I am sick of crappy @$$ mini pedal listings

Aceman

Aceman

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As you all know, I am a bottom feeder of budget pedals. But man, it seems that anyone and everyone who you never heard of is contracting some Chinese company to make another junky little pedal. Like anyone would buy the Ammoon Analog Chorus, or the Aroma brand - which I'm sure are actually stinks.

This sonic littler needs it's own category.

Name brand (Ibanez, TC), Mooer, and MAYBE a Donner or two and done!
 
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You can make whatever pedals you want, but that doesn't obligate me to care about them.
 
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I just got a Donner mini tuner pedal
I like it

Ace you don't have to drink less coffee
but think Decaf
 
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You can buy an Ammoon Stratocaster for like $60 I think... But if you go REALLY generic, you can pick the same guitar up for $10 less by skipping the 'brand equity' and opting for a blank headstock ;)

Not sure if the complaint is too many cheap clones of the same pedals, too many brands making the same thing etc... My favorite distortion is still a $15 new Danelectro D-1 FAB, but I've had worse luck with other cheap pedals.
 
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I agree Ace!

My GAS for a mini board like yours hasn't faded, it's gotten stronger!
 
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Amazon is full of them..

I did a search for distortion pedalone time and up pops all the $30 chinese minis....poontang...bungwang...etc etc.

I have a TC flashback mini, and it drives me nuts. Knobs always getting knocked around. I get the board space issues, but I really hate the minis. And the cheap ones are even worse with the quality of switches and pots. Xotic makes the most solid mini pedals I have experienced.
 
I am sick of crappy @$$ mini pedal listings

I love my $59 Mooer Yellow Comp, but that's absolutely as low as I will stoop into the Chinese mini-pedal muck.

And I only bought it because the Diamond Jr wouldn't fit on my board.


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JeffB said:
Amazon is full of them..

I did a search for distortion pedalone time and up pops all the $30 chinese minis....poontang...bungwang...etc etc.
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:laughing::laughing:
 
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This will get worse, and pedals will get smaller.
 
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Mini size is old now, Micro size will be the next hip thing, followed by Nano size in future which would be just a footswitch with tiny screwdriver adjustable trimmers on the sides & 1/8" connectors. :bling: :wizard:
 
I am sick of crappy @$$ mini pedal listings

I would think that Mooer and Ammoon are pretty much made in very similar, if not the same, factories. Same with Joyo. These factories sell with different branding. My experience is that none of these pedals are junk.

I hate the mini pedals.

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Hank- said:
Mini size is old now, Micro size will be the next hip thing, followed by Nano size in future which would be just a footswitch with tiny screwdriver adjustable trimmers on the sides & 1/8" connectors. :bling: :wizard:
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1/8" connectors are already passé. 3/32" connectors are the big thing for 2017, and wireless is coming.
 
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^ Oh the wireless!! I forgot about it. In future there won't even be connectors, just place the two pedal next to each other in the required order, hold the footswitch down on both for 2 seconds, BAM!!! They're connected. :cool2:

Also voice recognition is next, in few years, say "Flanger On"- done, " Flanger Off"- done. :drive:
 
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I have an Aroma capo.
It works fine and it smells just like a regular capo too.
 
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I had an all mini/micro board at one time, and I tried many of the cheap Chinese pedals. My findings were simple, and this goes for many of the brands. Tuners worked fine. Distortions were pretty good overall, some really very good. Delays worked well, usually had very short delay times compared to larger pedals, but worked good. The big weakness is chorus especially, I tried a few different choruses and none sounded good at all....they usually added unwanted distortion too. I tried a clean boost, and I also have a mini Spark. The little Chinese one did pretty well in a comparison, and actually has more settings (ie. tone controls) than the Spark does not have. So the bottom line, they can be good and are cheap enough to try and play around with. In the end my little board consists of a mix of "name" pedals and a couple of cheap Chinese pedals. I'd say Aroma were generally more consistent (better) than Mightysound....I'd stay away from Mighty Sound. That is my real world opinion, based on actual pedals, not internet opinions.
 
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I get mini-pedals for people who have to fly with teeny-tiny boards, but for me, no thanks. Nothing guitar-related irks me more than living room players with these trendy boards jammed with 25 mini-pedals... except maybe the St. Vincent Music Man guitar.

(sorry for the slight derail... I know your post was about cheapo stuff, but I hate the boutique minis as much or more than the cheapies)
 
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