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  • December 29, 2008 at 4:07 pm #77456
    Goldenglove
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    As you know, I’ve been shopping for a nice pedal for New Year, and well, although I wanted an EHX, I, well…. Bought an MXR Blue-Box :) It’s awesome, but have any of you ever felt bad because of, like, betraying some company? I remember when I bought my Big Muff, I felt because I betrayed BOSS :)
    But the blue box is plain awesome.
    And I still plan to buy lotsa ehx stuff later on (ehx pedals actually nearly totally disappeared from our shops).

    December 29, 2008 at 9:54 pm #89795
    Ned Flanders
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    The bluebox is pretty cool, even with the blend all the way up its a cool fuzz.I haven’t used mine in over a year.LOL
    Betrayal? Never! You cant limit yourself to one company when there’s so many cool effects out there dude.

    December 29, 2008 at 11:16 pm #89802
    amm2911
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    As you know, I’ve been shopping for a nice pedal for New Year, and well, although I wanted an EHX, I, well…. Bought an MXR Blue-Box :) It’s awesome, but have any of you ever felt bad because of, like, betraying some company? I remember when I bought my Big Muff, I felt because I betrayed BOSS :)
    But the blue box is plain awesome.
    And I still plan to buy lotsa ehx stuff later on (ehx pedals actually nearly totally disappeared from our shops).

    Word. The gear is there to serve you, not the other way around!

    January 10, 2009 at 7:44 pm #90404
    Costch
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    You can’t really betray Boss, because (I think) that their effects are horribly digital sounding. It’s more like “moving on”. But there is nothing wrong with buying effects from more than one company, you pretty much have to because EHX doesn’t make a manual wah.

    January 10, 2009 at 8:33 pm #90406
    John J
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    The Blue Box was my first ever pedal, it’s A-M-A-ZING.

    As for betraying EHX… they understand musicians, I’m sure you’ll be forgiven soon enough. Besides, it’s odd when you’re trying to put together a board and all of the effects you own look exactly the same; I prefer to mix it up. Mind you, EHX has enough different casings that an all EHX board isn’t necessarily going to look uniform. I like that about EHX – these ‘all BOSS boards’ or ‘all MXR boards’ are so dull looking.

    I have to stick up for Boss a little bit, lots of their effects are getting better. Case in point: The Bassman/Deluxe Reverb pedals, and the Space Echo. I’m not saying that they’re convincing replicas, all I’m saying is that I was pleasantly surprised at how good these pedals sounded.

    January 10, 2009 at 8:57 pm #90412
    electro-melx
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    yeah, I like Boss….I like MXR too…and I love old ‘made in usa’ DOD’s too. I think they all bring something different to the table which is a good thing, I don’t really see too much overlap within the big brands, they all have thier unique sounds.

    I just bought an old MXR Phase 100 which is really nice and nothing like a small stone…and a BOSS HM-2 which is nothing like a metal muff.

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