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im looking to buy a new distortion or overdrive. . . and i just wanted to hear what od's and or distortions that you guys love the sound, has the most bang for its buck, or just love the way it looks?

I like my Jekyll and Hyde pretty well, but it's really an overdrive....not a distortion pedal.

I've been really wanting a Box of Rock lately, though.

At the moment its a tie between the Behringer vintage distortion ($30) my odl faithfull, big muff clone

and Effector 13 Synth Mangler ($315) ULTRA beefy silicon fuzz with octave and noise powerz. Also very expensive, I got mine in a trade.

I dig a Fuzz Face through the right amp, but when I just need to grab and go I love the Big Muff. For better or worse, it sounds exactly the same through everything. My beat-to-hell Russian version still sounds the best to me.

the fulltone pro distortion is amazing. expensive though, but worth it, i reckon.

I still haven't found any bass fuzzes as kickin as my Wooly Mammoth. Fuzz Factory works wonders with it as well, but for guitar I too enjoy the sizzle of a good Big Muff.

ProCo RAT is in my BLUUD.

the rat is awesome.

I've yet to find a dirt pedal that I like as much as Marshall amp OD.

Just a few thoughts...




Guitar:

-The Swede/Finns haven't lef the board yet: The BJF Dyna Red Distortion has proven to be my favorite mid-to-heavy overdrive for having so much gain yet still being a very musical, transparence OD at heart. Emerald Green Distortion Machine does a lovely old Voxy thing for the bridge pickup and loves to be preceded by a comp.

-The new Danelectro Cool Cat Distortion has been getting heaps of use...It absolutely loves the JCM2000 and has a lot of various drive tones well before it goes into fuzz. Some say it sounds too much like a DS-1...I disagree completely, it breaks up much more naturally and can almost clean up if necessary. Sooper cheap dirty tones!

-For a humping mids TS boob screamer type, the brown channel of the Blackstone Mosfet. It actually sounds really good on a clean amp and makes it seem like the tubes are cooking a natural load of nasalesque overdrive...If you've the patience to tweak the trimpots for necessary tone adjustments.

-As of late I've really dug my friend's OCD thru a Marshall 1974x, it makes his Tele sound enormously violent, albeit just a chunky overdrive.

-The OD-3 is still awesome for being the workhorse of overdrives. The unassuming yellow box is likely part of the magic.



Bass:

The Prescription Electronics Depth Charge(Bass fuzz, what Rochello has likely not tried yet ) and Moollon Bass Drive (Bass Overdrive) give me plenty of dirt to work with, and for more fun I'll kick either of the two with a bass-boosted EQ and/or clean boost.

lamp wrote:I've yet to find a dirt pedal that I like as much as Marshall amp OD.

So true innit.



I do love the SD-1 by boss as far as overdrive/dist boxes go.

Don't get me started on fuzzes, I love them all.

lamp wrote:I've yet to find a dirt pedal that I like as much as Marshall amp OD.

+1

Although these get close:

ZVex Box Of Rock
OLC Orange Peel
Marshall Guv'nor II
Fulltone OCD
Boss OD-3 Overdrive


These are all overdrive pedals. I'm not really into distortion and fuzz - well I like it all.

OLC's big cheese clone, the Chunky Cheese: I can't praise it enough.

Even though they're overdrives i'm still gonna say them....Ibanez Tubescreamer ts808 and a Danelectro Daddy-O pedal. I really don't think anything beats natural overdrive from a Vox or a Bassman though... but that's sorta in a different ball park.

Another nomination for the effector 13 effects. The Soda Meizer. It will tear your fucking face off!

RAT RAT RAT RAT

SIB Varidrive

Fulltone OCD

Fulltone Distortion Pro

Hopefully Mike's pedals he is shipping to me.

These are my favs.
Marshall Guv'nor or Blues Breaker.
Big Muff Pi - american
modded Tube screamer.

purplehaze19x wrote:modded Tube screamer.

+1

I used to really like the tubescreamer clone i built, then when i was rehousing it put the fat mod on it and man now i absolutely love it.
It sounds great going into a box of mike too!

Double Trouble/Route 808, don't hate