Recommend a bad overdrive pedal

[Powdered Toast Man]

What is the worst OD pedal money can buy? Seriously, price is no object - what sucks?

[jcthejester13]

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Can I get some votes on the DOD Trash Master?

[ratherdashing]

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DOD Grunge

[jcthejester13]

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Pretty much any pedal with DOD on it... I mean if we are being serious here.

[King IzzO)))]

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You guys are so wrong, the thrash master is awesome if you know how to use it. The grunge is gnarly, and theres none more black than the death metal.


Haters.

[King IzzO)))]

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I'll say metalzone, for the record, but even they can get a decent sound with some knob tweaking.

[DankStar]

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no one seems to like the boss super feedbacker and distortion for its OD sound, but I dug the feedbacker part of the pedal and could have used that feature a few times in low level recording.

also - I put together a GGG rangemaster clone that made some of my louder farts sound musical. I'm pretty sure it was builder error. No way to tell now, I destroyed it in a fit of white-hot rage that nearly culminated in me taking my own life with the PCB board.

[Ball&Chain]

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I do believe I got spoofed.

[Ball&Chain]

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Have any recommendations been an actual OD pedal yet?

[Powdered Toast Man]

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Have any recommendations been an actual OD pedal yet?

Yeah, I was going to say - buzzy metal distortions don't count.

But I wasn't really trying to spoof you. I'm actually curious to know what OD people think is bad. Every time someone asks for a recommendation on a good one it seems like every pedal under the sun gets mentioned. So really, it might be easier to pick out the bad ones than the good ones.

[King IzzO)))]

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I don't like the blues driver very much.

[FuseG4]

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But with the number of satisfied blues driver users, it would be difficult to say that the BD-2 was a *bad* pedal.

I'll say I didn't care for the Digitech Tone Driver. It was supposed to emulate an SD-1, a TS808, and a TS9, and anything in betweed by using a "morph knob". It was a digital unit and I think it sounded like it. Very easy to get harsh sounds out of. Plus, it ate 9V batteries in about 10-12 hours, so if you leave it on by mistake you'll kill your battery overnight. PLUS, the switches in those Digitech X-Series were a tiny button on the circuit board, and those were somewhat prone to failure. PLUS the "simulated cabinet output" sounded like a dark blurry mess.

So that's my vote for a bad overdrive pedal. Wayyy too many inconveniences.

[ratherdashing]

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Have any recommendations been an actual OD pedal yet?

I don't play by your "rules", square.

[Left_Hand_Strat]

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DOD Grunge

Disagree.

My Grunge is still loads better than a stock DS-1.

Honestly. DS-1's as the come are the most overrated pieces of crap for the money Boss charge.

I'll throw a vote for Behringer, as lots of their pedals are plastic

[Andrew Lamprecht]

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Aren't DS-1s still $40 new? LOL