What Pedal "blew you away" this year?

DesVegas

For me it was getting my hands on a Rat .  Love that goddam sound .. also, very late to the party i know, but there you go.

anyways, this is what tgp say http://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php?threads/what-pedal-blew-you-away-this-year.1772308/ what say you?

Ps, everytime someone says Helix i get to eat a quality street

colourofsound

Snouse BlackBox for me. The overdrive in my head.

meltedbuzzbox

Lovetone Amp 11
Eventide H9 (technically a multi effects but its does some truly unique things)

slacker

Mel9

guitarfishbay

For guitar - nothing really.

For bass:

Darkglass B7KU - Just nails high gain bass tones in a box...  It's going to become as recognisable in some genres as the BDDI is in others, but I guess that's because it works.

Aguilar Tone Hammer -  I put off buying this for absolutely ages but I love it.  Does that slightly compressed, slightly warm, barely over-driving sound so well.  Also makes for a really nice Jazz bass preamp without the AGS engaged.

SFX Micro Thumpinator - not so much blew me away but cleaned up the low B on my Jazz when going in to certain pedals (essentially it's just a steep high pass at 30hz).  Makes a big difference with my RBI, really cleans up the grit so it isn't so farty on higher gain settings.  Also works great with guitar pedals when they're being blended in via LS2... super useful, again much more so than I expected.

Digitech Bass Synth Wah - I bought it for the weird stuff but actually it has turned out to be a great tracking but decent sounding octave down.  Between it and the MXR BOD I feel I've got octaves fairly well covered (though I still have GAS for a COG).

cosmiccarrot

The Catalinbread Talisman. I've been searching for a quality plate verb for a long time, trying most of the stomp stuff and ending up with a tc nova verb for a year, but was blown away with the quality and function of the Talisman... well chuffed.

NotNowJohn

BJFE Mighty Green Mini Vibe. Had one a few years ago but sold it during a crisis.
Managed to find anther one a few weeks ago and I'm blown away all over again.

vasselmeyer

My old Marshall Guv'nor Mk.1 which  had come  off my board because it didn't sound right. After a bit of TLC from  @juansolo ;
and Cleggy it was back to its old self and my Wampler Plexidrive will be up in the classifieds very soon. There's a reason it's a classic.

ICBM

Boss GT-5

How something so old and so cheap these days still sounds better than most of the new stuff on the market.

BintyTwanger77

Fairfield Circuitry The Accountant compressor. How such a tiny pedal with two toggles and a volume dial can make my amp sound so good blows me away. Fantastic tone.

Teetonetal

Does Helix count? If so, that. It's the most incredible piece of gear I've ever bought.
Otherwise the Gurus DD1959. What a pedal.

robinbowes

Eventide H9 - even though I bought it a couple of years ago and it's not on my current rehearsal board, It amazes me every time I have a fiddle with it.

Origin Effects Cali76 Deluxe - fantastic compressor

DryBell Effects Vibe Machine V-2 - still the same great sound, now with even more incredible control.

R.

Rocker

A clip on tuner that @Alnico ;sent me earlier this year. Great little thing....

DesVegas

Teetonetal said:

Does Helix count? If so, that. It's the most incredible piece of gear I've ever bought.
Otherwise the Gurus DD1959. What a pedal.

Sure does, i think i'll have the green triangle one

http://i.huffpost.com/gadgets/slideshows/439058/slide_439058_5773242_free.jpg

Jonathanthomas83

Tried a few this year that I have been impressed with (some not necessarily released this year, but it's the first time I've got to try them)...

• Friedman BE-OD
• PIOD What You Want 2
• RYRA Klone
• Buffalo M-1
• Origin FX Sliderig CD
• Suhr Reactive Load and Torpedo CAB (the absolute hands down winner - best thing I've ever done with my rig!)

Sorry if I broke the rules!

DesVegas

@Jonathanthomas83 my thread = no rules .. pure anarchy

Jonathanthomas83

Cheers @DesVegas, true gent :-)

zepp76

Skreddy Rust Rod, a fantastic muff that I've been after for ages and finally got one last week.

RYRA Klone, nothing to say but amazing.

J Rockett Lenny, bought on a whim and love it, it colours my clean sound beautifully and has just the right amount of drive, all in all a great little pedal (that weighs a ton!)

peteri

Three for me -

Marshall Guv'nor - had it since I got it new when they first came out (89??), haven't used it for years. Wow!

Klon KTR - I know some people go so what? I just love it, both as clean boost, and an upmarket TS

Eventide H9 - got it two weeks ago, and it's changed my view of multi-fx - just sounds so good

timmysoft

OCD v1.7, it's just very good. 

ThePrettyDamned

I like my juansolo calvin and hobbes fuzz ball. Hates the ac15,  but plays great into stronger clean amps with tons of headroom.