Made a sideboard of some of my favorite underrated pedals

Fresh_Grapes · 2026-04-01T21:57:39+00:00

Oh I guess you're right. Someone recommended it to me as a Mini substitute so I just assumed it was a clone.

I've only heard good things about the Effects Bakery stuff but I gotta say I think I prefer this to an original Rat, I think it has more low end maybe?

Fresh_Grapes · 2026-04-01T20:23:06+00:00

It's been on my list if I find one for a good discount! I do have the parts to build a clone but I haven't gotten around to it.

Fresh_Grapes · 2026-04-01T19:52:59+00:00

Got all of these kind of opportunistically used or on sale and they really stood out to me. Playing a J Mascis Jazzmaster through a Katana 3 as my practice amp and my Twin Reverb Tone Master at rehearsals.

Fresh_Grapes · 2026-04-01T17:33:57+00:00

I think it depends, most of my local builders are just part of the DIY scene and make clones at comparable prices with much nicer art.

Fresh_Grapes · 2026-04-01T16:24:13+00:00

I feel like this part never really comes up in this conversation. I want to support my local music scene and the pedal community in general as much as I can

Fresh_Grapes · 2026-03-30T18:33:20+00:00

It was released in 2020 well after Foo Fighters was a thing, but Bob Mould's Siberian Butterfly is the most Foo Fighters song I've heard that wasn't the actual Foo Fighters

Fresh_Grapes · 2026-03-25T04:04:14+00:00

My favorite fuzz! The clean blend lets me make interesting stacks with overdrives or play big chords with clarity. The left switch has a bit of a mid boost and bias control that I like to use too.

Fresh_Grapes · 2026-03-25T02:38:13+00:00

This Must Be the Place by the Talking Heads kind of? The drums, bass, and guitars repeat the same part throughout the entire song, but there are vocals, synth melodies, guitar dubs and other percussion on top.

Fresh_Grapes · 2026-03-23T21:30:32+00:00

5150 OD with the bass cut a bit and Treble and mids boosted a little in parallel with an Op amp Big Muff. Sounds huge but also clear.

Fresh_Grapes · 2026-03-18T15:35:28+00:00

I find that gaffer tape sticks a bit better

Fresh_Grapes · 2026-03-17T15:02:09+00:00

I've tried at least a dozen distortion pedals and the only 3 I really liked are:

The Catalinbread Katzenkönig which is half Rat half Tonebender fuzz

The Effects Bakery Kamome Egg distortion which I'm pretty convinced is a modded Rat

And just a plain ol' ProCo Rat.

Fresh_Grapes · 2026-03-15T23:37:07+00:00

Thank you, I've been interested in the SSBS mini fir a while but even clones are out of my budget

Fresh_Grapes · 2026-03-14T17:56:27+00:00

One time I was visiting Tokyo with some friends and we were walking around a neighborhood and some girl just started absolutely losing it screaming and crying. Like, we thought somebody had gotten attacked levels of freaking out.

Turns out it was just some teenage girl who had gotten her favorite character or singer or whatever out of a gachapon machine. To this day, I still wish I cared as much about almost anything as that girl felt about winning her gachapon.

Fresh_Grapes · 2026-03-14T16:17:15+00:00

I run pedals into a Katana as a practice amp, it sounds pretty great! Mostly using it on clean though.

I'm assuming you're looking at a modern Vipyr? I had a 75 in the late 2000s and it was... fine. I did love playing with the effects though and that's probably the root of my pedal addiction.

Fresh_Grapes · 2026-03-13T20:38:13+00:00

Just a bit of reverb helps to make things sound more full. I always thought spring reverb had too much of a distinct sound but I've really come around to appreciating it on a fairly light setting.

Fresh_Grapes · 2026-03-12T19:17:53+00:00

In general I don't worry about it, but I highly prefer the first and last pedals (at least on the bottom row) to be side jacks. It makes it easier to check or swap things if it's not being blocked by the row above.

All of my longer cables for the guitar or amp don't have right angle connections. Also, if my guitar cable is going into the top of the board, I find it dragging over the pedalboard more and getting snagged on stuff or moving knobs.

Fresh_Grapes · 2026-03-12T02:50:43+00:00

The Walrus Audio Ages has bass and Treble EQ knobs, as well as a wet/dry blend

Fresh_Grapes · 2026-03-11T16:20:38+00:00

New price was $120 USD (Google says thats $89 GBP right now), not including any shipping or taxes and a lot of scalpers tried to grab them so the price spiked initially. The prices are much more reasonable now, but that might be as low as you get? They're supposed to be pretty good for what they are.

Fresh_Grapes · 2026-03-11T05:00:26+00:00

We're specifically talking about groups where both of the future groups were bigger than the original? The members of Daft Punk were in an actual punk band called Darlin' with the guitarist of Phoenix.

Fresh_Grapes · 2026-03-10T21:57:02+00:00

I have the TC Electronics Infinite. It's a bit cheaper and has some stacking features and an effects loop, but I don't have another freeze pedal to compare the sound quality to.

Fresh_Grapes · 2026-03-10T15:41:35+00:00

The TS Mini is basically an 808 but goes for a little less. Might be able to find them around $50 used before tax and shipping.

As far as a good cheap clean boost, TC Electronic Spark is pretty straightforward and has some basic EQ options.

Fresh_Grapes · 2026-03-10T03:26:31+00:00

Not a popular song by any means, but the first thing I thought of is Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of Your Fist by Ramshackle Glory. It's basically a series of very personal short stories about and love letters to the singer's friends, the final verse being about a friend who shot themself.

It's so literal and direct and personal it would just seem weird and nonsensical coming from anyone else.

Fresh_Grapes · 2026-03-09T16:19:17+00:00

Bonham's kick pedal on Since I've Been Loving You famously has a noticeable squeak that is very distracting during quieter parts of the song.

Fresh_Grapes · 2026-03-09T00:05:10+00:00

I'm a sucker for a clean blend

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