Reply With Quote+1 Flanger... got no use for it at all.
I really like a good chorus sound, but still no real use for me.
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What effect have you given up on?
For me, it's Flanger. I can't really stand using that effect more than a few seconds (unless I'm playing some old Van Halen cover...).
I also don't use Chorus much, but I haven't completely given up on it.
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+1 Flanger... got no use for it at all.
I really like a good chorus sound, but still no real use for me.
Power chords...I love power chords...I wish more bands would use em...
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Yea that an the swirly vibrato pedals!
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I've given up on ... wahs. Tried so many, Dunlop, vintage Dunlop, a old Vox, a older Boss TW1 (autowah) the models in EX7 and a morley (which wasn't mine but this one sounded brilliant - unfortunately I never found another morley sounding as good again).
Don't feel like I should try a RMC - but I'd like to hear the killer wail by Tech21.
By the way, just recovered the flangerI like to modulate delaysignals..
Uli
Regular Fretter
Most of them. See below
Electric: Fat strat > Korg PB > TS7 > DS1 > DD-20 > Cube 60 (Fender model)
Acoustic: Guitar > microphone > audience
Luke Skyrawker
Water Pik. I use to have an original and man it was great. The new ones just don't have the same mojo.
Otherwise...I'm still open to every effect.
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Reverend Rawk
I'll try anything once, but I still haven't found a need for tremolo. Just not my bag.
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Effecten: "Thesis 96" Overdrive/Boost (aka DVM OD2), Hardwire DL-8 Digital Delay/Looper, DigiTech Polara Reverb, DigiTech EX-7 Expression Factory and CF-7 Chorus Factory, Danelectro CF-1 Cool Cat Fuzz
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Agree on the flanger. Sounds horrible to me.
Guitars: Epiphone SG-400 Custom; Epiphone Firebird V; 1996 Gibson LP Standard; Avion 4; Yamaha FG-301B acoustic
FX: TS-808; Big Muff (Triangle Version); Red Llama; Green Ringer Octave Up (Clones); Maxon Phaser; Maxon Compressor; Tremulus Lune Tremolo; Line 6 POD II
Amp: (Somewhere in another country) Hiwatt 100W head, Marshall 4x12 cab
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Regular Fretter
I've never been a pedal junkie,I still have a Rat,a ts10 and I don't use them much.Well see when the Rodent comes and I just bought a amph a bj and it is comming with a ts9.I have a jimi hendrix fuzz wah never really liked that one maybe one day I'll throw it out.I like to plug in and use the amph but Im changing a little using my tone port some of the sounds are cool.Sumi
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Regular Fretter
I can't say that I've given up on a flanger cause I've never liked the effect either. I also can't say the same about Tremolo. I hate them both equally.
Guitars/Bass - MIM Fender Classic 50s Strat, MIM Fender Standard Strat, Squier Classic Vibe 50s Tele, Gibson Les Paul Studio, Epi '56 Gold Top Les Paul, Martin DSR acoustic, Sigma Martin Auditorium electric/acoustic, Squier Jazz Bass.
Amps/Cabinets/Modelers - Model 2558 50 watt Marshall Silver Anniversary Jubilee combo w/ Celestion Vintage 30s, 4x12 Marshall cabinet w/25 watt Greenback Celestions, Fender Blues Junior w/ a couple of Billm mods, Line 6 POD 2.0, Roland Micro Cube
Pedals/Effects - Cry Baby Classic Wah, Boss TU-2, Boss NS-2, Boss RC-2 Loop Station, Ross Compressor, MXR Micro Amp, Danelectro FAB Echo, Danelectro FAB Chorus, Danelectro Chicken Salad, Marshall Guv'nor Plus, Marshall Echohead, Duhvoodooman's Zonkin' Yellow Screamer, Digitech Digiverb, Digitech Bad Monkey, Dunlop Fuzz Face, Homemade Loop Bypass pedal, Duhvoodooman's Sonic Tonic (Maxon SD-9 clone +), Voodoo Labs Superfuzz
Regular Fretter
I really like tremolo. It has that "stranded in the middle of the Arizona desert" scary-sweet sound to it.Originally Posted by Tone2TheBone
Guitars: Epiphone SG-400 Custom; Epiphone Firebird V; 1996 Gibson LP Standard; Avion 4; Yamaha FG-301B acoustic
FX: TS-808; Big Muff (Triangle Version); Red Llama; Green Ringer Octave Up (Clones); Maxon Phaser; Maxon Compressor; Tremulus Lune Tremolo; Line 6 POD II
Amp: (Somewhere in another country) Hiwatt 100W head, Marshall 4x12 cab
My noise here
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I can't say I have given up on any yet. I like all that I have so far. I don't use my wah much yet, but that is because I am not yet that adept at it. I have not purchased a flanger or phaser or any of those other end of chain shapers yet because I figure I have it close enough with my chorus, and I don't play phaser or flanger type music much. I do have those effects in my Korg, just haven't used them.
