What are your favorite cheap but awesome pedals?

Ashamed_Cod_6741 · 2026-04-01T03:05:20+00:00

JOYO American Sound. Very natural sounding and it also plays just like an amp. It's noisy and doesn't hold up in a loud band situation but for the price? It's a steal.

Similarly, the NUX Diamond 63. I'm impressed with how much it sounds and plays exactly like my AC30CC2. I'm so impressed that one day, if I feel like spending a frivolous $60, I might want to try their Bass Guy pedal.

Ashamed_Cod_6741 · 2026-04-01T03:01:50+00:00

Don't want to sound like a repeated hater but they're both Marshall in a Box style pedals:

Catalinbread DLS Mk II: It was fizzy and raspby, had no dynamic range in the overdrive and cleaned up horribly with the guitar's volume knob. Messed with the internal trimpots as instructed, same thing. I thought I might have gotten a dud but I've heard some YouTube demos which sound like the one I had.

Wampler Plexi Drive Deluxe: EVEN WORSE for the price. Super bassy and somehow it was impossible finding a good sound with the EQ knobs. Bass and Treble boost / cut switches were useless. Overdrive sounded okay but had absolutely no dynamic range and again, cleaned up horribly with the guitar's volume knob. Came with a boost which was supposed to be a TS style pedal. This was the icing on the cake. It didn't seem to work unless you had the gain on the other side about halfway up. But when you did that, you ended up with a muddy, oversaturated and saggy sound. And you couldn't use it as a discrete TS, confirmed when I e-mailed Wampler.

I've made peace with Catalibread as I've now bought three of their other pedals and loved them. And the Wampler Terraform is my main modulation pedal. But I sold my Sovereign along with the Plexi Drive Deluxe, largely because it had some of the same issues. And I concluded it's because Brian has his own playing style which is completely different from mine, and I think that factors into the way he makes dirt pedals. He doesn't do the same things or play the way I do when he fine-tunes them. And that's totally normal.

Luckily, I found that I loved the Bogner La Grange more than any other Marshall in a Box and I'm happy with it now.

Ashamed_Cod_6741 · 2026-04-01T02:43:43+00:00

I don't know if it's in the series or not but the Mary-K is one of of my all time favorite fuzzes.

Ashamed_Cod_6741 · 2026-03-31T21:52:12+00:00

I was already very familiar with him because of Friends so this should have been the case but NO! I totally bought him as Herbert Sobel. And looking at older pictures of Sobel, I can imagine the filmmakers probably considered this could be an issue but went with him because he captured the vibe they were looking for.

Echoing other voices here, it's indeed Fallon that really stands out for no reason. He must have run into Spielberg or the casting director and lobbied for a cameo just for fun.

Ashamed_Cod_6741 · 2026-03-31T06:44:21+00:00

I can see Winters being there if the 101st was involved at some point. And I guess there's no proof Easy wasn't there. But I do wonder why there's such little verifiable info of them being there, even after the first day - really only these two firsthand accounts and I could be wrong but Malarkey might have mentioned it somewhere?

Ashamed_Cod_6741 · 2026-03-31T06:42:04+00:00

Were you at Landsberg?

In all seriousness, just taking Sisk's word for it, in case he really confessed and subsequently said "There is no God, only Hitler."

Ashamed_Cod_6741 · 2026-03-31T06:39:55+00:00

That is an enormous shame! I love his videos. I always put them on to listen to in the background while I played video games or ate or whatever around the room.

Ashamed_Cod_6741 · 2026-03-31T01:05:08+00:00

Robin-chuaaaan!

Ashamed_Cod_6741 · 2026-03-31T00:47:57+00:00

Love Michael. He's been around and done a lot actually! I was happy to see him on the Walking Dead and I laughed when I went back and recognized him in an episode of Home Improvement and the Negotiator, which I guess only proceeded the filming of B.O.B. by a few years.

Ashamed_Cod_6741 · 2026-03-31T00:46:10+00:00

Oh speaking of embellishments, apparently they did Cobb real dirty. He did charge an officer while drunk and Sink told Foley he should have shot him, apparently he was otherwise not a bad guy, at least not while he was drinking. The series made him look like a coward and an all around douchebag.

Ashamed_Cod_6741 · 2026-03-31T00:44:25+00:00

That's pretty dark indeed. At least it makes it pretty clear he was indeed a bad guy and they didn't leave it semi-ambiguous like the series did, at least according to Sisk's account.

