What's your favorite distortion pedal?

[80's_Metal]

Re: What's your favorite distortion pedal?

I've always been a distortion freak.
Settled on these two for overall badassness.

 

[Johtosotku]

Re: What's your favorite distortion pedal?

For tight modern metal, a Damage Control Demonizer.

For evergreen Marshall tones, a Barber Direct Drive.

For all around middy great tones, a HBE Paradrive.

For dirt and fuzz mix, a T-Rex Mudhoney.

For all out sludgy doom mayhem, a Black Arts Destroyer.

 

[MacBradley]

Re: What's your favorite distortion pedal?

When I'm using something other than my Mesa Tremoverb's gain channel, I usually use one of two:

Zvex Distorton/BOR: I run it through a 4x10 '59 Fender Bassman RI and it has a great sound! Its meant to sound like a Marshall JMP45 or whatever that early model Marshall the Bassman circuitry was based on of.

AKAI G-Drive: A short lived pedal from the early 2000's that has a more flexible EQ structure than almost every gain pedal out there that doesn't have menus, but its pretty simple. Gain, Output, and a 6 band EQ both PRE and POST distortion. If you know a bit about amp and pedal dirt, you'll know that most EQ's are POST distortion in the signal. Also having EQ before can completely change the character of the distortion. You can actually get a HUGE range of distortion sounds from most gain pedals by putting an EQ both before and after the pedal. This includes that all in one box. Great swiss army pedal to take to any amp!

 

[Iron1]

Re: What's your favorite distortion pedal?

Anyone use one of these: http://www.seymourduncan.com/pedals/805_overdrive/

 

[Edgecrusher]

Re: What's your favorite distortion pedal?

Anyone use one of these: http://www.seymourduncan.com/pedals/805_overdrive/

SD makes no secret that its a tubescreamer clone

Ive A/B'd it against a Maxon OD808 and you can hear it is very definitely a tube screamer. With the controls set flat the 2 are hard to tell apart, especially at volume. The active 3 band eq is cool for dialing in tones that you cant normally do with a TS which is cool but I found that at extreme ends of it it seemed a bit noisey. The drive knob has more sweep but I personally wouldnt use any of the extra range so for me is moot.

If i was a guy who didnt own a tubescreamer and wanted a high quality versatile version I would jump on it like a fat kid on a cup cake. If i already had one I would probably look for something else.

 

[TimmyPage]

Re: What's your favorite distortion pedal?

The ProCo RAT is something special. In my mind it's up there with Tubescreamers as 'Pedals you should have on your board at least once in your life, whether you end up loving it or hating it'. It's such a classic circuit.

I really enjoy the ZVex Distotron I played on my friends Rig, it was a lot of fun. I currently roll with an SL Drive on my board and it's great as well, though I tend to use it a little less these days as I have been using fuzz more and more for my main distorted sound.

 

[Archer250]

Re: What's your favorite distortion pedal?

The ProCo RAT is something special. In my mind it's up there with Tubescreamers as 'Pedals you should have on your board at least once in your life, whether you end up loving it or hating it'. It's such a classic circuit.

What's really great about both is that not only are they great distortion/overdrive pedals, but they're also killer amp-boosters.

 

[Kac]

Re: What's your favorite distortion pedal?

Boss Ds-1 has been a pedal that I've come back to several times and not been disappointed. Currently I just use a Seymour Duncan Tweak Fuzz and it gets the job done for me.


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[ehdwuld]

Re: What's your favorite distortion pedal?

Boss Ds-1 has been a pedal that I've come back to several times and not been disappointed. Currently I just use a Seymour Duncan Tweak Fuzz and it gets the job done for me.


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I too have the DS1 and the Tweak Fuzz

And go back and forth

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[GuitarDoc]

Re: What's your favorite distortion pedal?

I'm surprised no one has mention the MXR Super Badass Distortion. Man that thing can do just about anything from boost to overdrive to crunch to distortion to super distortion. It has three band EQ to dial in the tone and attack you want.

 

[DKSEARS]

Re: What's your favorite distortion pedal?

Right now, it's one of my three (really four).

Rockett Designs Blue Note - great low gain overdrive
Wampler Dual Fusion - two in one. The "vintage" side has a bright crunchy tone, the "modern" side is darker, smoother tone that breaks up nicely
Wampler SLOstortion - I love this for my high gain sounds.

All three are on my board along with a Barber Tone Press.


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