What fuzz/distortion are you using after your monosynth?

[zosthegoatherd]

I want all of the stuff mentioned above. Another option flightofharmony
It is not a pure distortion/overdrive/fuzz but it can mangle sounds quite well.

[Rust Creep]

I have a quad.plague bearer... that thing is a.dream for nasty perc

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[zerocrossing]

Just an update. I found someone selling the Vox Bulldog cheap so I picked it up. It's nice because it's got separate bass and treble instead of just "tone" and the bypass is true bypass. Would be nice to have a three band tone control, but, oh well. My initial impression is it's pretty good especially for $160. One channel I have set up for just a little grit, the other full on distort-o-rama. After a bit I ran it into Sugar Bytes Vornado for some crazy mangling time. Right hand on the keys, left hand controlling a Hot Hand MIDI sending CCs to Vornado's "Dictator" control. It was like Trent Reznor fighting Marilyn Manson in a nightmare.

[lore]

i find the biscuit excellent for dirty drums , but how do you guys cope with the noise when you use the biscuit on bass for instance ?

i've attached a file , first half dry and second half biscuit (no fx , no bits inverted,filter fully open, drive half way with bypass button going red on peaks)

the only way to reduce the noise artifacts is to close the filter but i loose the bite of the synth .

[zerocrossing]

Originally Posted by lore

i find the biscuit excellent for dirty drums , but how do you guys cope with the noise when you use the biscuit on bass for instance ?

i've attached a file , first half dry and second half biscuit (no fx , no bits inverted,filter fully open, drive half way with bypass button going red on peaks)

the only way to reduce the noise artifacts is to close the filter but i loose the bite of the synth .

I don't have experience with the Biscuit but most distortion devices are going to naturally give a lot of compression which will give you louder noise if it's already in the system. A lot has to do with your source. If you've got a good synth and good cable... maybe a noise gate of some sort? As a guitarist I use them all the time. This won't get rid of the noise, just make it less noticeable during quieter times.

[spaceacademy]

Originally Posted by CarlV

By any chance do you have Ohmicide? And if so how would you say Saturn compares? I find the Ohm-force UIs impenetrable. (I guess I should just demo it, but I hate the 30 day timeout because if I don't buy it within that time I can never go back and reconsider).

Thats a horrible plugin, Awful to programme and I was never once satisfied with the distortions. In fact there is no plugin out there I have ever been satisfied for synth distortion except real ones.

I found ohmicide destroyed every bassline but in a bad way. It sounds like theres something wrong with it. Ive got somem free ones that sound better andn I get a much better distortion *Fuzz type) if I simply whacj the gain of my mixer right up.

What we synth players need is what they can get with Waves pedal board type thing. A rang of distortions you can place in serial or parallel, or just buy some real ones.

[Rust Creep]

Buttermlk biscuits

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[lore]

Originally Posted by zerocrossing

I don't have experience with the Biscuit but most distortion devices are going to naturally give a lot of compression which will give you louder noise if it's already in the system. A lot has to do with your source. If you've got a good synth and good cable... maybe a noise gate of some sort? As a guitarist I use them all the time. This won't get rid of the noise, just make it less noticeable during quieter times.

so you think that the noise i can hear with the biscuit is just the noise of the synth amplified by the biscuit ? could be , but i've the same when i use a sampled bassdrum , which should be clean ...

till now i've been able to use it just on bright sources as the noise get masked ...

[cane creek]

I run my xoxbox thru a MXR M104 Distortion, it sounds great however it does kill the Ascent.

THIS WEBSITE IS SUPERB , lets you run a 303 thru just about every distortion pedal on the market.

[lhama]

Big muff variations. I'm not a big fan of muffs on guitars, but it sounds great with my moog.

[verve92]

The standard MEK distortion channel and sometimes a ProCo RAT

[lucianop]

I think Boss Metal Zone can really scream in a great way. This is a demostration of what Boss Metal Zone can do also to virtual synths.

[clusterchord]

Originally Posted by modularjack

for whatever reason I prefer the lower tone/darker distortion on synths. Probably cause my synth patches already have tons of higher harmonics (I like pitchey/modulating sounds) so normal distortion makes things a bit too messy in the mids/highs for me.

that's also might be impedance mismatch. most pedals "expect" to see high output imp. of a passive guitar (100k+), and have then even higher input imp. to accurately transfer the signal (i.e. prevent loss and loading down). 1MOhm or even much more... what you describe with mids/highs typically happens feeding a synth signal (1kOhm) into such distortion/fuzz pedal expecting 100 times more.

i had the same experience with woolly mammoth. fantastic pedal...with passive bass and guitar... yet with a synth or beatbox signal.. it went to all out harsh fuzz wth screeching highs and hi mids.. same with active bass.



so, ive read about solutions, and seems most ppl mention two ways to deal with pedals+synths:

1. if you get a pedal meant for passive instr, place a REAMP device in front. examples: woolly mamooth, memory man deluxe, most BBD chorus/flanger pedals on 9V, many od/dist/fuzz pedals. their input imp is in several megaohms.

2. get a variation or similar pedal that is confirmed to work with active pickup bass guitars too. impedance is <=1MOhm. less the better. it still may require lowering your signal. examples MXR Phase series (500k), Small Stone, Mastotron (has load control).

anyways, i chose Iron Ether Oxide Fuzz, and then probably LittleLabs Redeye 3D (DI and REAMP at the same time). Oxide works with active pickups, and demos of both bass and guitar just blew me away... ill give it a shot.

another that caught my ear, for classic smoother warmer tone, that il tryout locally is: Neo Germanium Fuzz. even has LOAD control to acommodate passive and active.. and there is Mastotron by Zvex. similar to Woolly, but also with LOAD control. and cheaper.



PS there are some really nice BYOC and GGG kits for BIg Muff and FuzzFace... that is also an option to save a few bucks.. if you have time.

[getmethough]

i dont have a mixing desk, so I overdrive stuff through the audio input of my voyager, which gives pretty much the same effect I think, wish it had a stereo input though

also use a little big muff which im borrowing off my mate

[kpsiegel]

The observations about impedance matching are critical. If you don't have pedals that can match the impedance of your synths than you are just going to kill your signal integrity and it will just muck everything all up.