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17th May 2009
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| Gear addict  Joined: Sep 2005 Location: Bern/Berlin
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Thread Starter | best stomp pedal for lead distortion
I dont get the lead sound I'm looking for with RAT or tube screamer - RAT is a bit too fuzzy and tobe screamer is not distorted enough (like both for chrunchy rythm sounds!) ...and I was messing around with MXR comp before dist pedal I was also wondering if some of you use 2 dist pedals serial (both avtivated) to get the right sound? I'm checking out fulltone fulldrive this week as well any other suggestions? tips? |
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17th May 2009
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| Gear Head  Joined: Jan 2007 Location: Austin, TX
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Try using the the tube screamer as a boost mostly, to drive the front end of your amp harder. Some of the most distorted metal tones come from a barely distorted tubescreamer w the the volume cranked feeding a tube amp (5150 etc)
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17th May 2009
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| Lives for gear  Joined: Apr 2008 Location: Netherlands
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Big Muff - not exactly natural sounding, but sufficiently brutal. Cheap, too. I prefer the Russian one personally.
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17th May 2009
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| Gear addict Joined: Sep 2005 Location: Bern/Berlin
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17th May 2009
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Boss DS1 Fulltone Fat Boost | |
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17th May 2009
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Blackstar HT Dist  |
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| Gear Head Joined: Jan 2007 Location: Austin, TX
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17th May 2009
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| Gear nut Joined: Sep 2005
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keeley-modded Rat on might mouse setting or zvex super hard on.
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17th May 2009
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| Gear addict  Joined: Oct 2008 Location: USA
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The Fuzzface!!!thumbsup
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17th May 2009
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| Gear interested Joined: May 2009
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vintage dod, can't recall the name... boss metal tech21 xxl/comptortion its a VERY personal thing, no 'best' |
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17th May 2009
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| Lives for gear  Joined: Dec 2007 Location: Indiana
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Fulltone OCD or the ZVex box of rock
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18th May 2009
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| Gear interested  Joined: Mar 2009 Location: Some Where In Time
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18th May 2009
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| Lives for gear Joined: Sep 2005 Location: St. Louis MO
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There's a metal distortion pedal that I've actually used for harder pop punk and rock bands that worked great for lead/solo tones. It was the metal muff with top boost. I would just keep the gain knob fairly low and work with the eq and top boost and I always got what I wanted. I even used the pedal as a boost in front of an ac30 once with great results. kept the gain almost all the way down and worked with the top boost.
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18th May 2009
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| Gear addict Joined: May 2008
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DOD stuff isn't very quiet. Try a Marshall Guv'nor. Great sounding distortion pedal. And nothing else can match it's beauty too.
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18th May 2009
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| Lives for gear  Joined: Sep 2005 Location: Sudbury, ON, Canada
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I've owned and tried so many, and still have quite the collection of OD and Dist boxes. Right now, believe it or not, the Digitech Hardwire Tube Overdrive is doing it for me. It sounds great. It`s smooth, gushey, controllable, well built and it`s true bypass. I`ve even been choosing it over my 808 and TS9. Give it a try!
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18th May 2009
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| Gear interested  Joined: Mar 2009 Location: England
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Xotic BB Plus
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19th May 2009
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| Lives for gear Joined: Sep 2005 Location: Sudbury, ON, Canada
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I bet the Doug Aldrich Majic Box Rocket Fuel is pretty killer as well. On the cheap though, the Digitech's awesome. | |
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20th May 2009
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| Gear nut  Joined: Sep 2005 Location: Costa Mesa, CA
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xotic BB is excellent, I use a paul cochrane TIM...cool 'cause it has a built in FX loop...I have a carbon copy dedicated to that pedal for leads...the pedal is very flexible. <>< mark
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20th May 2009
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| Gear Head  Joined: May 2009 Location: Michigan
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What type of amp and guitar are you using? I have been very happy with a number of methods in the past. Guitar straight into my cranked Orange Rockerverb 50, sometimes with a Voodoo Lab Sparkle Drive in front of it. I also enjoy the Boss SD-1 for some stuff, the Big Muff can get nice and fuzzy, but sometimes when using a tube amp, just throwing a clean boost or the tubescreamer as a boost to push the amp harder works best. It all depends on the song and the sound you are going for. |
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20th May 2009
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| Lives for gear Joined: Nov 2007
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21st May 2009
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| Lives for gear  Joined: Oct 2008 Location: Now in Wellington
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The Zvex box of rock is a kick ass pedal! That little box is full of tones.
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23rd May 2009
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| Gear maniac  Joined: Jul 2008 Location: Madrid Spain
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Vox Satchurator would be a good pick
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