Your best and worst pedal hot takes? 🔥

[Roscoe]

My dog's name is Roscoe

Heck yeah

 

[giovanni]

I have been getting knobs from Tayda and I’m pretty happy with those, especially the aluminum ones. Needless to say, much cheaper than LMS.

 

[Guardians of the analog]

I have been getting knobs from Tayda and I’m pretty happy with those, especially the aluminum ones. Needless to say, much cheaper than LMS.

I have done that in the past but a lot of the newer knobs from tayda are very inconsistent. Lots of them have shown up with scratches and tooling marks and look just plain cheap. The more pedals I've built the more I respect the builders who used good parts in manufacturing. Nothing like a set of good knobs

 

[Erik S]

scratches and tooling marks

I can't bring myself to mount the ones that come all scratched up, so it doesn't do me much good that they were cheap.

SBP has been much more reliable than tayda on that front, so I resigned myself to paying a dollar a knob from SBP instead of 30 cents or whatever from Tayda, but getting ones that are actually usable.

 

[jessenator]

I have been getting knobs from Tayda and I’m pretty happy with those, especially the aluminum ones. Needless to say, much cheaper than LMS.

I have done that in the past but a lot of the newer knobs from tayda are very inconsistent. Lots of them have shown up with scratches and tooling marks and look just plain cheap. The more pedals I've built the more I respect the builders who used good parts in manufacturing. Nothing like a set of good knobs

This ^^

For something going on my board, I don't much mind. But if I'm building for someone, I'm buying primo knobs, I'm getting something like these from AP/TNM/ARS, much as it hurts my wallet .

 

[Guardians of the analog]

If I make something I just want good quality stuff in general. Cheap stuff feels cheap when turn knobs and step on switches. I don't like thinking about stuff I'm using. That's why I switched to relay bypass, one less thing to think about. And if I did have to replace a switch it's just 2 solder points.

 

[jessenator]

Actually, now I think more, my biggest problem with Tayda knobs has been more non-concentric rotation :/ and while nothing's perfect, it seems extra with theirs. Haven't gotten their Al knobs recently. Mine have always came individually wrapped in tissue, so never had scuff marks… that's a bummer.

 

[Guardians of the analog]

is there a knobs thread? if not we should start one. I wanna find some of the mxr knobs, not clones but the ones mxr uses, they are way better. Dunlop sells them for like 5 dollars a piece and I wonder if someone else has them.

 

[Erik S]

is there a knobs thread?

There was one about interesting/ old weird knobs, but a practical one about what people are buying and using would be cool.

 

[Guardians of the analog]

someone else needs to start it, I don't want to get any notifications

 

[jessenator]

someone else needs to start it, I don't want to get any notifications

There's a checkbox for that

 

[Guardians of the analog]

There's a checkbox for that

 

[jessenator]

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[vigilante398]

Love my Switches is overrated. A necessary evil for diy

They need to bring the bitches back. I still abbreviate them as BLMS because that's how it was meant to be.

 

[giovanni]

Added to my todo list: inspect all Tayda knobs to find scratches ...

 

[falco_femoralis]

is there a knobs thread? if not we should start one. I wanna find some of the mxr knobs, not clones but the ones mxr uses, they are way better. Dunlop sells them for like 5 dollars a piece and I wonder if someone else has them.

Does it really matter if there's a thread already? It's not like that's stopped anyone before

 

[Guardians of the analog]

Does it really matter if there's a thread already? It's not like that's stopped anyone before

LIke the builder formerly known as James L

 

[jessenator]

Truly, instagram is the center of measured and rational discourse

 

[giovanni]

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[Aleph Null]

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.