Questions

  • What's a tube based distortion pedal you have or you think might be worth buying?

  • What would be a good site / reddit sub / forum / Youtube channel / whatever to check? I'm going to check Reverb tonight when I have time.

Skippable boring details

The thumb is for this COMING SOON: Audiode Overdrive / Distortion Pedal - Curious Audio

Curious Audio is run by a couple of lefties and the pedal intrigued me but there are issues. The pedal is more than I want to spend. The site lists the price as "$379.00 $289.00". I dont know if they are actually still making the damn thing. The apparently sold five. They were supposed to have a Youtube vide up around September. But now they removed any mention of that. Also - I emailed them a follow up question 3 months ago and they never replied.

I shouldn't have wasted my time but this morning I emailed them again. I broke a simple but very useful rule I have. If a business doesn't reply promptly - I should never do business with them. And it's not like there aren't loads of other pedal options.

  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    most of the difference we perceive between amps/pedals has more to do with EQ and where the EQ stages are positioned between gain stages.

    I've already got a very expensive pedal board that I bought to encourage myself to play more and to mess around easily with the effects chain. I can program stuff on my computer and then downloaded it into the board. I haven't played my guitar in a very long time. The more I think about this - the more it's clear the purchase is probably very silly. My board allows me an endless amount of digital tinkering and tweaking.