Worst pedals ever

[Rex_Rocker]

I think it was too much for me, it didn't seem to make anything cleaner, just noisy and shrill.

What did you compare it against? It's a pretty standard TS-type to me, except just a bit more aggressive. For the job I want it to do, I like it way better than my TS808 RI (which is good in itself, just a tad more nasal and stuffy) and a tad better than my SD-1. But if you compare it against most TS derivatives, it does a very similar job.

It is noisy, though. Agreed.

I've had both too and did the same. It sounded to me like the ZW had just touch more gain. Not a lot but just a little. Could be part tolerance between builds, etc.

Maybe. I honestly never run the gain past 9 o'clock on anything TS-like.

 

[Aceman]

You need to try the real Custom Shop script Phase 90.

No, no I don't.

 

[solspirit]

What did you compare it against? It's a pretty standard TS-type to me, except just a bit more aggressive. For the job I want it to do, I like it way better than my TS808 RI (which is good in itself, just a tad more nasal and stuffy) and a tad better than my SD-1. But if you compare it against most TS derivatives, it does a very similar job.

It is noisy, though. Agreed.


Maybe. I honestly never run the gain past 9 o'clock on anything TS-like.

I guess I just don't like the TS series, I had a TS-9 that I didn't like either, nothing wrong with it, It just didn't jell with me.

 

[Mincer]

Any of the Danelectro mini pedals. The big ones were decent, IMO.

Gotta disagree here. Their mini compressor is still sounding great. The big ones are long gone.

 

[GuitarStv]

Yeah, I played a couple mini Danelectro pedals that sounded decent . . . the quality of switch on those pedals was always a little suspect though.

 

[Artie]

Any of the Boss Acoustic Simulators . . .

It's gonna be hard to beat this one. I was looking at one in a flea-market, long ago. I looked at it long enough that the guy said "take it home and try it. If you don't like it, you can bring it back." Flea-markets don't have return policy's. I took it home. I brought it back. He gave me my money back with a smile. He knew. 'Nuff said.

 

[Mincer]

Yeah, I played a couple mini Danelectro pedals that sounded decent . . . the quality of switch on those pedals was always a little suspect though.

Durability was a problem due to plastic housing, but my compressor is still going.

 

[Dave Locher]

I hate phase pedals but that's just personal taste. I think the "worst" has to be a pedal that fails on some level. I'm going to go ahead and pile on the MXR Distortion+
back around 1986 I bought one of the original run models (in the box with more rounded corners) for $15 without trying it because it was the cheapest gain pedal in the shop. It was a gift for my girlfriend. I later borrowed it for a couple days and that thing barely reached unity with the volume cranked and everything sounded like it was being pushed through sand. (I assume that's what people mean when they say a pedal sounds "grainy"? It literally sounded like sand!)
I know others get great sounds out of those things but not that one!

To be fair, other than overdrives and boosts I have not tried nearly as many pedals as a lot of y'all. I'm sure there's a lot of suck that I've missed out on.

 

[jeremy]

zoom made some awful sounding stuff back in the day, im assuming they got better but i never bothered to find out

 

[Mincer]

How many old DOD pedals still have the battery door?

 

[Obsessive Compulsive]

How many old DOD pedals still have the battery door?

There's a lot more in my stash.

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[Erlend_G]

The Digitech RP100 i had in my early teens; didn't sound really good by any standards. But, it had a drum machine; and let me practice for hundreds of hours .

...I then got hold of a REALLY old multi-effects; I wonder if it was a digitech? :/. Darn, what a... flat tone. Completely flat, devoid of any detail, character or dynamics- just a "rubber band" ish tone. And that was BEFORE adding any effects. ha ha.

.... wierd to think of- sometime in the late 90's (?) someone paid HIGH dollars for that board, thinking it was the shiz.

hehe.

Also, bought an Electro Harmonix volume pedal. Maybe it's just me, but I think it was horrible. haha. Sent it right back.

 

[Mr. 80's]

Oh, God! I remember those Rocktek things. The Soundtanks weren't much better. The TS5 Tubescreamer Soundtank was the best of them but they all suffered the same problem, crappy plastic enclosure.

The Rocktek's were all plastic as well, at least the series like pictured was. And, it says a lot when the Ibanez Classic Metal Soundtank was a big improvement (since people seem to hate on it anyways). I had the Soundtank for about 6 years before someone stole it from me. Durability was never an issue and it was tossed around a lot with no pedalboard since it was my only pedal at the time and I took it everywhere. I actually really like the Classic Metal though and it pissed me off when it disappeared.

Mine was exactly like this one.

 

[Mincer]

My early 80s original Cry Baby has a nice 'Swoosh' of white noise along with the wah. It has always been there.

 

[Securb]

I had an EHX Dr. Q around '84 - '85. It sounded okay but the jack was ill-fitting. The jack slipped out and shorted out my entire board in the middle of a gig. It went in the trash soon after.

 

[Mincer]

My first pedal was a Next Distortion X. It had a knob where you can select the 'decade' of distortion...60's, 70's, 80's, and NEXT (?!!?). If you were really careful, you could select the date you were born.
It was pretty awful.

 

[misterwhizzy]

The original MXR Zakk Wylde overdrive

Open it up and slide the switch at the top left of the board. Now you have an MXR GT-OD, which is awesome.

 

[ErikH]

Open it up and slide the switch at the top left of the board. Now you have an MXR GT-OD, which is awesome.

I thought the switch put it in Classic Overdrive mode.

 

[UnderTheFlame83]

DOD Grunge gets my vote. Then all those Soundtank Ibanez pedals from the 90s because of how cheaply they're made. Although the Phaser and Delay ones was nice sounding.

 

[Mincer]

I still have a working TS5. The TS7, which was part of their series with the recessed knobs, has a funky switch. It is the tiny one on the PC board.