Pedal suggestions for two different "sounds"

cobascis · Post by **cobascis** » Tue Dec 22, 2009 3:13 am

I'm with benecol on this one -- you can't beat a rat in terms of versatility. It goes from a nice OD at around 9 o clock to to a brutal fuzz when dimed. The rat essentially removes low end, you can get a narsty 'punk' sound.

ace · Post by **ace** » Tue Dec 22, 2009 3:48 am

Thank you all for your suggestions, I will check out those heads and pedals for the punk sound but none of those fuzzes were quite what I wanted. The perticular fuzz sound I wanted was a wierd spiced up distorted sitar type sound. I stated that I already have a bigmuff and I am even hoping to try to build a clone of the american style one but that is nowhere near the sound I wanted.

cobascis · Post by **cobascis** » Tue Dec 22, 2009 3:55 am

You could look into some behringer pedals to see what sounds you like before blowing the dough on a boooteek pedal. I'm using a behringer bigmuff on my pedalboaord and its the shiz.

chisa · Post by **chisa** » Tue Dec 22, 2009 4:01 am

ace wrote:Thank you all for your suggestions, I will check out those heads and pedals for the punk sound but none of those fuzzes were quite what I wanted. The perticular fuzz sound I wanted was a wierd spiced up distorted sitar type sound. I stated that I already have a bigmuff and I am even hoping to try to build a clone of the american style one but that is nowhere near the sound I wanted.

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aen · Post by **aen** » Tue Dec 22, 2009 6:22 am

endsjustifymeans wrote:For the fuzz sound, look into a fender blender. The fender reissue is good, but Mike makes one that doesn't suffer the volume drop.

Also devi Ever's Soda Meiser and Vintage fuzz Master are awesome.
http://sodameiser.deviever.com/
http://vintagefuzzmaster.deviever.com/

I think they are still $100 a pop.

SpaceFace · Post by **SpaceFace** » Tue Dec 22, 2009 6:47 am

If you are looking for a sitar sound I dont think there is anything better than the retroman scram pedal. Its basically an ampeg scrambler clone but it does the best sitar sound I heard besides an actual sitar. There is a clip of it on their website http://www.retroman-music.com/

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Tue Dec 22, 2009 9:17 am

HOOOOOOLD everything: just had a thought, fuzz-wise: you want a superfuzz clone - try this one, if you're US based...

analogsystem · Post by **analogsystem** » Tue Dec 22, 2009 5:26 pm

honestly dude, if you put that $200 away and can save up a little more......and then get a great amp. You will instantly forget about ever wanting or needing pedals once your shit is so loud it makes your head explode.

I think for punk, metal, or anything harder, the amp is the single most important element in the rig.

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Tue Dec 22, 2009 6:08 pm

What's with the pedal h8, pot8a?