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.

  • 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!