Pointless Pedals ?

[[Nathan]]

Only haters will say this isn’t the secret gift of tone

 

[sleewell]

the funny thing about so called pointless pedals is that if you handed them to the right person they could make something super cool with them.

 

[KingsXJJ]

I used the slicer for this a couple of years ago. Not useless for my purposes?

Sell that to a video game man!

 

[Piing]

Only haters will say this isn’t the secret gift of tone

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[EOengineer]

I was going through a box of Boss pedals looking for something when I found this pedal.
I thought to myself what a pointless pedal this is.
Had some fun with it when I first bought it but never really used it for anything meaningful .
Do you have any pointless pedals?
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I’d be curious to checkout the harmonic tremolo mode.

 

[ragingplatypi]

Dunlop tremolo volume. Not totally pointless, but not super practical. I had it for a year and moved on.

 

[Alonious_Monk]

For me it has to be the Mimiq Mini, mono does nothing. I was going for a cheap road to the Geordie Walker tone. REALLY didn't do that job

 

[Desertdweller]

For me it has to be the Mimiq Mini, mono does nothing. I was going for a cheap road to the Geordie Walker tone. REALLY didn't do that job

Wasn't the use case that you would run 2 outs from another pedal, one to one amp and the other to the Mimiq Mini at 100% wet to a second amp? I wouldn't think it would work well mono - wasn't it always supposed to be a stereo effect?

 

[Alonious_Monk]

Wasn't the use case that you would run 2 outs from another pedal, one to one amp and the other to the Mimiq Mini at 100% wet to a second amp? I wouldn't think it would work well mono - wasn't it always supposed to be a stereo effect?

Yeah I knew I wasn't gonna get like-for-like with the sound, but I figured that kinda vibe was still attainable.

 

[david57strat]

Only haters will say this isn’t the secret gift of tone

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I tried the BBE stuff (Sonic Maxmizers (rack); but I preferred and always opted to go with Aphex Aural Exciter, because it felt more tune-able than the BBE equipment.

Actually, I had a 1401 Acoustic Xciter pedal for my acoustic set-up, that I picked up before I bought my first 104 rack unit. (And before going back to pedals LMAO). It actually worked very nicely and was easy to use. This was one of the pictures I took for the sale ad I ran on Craigslist (?) a zillion years ago.

I still have 104 and 204 units in some of my old racks (which I haven't used in years since converting back on over to dedicated pedals, several years ago). For some reason, I just cannot bring myself to part with all of that rack gear. I guess it's a nostalgic thing.