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I hate buying pedals. I've bought and sold a lot of gear in my lifetime and the vast majority of problems have been related to pedals. I haven't ordered a pedal in probably 10 years and I wanted to get some pedals to dedicate to the Garshall so I bought them on Amazon instead of dealing with Reverb or Ebay sellers since I've had so many problems there.
That, it would seem, was a mistake.
Pedal #1 was a Boss DD-8. I've never been a huge fan of the Boss pedal look, but sometimes they have just the right sound for '80s tomfoolery of the type I enjoy. I wanted a digital delay and I preferred that it be small so I could keep the new pedalboard small and the Boss DD pedals fit the bill so I ordered one. This is what it looked like out of the box:
The foot switch lid is crooked! I actually took it off to see the cause and the hole for the screw is actually drilled off-center, so this one is a manufacturing defect and/or inadequate QC from the factory:
Thankfully, Amazon's return system is pretty great so I returned it. I opted to forget about the digital delay and bought an EchoPlex delay and preamp instead.
Today I got the second pedal I ordered, which was a Boss Waza Craft SD-1w overdrive. This is supposed to be THE pedal for pushing a JCM800 into "that's too much" gain territory and the Waza line gets some great reviews, so I figured what the heck. Here's how my brand new SD-1w looked when I pulled it out of the box that incidentally included no documentation or wrapping of any kind:
Sigh. This one sounds pretty great so I told them to send me a new one, so we'll see how that goes.
I probably would have been better off with Reverb. At least there I stand a chance of seeing pics of the pedal before it gets shipped.
That, it would seem, was a mistake.
Pedal #1 was a Boss DD-8. I've never been a huge fan of the Boss pedal look, but sometimes they have just the right sound for '80s tomfoolery of the type I enjoy. I wanted a digital delay and I preferred that it be small so I could keep the new pedalboard small and the Boss DD pedals fit the bill so I ordered one. This is what it looked like out of the box:
The foot switch lid is crooked! I actually took it off to see the cause and the hole for the screw is actually drilled off-center, so this one is a manufacturing defect and/or inadequate QC from the factory:
Thankfully, Amazon's return system is pretty great so I returned it. I opted to forget about the digital delay and bought an EchoPlex delay and preamp instead.
Today I got the second pedal I ordered, which was a Boss Waza Craft SD-1w overdrive. This is supposed to be THE pedal for pushing a JCM800 into "that's too much" gain territory and the Waza line gets some great reviews, so I figured what the heck. Here's how my brand new SD-1w looked when I pulled it out of the box that incidentally included no documentation or wrapping of any kind:
Sigh. This one sounds pretty great so I told them to send me a new one, so we'll see how that goes.
I probably would have been better off with Reverb. At least there I stand a chance of seeing pics of the pedal before it gets shipped.