Have You Bought Any Pedals Lately In 2026?

[la szum]

The BE-OD rips!!! Exactly what I was looking for and I'm impressed how well different pickups sound with it. I had every knob dead at noon when I plugged it in and knew as soon as I turned it on, the knobs are like mm's away from noon after tweaking it. And the Believe will do the trick for the amount I'll use the thing. You can indeed blend it with pretty much any dirt and it'll work. As a clean octave it's a bit gated/glitchy sounding, which I know some people dig but it ain't my thing. I might re-house it, I'm not a fan of those top jacks. At all.

I got the Plexi50's Normal volume on 4, not totally clean, then it steps up in gain with the Tchula, NOTADUMBLE, BE-OD. The compressor in front pretty much turns all of those into a lead tone and they also stack in various configurations well. The Strats and LP's both sound killer without making any adjustments. This whole time I've been trying to find a combination of dirts that'll get into this kind of high gain territory, now I can move on from that.

SDE-3000 guy finally sent a thank you message, but no tracking number yet.

I was thinking.....a VP4 would really solve a lot of areas I don't really want to buy specific pedals for, while removing a few others from the board. I think I might just bite the bullet. This was initially to be a non-modeling board, but this is just for effects and it's silly to limit myself here. The board has turned into my 'I can cover 90% of my ground with this' board and that would just obtain that much more efficiently.

I loathed it. Shocking, eh?

All 3 or 4 times I tried it (including the Deluxe version)... it just screams pedaly disto to my ears.

Poor cleanup and responsiveness. Super compressed. I think there is even an internal trimpot to
adjust something (gain) inside.

I am proud that I held off expressing my disappointment until you had it in your hands, though.
I didn't want to rain on the parade.... so now that the parade is over I can downpour!

 

[Dave Lewis]

A GP-50 incoming on Wednesday from Andertons

 

[Riffraff]

The reissue ?

Yeah the reissue but it's supposedly exactly the same except for the jacks and pots (but same value).

 

[Dave Lewis]

This arrived earlier from Andertons

 

[primeholy]

 

[sleewell]

Ordered an eventide h90 today. Wanted one for a while but that new update pushed me me over the edge. Just as excited to try it on my synths as on guitar.

 

[Aleksi]

Just grabbed a Boss RV-5 out of curiosity! Probably the last one this year for real

 

[sleewell]

i think i just bought the noise from tallon from GC used but it might be getting cancelled. fingers crossed, we will see lolololol

 

[metropolis_4]

Went to pick up a wah today these two followed it out the door with me!

Inconceivable!

 

[Sascha Franck]

Bought a Valeton GP-50. Despite some shortcomings, there's no better VFM than with this pedal if you may ever need some of the things it can do. Possibly not even by far. IMO at least.

 

[Dave Lewis]

Went to pick up a wah today these two followed it out the door with me!

Inconceivable!

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What make & model is the Wah ?

 

[sleewell]

OK so I think I bought the noise from Tallon but the order might get canceled lol. I was on GC used and couldn't find one when I searched but somehow clicked on either a previously viewed link or a recommendation. Idk I clicked on it a few times and would go off to something else on the site and then go back to it and it said it was still available so hopefully it wasn't something that already got sold bit with their website you never know haha.

 

[Whizzinby]

Ordered an eventide h90 today. Wanted one for a while but that new update pushed me me over the edge. Just as excited to try it on my synths as on guitar.

Get the tablet editor queued up so you can deep dive the tones on it, before having to learn the ins and outs of the on-device control schema.

Find all the factory presets you like and then make copies of them to the User bank, then use those to experiment with different algos in the various pairs.

It’s a great pedal dude.

 

[metropolis_4]

Well… the ROUS is going back. It’s broken

When it’s off no sound passes through, when I turn it on it’s just a loud high pitched squeal that changes pitch as I turn knobs.

 

[metropolis_4]

What make & model is the Wah ?

It’s just a basic Cry Baby Classic. They’re my favorite. I used to rip out the buffer and replace the footswitch to wire them true bypass. I think this is an old enough one I’ll be able to do that to it

 

[Boudoir Guitar]

I snagged two pedals in December:

(1). Discomfort Designs TMA-1 -- its an oddball dual ring modulator with a level/mixer control circuit that let's you drive the crap out of the transformer(s) in it to make it sort of a fuzz dual ring modulator. Set low on the ring mod and its kind of an octave fuzz; push the ring mod up to moderate levels and it gets to a weird but totally usable weird thing that I can only really describe as "modulated-octave fuzz". Push it passed that and it gets into robot "why does anyone own a ring modulator?!?" territory. Double bonus is a got a used copy that is orange, and it looks pretty great. Sorry, no pics.

(2). Union Tube and Transistors LAB compressor pedal. This is supposed to be an LA-2a in a pedal, and it is great. Has a healthy amount of makeup gain on tap, so even when the compression is maxed the f out, can still give a moderate boost. The compression is absolutely LA-2a levels of Jason Sadites Glue smoothness so can be REALLY subtle, and at those settings the amount of makeup gain on tap allows for it to also act as a very big boost. Even when the compression is cranked it's still pretty darn smooth, but the subtle compression + boost for lead tones where I don't necessarily want more clipping/distorition, just a bit more compression to be dialed in as a balance between hitting the amp a little harder and pedal compression is my main reason for buying it and I THINK it does that better than any "dynacomp with a blend knob" pedal I've had...might still want to snag an EGO comp mini to try out along side it at some point though just to confirm.

 

[Dave Lewis]

My last three pedal buys of 2025 .
Incoming from over the pond early 2026.

On preorder for January from Andertons

Arriving Friday.

 

[Sascha Franck]

Poor cleanup and responsiveness. Super compressed. I think there is even an internal trimpot to
adjust something (gain) inside.

Fwiw, these were exactly my thoughts for a whole while.
Bought the BE for an extremely decent price, had a *very* short honeymoon and quickly after thought about selling it. Kept it because I didn't have any other suitable "between overdrive and distortion" pedals but didn't use it much. Gave it another try and while it stayed on the main board then, I didn't use it much. Then I got the Tonex One and more or less recently found a capture that seems to be the best pedal platform thing there ever was (at least in the digital domain) - and all of a sudden, even the BE sounds absolutely great.

I might be wrong, though - seriously, because I've been through that honeymoon thing before. But on the last two big board gigs it sounded just incredibly great. Will have to give it another testrun when back home, as I have some board consolidation things to do anyway.

For me it defenitely helped to turn the internal trimpot almost all the way down.

 

[Dave Lewis]

It’s now January 1st 2026

 

[HotRats]

I have no clear plans for 2026 yet other than I'd like to add wah and new tremolo or a leslie.

But I have new guitarist in the band, a nice guy I already know but we have to see how our sounds will blend in this band.

A new player might trigger new needs.

We'll see.