want to buy MY distortion pedal....

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everyone tell me their favorite distortion pedal.... or fuzz pedal..... i am mostly a player that plays clean, warm guitar plucks. but my music still calls for distortion...
what's your favorite?!
thanks,
rob
 
maybe i should mention i play progressive and ambient rock, with a fender 65 twin reverb..... i liked overdrive when i used to play punk rock, but now don't know what i like..... any suggestions?........... and yes i'm going to try them all out, but i like to even prepare for that!
thanks,
rob
 
My current favorite is the Digitech Crossroads (Eric Clapton) pedal. I got it for Christmas.

rpe
 
DOD Overdrive/Preamp FX50

Nice tone to it, and they're cheap on e-bay if you can find one. Sounds excellent when played through a tube amp!
 
endserenading81 said:
everyone tell me their favorite distortion pedal.... or fuzz pedal..... i am mostly a player that plays clean, warm guitar plucks. but my music still calls for distortion...
what's your favorite?!
thanks,
rob
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Your search is over-
Budda Phatman.
 
I gotta go with the sobbat drivebreaker I. TONS of flexibility, everything from crystalline overdrive to all-out crunch to fuzz. And it's LOUD. It can blow your amp if you're not careful. The nice thing is the control it offers with your guitar's volume knob.

http://www.musictoyz.com/guitar/pedals/sobbat.php
 
Just save your $$$ and get one of these…..Boss GT-6 I wish I had done that rather than buying a bunch of stomp boxes first and then spending more yet on the GT-6 (Or something similar.) my $.02 ;)
 
thank you

great great........... what does everyone think of the Big Muff? or the Ratt? or Sansamp GT2?
thanks,
rob
 
Rat

You missed someone above giving props to the ProCo Rat, which is what I think you mean by Ratt. There are several diffferent Rat pedals. I think I have the "vintage" one, or something. Anyway, it is very versatile, and gets a warmy overdriven sound when you set the dials fairly low. There are shred tones, too, but I am not a conaisseur of shred/thrash/industrial grind (though I like these sounds, i don't play them), so I can't really rate them. The Rat also looks cool, different from the standard Boss/Digitech look and size. Bulkier, no nonsense black box.

Oh, and my friend TJ in college had a green Big Muff. That was great. I love EH.
 
I also suggest a ProCo Rat. I have the Rat 2, but would probably go for the DeuceTone for more variety.
 
even the turbo rat sounds great. Big muffs tend to put more "square" waves in there, making it fore "fuzz"... The tone control can scoop out your tone. I have both a vinage ret and 2 turbo rats, and they're great. I just like the power of the sobbat unit. Or a boss turbo overdrive, but they tend to crap out..
 
The rat is a great bread and butter type of pedal. It creates a good basic Mesa or Marshall chordal crunch sound. Not too distorted but just a little speaker type breakup sound. Great for chording.

I usually kick the Rat up a notch with a Boss DS-1 which is not always great by itself but with the Rat just ahead in the chain the DS-1 goes into a nice smooth cutting lead tone. This is less buzzy than by itself, a really great combination.

For something a little bluesier, like an old fender Princeton running on 10, the Danelectro Fabtone gets right to the heart of the matter.

Sometimes I run all 3 of these in unison. Excessive yes, but sonically this creates that sustained-feedback-on-each-note if I vibrato the note.

One can never experiment enough with multiple distortion/overdrive combinations.
 
i'm a BIG fan of the Visual Sound Jekyll and Hyde pedal. One side gives you that old TS808 tube screamer sound, and the other side sounds a LOT like an old ProCo RAT.

the sides can be used by themselves or in conjunction with each other.

between that and the aforementioned Danelectro Fabtone, you can get a HUGE variety of sounds.


cheers,
wade
 
I spent a good 2 hours one afternoon at a music store and tried the Ibanez TS9, DOD Distortion, every Boss OD or Distortion unit, Big Muff, Rat (vintage and deucetone), Fabtone and walked out of the store with a FuzzFace. It may not be the "best", but it was for my tone.
 
endserenading81 said:
great great........... what does everyone think of the Big Muff? or the Ratt? or Sansamp GT2?
thanks,
rob
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Big Muff is good for fuzz tones. I've used in the past to thicken up a Strat or Tele single coil. Haven't tried Ratt or Sansamp GT2.
 
Rather than a regular Rat (especially a new one - they REALLY SUCK compared to the older ones due to a different op-amp), spend the extra and get a Robert Keeley three-way Rat mod. He sells pre-modded versions. I played a vintage Rat II for 17 years before getting his mod, and it's the best thing that ever happened to that pedal!

Since you're using a Twin, you have lots of loud, clean headroom. I'd also recommend a Blackstone Appliances MOSFET Overdrive. It doesn't sound like a pedal at all - it sounds like a really wicked old Marshall. And it FEELS like a Marshall, too, getting crunchier rather than fizzier when you dig in, and responding nicely to the volume knob. Between that and the Keeley Rat, I'm just blissfully happy with my tones.
 
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