Just bought my first pedal!

[NegativeEase]

Re: Just bought my first pedal!

Mega Preacher?

I meant Mega Church Preacher. Where do you live? are you familiar with these monstrosities?

[Aceman]

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+1


For example, metal zones make great doorstops or paperweights. :P

So True. Butan HM-2 is THE must own Swedish Deth Metal Pedal. But! At ultra low distortion, with a vintage pup, and the right eq settings, it makes a killer Blues/Grind sound....

And even the MZ has it's musical uses. Like, maybe two I think. But a way better paper weight, door stop, tire block, vent hole filler, etc....

[Dave Locher]

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The Dano distortion is not a bad place to start. There are certainly worse pedals out there. If I remember correctly, the key is to keep the gain (distortion) knob and the tone knob not too high.

Enjoy! The Danelectro FAB pedals are good first steps. I actually like the delay - I kept it and sold three much more expensive delay pedals because it works just as well for what I want.

[GreatOz]

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..or an entire stereo pedalboard of Strymon pedals can get you a date with the Mega Church Preachers daughter

LOL

[Phantasmagoria]

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It's a hell of a lot better than my first pedal ("Rocktek" something or the other...I only remember it cause it was a lurid pink). Then I got a DOD Death Metal...thought it was a tone machine (still do!). The trick is not to give a damn about what "the general opinion" of something is. If it suits your purpose/budget & sounds good to you ..that's what matters

[Mincer]

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My first pedal was a distortion pedal by the famous Next company (!?!). It had a knob where you can dial in the 'decade' of distortion...60s, 70s, 80s..and NEXT.

[nexion218]

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After I decided to cut ties with the multieffects, my first pedal was a Digitech Death Metal. I'd say it weighs in probably around 1 kg/2 pounds and has no gain control. Nuff said.

[Sirion]

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My first pedal was a distortion pedal by the famous Next company (!?!). It had a knob where you can dial in the 'decade' of distortion...60s, 70s, 80s..and NEXT.

This one, I assume:

https://reverb.com/item/1667524-next-distortion-x-rare-distortion-pedal-made-in-japan

It is a pretty cool idea, actually, though I have my doubts whether it delivered.

[Mincer]

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This one, I assume:

https://reverb.com/item/1667524-next-distortion-x-rare-distortion-pedal-made-in-japan

It is a pretty cool idea, actually, though I have my doubts whether it delivered.

This was it, although mine was an earlier beige version. They had a whole line of effects. It sounded pretty bad.

[St_Genesius]

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Were the different decade settings just jumps in (fundamentally the same) gain or did they have distinct EQ curves?

[Aceman]

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My first pedal was a distortion pedal by the famous Next company (!?!). It had a knob where you can dial in the 'decade' of distortion...60s, 70s, 80s..and NEXT.

Honestly, I think a modeling pedal like that would be kind of cool....

[Securb]

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Honestly, I think a modeling pedal like that would be kind of cool....

Then take a look at the SourceAudio Classic Distortion. The pedal is freaking amazing.

Effects

Here are some brief descriptions of the effects included in the Classic Distortion. Most of the effects are based on, but not exact copies of, a variety of popular analog distortion pedals. Don’t expect the sounds to be exactly like the corresponding analog effects. We tried to capture the spirit of each sound rather than trying to copy the exact nuts and bolts.

TUBE DRIVE
An overdriven tube amp effect similar to a Marshall® sound. Try scaling back the drive knob for a nice mild overdrive.

SMOOTH TUBE
Based on Mesa-Boogie® pre-amp distortion.

POWER STAGE
Inspired by the Fulltone Distortion Pro®.

CRUNCH TUBE
Our own distortion, not based on any particular sound. It’s a more aggressive tube distortion.

TS9000
Based the Ibanez Tube Screamer® with a lot of mid boost.

BIG PI
Based on an Electro Harmonix Big Muff Pi®. Don’t ask which exact model. That’s not the point.

EL RATON
Based on the ProCo Rat®.

FUZZ FAÇADE
Our version of the classic Dallas Arbiter Fuzz Face® sound.

BENDER
The Tone Bender®. We specifically used an MK II, but don’t obsess over the exact model number.

METAL
Our own metal distortion with plenty of highs and lows.

OCTAVE FUZZ
A full wave rectifier, as everyone does, to mimic the classic Octavia®. This tends to sound better with DRIVE 2 turned up much higher than DRIVE 1.

CLEAN BOOST / TONE
A distortion effect bypass that still allows the gain and the TONE control to be used. Great for doing clean lead boosts or use strictly as a tone control. Clipping the output is possible with this setting. If the levels are boosted high enough, the hard clipping can actually sound pretty good.

[dave74]

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^^^Is that all analog? hahaha

[Securb]

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^^^Is that all analog? hahaha

It is a digital modeler but close your eye and you won't know the difference.

Here is a review of the pedal I did a while back

http://www.tmrzoo.com/2011/20657/source-audios-soundblox-pro-classic-distortion-solves-most-guitarists-biggest-issues

[Wound_Up]

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Got the pedal today so I went to closest music store and picked up another cable.

Worst cable I've ever used. You can hear things rattling in the actual plug ends and the buzz is unbearable. I thought the cheap cable that came with my guitar was bad but this is unusable!

I can tell you this much. I won't be shopping at that store anymore. Dude sold me a $3 piece of s**t Amazon cable for $15. I was livid when I saw that. So it's going back when they open in 6 hrs. 500% markup is ridiculous. Especially on that garbage. It's bad enough that he overcharges for strings. I can deal with $3 extra bucks here and there on a single pack but this is outrageous.

It was so bad I couldn't use it with the pedal at all and it was useless with just my guitar, also. The buzzing was still unbearable.


Edit: looks like they're as cheap as $1.99 on Amazon. So that's even worse. 750% markup on a garbage cable.

I'm most disappointed in the fact that I couldn't even test the pedal. What I heard sounded decent but I didn't keep it plugged up for very long.