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.
Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 3:48 am
by ace
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.
Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 3:55 am
by cobascis
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.
Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 4:01 am
by chisa
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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Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 6:22 am
by aen
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.
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/
Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 9:17 am
by benecol
HOOOOOOLD everything: just had a thought, fuzz-wise: you want a superfuzz clone - try this one, if you're US based...
Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 5:26 pm
by analogsystem
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.