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Sun Valley, Idaho
Guitars: Fender 60th Anniversary Std. Strat, Squier CVC Tele Hagstrom Viking Semi-hollow, Joshua beach guitar, Martin SPD-16TR Dreadnought
Amphs: Peavey Classic 30, '61 Fender Concert
Effects and such: Boss: DS-1, CE-5, NS-2 and RC20XL looper, Digitech Bad Monkey, Korg AX1G Multi-effects, Berhinger: TU100 tuner, PB100 Clean Boost, Line 6 Toneport UX2, Electro Harmonix Little Big Muff Pi, DuhVoodooMan's Rabid Rodent Rat Clone, Zonkin Yellow Screamer Mk. II, MXR Carbon Copy Delay
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I know exactly the sound you mean. I even see those desert scenes in sepia play over and over in my mind. I gotta admit that I loved the Tremolo tone that Ry Cooder used on one scene during the movie Crossroads when Eugene loses his girlfriend and plays a thing on his Tele. Now that was a cool Tremolo sound but anytime I try to use it I end up hating it.
Guitars/Bass - MIM Fender Classic 50s Strat, MIM Fender Standard Strat, Squier Classic Vibe 50s Tele, Gibson Les Paul Studio, Epi '56 Gold Top Les Paul, Martin DSR acoustic, Sigma Martin Auditorium electric/acoustic, Squier Jazz Bass.
Amps/Cabinets/Modelers - Model 2558 50 watt Marshall Silver Anniversary Jubilee combo w/ Celestion Vintage 30s, 4x12 Marshall cabinet w/25 watt Greenback Celestions, Fender Blues Junior w/ a couple of Billm mods, Line 6 POD 2.0, Roland Micro Cube
Pedals/Effects - Cry Baby Classic Wah, Boss TU-2, Boss NS-2, Boss RC-2 Loop Station, Ross Compressor, MXR Micro Amp, Danelectro FAB Echo, Danelectro FAB Chorus, Danelectro Chicken Salad, Marshall Guv'nor Plus, Marshall Echohead, Duhvoodooman's Zonkin' Yellow Screamer, Digitech Digiverb, Digitech Bad Monkey, Dunlop Fuzz Face, Homemade Loop Bypass pedal, Duhvoodooman's Sonic Tonic (Maxon SD-9 clone +), Voodoo Labs Superfuzz
Regular Fretter
I think tremolo is the one effect I actually use well. Chalk it up to listening to a lot of Marc Ribot and Spacemen 3.
I like the flanger (particularly in dub reggae) but I've yet to be able to find the right settings to use it to my liking in my own playing.
I am most assuredly a tone junkie and will never get sick of any effects permanently. I always like to play around with them.
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I can't say that I've given up on a flanger cause I've never liked the effect either. I also can't say the same about Tremolo. I hate them both equally. - Tone2TheBone 2009
Regular Fretter
Flanger, Phaser, Chorus, Whammy Pedal
My new love though is the Tremolo....sooooo awesome what you can do with htis effect, it must be the most underrated effect...
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I haven't given up on the phaser, I just haven't found one that I like. I use to use a beat up '80's DOD that had a great thick sound. I kept trying to replace it with something better. I bought a Digitech Modulator, a TC Electronic Nova Modulator, and a Line 6 MM-4. None of them have that great a phaser sound. I would just throw the DOD back on my board but it's kind of falling apart. Someday I'll stumble upon another great phaser. I will also agree with Jimi about the Whammy pedal. They are fun to mess with but not very useful. They also take up a lot of real estate on your board.
Patrick
Regular Fretter
Chorus, Phaser, Flanger, Tremolo in general.
And specifically for OD the Fulltone OCD...yuck.
Regular Fretter
no way would i give up on tremolo... i don't use it often, but if you let it kick in towards the end of a solo, things can get pretty sexy.
but flangers and leslie (models [EX-7]) just get annoying as hell after a while..
whammies can be useful though, i wouldnt ever remove it..
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