I’m not much of a guitarist, drums is my main thing, but I’ve recently started to acquire a bunch of cheap pedals for making weird sounds with guitar, synth or even my kaosillator.
Because I’m not that serious about it, just messing around, budget pedals have been a godsend to me. I’ve recently got a couple of Donner pedals that are cheap enough not to worry too much about if they don’t see much use:
The ‘tutti frutti’ chorus pedal is fine, does the job although it doesn’t have the same range as I’m sure you’d get on a more expensive one.
The ‘yellow falls’ delay pedal is great fun. There’s a ‘feedback’ knob which seems to be pretty binary: if you turn it up past about 2 o clock it kicks in and turns your chord or whatever into a screeching messy hell that’s 25x louder than you were originally playing. I have to be very careful using it for fear of blowing my amp or my eardrums. That feature aside though the standard delay sounds great to my ears. My project for half term is to try to hook it up to the patch bay of my ms20 in various weird ways.
Long live budget pedals!
