Your Most Used Dirt Pedal of 2017

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Re: Your Most Used Dirt Pedal of 2017

Post by ElephantDNA » Wed Dec 27, 2017 9:07 pm

SadFuzz wrote:
Tue Dec 26, 2017 10:16 am
Boss DS-1
Only use it for noise sections in songs. Would have something better but I'm 14 so yeah.
Saving for a Devi Ever or something else for 2018.
I've been finding a lot of devi pedals on guitar center's website at random stores. I recently found one in person at sam ash as well. It's the kind of product that sits around forever at stores like that, so the price is usually pretty good. She has also had some etsy sales lately where her stuff has been a lot cheaper than usual. I would keep checking those for a while until you find a good price. I currently have the vintage fuzz master (the one I rescued from purgatory at sam ash) on my board, and I've used a ton of her pedals in the past. Used, you should probably pay like $60-70 which is solid for what they are.

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Re: Your Most Used Dirt Pedal of 2017

Post by PorkyPrimeCut » Thu Dec 28, 2017 12:53 am

Just from home use, in order of frequency....

1. OCD
2. RAT
3. Tonebender Mk II

As my Ultrasonic has silicon fuzz built-in I generally use that, otherwise the Mk II would be in first place. Also, the RAT and OCD sound better with my phaser (which I actually sold not long ago) and are generally less pernickety than the Tonebender.
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Re: Your Most Used Dirt Pedal of 2017

Post by Chip Korea » Thu Dec 28, 2017 1:07 am

Two clones were my favourites in 2017. A clone of a DAM Meathead (dark) and a clone of a Devi Ever Hyperion.

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Re: Your Most Used Dirt Pedal of 2017

Post by NICQ » Thu Dec 28, 2017 6:09 am

I bought an Ibanez TS808HW 2nd hand this year for a reasonable price and I really like it - never was a big tubescreamer type fan before so that's a surprise... that and my timmy got the most use 2017

For 2018 I wanted to get the Digitech Polara and a nice Compressor pedal (I never had one) - probably a Barber Tone Press with that parallel compression (dry/wet signal mix)

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Re: Your Most Used Dirt Pedal of 2017

Post by MechaBulletBill » Thu Dec 28, 2017 6:49 am

ElephantDNA wrote:
Wed Dec 27, 2017 9:07 pm
SadFuzz wrote:
Tue Dec 26, 2017 10:16 am
Boss DS-1
Only use it for noise sections in songs. Would have something better but I'm 14 so yeah.
Saving for a Devi Ever or something else for 2018.
I've been finding a lot of devi pedals on guitar center's website at random stores. I recently found one in person at sam ash as well. It's the kind of product that sits around forever at stores like that, so the price is usually pretty good. She has also had some etsy sales lately where her stuff has been a lot cheaper than usual. I would keep checking those for a while until you find a good price. I currently have the vintage fuzz master (the one I rescued from purgatory at sam ash) on my board, and I've used a ton of her pedals in the past. Used, you should probably pay like $60-70 which is solid for what they are.
The DBA apocalypse is always really undervalued on the used market (cheaper than the fuzz war) and it's like a few devi fuzzes in one unit, plus a really powerful tone control.

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Re: Your Most Used Dirt Pedal of 2017

Post by ElephantDNA » Thu Dec 28, 2017 10:18 am

MechaBulletBill wrote:
Thu Dec 28, 2017 6:49 am
ElephantDNA wrote:
Wed Dec 27, 2017 9:07 pm
SadFuzz wrote:
Tue Dec 26, 2017 10:16 am
Boss DS-1
Only use it for noise sections in songs. Would have something better but I'm 14 so yeah.
Saving for a Devi Ever or something else for 2018.
I've been finding a lot of devi pedals on guitar center's website at random stores. I recently found one in person at sam ash as well. It's the kind of product that sits around forever at stores like that, so the price is usually pretty good. She has also had some etsy sales lately where her stuff has been a lot cheaper than usual. I would keep checking those for a while until you find a good price. I currently have the vintage fuzz master (the one I rescued from purgatory at sam ash) on my board, and I've used a ton of her pedals in the past. Used, you should probably pay like $60-70 which is solid for what they are.
The DBA apocalypse is always really undervalued on the used market (cheaper than the fuzz war) and it's like a few devi fuzzes in one unit, plus a really powerful tone control.
I'm with you, and that's probably something I would look into myself. But this kid's 14, so I think it's probably out of his price range.

