Poll: Most useless/least favorite effect

  • Thread starter Thread starter Mr. Willy
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Least favorite.

  • Wah

    Votes: 5 5.0%
  • Delay/Echo

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Phaser

    Votes: 6 5.9%
  • Reverb

    Votes: 13 12.9%
  • Tremelo

    Votes: 16 15.8%
  • Flanger

    Votes: 18 17.8%
  • EQ

    Votes: 5 5.0%
  • Fuzz

    Votes: 29 28.7%
  • OD/Boost

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Chorus

    Votes: 9 8.9%

  • Total voters
    101
I like all those effects at the right time. The one I'd use the least is tremelo, but really, something like a ring modulator is next to useless.
 
It's a tie for me. Tremelo, phaser, and flange. Never need them. Never use them. But I voted tremelo as worst. :thumbsup:
 
C1-ocaster":1xhptv0d said:
Spaceboy":1xhptv0d said:
A lot of reverb hate around here... something I've grown to rely on heavily over the past year.

I MUST have reverb for clean and blues. For high gain Metal, yeah it muddies things too much.
If an amp doesn't have it, then there is something missing and I have no interest in it.

Reverb very much depends on how much you use. It's not just an on off effect.
It can muddy the tone if applied with wreckless abandon.
But when used just right it can really brighten and liven up a tone.

My preference has been for real spring reverbs.
But I've come to really like digital reverb built into an amp.
My Egnater Vengeance head is the first amp I've had that doesn't have real spring analog reverb.
It uses a digital reverb, but man it sounds sweet very nice.

My least used effect, and I'd say least liked, is tremolo.
C'mon, how many of you actually use tremolo EVER?
I can't believe all the negative comments about reverb yet I'm the only one mentioning the uselessness of tremolo?
I've heard it used decently on some tunes, but I've never been able to use it on anything I play.

OH, and wah is useless?
Are you freaking kidding? :confused:



I actually do use Tremolo .if I want a country type clean in one band .
But even in the rock stuff ,its a great effects is set up more like a pulse or Helicopter.i have used that effect synced to the drums in a verse to create a rhythm or a cold mechanical sound, Think Green Day Blvd of broken dreams
 
wolf5150":1ixl4re2 said:
Univibe.
Not in the list though
For the price versus usefulness ratio, I would agree, I don't use my univibe that much. I find I use my phase 90 a lot more.

As far as reverb being high on people's list, I can see why since this is mostly a hard rock/metal crowd. I still like reverb, in fact planning on picking up the digitech supernatural reverb. I think it will be nice for p&w.
 
Fuzz for me .... have always hated that type of sound. Also have found that if for some strange reason I need that type of sound just engaging the wah so that its at its bass-iest point works pretty good
 
The only one that doesn't work for me is the talent box effect. I still sound like crap
 
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