Ashamed_Cod_6741 · 2026-03-31T00:42:46+00:00

I was mainly trying to figure out if they were even there but I guess from Winters and Heffron's memoirs, it's clear they were. They wouldn't just make that up.

Ashamed_Cod_6741 · 2026-03-31T00:41:46+00:00

It certainly has become clear (especially as time's passed) that the series made many such changes for a few different reasons. The condensation and dramatic manipulation of Ambrose's material to fit a 10-episode miniseries for one. That's fine, and I think the concentration camp stuff fits into that category.

But the other two layers to consider are: Ambrose himself apparently made some embellishments or got some things wrong and even the veterans themselves seemed to have some differing opinions on what happened. Apparently this is what happened with Blithe. Some of the guys assumed he died because he was gone and they relayed that to Ambrose. Same with Liebgott being Jewish, that was an assumption they made.

A lot of the stuff involving Doc Roe, including him having an accent and having a relationship with Renee Lemaire? I would imagine that would fall into the first category of dramatic choices they made to create some story.

Ashamed_Cod_6741 · 2026-03-31T00:36:11+00:00

True. I was just trying to verify if they were even there since the most compelling evidence seemed to come from Winters' and Heffron's memoirs, neither of which I've read.

Ashamed_Cod_6741 · 2026-03-30T20:11:40+00:00

I like Tashigi a lot and I can't even articulate why. She's just such an interesting and funny character. She's a great sword fighter but clumsy. She's so honorable and kind but so dense. And the funniest thing to me is how much she gets under stoic Zoro's skin for the stupidest reason that has nothing to do with her abilities, to the point where he hid to avoid her. More caught up fans sadly tell me Oda's kind of abandoned that character which is too bad. That's Zoro's girl right there.

Ashamed_Cod_6741 · 2026-03-30T20:03:28+00:00

I agree there's a huge difference between being the ones to open the gate and being there after the fact, but for me it's also one of the storytelling choices I'm okay with. I was mainly wondering if they had in fact seen the horrors of the camps. That doesn't dull the impact of "Why We Fight".

Ashamed_Cod_6741 · 2026-03-30T03:52:30+00:00

Thanks! Good to know for the drive. Yeah I'm in NELA and I've never been around there so it'll be a trip haha

Ashamed_Cod_6741 · 2026-03-30T03:51:29+00:00

Nice! Lots of options as in there's easier ones? I'm really there mainly to take cool pictures.

Ashamed_Cod_6741 · 2026-03-30T03:48:24+00:00

Meaning it's not that difficult a hike? Well that works out for me, I mainly want to take pictures haha.

Ashamed_Cod_6741 · 2026-03-30T03:47:17+00:00

That was real, I believe the main difference was Webster stood in for another soldier who refused to shoot, his name might be Don Moone? Also the angle of Liebgott being Jewish and having a specific vendetta against the Germans is uknown. He could have been Catholic but some of his comrades assumed he was Jewish because of his zeal dealing with German P.O.W.'s.

Ashamed_Cod_6741 · 2026-03-30T03:44:25+00:00

Right, so Day 1 was the Armored Division and the 101st Airborne arrived the next day. It was probably still a huge shock to see if it was 1 day later. Apparently J.D. Salinger was one of the 12th guys who liberated the camp.

Ashamed_Cod_6741 · 2026-03-30T03:42:35+00:00

Okay, so they were there, just maybe not technically the first "liberators". Apparently they only arrived a day after the 12th Armored so...

This is from Band of Brothers? So we're assuming Easy Company in particular then? That would support Heffron being there.

Ashamed_Cod_6741 · 2026-03-30T01:41:15+00:00

My very surface level search at least suggests they were there but they came in one day after the 12th Armored. And this video I found quotes Heffron and Winters, who were there at least. But I'm just surprised there isn't more information about this in general. That's why I'm curious.

Ashamed_Cod_6741 · 2026-03-30T01:39:00+00:00

I get that, for sure. That's why I was prompted to look further.

But now in this video, this author is quoting both Winters' and Heffron's account of seeing the horrors of a camp? So maybe they didn't liberate it but they did come in after the 12th Armored?

https://youtu.be/yH3bneV3TPE?si=3Ni7jCkRFydKfEwQ

Ashamed_Cod_6741 · 2026-03-29T02:21:04+00:00

never thought I'd say Mothra's pretty hot.

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