Unpopular pedals you love

theflyisback

well, someone had to do it...


Biyang Metal End 
a beast of a pedal and an amp sim to. Dumps all over the boss metal zone.  So much fun

Danelectro French Toast. Naff but again, so fun 

TC Sub N Up - who needs a POG? 

NUX Atlantic. A bit unreliable as the switches arent the best but the sounds are superb. ‘Ave that, strymon

JezWynd

Danelectro FAB Metal. Most fun twelve quid.

ICBM

Boss DF-2.

TheMarlin

Joyo Sweet Baby is lovely into Fender amps. 

tone1

Palmer Solid Metal....

mudslide73

Pearl OD-5. It's a TS with a parametric eq that moves the mid hump wherever you want. A boutiquey reboot surely exists?

TC Alter Ego 2. I still like it v much. 

Boss GE-7. Fixes all manner of "not cutting through" stuff with the above (and fuzzes).

impmann

Dod stereo chorus (fx65?)

Ibanez Sonic Distortion

And...

Boss Metal Zone - genuinely. I use mine as a pseudo fuzz box with more eq options and for synth-alike stuff using modulation, volume swells and delay. It’s fab. Genuinely.

57Deluxe

anything if it sounds good and doesn't cost more than the guitar... I bet naysayers would've scoffed at Jimmy Page's choice to use an old battered cheapo Supro amp with a Tele too...

NelsonP

The Arion Metal Master. More for the find memories I have of it rather than any real capabilities.

paulnb57

Boo.....anything by Boo.....

lasermonkey

The Boss CE-3. It's my favourite chorus, and I have a *lot* of chorus pedals. Sounds stellar in stereo. My favourite Flanger is another Boss pedal, the BF-2. Lots of people hate it, but it's one of the flangiest flangers out there.

Teyeplayer

Boss OD3. Just works well for me and does what it says on the tin.

jpttaylor

Boss Tera Echo - most of the demos when it was released only showed the one phaser/laser gun sound, but it's such a versatile pedal. Because it generates different sounds based on your picking strength, it really encourages you to play dynamically and think about how the echo will respond. The freeze feature is a nice bonus as well.

Samgb

jpttaylor said:

Boss Tera Echo - most of the demos when it was released only showed the one phaser/laser gun sound, but it's such a versatile pedal. Because it generates different sounds based on your picking strength, it really encourages you to play dynamically and think about how the echo will respond. The freeze feature is a nice bonus as well.

The Tera Echo model on the DD500 is great. And for all it's potential for weirdness I have been using it set very subtly as an always on reverb. It is a genuinely different pedal.  

NelsonP

The Arion Metal Master. More for the find memories I have of it rather than any real capabilities.

timbuk02

TC Mojo Mojo. Fat 'n ampy. And accomodates a battery.

dilbert

Joyo sweet baby & Boss GE-7 unpopular?

Hardly.

thermionic

Rocktek chorus. Cheap and plastic but mine survived my student days, knocked about on pub floors with no pedalboard. Had some Arion SCH-1 DNA in there. Sold mine for peanuts when I bought a CE-2, like an idiot.

I still also like the Danelectro FabTone for Mogwai type walls of sound.

sgosden

Boss md2.  Turn all the gain down and it boosts down tuned guitars without loosing the thumpy bass 

joetele

Danelectro Fab Chorus - spend a moment dialling it in and it's genuinely surprising how nice it sounds. 

I'll never part with my Digitech Digidelay either. Every setting is useable and sounds great. It's been on my board for over a decade now. 

Boss PH3. Love every mode, but especially step.

Boss FX5. Yeah it's digital and doesn't really model the 3 chosen fuzz pedals that well but in its own right it's a highly versatile fuzz with a nice overdrive to it too. 

Winny_Pooh

EH Memory toy. Budget build quality and a free volume boost when on but it sounds Excellent. Better than my old DM2 and most digital tape/BBD emulations. I have one on both boards.

Marshall Reflector. I have it set to spring 2 always. Great mixture of a mild splashy spring verb and a lo fi room. Almost always on and again, one on each board.