Very cool pedal shootout

[Aceman]

Re: Very cool pedal shootout

I'm with the "this was useless" crowd.

All I saw was a bunch of pedals and got a relative tone from each. I could find some decent uses for all of them.

Here are some key problems
#1 serial order competition - you don't know how the pedals would do if selected in random order ans switched
#2 looks like a HUGE bias for anything with more bass
#3 Who are these guys and where did they come from?
#4 Are some of these pedals even DESIGNED for the same purpose? Ratt vs DS-1, sure. Jeckyl/Hyde vs Metalzone? Ummm - no.

Interesting listen though. Good relative comparison of basic sound/tone foundation. would have liked to know the amp and settings.

And as for the tone, I agree with Bill - it was ALL crap. amp to mega board to recording to Youtube to my speakers? Not any kind of recipe for sonic purity. Might have well of been listening underwater.

 

[joelap]

Re: Very cool pedal shootout

I think it was good for what it was, but my biggest gripes:

- Putting the Hyde 2nd to last gives it a much better chance of success. Especially with the metal zone after it only.
- Each pedal was series connected to one another... the best method would have been some type of loop in that the effective circuit was Guitar -> Buffer -> Pedal -> Amp. and the only thing being switched is the send/return to pedal 1 or pedal 2.

It was good for what it was. My favorite was the Box of Rock truthfully. I didn't find all of them to sound that crappy... maybe I have lower standards?

 

[JeffB]

Re: Very cool pedal shootout

It was good for what it was. My favorite was the Box of Rock truthfully.

My fave as well- with the SOH a close second (I thought the BOR was more "amp like", but the SOH had an aggressiveness I liked just as much). I would like to have seen the voting between those two pedals.

I thought the voodo pedal they played first was kind of cool-distortion box meets fuzz-hendrixy kinda thing.

I've never been able to really get into a RAT. Several years ago, I believe I sold Christian (TGWIF) my original rat they are reissuing now for $200. I sold it to *someone* here. I never could get a decent sound out of it, unless I ran a Tubescreamer into it first :shrug:

The other thing was that MZ sounded pretty awful modded, I cannot imagine how bad an unmodded one must sound :lol:

I'd also like tp point out the Overdrive box shootout they did was pretty cool as well for the oppposite reasons- nearly ALL of the overdrives sounded the same- VERY subtle differences.

 

[misterwhizzy]

Re: Very cool pedal shootout

And as for the tone, I agree with Bill - it was ALL crap. amp to mega board to recording to Youtube to my speakers? Not any kind of recipe for sonic purity. Might have well of been listening underwater.

Pardon me, Doctor, but I don't believe that was the point. The point was to place the SoH in the same league as these other fairly-well regarded pedals. It did just that. If and when I go to look into a new distortion pedal, I'll think about this pedal as well. I think that's as far as we can reasonably take a YouTube video.