Most disappointing distortion pedal you ever tried

I’m a mad scientist. I can usually get a usable tone out of just about anything with enough fucking around. I certainly have thrown a few pedals in the trash within 10 minutes. I’ve also sold some that I wish I hadn’t. Would like to have the SLO preamp back to give it another chance. The one pedal I hate is the OCD. it has a certain nasally characteristic to it that makes me almost nauseous. 🤷🏼‍♂️
 
ROSS (not BOSS) distortion pedal. If a MXR Dist + messed around with it’s cousin’s Fuzz, this would be the offspring
 
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headlessdeadguy said:
I’m a mad scientist. I can usually get a usable tone out of just about anything with enough fucking around.
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Generally agree with this. But there are some things that are just so bad that it's impossible to get any kind of usable tone. Gorilla amps, and the DOD American Metal pedal fall into this category.
 
The Carl Martin Plexitone. The gold one. My first lesson in buying pedals demo'd by Pete Thorn. That dude makes everything sound good, but I HATED that pedal lol
 
reignman454 said:
Not a distortion but the fultone ocd was the most over-rated piece of gear I’ve ever seen. I said it.
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It's a really good OD but the level of hype on forums around it's release was probably on a level never seen by any OD pedal before or since.
 
It might be loser error but I didn't get along real well with Suhr Koko boost nor the Pepers Dirty Tree. Just too over the top and hard to control the gain. Much prefer the simple and trusty SD1 and Bad Monkey for clean OD boosting.
 
I decided to get out and compare some overdrive, boost and distortion pedals with a THD Univalve.

So far the amp sounds best without them.
 
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