Your best and worst pedal hot takes? šŸ”„

Nostradoomus said:
I would guess because a lot of speaker jack plates are recessed, or that there is never anything so close to the back of your cab that you canā€™t spare the space. I still wouldnā€™t mind some though šŸ˜‚
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I thought it was a power rating thing. Right angles cause more heat at higher power
 
JTEX said:
Boss pedals have the best design.

If you need a meter on your compressor, you're listening with your eyes, not your ears.
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truth ... tell me what it is, tell me what the knobs do, make the whole thing stupid reliable, and fuck off.
 
I'm a visual guy, I need visual corroboration and confirmation that what my ears hear is correct... but more than that, it'd be even better
ā€” great, in fact ā€”
if there was a LED/Meter/visual-indication-of-some-kind of not only the amount of compression that's happening, but
ALSO visual aid *& clarity of what the CLEAN BLEND is doing.

Why don't compressors have meters for both compression and the clean-blend?
 
Feral Feline said:
I'm a visual guy, I need visual corroboration and confirmation that what my ears hear is correct... but more than that, it'd be even better
ā€” great, in fact ā€”
if there was a LED/Meter/visual-indication-of-some-kind of not only the amount of compression that's happening, but
ALSO visual aid *& clarity of what the CLEAN BLEND is doing.

Why don't compressors have meters for both compression and the clean-blend?
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Typically the meter on a compressor is showing gain reduction, what would you expect the clean blend meter to be showing?
 
I have plenty, some pretty spicy:
  • Good OD pedal into clean tube amp > natural tube breakup
  • Tone-wise, germanium transistors are almost never worth the hassle
  • LM308N really does sound better
  • Phasers suck
  • Linear taper volume pots? A joke
  • OD with built-in boost = worthless
  • Clipping switch = worthless (be honest, you pick your favorite setting and leave it)
  • Big 12mm DC jacks > all others (because they don't look like tophats)
  • And of course, white washers are the devil
 
Guardians of the analog said:
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benny_profane said:
What are these? I've never heard of them.
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Stumbled across them at HeavyMetalFX (PCBGM's US distributor) while looking for a DarkGlass preamp clone.

Fortunately the HMFX site has good filtering and I didn't have to wade through the 100+ PCBGM-detritus.


PS UPDATE: Found a hotkit that I like:

heavymetalfx.com

Melissa Tube Overdrive - Heavy Metal FX

Tube Overdrive pedal. Friedman Brown Eye amplifier sound (BE Channel) in compact pedal format! Gain, Tone and Volume controls, a Fat toggle switch that adds lower frequencies, a Sat. toggle switch (Saturation mode). ECC83/12AX7 or 6Š2ŠŸ-Š•Š’ tubes (2 pcs) are used. Switchable heating 6Š2ŠŸ/12AX7 by...
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