Dumbest Effect

Stephen Gambrell · Post by **Stephen Gambrell** » 9 Jul 2003 11:19 am

I'm getting back into electric guitar, after years away from it, and I'm putting a pedalboard together. Delay, compressor, overdrive---fairly simple, mostly stuff I had left over. But I got to wondering;
What do you guys think is the dumbest effect
pedal ever made? I'm torn between an octave pedal, and the thing on the Danelectro reverb
that sounds like you kicked your amp.
What do you guys think??

Jon Light (deceased) · Post by **Jon Light (deceased)** » 9 Jul 2003 11:41 am

That Dano thing so much makes me think of some pedal designers sitting around and smoking too much weed and coming up with that idea that I can't even call it dumb. It cracks me up. As long as they're not standing in front of me in line at Taco Bell for twenty minutes trying to decide what to order to feed their munchies they're ok with me.

There's a pedal that acts as an auto-volume swell that seems utterly useless to me and I nominate that one.

Tony LaCroix · Post by **Tony LaCroix** » 9 Jul 2003 11:55 am

I vote for the entire line of Danelectro pedals- what a bunch of junk. I hate chorus in all of it's forms, too.

Chris Walke · Post by **Chris Walke** » 9 Jul 2003 12:27 pm

The octave pedal is actually a very cool effect, if used wisely....maybe not for steel, though.

As far as the Dano line of pedals...I'm not sure, I'm reading "dumbest" as "useless" as opposed to poor quality.

Personally, I've never really seen the point behind Flange. A Phase pedal, now, I can get into that, but to have a cycle of hiss running under my guitar tone seems....useless.

Jesse Harris · Post by **Jesse Harris** » 9 Jul 2003 12:51 pm

autowah

damn they are annoying

and second place goes to the framton voice box thing

"do you feel".........SMACK!!!!

hey, the dan-echo is a decent sounding box
and I have used tape echos and a memory man forever
and the dan-echo stands up pretty damn good
for an everynight simple echo, of course its like $100, not like the ones they are making now named after fried food or whatever, and its in a heavy steel box for durability.

Jesse Harris · Post by **Jesse Harris** » 9 Jul 2003 12:52 pm

oops I just remembered witches brew,
ok the auto wah can stay.

Jim Ives · Post by **Jim Ives** » 9 Jul 2003 1:02 pm

Phaser gets my vote. It didn't even sound good back when I took acid.

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Michael Johnstone · Post by **Michael Johnstone** » 9 Jul 2003 1:23 pm

Ring modulator - Lame and truly annoying.

Jim Eaton · Post by **Jim Eaton** » 9 Jul 2003 2:43 pm

IMHO - "any" effect (reverb omitted) that is used on 2 songs in a row by anyone!
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Donny Hinson · Post by **Donny Hinson** » 9 Jul 2003 3:49 pm

Geeze, 'ya mean I'm the only one here who really hates Tremolo?!

Actually, I'm not that crazy about playing with a lot of echo, either...you know, like when someone tries to do a "speed-picking" effect by using multiple repeats. It was neat in Les Paul's time, but then again, so were running boards.

Oh yeah...and I never was really that crazy about "Stereo", either. To me, it only improves a chorus sound.[This message was edited by Donny Hinson on 09 July 2003 at 04:56 PM.]

Bill Hatcher · Post by **Bill Hatcher** » 9 Jul 2003 4:18 pm

Tony. The Dano pedals are very cool and are showing up in lot's of studio guitarists gear these days, especially in Nashville.

The yellow Tuna Melt vibrato has become my most used gadget. To say that all of these pedals are trash is just not true.

Joey Ace · Post by **Joey Ace** » 9 Jul 2003 4:33 pm

Andy Greatrix · Post by **Andy Greatrix** » 9 Jul 2003 4:39 pm

That's nice Joey, but what good is it without the soulful Mooney tone? It should have a choice between Buck, Wynn, and Merle settings.(grin)

Michael Holland · Post by **Michael Holland** » 9 Jul 2003 4:43 pm

Great one, Joey!

Len Amaral · Post by **Len Amaral** » 9 Jul 2003 6:45 pm

I have a Roland GP-100 that has great reverbs and delays, etc. This unit has 400 effects and I use 4.

The other 396 offerings have some nice usable unusable effects but the overwhelming majority are weird.

Oh well....

Pat Burns · Post by **Pat Burns** » 9 Jul 2003 6:54 pm

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Joey...

...hey, I just realized I can make a Rastafarian smiley (

)[This message was edited by Pat Burns on 09 July 2003 at 07:58 PM.]

Jeff A. Smith · Post by **Jeff A. Smith** » 9 Jul 2003 7:39 pm

Years ago I came across something called a "Bow-Wow Yoy-Yoy" pedal. What'd it do? I don't know, it didn't work. I still may have it in my closet someplace...

Jesse Harris · Post by **Jesse Harris** » 10 Jul 2003 8:45 am

joey thats classic

what is that photoshop wizardry?
your good

Joey Ace · Post by **Joey Ace** » 10 Jul 2003 9:40 am

Thanks Jesse,
I use PhotoShop a lot.
See Ricky's Dream for a recent PhotoShop image I'm quite proud of.

However the TONE CLONE was done using only MS PAINT, the free program that comes with Windows. It's a photo I took of my Boss Tuner, slightly modified.
[This message was edited by Joey Ace on 10 July 2003 at 11:42 AM.]

Jesse Harris · Post by **Jesse Harris** » 10 Jul 2003 9:48 am

joey that hilarious

Tony LaCroix · Post by **Tony LaCroix** » 10 Jul 2003 10:55 am

Bill, if I'm not mistaken, the Dano Tuna Melt is a tremolo pedal. Tremolo is my favorite effect, but give me a soldering pencil and some wires and I'll make one while watching Jerry Springer...

Earnest Bovine · Post by **Earnest Bovine** » 10 Jul 2003 11:38 am

Is it true that a guy married his horse on thre Jerry Springer show?

Jackie Anderson · Post by **Jackie Anderson** » 10 Jul 2003 12:00 pm

Jealous, Earnest?

Ed Miller Jr · Post by **Ed Miller Jr** » 10 Jul 2003 5:41 pm

The danelectro Sitar swami----Their isn't enough controlled substances IN THE WORLD to make it sound like a real sitar. I'd rather play a coral electric Razor. Its a more accurate sound.
Ed

Bill Hatcher · Post by **Bill Hatcher** » 10 Jul 2003 6:03 pm

Tony. Leo Fender put the word "vibrato" on the amp. It will always be vibrato to me even though it is tremelo.