Your best and worst pedal hot takes? šŸ”„

Coda said:
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 donā€™t matter when all your tone comes from pedalsā€¦

The all true-bypass crowd is dumb. Theyā€™ll argue that it preserves the tone, except the added capacitance of everything darkens the toneā€¦doing the very thing they are afraid buffers will do. TL/DR: Boss buffers are bestā€¦

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, etcā€¦
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Coda said:
The all true-bypass crowd is dumb. Theyā€™ll argue that it preserves the tone, except the added capacitance of everything darkens the toneā€¦doing the very thing they are afraid buffers will do. TL/DR: Boss buffers are bestā€¦
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As much as I genuinely agree with this (I even seem to have come up with the hottest pro buffer take in this thread) I only recently realized that half of this comes from how shitty the switching on some old buffered bypass pedals was
 
jjjimi84 said:
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
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You obviously need take advantage of my friends and family discount rate on Adobe software...
 
finebyfine said:
Donā€™t be mad that I was one of the few to understand the assignment of this thread
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You make a vaild point now that you bring my attention to it. We have gone a bit astray of the original charter.

There's now stopping it now... [ding] Hey! my popcorn is ready...!
 
finebyfine said:
HOT ONE:
Fuzz faces, and most fuzzes in general, sound better with a buffer before them
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Largely agree. They donā€™t sound as ā€œtraditional,ā€ but if I wanted to sound like a boring white dude from England Iā€™d just stop playing anything outside of open position pentatonic licks.
szukalski said:
Muffs and Rats sound like crap.
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Yes. But Iā€™m determined to like them bc I have a ton of cool muff enclosure ideas and a bunch of LM308s
Erik S said:
Pedals donā€™t need art, but they should have labels.
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Typesetting is an art form. Thatā€™s why MXR and boss pedals both look rather nice while Fulltone stuff looks terrible.
Erik S said:
Text graphics > most AI generated art.
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correction: text graphics are better than ALL ai-generated graphics (not gonna call it art)
 
Some of my hot takes:

most ā€˜distortionā€™ pedals are awful. At low gain settings they donā€™t sound as good as a decent overdrive, and at high gain settings theyā€™re just a boring alternative to fuzz.

Overdrive pedals arenā€™t exciting. I mean, I use them too, but if your favorite pedal is an overdrive, you probably donā€™t play exciting music.

Getting hung up on the nuances of OD pedals is dumb. Most people canā€™t tell the difference in your live tone, and the ones who do probably donā€™t give a shit anyway.

dumble voiced pedals shouldnā€™t exist. I donā€™t care if itā€™s a supposedly magical sounding ampā€” there has definitely never been a great song recorded with a dumble. Every song famous for having a dumble on it is more famous for the fact that a dumble was used than for it being an interesting song.

If you have an ā€œalways onā€ pedal, it means you donā€™t have enough variety of sound.

Most effects are arguably cooler on bass than on guitar.
 
Bricksnbeatles said:
Some of my hot takes:

most ā€˜distortionā€™ pedals are awful. At low gain settings they donā€™t sound as good as a decent overdrive, and at high gain settings theyā€™re just a boring alternative to fuzz.

Overdrive pedals arenā€™t exciting. I mean, I use them too, but if your favorite pedal is an overdrive, you probably donā€™t play exciting music.

Getting hung up on the nuances of OD pedals is dumb. Most people canā€™t tell the difference in your live tone, and the ones who do probably donā€™t give a shit anyway.

dumble voiced pedals shouldnā€™t exist. I donā€™t care if itā€™s a supposedly magical sounding ampā€” there has definitely never been a great song recorded with a dumble. Every song famous for having a dumble on it is more famous for the fact that a dumble was used than for it being an interesting song.

If you have an ā€œalways onā€ pedal, it means you donā€™t have enough variety of sound.

Most effects are arguably cooler on bass than on guitar.
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Stevie Ray Vaughan used several different Dumble models on multiple albums, but I bet you couldn't tell me which was on what without looking it up.
 
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This one is different from the rest!
Really!
Promise!

But my hot take is both best and worst:

Instead of saying "YATS" is should be "YABODONE" (Yet Another Boss OD ONE) because it was the first commercial diodes in the feedback loop drive pedal.
Ibanez just took the circuit and added a tone control.. pfff.. big deal!
 
- MIAB pedals, where the builder claims it's nailed the specifics of a certain amp, total bunkum.
are you seriously trying to pull my leg and tell me you have a switch that can differentiate between a 50W and 100W power section with your solid state 9V circuit. ok champ.
or that one that goes between a LTP or cathodyne phase inverter - wtf. sure thing.

Erik S said:
Rean Neutrik open frame jacks are nicer than the Switchcraft ones.

Pedals donā€™t need art, but they should have labels.

Text graphics > most AI generated art.

Name brand capacitors are for suckers.
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šŸ’Æ on all 4!

those neutrik open frames are solid as fuck! i just replaced a dodgy jack on an epiphone with one and it's probably the most solid jack ive used in a guitar. see how it goes in a few years....

jjjimi84 said:
You can lead a horse to water but you will need to push its head underwater to drown it.
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legit. if im going to be terrible at two different things, can i at least be terrible at something that doesn't give me immense frustration and zero productivity
 
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