Your best and worst pedal hot takes? 🔥

Coda said:
We have some very talented artists around here; visual artists and others. TL/DR: there should be a sub forum called the Jam Room where we can share our own stuff, backing tracks, have covers contests, tutorials on how to record at home, etc…
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Man, that's a great idea! Would love some more recording tips/tricks to get crystal clear recordings. Plus sharing our music from all the hard work we put in would be super inspirational. I play every weekend for a few hrs and record every note I play. I loop with drum tracks and bass and guitar tracks I make on the fly, basically creating entire songs by just jamming alone. Would be fun to see what everybody else does
 
Harry Klippton said:
This isn't even a hot take but pedals are not amps and do not sound like amps.


all tube screamers sound bad
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I've built and tried to like YATS. even built an insane Pedal PCB Stockade ("Rabbit Hole") would be the right name... and. Yeah... Meh.

only exception would be a GuitarPCB "Tube Screaming Preamp 2021" for a friend last year. I don't know why, but that thing is actually really nice.

I can't recall the details but he and I both think it is something special.
 
Erik S said:
I built a Tommy/ Timmy and I hate it.

I like Belton Brick reverbs.

I don't care where unity is on the dial as long as it's there somewhere.

I don't know if distortions should have no tone controls, but I think it's cool when the controls on a drive pedal have a limited range. I don't think tone controls need to extend to unusable in both directions.


☝️This.
I also won't go to a restaurant and get that fajita spread where they throw a pile of ingredients at you and you need to make your own dinner.
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give me your address.... I'll ship you my Belton Brick "bricks"... (i.e. pedals Ive built that kinda suck)
 
Paradox916 said:
So is this like IAIGF without the comedic creativity of memes, and we directly criticize each other’s opinions?…. Am I reading the room right? For the record I’m totally fine with that I just need to know how much popcorn I need to make before people start getting butt hurt at each other… and the thread gets nuked 🤣 🍿
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If I know this crowd, you're going to need a Costco run to stock up on popcorn.

Likelihood of blowup is far lower here that pretty much any forum I know of. which is why I hang out here.
 
eh là bas ma said:
Deep down, many human beings are expecting music and arts to be as simple as "press this button and it will do all the tidious work for you", "turn this knob and you will feel better". I am afraid that the universe isn't so kind and simple... Or maybe this strategy works, but only for kind and simple people ?

Human beings are used to build tools. At some point we can be owned by our tools, they can become our crutches, and finaly our tools are able to create some gaps in our various abilities to interact with the outside world.

Stompboxes are all useless. A real artist, someone who really has something to say or to share, doesn't need any of them. They can very easily become just a palliative to the lack of creativity and imagination.

As a matter of fact, the real beauty doesn't reside in the circuitry. That's only sophistication. Music and arts are about emotions, complexity, refinements and progress.

We all like stompboxes very much, but we shouldn't because it's wrong.

Am i wrong ?
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You and Camu are both right.
 
Robert said:
Not everything needs to be modified. Sometimes you can get there by just twisting the knobs a bit.

I don't care what the simulation says. Looking at waveforms on a screen is not the same as hearing with your ears.
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Sometimes all you need to do you is say it's modified. It's the Sklar approach ;) just make sure the producer sees you toggling the (disconnected) switch and he'll think the sound changed

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