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What is your all time favorite distortion pedal?
Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 6:54 am
by SonOfLimp
Hey, Just wanted to see what kinds of distortion pedals people use..I've got the Boss DS-1.
Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 6:56 am
by Nick
That one looks modded, is it yours?
I'm more of an overdrive guy. I have a Nobels ODR-1 that does the job. I like Big Muffs too, and Fuzz Factories, though I have neither right now.
Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 6:58 am
by SonOfLimp
This isn't mine, I'm just to lazy to take a picture of it...but yea, looks like he modded the switch by the tone... mine looks more like this.
Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 7:09 am
by hazelwould
I'm a Hotcake fan... They can be really nice clean or dirty. They also remind me a bit of the Rat. At least the Vintage rat I had... Cept it cleaned up well and had loads of volume.
Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 7:49 am
by light rail coyote
I love my vintage IC big muff to death
but I recently started using my girlfriends old japanese boss HM pedal. it actually sounds good through my sunn amp, but not through any of my other amps
Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 8:12 am
by theshadowofseattle
DOD Juice Box for overdrive. Fuzz Faces for fuzz.
Distortion is lame.
Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 8:16 am
by Aeon
Box of Rock. Simple but great. That and a TU2 are usually all I ever plug into before the amp for most occasions.
Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 8:45 am
by Mike
I like too much dirt to narrow it down to one pedal. These all have their charm:
Proco RAT
EHX Big Muff (Green Version)
Crowther HotCake
Box Of Rock
Marshall GV-2 Guvnor Plus
Fulltone OCD
FuzzFace with Fuller Mods
Klon
Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 8:55 am
by timhulio
Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 12:14 pm
by Nick
That yellow box reminds me, another old favorite are old yellow box DOD 250 Overdrives. It was the only pedal I used in my last band.
Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 12:26 pm
by Fran
Depends what amp i am using and like mike said, its difficult to pick one.
Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 12:40 pm
by jamieb
TT Classic by a long shot.
Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 1:07 pm
by kim
i don't have distortion pedals...
for fuzz tgd it's a weirdo <3
Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 3:37 pm
by ultratwin
I love what I have and use them all in regular rotation, all for different reasons:
Overdrive
G2D Creamtone: light gain/boost
BJF Emerald Green: voxy light/mid gain
BJF Dyna Red: mid/heavy gain
Danelectro Cool Cat Distortion: more compressed mid/heavy gain
Blackstone Mosfet OD: simply delightful amplike low/mid gain twin channel
Moollon Distortion: fave "JTM45esque" addition to an OD'd amp
Fuzz
Frantone Creampuff: A Stoner Muff deluxe, stupid and scooped to my heart's content
Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 4:27 pm
by laterallateral
Overdrive:
Visual Sound Route 66
Boss Blues Driver
Ibanez DS7 LoFi (TONE LOK)
Vantage Analog Delay (used only to kick my preamp in the teeth)
Distortion:
Ibanez CF7 (TONE LOK)
ProCo You Dirty Rat
Fuzz:
Devi Ever Soda Mizer
Devi Ever Soda Mizer +
Effector 13 Disater Fuzz Of Doom
MXR Blue Box
Behringer SF300 Super Fuzz
NYC Big Muff Pi with red LED mod
Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 5:04 pm
by Haze
Hot Cake, Box of Rock, Green Muff. That about does it for me
the Hot Cake especially, can go from so suttle you can leave it on as a clean tone w/ a slight grit, or crank it up and it will compete w/ the muffs
Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 5:55 pm
by Mo Law-ka
what is the difference between distortion, fuzz and overdrive?
Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 6:32 pm
by Doog
For classic big rock sounds, ProCo RAT, hands down.
Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 6:40 pm
by DanHeron
Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 6:43 pm
by Reece
DanHeron wrote:
I guess you like it then!
I loves me T.Rex mudhoney personally.