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Re: Your Most Used Dirt Pedal of 2017

Post by Pacafeliz » Thu Dec 28, 2017 10:50 am

interesting, when i think about it, it really was the blue part of this one:

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...and/or my old Boss SD-1

now, towards the end of the year, been using different ones (WauFuzz, Ace Tone Fuzz Master and such), but that Dan Armstrong thing is just fantastic. LOVE to add the "green ringer" for outer earthly annoying sounds on top!
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Re: Your Most Used Dirt Pedal of 2017

Post by dezb1 » Thu Dec 28, 2017 6:02 pm

which dirt pedal did you use the most this year - Boss HM-2,
how was it different from last year - it wasnt,
will you be looking for something new in 2018 - No

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Re: Your Most Used Dirt Pedal of 2017

Post by pj » Sun Jan 07, 2018 3:51 am

I used my Catalinbread Katzenkonig a lot this year as well as my Walrus Janus. The Kat is kind of like a tone bender/rat hybrid. The Janus is the Janus!

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Re: Your Most Used Dirt Pedal of 2017

Post by sessylU » Sun Jan 07, 2018 4:23 am

MBM Dreambox.
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Re: Your Most Used Dirt Pedal of 2017

Post by CHILDISHGAMBINO » Mon Jan 08, 2018 4:31 pm

MechaBulletBill wrote:
Sun Dec 24, 2017 4:38 am
CHILDISHGAMBINO wrote:
Sat Dec 23, 2017 8:28 am
MechaBulletBill wrote:
Sat Dec 23, 2017 1:54 am

I haven't tried it but I expect it's an interesting fuckest-uppest fuzz in high gain mode.
I haven't tried one but I know 4 or 5 bassists that love the Broadcast. One guy has two of them he likes it so much. The clips they've recorded sound great. I'd post them but they're on Talkbass and I've been banned.
I'm kind of surprised that it's been so embraced by bassists coz I find it has some subtle buzzy muddy ghost notes thing on the lower strings. Not enough to bother me when playing live but I kept it off for my clean sound in the studio.
I don't know anything about it other than there were quite a few people on talkbass that had them and really liked them. I don't remember any complaints. Maybe it's something that happens with your setup and not with other's?

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Re: Your Most Used Dirt Pedal of 2017

Post by Mandeezee » Tue Jan 09, 2018 6:52 pm

A Marshall Guv'nor II that my friend modded for me. Whatever he did really changed the pedal for the better. Gives it a more pleasant distortion without losing it's raunchiness. It's not as dark and honky as it was before the mod. Clearer sounding than stock.

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Re: Your Most Used Dirt Pedal of 2017

Post by OmarAfzaal » Wed Jan 10, 2018 6:26 pm

Proco Whiteface Rat
EQD Clove Hoof

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Re: Your Most Used Dirt Pedal of 2017

Post by TroyDarc » Thu Jan 18, 2018 9:05 pm

Rat Clone

Black Arts Toneworks Black Forest (next purchase will be the Pharaoh)

Ram Muff Clone and NY Big Muff, run parallel...because...no one will ever know!

Zvex Mastotron? I think is what it is called.

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Re: Your Most Used Dirt Pedal of 2017

Post by cpeck » Fri Jan 19, 2018 4:08 am

DBA Apocalypse
Stomp Under Foot Mascis clone

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