Any love for the PRS pedals?

[Black Plaid]

Do you have another explanation?

So you are guessing and passing it off as fact?

 

[DougGuitar]

Just as I thought-you have no other explanation.

 

[Tony M.]

I have not tried them personally.
I have only listened to demos of them.
I have no doubt that they are built well and sound fine.

but...

To my ears they don't sound any better on said demos
than the stuff Brian and Robert and Josh et al make.
They also take up a lot of pedal board real estate.

Brand loyalty only goes so far.
My world, my rules.

 

[shinksma]

I have all three. They do the thing they are designed to do very well.

The Mary Cries Comp does exactly what PRSh described - you don't know it is on until you turn it off - then you feel the lack of "fullness". So it doesn't pump or artificially squish your signal in an obvious way, but boy does it contribute to a better sound, especially for single coils. IMHO.

The Horsemeat is a very versatile dirt/overdrive, that can be used subtly, to get the kind of push you might get from a Klon-type OD (I am not claiming it is exactly that, just in that "class", shall we say). But it also can be cranked and get quite Boss HM-2 like, and the controls give you a lot of room to play.

The Wind Through the Trees is great for a whole bunch of chorus, univibe, and flanger type effects, and the dual oscillators can really get things wobbling. I use it in a couple of different ways regularly, and quite enjoy exploring all the swirly sounds you can get out of it.

They are quite well made, physically, and aren't noisy.

The MAP pricing for them is a bit high, though not far from other boutique pedals. The used market seems to have some good deals, and you can get a free one this summer through a buy-an-amp-get-a-pedal campaign that PRS is offering.

I fear that these three will be the only three ever released - I don't think the market is ready for PRS pedals, yet, unfortunately. But if they released more, I'd buy them.

 

[SinSir]

So you are guessing and passing it off as fact?

It's worse on the water cooler sites like FB. So much misinformation presented as fact you gotta wear boots to get through the bs.

 

[alantig]

The Mary Cries Comp does exactly what PRSh described - you don't know it is on until you turn it off - then you feel the lack of "fullness". So it doesn't pump or artificially squish your signal in an obvious way, but boy does it contribute to a better sound, especially for single coils. IMHO.

You can also crank this up and get into some OD territory. Took me by surprise when I was trying it in the store.

 

[Black Plaid]

Just as I thought-you have no other explanation.

I literally said it was inexplicable. Not having an alternate guess to yours doesn't make your guess correct.

 

[Prs Mods too]

The retarded pedal names within the last 30 years. Just call it what it is. Thank you Boss for that even though your pedals suck tone so much.

 

[Alnus Rubra]

They could’ve have called it the Heinz 58

 

[daa2202]

I have the Horsemeat and I like it very much. I use it to goose the input section of an ENGL Fireball 25 and it works perfectly for that. I don’t run it very hot (maybe 10:00 on the gain knob) but I don’t need to, as the ENGL has plenty of gain. It gives me a nice boost between thick crunch and liquid lead.

I wish the flanger had stereo outputs!

 

[LaxActium]

I have the Horsemeat and Mary Cries.
Both add thickness, heft, and fullness to the sound.
I actually run them into my FX Loop of my Marshall Studio JTM cause they sound better than through the front!

 

[watelessness]

i've only tried the horsey but i love it!

 

[Stevely]

The retarded pedal names within the last 30 years. Just call it what it is. Thank you Boss for that even though your pedals suck tone so much.

Why do people get so hung up with the names of PRS pedals? There are plenty of pedals out there with even more stupid names. Frankly I was put off by the name Tube Screamer, I don’t want a pedal that screams at me, but it’s much more than that. Frankly disliking a pedal just because of its name is crass and shallow. Why not admit why you really won’t buy one or shut up because you never tried one.
I have all three PRS pedals and have sold other OD and compression pedals because these do what I want. It’s the only Flanger I have owned but can’t see me changing it

The retarded pedal names within the last 30 years. Just call it what it is. Thank you Boss for that even though your pedals suck tone so much.

 

[Prs Mods too]

Why do people get so hung up with the names of PRS pedals? There are plenty of pedals out there with even more stupid names. Frankly I was put off by the name Tube Screamer, I don’t want a pedal that screams at me, but it’s much more than that. Frankly disliking a pedal just because of its name is crass and shallow. Why not admit why you really won’t buy one or shut up because you never tried one.
I have all three PRS pedals and have sold other OD and compression pedals because these do what I want. It’s the only Flanger I have owned but can’t see me changing it

I wasn't referring to PRS pedals specifically. If I can't tell what a pedal does by the name, I pass no matter what brand. Life is too short to waste time researching what a thousand different idiotically named pedals do.

 

[aphantomvaper]

During the holiday sale I picked up a Wind Through the Trees. It's really sweet at the holiday sale price. The dual LFO is a great concept and implementation.

 

[JasonE]

Why do people get so hung up with the names of PRS pedals? There are plenty of pedals out there with even more stupid names. Frankly I was put off by the name Tube Screamer, I don’t want a pedal that screams at me, but it’s much more than that. Frankly disliking a pedal just because of its name is crass and shallow. Why not admit why you really won’t buy one or shut up because you never tried one.
I have all three PRS pedals and have sold other OD and compression pedals because these do what I want. It’s the only Flanger I have owned but can’t see me changing it

Sometimes the name can make the pedal sound like a gimmick or a cheap toy. The names can be in no way related to what the pedal actually does which doesn't help it's sales IMHO. Pedals these days are expensive. Most people are not going to spend $200+ on something that the name leads them to believe it is a gimmick or a copy of something else with weird names all over it just to try it. So, there is merit in people passing on a pedal with a weird name and moving on to something named more appropriately in a market that is saturated with good choices.

I wasn't referring to PRS pedals specifically. If I can't tell what a pedal does by the name, I pass no matter what brand. Life is too short to waste time researching what a thousand different idiotically named pedals do.

To add to this. I have seen pedals that not only have a weird name that doesn't give you an idea of what it does but they then carry that into putting weird names on the controls so you can't even tell what they do. If it is a drive or distortion control, name it that. Don't name it something like grease or mojo. I have seen some demos of pedals like this. I saw a couple of drive pedals made by a small builder that did this. I thought both pedals sounded good. I passed on both though because I didn't want to have to keep trying to remember what knob did what with the weird names on them. If they had been named with common names like drive, volume and tone, I may have bought both of them. People try to find an angle in the marketing that they think sounds cute and will help with sales and it actually has the opposite effect.