Worst-sounding FX pedal?

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Flange? Eddie Rabbitt's "Someone Could Lose a Heart Tonite", Police "Bring on the Night"...I am REALLY reaching here, please help. The flanged bit in Kiss' "I Want You" is pleasant but doesn't really add anything to the song.

― dave q, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I think there's chorus or flange on the intro of Martha and the Muffins' "Echo Beach" or something that sounds good anyway.

― dave q, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

surely flange = Cure, and that's OK

― the pinefox, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Danelectro "sitar swami" does not sound anything like a sitar - absolute pants

― bob snoom, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm not a huge fan of chorus or flange, myself, but I'd have to give the nod to Boss' Metal Zone pedal...sounded great at the store but terrible once I got it home and tried it with my own guitar. (This is less an indictment of the worth of the pedal itself and probably the remainder of my equipment, though. But still, that name is cheese-o.)

― Sean Carruthers, Saturday, 3 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Mr Hand, you are correct.

― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Every distortion I have ever used, except the yellow Boss super overdrive. Chorus. Flange. Phaser. In fact, pretty much any effect other than equalisation or reverb/delay.

― electric sound of jim, Sunday, 4 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Flangers rule.

― sundar subramanian, Monday, 5 August 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

three weeks pass...

Flange in "Rocket Queen" by Guns N Roses - on the voice.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 26 August 2002 03:39 (twenty-one years ago) link

I saw the banshees some years ago - for most ofthe set the guitars were flanged so heavily that they sounded like police sirens. It was GRATE. Cosey Fanni Tutti from throbbing gristle & her guitar that is so heavily flanged that it sounds like a railway train passing thru a tunnel r0x0r3d as well. Phlanger = OK by me.

― N0RM4N PH4Y, Monday, 26 August 2002 16:44 (twenty-one years ago) link

The Boss BS0 'SUCK' Pedal...

Three knobs: Shit, Piss, Why?

Worst pedal I ever bought

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 26 August 2002 17:27 (twenty-one years ago) link

psychedelic is a synonym for SHIT

I want this on a clever t-shirt. Kate do i have yer permission?

There are just certain sounds that are inexcusable. I'm with Dave q on the digital distortion thing - but surely the wurst is every 90s pop-punk guitar sound ever?!?

― Dave M. (rotten03), Monday, 26 August 2002 17:40 (twenty-one years ago) link

when I was young and naive I bought a DOD 60's fuzz pedal (made in 1990). I thought I could channel the super fuzz sounds of 60's beat combos through one miraculous pedal. My doorbell has a better fuzztone.

― lawrence kansas, Monday, 26 August 2002 18:15 (twenty-one years ago) link

one year passes...

s: delay; i've only used the white boss digital delay so far but it sounds lovely; i expect there are even nicer (cleaner? whatever) sounding delays to be discoverd.

d: oh yes flange and um the overdrive pedal my friend has i don't like ('rocktron blackjack' or something; he says it's really good but i couldn't get to sound too good when i ws just pfaffin about with it then).

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 9 January 2004 21:54 (twenty years ago) link

haha, my response is just as i predicted upthread...

Boss - Super Feedbacker/Distortion pedal

i recently used this piece again just to justify it's complete utter crapness.

it's a pedal that if you hold the pedal down it's supposed to emit a wail of feedback in the note that is playing when deployed. sounds awesome (to a 17 year old), right?

wrong, what is emitted is a paperthin, dying-kitten-melp of plastic-cheese-sound so weak and feeble that you were left wondering if your guitar instantly turned into baby's first keyboard with dying batteries.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 9 January 2004 22:06 (twenty years ago) link

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