Need a Good, Affordable, Multi-Distortion Unit...

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andrizzle said:
I recently tried a buddy's Pod X3 Live that sounded incredible! If you're still running the Line 6 amp of yours you might wanna think about going that way... HOWEVER, it's a BIT PRICEY!

On the other hand if the Pod XT Live does roughly the same thing then I think it'd be right up your alley man, and it can be found on the used market for your price-range... It does a LOT more, so I don't know if that's the direction you'd like to go but the other things I'd recommend have already been listed.... Mainly the DM-4... good luck in yoru search
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I would love to have a POD X3 Live; but I can't afford anything like that.
 
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80's_Metal said:
you can buy a used zoom 505 on ebay for $30 totally programmable and lots of good tones.
Also the metal muff with top boost?
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You can't be serious. The only thing that sounded worse than my 505 was my Boss OS-2!

Butch, you have a decent amp, right? Just get a couple good ODs like an MI Audio Crunchbox and Blues Pro. Line 6 stuff is fun to mess around with and is easy to record but it doesn't come close to plugging a real OD into a real amp and letting the mojo flow...
 
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Without a doubt, the Jekyll and Hyde!!!! It is exactly what you need.
 
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Butch...are you needing to save money? I would buy a small pine board, put some carpet on it.....add a one spot and buy a used Bad Monkey ($30) a used
Cool cat trasparent od ($30) and a used Cool cat drive ($30).

Clones of TS, Timmy and OCD for cheap.
 
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Any thoughts on the Visual Sounds Double Trouble pedal?
 
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I've got a spare ME-50 unit if you wanted to work something out with a Steve Morse bridge pickup... :D
 
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dominus said:
I've got a spare ME-50 unit if you wanted to work something out with a Steve Morse bridge pickup... :D
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The ME-50 is much more than what I need and not enough. There's only one OD/Dist channel. You can't have two different overdrives to use. As far as the Steve Morse bridge pickup, I need to keep it because if I ever sell the guitar, I need to be able to get it back to stock.
 
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Butch Snyder said:
The ME-50 is much more than what I need and not enough. There's only one OD/Dist channel. You can't have two different overdrives to use. As far as the Steve Morse bridge pickup, I need to keep it because if I ever sell the guitar, I need to be able to get it back to stock.
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You mean use at the same time, right?

If you mean individually, you can make up 30 variations of the available pedal models, then click the one you want.

I set the one I had up with three gain levels of each pedal I used...low, crunchy, and screamin'. That way, it was kind of like a three channel version of each pedal.
 
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guitfiddle said:
You mean use at the same time, right?

If you mean individually, you can make up 30 variations of the available pedal models, then click the one you want.

I set the one I had up with three gain levels of each pedal I used...low, crunchy, and screamin'. That way, it was kind of like a three channel version of each pedal.
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Wow, okay, I didn't know that. It's still too much for what I need. I need OD/Dist only.
 
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Butch Snyder said:
Any thoughts on the Visual Sounds Double Trouble pedal?
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It's two TS clones in one box with the ability to switch individually or both on at the same time. So you could set up one side as a clean boost and the other as your dirt, or use them as slightly different overdrives and then mix them together for more clipping. The Jekyll&Hyde is a TS w/a heavier distortion and the same switching ability. I've tried them both at a couple stores and I preferred the J&H for the variety of dirt. I own a Route 66 (TS + compressor) and it's not bad if you just want light-to-medium OD and/or boost into your amp. I pretty much leave the compressor side on all the time and use the TS side for a bit of overdrive.
You could probably get the Double Trouble to sound pretty cool, but I liked the Jekyll&Hyde's range a bit more. The distortion side reminded me a little bit of the Boss DS-1, but it wasn't limited to being a clone of it. The overdrive side is a tubescreamer clone w/a bass boost switch. If you set it right it can be an ok clean boost.


I like to use the Route 66 w/ the Angry Fuzz...but it's not a sound that everybody can appreciate (I'm pretty sure my neighbors don't).
 
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Sanford said:
It's two TS clones in one box with the ability to switch individually or both on at the same time. So you could set up one side as a clean boost and the other as your dirt, or use them as slightly different overdrives and then mix them together for more clipping. The Jekyll&Hyde is a TS w/a heavier distortion and the same switching ability. I've tried them both at a couple stores and I preferred the J&H for the variety of dirt. I own a Route 66 (TS + compressor) and it's not bad if you just want light-to-medium OD and/or boost into your amp. I pretty much leave the compressor side on all the time and use the TS side for a bit of overdrive.
You could probably get the Double Trouble to sound pretty cool, but I liked the Jekyll&Hyde's range a bit more. The distortion side reminded me a little bit of the Boss DS-1, but it wasn't limited to being a clone of it. The overdrive side is a tubescreamer clone w/a bass boost switch. If you set it right it can be an ok clean boost.


I like to use the Route 66 w/ the Angry Fuzz...but it's not a sound that everybody can appreciate (I'm pretty sure my neighbors don't).
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Nice thorough review of the DT. Aesthetically-speaking, I love the look of the DT, but I would need more gain at my disposal than a Tube Screamer.
 
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Hey guys, I was in a music store yesterday and I was asking the sales guy about of the units that have been suggested. He was pretty knowledgable. He said the Jekyll and Hyde would probably suit me best. Then he brought out a Fulltone GT-500. It was expensive, but is it all that?
 
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The GT500 is pretty cool, just like a bunch of other boxes that have been mentioned here. But I think what would be even cooler is if you put that $200 towards a nice amp... unless you've come to some sort of resolution with the Line6 issues you were having.
 
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J Moose said:
The GT500 is pretty cool, just like a bunch of other boxes that have been mentioned here. But I think what would be even cooler is if you put that $200 towards a nice amp... unless you've come to some sort of resolution with the Line6 issues you were having.
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I guess the resolution is running it in manual mode. It really does sound great that way.
 
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