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.

    • minilogue [they/them]
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      2 years ago

      except for the antisemitism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behringer#Controversies

      • Findom_DeLuise [she/her, they/them]
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        2 years ago

        :jesus-christ: https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxe7qx/a-major-synth-company-created-this-fake-product-to-attack-a-journalist

    • supafuzz [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      I don't have a ton of their pedals but my experiences with their synths and interfaces and microphones have all been very solid

      For cheap pedals don't sleep on Azor, Dolamo, Mosky, Caline or Nux

      • Findom_DeLuise [she/her, they/them]
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        2 years ago

        Yes! Also Donner, Mooer, and Joyo. Joyo is really coming into their own nowadays as a semi-mainstream guitar gear manufacturer with their mini amp heads and their R-series pedals. Kokko is also worth a mention; their compressor pedal is a badge-engineered Nux for like $20. Oh, and Flamma makes a tiny "all in one" modulation pedal with a trippy bitcrush effect on it.

        • supafuzz [comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          I have that Flamma, and it is pretty sweet. I'm pretty sure it's a re-badged Mooer Mod Factory at a lower price (I actually suspect that all of the Flammas are re-badged Mooers). The Amazon Basics pedals are Nux/Kokko rebadges. Chinese guitar pedals are actually a pretty small world if you spend too much time on aliexpress and learn what to look for.

          • Findom_DeLuise [she/her, they/them]
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            2 years ago

            I definitely developed a soft spot for those AliExpress logo-swap brands when I was looking around for an even cheaper Mooer E-Lady. I figured fuck it, they're all the same board just with different paint jobs on the case, so I got a purple one. There aren't nearly enough purple pedals, damn it!