is that for? All the people who would have used that 30 years ago are using digital stuff that's way less musical and convoluted. The JHS muff 2 that sounds like, a muff, is very on brand. The strymon Fairfax also feels like every boutique drive the past decade, like a wet duck with a piezo on its ass after taco Tuesday.

Mainly it feels like all the gear is made for wannabe social media guitar influencers aura farming dopamine for likes on 30 second reels. I'm officially in my "I hate gear" phase I guess. This is why there are no new rock bands, just whinny emo, indie atmospheric noise nonsense.
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The cynical take would be that Lovetone is coming back to squeeze the 90s guitar nerds for all the nostalgia left in their wallets. The realistic take is that Valco has been pretty busy making money off Lovetone stuff and now Behringer is about to as well. Dan probably wants to be making that money himself. I do hope he brings those products back better than the originals because I think that's where EHX and Marshall dropped the ball with their re-releases and where Boss somewhat got it right with the Waza stuff.
 
Guardians of the analog said:
All these new releases lately having me feeling like the gear industry is lost. First up is the whole artist signature models. Joe B has like a million signature models of pedals, amps and guitars for a guy who claims gear doesn't matter. So he gets a guitar and amp release. Fender releasing a non fender parts guitar for Tom Morello is major clown energy.

Why is lovetone coming back? Who is that for? All the people who would have used that 30 years ago are using digital stuff that's way less musical and convoluted. The JHS muff 2 that sounds like, a muff, is very on brand. The strymon Fairfax also feels like every boutique drive the past decade, like a wet duck with a piezo on its ass after taco Tuesday.

Mainly it feels like all the gear is made for wannabe social media guitar influencers aura farming dopamine for likes on 30 second reels. I'm officially in my "I hate gear" phase I guess. This is why there are no new rock bands, just whinny emo, indie atmospheric noise nonsense.
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Hold on dude wampler just released an OCD with a 3 band EQ.
 
Hot take: A lot of tone chasers already know what they like, but are just hoping something better is out there.

After building about 100 pedals, I’ve gone full circle. I put a stock rat back on my board after so my dirt pedals and thought “oh, this is doing what I want”. After trying a dozen octave-up circuits, I put a green ringer back on my board. I replaced my synthy envelope filter (boss syb-3 mode 8) with an ugly face, which probably the biggest difference, but still does a similar thing.
 
jcpst said:
Hot take: A lot of tone chasers already know what they like, but are just hoping something better is out there.

After building about 100 pedals, I’ve gone full circle. I put a stock rat back on my board after so my dirt pedals and thought “oh, this is doing what I want”. After trying a dozen octave-up circuits, I put a green ringer back on my board. I replaced my synthy envelope filter (boss syb-3 mode 8) with an ugly face, which probably the biggest difference, but still does a similar thing.
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I understand this so well. Pedal building for me was about understanding circuits because I was tired of being lied to by boutique builders, and I wanted to try all the things I either couldn't afford or find. In my pursuit of exploration I found that I already had my sound years ago.
thunderaxe said:
hot take: if you have an "always on" pedal you just need a better amp
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This đź’Ż. I tried all the tone sweetener preamps and stuff but I prefer the sound of a good guitar into a good amp with effects sprinkled in here and there. The secret preamp created more issues than it solved in my rig
 
Bricksnbeatles said:
What if you’re one of those always-on Phaser guys?
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