mistermikev wrote:My pleasure... I was amazed to learn how many od pedals today are based on a variation of that sm ts-808 circuit... many very expensive pedals (check out the CJOD, they've gone for $1600 on ebay and it's a tube screamer clone that is slightly modified).
Dude, I swear I could pick your brain about effects pedals all freakin day. I'd love to try to start building some of my own. I've gone through so many POS pedals in my lifetime!! Hahaha.
Some of my past zonkers include:
Electro Harmonix Tube-Q: What a total waste of $180. That pedal sucks ass. Especially for the price. It sounds extremely generic. The only useful part of it was the filtering, which I could easily accomplish with a much cheaper pedal.
MXR Zakk Wylde OD : Another POS not worth buying. It's loud and hissy. Sounds thin. But then again, I haven't been too impressed with MXR pedals so far anyway. The MXR 6-band eq I had was hissy too. I had a much better sound out of my old Arion eq. The ZW OD smells of a cheap pedal with a marketing ploy.
Yamaha Magic Stomp: Good luck.. The switches on these suck beyond belief. I wouldn't recommend "stomping" on one. I didn't find any of the distortions very usable, it has odd unusable effects like "helicopter", and "Tractor".. There's a slight delay time between effects.. Just another waste of cash.
Boss HM2- Just an awful distortion sound all the way around..
Sorry to go off topic. My cheapest pedal would probably be my Arion Tuner. Bought in the late 80's and still working very well. I think I paid $20 or something like that.