Has anyone ever given up on a pedal then put it away only to try it again and after some adjustments it now sounds good?

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Just had this experience with my precision drive. Last time I used it was years ago. Hated it because it was too aggressive for me. Busted it out last week with my 5153 on the blue channel and it sounded a lot better than I remembered it. However, I realized that not diming the volume like I usually do with all other OD's doesn't work with the PD. Once I played around with it and set the volume to 2 o'clock vs dimed it seemed to tame the aggressiveness a fair amount!
 
Ears change ! So ya def .
Check this out . So I’m tube rolling with the Larry when I first got it because the 1967 Tungsol broke in shipping . So while I waited for the new one (Which Larry hooked me ) , I found boosts reacted drastically differnt to different preamp tubes . I’m sure some know that but I had no clue . It’s wild
 
swapping cabs, guitars, pedals, etc. can make a huge difference with amps IME. I don't think I use any of my boosts with the level completely dimed, although some are close. Ears dictate where I set stuff.
 
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Yes. Bought and sold probably 6 or 7 SD-1's over the years. Will always have 2 on hand from here on out.
 
VonBonfire said:
You just remember that one day your ears will be the last piece of analog equipment you own, and they are coming for those too.
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lol . Dude my hearing had changed drastically since I got the Larry . It don’t do quiet . Well it does but it’s loud af on 1 . Like it really was fucking with head it was so powerful at first . Now it doesn’t bother me at all. Am I deafer now lol ?!?!?!
 
Techdeth said:
lol . Dude my hearing had changed drastically since I got the Larry . It don’t do quiet . Well it does but it’s loud af on 1 . Like it really was fucking with head it was so powerful at first . Now it doesn’t bother me at all. Am I deafer now lol ?!?!?!
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yes. I figured this out with my first Wizard Metal V1. Once your ears aren't hurting, it means you will never hear those frequencies again. :no:
 
Techdeth said:
lol . Dude my hearing had changed drastically since I got the Larry . It don’t do quiet . Well it does but it’s loud af on 1 . Like it really was fucking with head it was so powerful at first . Now it doesn’t bother me at all. Am I deafer now lol ?!?!?!
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Is there anything in this world that is worth hearing besides your amps anyways? Not really.
 
No, I haven't. I did however forget I had a guitar once and found a case in the closet and was like oh wow, I forgot I had this guitar. That's sort of the same thing. lol
 
Matt300ZXT said:
No, I haven't. I did however forget I had a guitar once and found a case in the closet and was like oh wow, I forgot I had this guitar. That's sort of the same thing. lol
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that reminds me, my first V, I went to my parents house and pulled it out of a closet. I had a guy that did a sick RG body for me with a maple cap on an old Ibanez. I met him buying stuff off eBay. He legit refinished an Ibanez guitar for me that I still love to this day. I thought he was legit, then he ghosted me after I sent him that old Washburn Flying V to repaint. Never heard from him again.
 
Erock said:
yes. I figured this out with my first Wizard Metal V1. Once your ears aren't hurting, it means you will never hear those frequencies again. :no:
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Dudes, once you fuck up your ears there’s no going back. Mild tinnitus here. Annoying at times but could be worse.
 
SD 805. Didn’t like it and just got it back out. Digging it now.
 
I do this every few months

It’s the upside of having way too much gear
 
All the time. Sometimes it’s ear fatigue, hell I might just be tired. Maybe listening to too many YouTube demos in isolation vs listening to actual music. Really seems to depend on whose running the council meeting in my brain that day.
 
Yes, with my old Keely sd,-1, it always sounded great when it was turned on but when I would turn it off I could not stand what the buffer did to my clean signal. So I recently put it in a true bypass looper and now it will not leave my board.
 
I never love (boost) pedals. I kind of go through phases where I will have one just for solos, and times when I run straight into the front of the amp.

However, because now I'm not a "poor youth" as I once was, I will keep a TS-9 and SD-1 around, along with my old GE-7. If I can't get a boost tone I like out of those 3, it ain't happening.

I also took two runs at the Eventide Micropitch, but in the end I don't really love the way it colors the sound. I prefer the slight modulation of the SDE-3, along with that delay. It gets me all the "rack grease" I grew up with, in one small pedal I can basically just sit on top of an amp and forget about.
 
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