Pedals!!!

Rushfan30 Sun Oct 04, 2009 3:08 am

Hey there, I'm wondering what kind of pedal brands I should avoid. I've never really used pedals before. I've got an old Digitech guitar distortion pedal, but it doesn't sound the greatest on my bass. I was thinking of maybe getting a bass overdrive pedal or a chorus pedal, or maybe a flanger pedal. I'm really not sure lol. Never tried them. I noticed there is some Ibanez pedals fairly cheap. So which brands should I avoid? afro

**Dropthelines585** Sun Oct 04, 2009 4:43 am

not ibanez, that's for sure.

**SuperMaximo93** Sun Oct 04, 2009 2:43 pm

Dropthelines585 wrote:not ibanez, that's for sure.

Not avoid Ibanez, or avoid Ibanez?
Either way my Ibanez PD-7 overdrive/distortion is pretty good, and I'd reccomend it to anyone (works nicely on guitar too).

Personally I avoid brands whos pedals are made of plastic (Behringer is one such company). I don't want to step on a pedal and then crush it because I stomped on it too hard Razz

**Cliff em' all** Sun Oct 04, 2009 2:52 pm

Max you mean this one?

http://www.thomann.de/gr/ibanez_pd7.htm

**Dropthelines585** Sun Oct 04, 2009 6:06 pm

SuperMaximo93 wrote:
Dropthelines585 wrote:not ibanez, that's for sure.
Not avoid Ibanez, or avoid Ibanez?
Either way my Ibanez PD-7 overdrive/distortion is pretty good, and I'd reccomend it to anyone (works nicely on guitar too).

Personally I avoid brands whos pedals are made of plastic (Behringer is one such company). I don't want to step on a pedal and then crush it because I stomped on it too hard

Do not avoid Ibanez. They make great pedals. You should be supporting Behringer, max. Aren't they a British company?

**danthewelshy** Sun Oct 04, 2009 6:35 pm

Dropthelines585 wrote:
SuperMaximo93 wrote:
Dropthelines585 wrote:not ibanez, that's for sure.
Not avoid Ibanez, or avoid Ibanez?
Either way my Ibanez PD-7 overdrive/distortion is pretty good, and I'd reccomend it to anyone (works nicely on guitar too).

Personally I avoid brands whos pedals are made of plastic (Behringer is one such company). I don't want to step on a pedal and then crush it because I stomped on it too hard

Do not avoid Ibanez. They make great pedals. You should be supporting Behringer, max. Aren't they a British company?

German

**SuperMaximo93** Sun Oct 04, 2009 7:13 pm

Cliff em' all wrote:Max you mean this one?

http://www.thomann.de/gr/ibanez_pd7.htm

Yep!

danthewelshy wrote:
Dropthelines585 wrote:
SuperMaximo93 wrote:
Dropthelines585 wrote:not ibanez, that's for sure.
Not avoid Ibanez, or avoid Ibanez?
Either way my Ibanez PD-7 overdrive/distortion is pretty good, and I'd reccomend it to anyone (works nicely on guitar too).

Personally I avoid brands whos pedals are made of plastic (Behringer is one such company). I don't want to step on a pedal and then crush it because I stomped on it too hard

Do not avoid Ibanez. They make great pedals. You should be supporting Behringer, max. Aren't they a British company?

German

I hate German stuff (no offence to Germans, blame my school for teaching us modern European languages Razz

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**Cliff em' all** Sun Oct 04, 2009 8:06 pm

Lol,yeah since i got that german certificate i have forgotten to spell my name. lol!

Well not so bad.

I think of buyin' that ibanez instead of the multieffect boss.

**Dropthelines585** Sun Oct 04, 2009 8:52 pm

Isn't GK German, too? GK stuff is awesome.

Rushfan30 Sun Oct 04, 2009 10:17 pm

Personally I avoid brands whos pedals are made of plastic (Behringer is one such company). I don't want to step on a pedal and then crush it because I stomped on it too hard

Good point that never crossed my mind Shocked

**Garth** Sun Oct 04, 2009 11:06 pm

Boss makes sick pedals.

I'm currently borrowing distortion and chromatic tuner pedals, and both work perfectly.

They get quite pricey brand new though, so if you can get a earlier model used, do it up.

Protoplm Mon Oct 05, 2009 6:44 pm

The basic Boss DS-1 distortion pedal is really meh.. very thin sound. It's supposedly a very modifiable pedal if you're good with circuit boards and solder. That's what I'm going to make my next project..

Other than that, I don't really know - I want a wah pedal next!

Igastopheles Mon Oct 05, 2009 7:38 pm

The reason that your guitar distortion pedal isn't good for bass is self-explanatory: it wasn't designed to be used with a bass. Bass-specific distortion pedals have more support for the low end, so the fundamental actually goes through when you play the notes. It's no surprise then when you have no punch with your distorted bass because you have no low end. lol!