| I don't own one, but I got to try one once, and the technosaurus effexon is a really truly incredible "nice" distortion. It is very controllable and has a really pleasant sound. Unfortunately, i don't think they are making them right now. I have been looking for one for a long time. I heard they might start making them again in the future, though. If you see one for sale, jump on it.
On a totally different note, I just got an effector 13 synth mangler. It is definitely not pretty, but it is extremely versatile in the range of not pretty sounds it can get. It has tow distortion/ fuzzes in sequence. you can just use one of you want to, though. They are identical, and each has a hiss switch and a chaos switch, both of which completely change the character. Also, hiss before chaos sounds totally different than chaos before hiss, so there is a lot of combnations. The best part is, you can control the distortion amount of both the fuzzes with a joystick. one is on the x-axis, the other on the y. I really really love this thing, but it's probably not what you're looking for if you want to be able to recognize your input signal at all at the end. Personally, I seldom look to electronics to make pretty, pleasant sounds anyway. I play a lot of acoustic instruments, and I can get pretty sounds out of any of them if I'm in the mood. |