Your best and worst pedal hot takes? 🔥

[coltonius]

Amp tone matters less with each pedal added to the chain. At a point, you only need to make the pedals louder. TL/DR: expensive tubes amps don’t matter when all your tone comes from pedals…

I don’t know, man- my pedalboard of 8 sounds different with my DR build than with my AC30/15 hybrid!

With you on the true bypass vs. buffer nonsense though.

 

[Paradox916]

I’m really intrigued by this. Are there some PPCB dirt projects that have that kind of tone control?

I’m not sure if there are any projects like that but fortin made a TS like that I believe called the tempest .. I don’t think it did real well.

 

[Harry Klippton]

Pedals designed by engineers don't sound as good

 

[Mentaltossflycoon]

Pedals designed by engineers don't sound as good

Only reverse engineers for us.

 

[Paradox916]

Pedals always sound better when someone else is using them.

 

[Robert]

yeah well apparently your "spite build" is a "bad copy" that "deletes a lot of the unique stuff, a few key things not in the PSU"

2) Builders who claim that something is incorrect or "deleted" from a circuit without giving even the slightest vague reference as to what that "unique stuff" might actually be... almost as if they're being dishonest.

It's uncanny how that one bit that I always seem to overlook or miss happens to also be the most important piece of the puzzle.

 

[Visceri]

2) Builders who claim that something is incorrect or "deleted" from a circuit without giving even the slightest vague reference as to what that "unique stuff" might actually be... almost as if they're being dishonest.

It's uncanny how that one bit that I always seem to overlook or miss happens to also be the most important piece of the puzzle.

Start gooping portions of the boards you send out with pre-soldered “mojo” and maybe they’ll get off your back. Hit them with “outer-order harmonics” and “pre-gain texture-curvature” and see if you can beat them to death with their own techno-babble

 

[Mentaltossflycoon]

2) Builders who claim that something is incorrect or "deleted" from a circuit without giving even the slightest vague reference as to what that "unique stuff" might actually be... almost as if they're being dishonest.

It's uncanny how that one bit that I always seem to overlook or miss happens to also be the most important piece of the puzzle.

Who knew that a buffer was only a few components away from something totally different but 100% functionally the same but also better but in no way different aside from marketing? Neato.

 

[Visceri]

Who knew that a buffer was only a few components away from something totally different but 100% functionally the same but also better but in no way different aside from marketing? Neato.

 

[Guardians of the analog]

The more pedals I build and the more I understand how they work the less pedals I like.

 

[jesuscrisp]

The more pedals I build and the more I understand how they work the less pedals I like.

It's like learning about magic tricks.
Now everything I see is a TS, Rat, Muff, Timmy, etc. with miniscule changes and I hate everybody charging >200 bucks for something lazy like that.

 

[MBFX]

People that whine about the mid scoop on big muffs just don't know how to use their equipment.

You son of a bitch.

 

[Pauleo1214]

The mullet is a respectable hairstyle...right, pedal related. Sorry.

 

[Synchrony Pedalworks]

This is my all time favorite thread….

 

[jjjimi84]

We should spend as much time playing or improving our playing as we do obsessing over how the slightly salty taste of a 1n34a is were the Klon tone really comes from. 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…

I love this more than any other post! I would gladly throw up any track from my videos and personal library for folks to riff on.

Here is a hot take for you all. Creating digital artwork is like playing through a modeler or screwing with three rubbers on. It sucks

 

[chris.knudson]

Guitar players who play bass are not bass players.

 

[Erik S]

Rean Neutrik open frame jacks are nicer than the Switchcraft ones.

Pedals don’t need art, but they should have labels.

Text graphics > most AI generated art.

Name brand capacitors are for suckers.

 

[Visceri]

Here is a hot take for you all. Creating digital artwork is like playing through a modeler or screwing with three rubbers on. It sucks

 

[jjjimi84]

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Honestly I am jealous as hell that you did that so fast

 

[Robert]

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.