Your most hated pedal sound ?

Dominic

Vibrato ,
closely followed by a Univibe ( because it sounds like a vibrato )
Seasick ,out of tune , never sounds good with other instruments that are properly tuned 
yuck

thecolourbox

Pog type pedal with octave up on a very clean sound

Paul_C

Chorus

LastMantra

Maybe acoustic simulator type pedal. 

Most things sound good in the right situation though. 

chrisj1602

Talk box.

Alex2678

I love vibrato, but only at a fairly low depth and high speed.
I don’t like flangers, sounds tinny and gross 

EricTheWeary

In isolation probably vibrato but I know it’s on loads of records and sounds fine in context. 

I’m quite bored with shimmer reverbs now. If I watch a demo and there is a shimmer reverb because it’s so high in the mix it hurts my teeth. So, again, more buried in a mix and I’m not that aware of it probably fine. 

EricTheWeary

LastMantra said:

Maybe acoustic simulator type pedal. 

Most things sound good in the right situation though. 

I had pretty much assumed that acoustic simulator pedals had disappeared but I saw Joanne Shaw Taylor’s current board and she had one. It’s be interesting to hear how ‘acoustic’ it gets in her set up. 

CaseOfAce

I think it depends on how the effect is used in the context of the song / performance. There's no "bad" effect for me as such.

The only time I do cringe is if someone is using a multi-fx unit and they've just got everything but the kitchen sink turned on with it... or that hoary old cliche of playing with too much gain turning everything to mush / not cutting thru the mix...

Cols

No mention of the Korg Miku yet?

Aside from that, bitcrusher pedals.

Sporky

Paul_C said:

Chorus

Chorus is OK before (lots of) dirt. 

I'll nominate ring modulator. 

gatheredinsong

I'm not into ott shimmer reverbs or bitcrushers either. 9 times out of 10 I don't like wahs, but in the odd context, at the feet of a tasteful player, they can be great.

Vibrato is firmly in the like category though.

AntonHunter

Paul_C said:

Chorus

In before @Sassafras! ;

I'm inclined to agree as well, although other people make it sound great, Chorus and Vibrato have never really sat quite right on my playing.

Paul_C

Cols said:

No mention of the Korg Miku yet?

Aside from that, bitcrusher pedals.

fretmeister

Chorus unless it has a completely unjustified amount of distortion with it.

Phaser is far superior.

flying_pie

Wah

Specifically when you don't turn it off properly and end up torturring the crowd until you go to start the next song and notice how bad your tone sounds. Same thing goes for Digitech Whammy up two octaves when you don't turn it off properly...

alalalkasar

Shimmer reverb is a terrible thing but fortunately it only really exists in the world of YouTube demos, ambient soundscapes and churches apparently so I don't have to deal with it regularly.

tone1

Yep, shimmer/halo reverb…and that’s coming from someone who loves reverb. 

GoFish

Strange - I could get through almost any gig with just a Miku, a ring mod and my trusty old bitcrusher.

Cols

GoFish said:

Strange - I could get through almost any gig with just a Miku, a ring mod and my trusty old bitcrusher.

By “get through”, I assume you mean “permanently banned from the venue”.

ICBM

Klon, or any other overdrive being used as a clean-ish boost with nasty metallic upper mids.