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What's the most-overrated boutique pedal, share your worst purchase

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@mira.alves
6 weeks agoAsked in Off-Topic
Need a laugh after a long teaching week. What's a pedal you bought because the internet wouldn't shut up about it and then sold within a month? I'll start. The Chase Bliss Mood. I love what they do, I love the brand, I respect everything about how it was designed. I bought one, kept it for six weeks, sold it. The interface is beautifully thought through and completely incompatible with how I think about pedals on stage. I want to step on something and have it do a thing. The Mood wants me to think about it. I don't want to think about a pedal during a song. I want to think about a song during a song. Nobody's wrong about the Mood. It does what they say it does. I'm just not the player for it. Who else has one? The worst part of selling a Chase Bliss pedal is you lose maybe 20% of retail, the resale community is honest. The best part is somebody who actually loves it gets it for a fair price.
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  • DK
    @dani.kowalski6 weeks ago
    I have a Mood. I love it. I also play with a click and a setlist and I have time to set it during a song. It's not a stomp-it-on-and-go pedal. You're right about who it's for and who it isn't. Both of those people exist.
  • LF
    @lo.flannery6 weeks ago
    My worst purchase was the original Klon clone fad. I bought four boutique clones before I bought a KTR. The KTR has been on my board for six years. Three of the clones are in a drawer. I'm sure they're fine pedals. I just didn't need four of them.
  • TW
    @thelma.weller6 weeks ago
    Every digital fuzz I've ever tried. The DSP fuzz pedals all sound the same and they all sound like an idea of fuzz, not fuzz. I'm a transistor-or-die person. Worst purchase, a Strymon Riverside set to its fuzz model. Sold within a week. Strymon makes incredible time-based pedals and should not make fuzz.
  • KT
    @kobu.tinker6 weeks ago
    Echoplex EP-3 preamp clones. I have tried four of them. They all do basically the same job and the job is 'a slight high-mid push'. You can get the same effect with a Klon at 8 o'clock and a touch of treble. Spent too much on too many. Lesson learned.
  • JR
    @jules.rourke5 weeks ago
    The Eventide H9. Brilliant unit. Bad interface. Same problem you had with the Mood. If I have to scroll through screens during a song, the pedal has failed me. Sold it after six months and replaced it with three single-purpose pedals.

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