The TE choir things were a challenge. I think he felt he had to engage, because if anything qualified as Bad Gear, these did, but it was not a successful video from the point of his usual audience, I think.
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I would love to see Pilz take on overused effects. You know the one, the FX pedal-of-the-week that gets carpet bombed across YouTube to every synthfluencer.
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Mid gear?
New gear?
FOTM gear?
I think there is a way. Also he found a way to make the Metalzone do techno so I trust him.
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As a guitarist who loves to work on pedals and amps and plays metal, the metal zone is perfect bad gear fodder and the way you know he’s actually a person that can spot the superpowers of misunderstood equipment regardless of what sort of gear it is. Most everyone has owned one at some point, usually early into their music journey when they don’t know how to use gear well, it’s widely hated by people who don’t understand it or know how to use it well and loved by a small community of people who know that the available gain and powerful EQ system make it one smart mod away from being a perfect secret weapon. I had one on my live and rehearsal board for years and years and it lives on my synth pedalboard now next to a sub n up and canyon delay. I would assume that on a nice analog monosynth the metal zone can do some really sick techno bass sounds.
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The MT-2 is one of the most misunderstood pedals of all time.
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The Digitone II feature request thread is about to be hit with a hundred requests for a formant machine
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You want the FM? You can’t handle the FM!
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Something to satisfy my bad gear tooth has finally arrived… Just what the doctor ordered!
Editing to say that it’s a good sounding synth, in that thing that it does well.
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Jeez, note to myself: never leave home on friday before Bad Gear drops. I want to see!
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I had a DX200 a few years after it came out. I loved it and hated it. I loved the fact that it was the only FM synth I knew of with knobs and a sequencer, and it sounded terrific. I hated it because the DX engine was simply impenetrable. Mind you, I’m one of few people who think the DX7 interface is totally ok to program 
The DX200 adds another layer to the interface where you can program several parameters with few controls, making the access to the DX engine even less transparent than on the DX7. The final nail in the coffin was that I never managed to sync it reliably to midi clock.
Iirc they were cheap on the second hand market in the latter half of the 00s. I got mine for 120 Euros. I think that was around 2007-2008.
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Patiently waiting for an update 
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I feel attacked
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Shots fired!
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Too many keys? Wow, he really doesn’t play, does he?
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Playing instruments is so last century. Has he done the DTKeys yet? I can’t remember.
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OOH. Now it’s personal.
I guess I’ll watch it first. But where do I sign up for the attack?
that episode was made specifically for this forum
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I did think he gave it fair shake for a sound design perspective.
The narrow sweet spot comment seemed contradictory because he was tweaking patches in real time and it sounded good. Compared to other analogs I though it has a wider coverage area for sweet spots
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