Fastest you've ever moved on a pedal

mattdavis

Weeks of online searching, drooling over YouTube demos, painstakingly trawling through reviews and Fretboard threads. Yes - yes, this is the one. The Timeline is the answer to everything. Once I have this pedal the search will have ended. Drive 3 hours there and back - 1 day playing with it. 
Bollox - not for me. And was up for sale the next day. 
What's the fastest turnaround time you've had?

monquixote

About an hour. 

I usually know when I'm not going to get on with something.

mattdavis

literally up for sale in an hour - my 24 now seems a bit pathetic...

monquixote

Yep

Beexter

Mooer Pure Octave had less than 30 minutes play time before I knew it wasn't staying.

Thought it would do a Micro Pog on the cheap but should have paid more attention to the bad reviews... Even Mooer themselves try to give you a clue to its potential by making it the colour of a turd.

mattdavis

What is it with octaves and the colour brown? At one point I had an angry Charlie and oc2 - contemplated the strymon Lex - but no matter how good it all sounded, my board was going to look like a gastroenterologist's stool chart....

BintyTwanger77

A day. @Wazmeister can vouch for this.

bbill335

There's been more than one pedal that I've literally plugged in, played for five minutes and thought "this is a bit shit"

Teetonetal

Yup about an hour. Quite a few times too. Some pedals really are rubbish.

MrSwanson

Definitely after a play through, you often tell pretty soon if it's for you or not. 

mattdavis

This is reassuring. I was expecting a flurry of 'you've got to spend some time with them, tweak away, invest in the pedal' etc etc but my experience is that you know within 5 minutes. 
What a fickle bunch we are. 

ICBM

I've decided to put a pedal up for sale before it even arrived.

It was a Dunlop Jimi Hendrix Fuzz-Wah that I bought one evening on Ebay after several beers… because I missed my old Sound City Fuzz-Wah.

The following day I did some research and wasn't optimistic. When it arrived it duly sounded terrible - it wasn't a fuzz-wah, it was a crap-sounding distortion and an average-sounding wah in the same housing. It went to the shop on the next trip in - I did eventually sell it at only a tiny loss, so not all bad.

mattdavis

Well you can't get much earlier than before you've even got it. You win
ebay + beer = dangerous 

Dopesick

Yep, sometimes literally only takes about ten minutes to an hour, depending on how versatile it can be. It's mostly distortion/fuzz pedals.

I got a second hand Way Huge Echo Puss from Coda last week, tried it for half an hour, and am about to put it up for sale here.

Kebabkid

About an hour - it was a Line 6 M5 and back it went to the shop. Previously, a day for a used, 70s MXR Envelope Filter that didn't work

DesVegas

monquixote said:

About an hour. 

I usually know when I'm not going to get on with something.

This^ sometimes you just know it's not what you expected

nickb_boy

I bet @GavRichList moved quicker than Michael Flatley on his pedals before he went all midi

Back to the actual question:
Recovery Effects Bad Comrade.  Plugged in, 10 minutes later of all the screeching and self oscillation I decided I was never gong to tame it in to something I could use for more than 5 seconds at a time.

GavRichList

@nickb_boy not massively actually.... think maybe the quickest was the Zvex Fat Fuzz Factory... and I still thought it was good 

RandallFlagg

I added some wheels to a couple of old BOSS pedals and strapped then on and skated down hill and got up to about 12 mph before falling off. I think that's the fastest I have moved on a pedal.

RandallFlagg

15 minutes: Way Huge Overrated Special. Boxed up and MyHermes label stuck on shortly after to return back to store.

The clue was in the name

mattdavis

RandallFlagg said:

I added some wheels to a couple of old BOSS pedals and strapped then on and skated down hill and got up to about 12 mph before falling off. I think that's the fastest I have moved on a pedal.

you should have tried the Flux capacitor pedal - apparently you can actually go forwards in time...