Never ever buy this distortion pedal.

JesseJames · Post by **JesseJames** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 6:31 pm

It sucks balls, has horrible tone, and is getting shipped back promptly.

Kellan · Post by **Kellan** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 7:50 pm

what are you running it through?

JesseJames · Post by **JesseJames** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 8:03 pm

My b-52 amp. The digitech metal master owns this thing bigtime. This has a tinny weak distortion. If you're gonna be in a sabbath cover band you could MAYBE make this thing work. But if you wanna play anything that requires a more saturated heavy distortion stay the hell away from this thing.

Acid Flashbakc · Post by **Acid Flashbakc** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 10:34 pm

when i had a b-52 i didn't need any kind of stomp or anything extra and i was doing death-metal. what model is it?

JesseJames · Post by **JesseJames** » Fri Oct 03, 2008 10:38 pm

I dunno, the 100w solid state one.

Jefferino · Post by **Jefferino** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 12:58 am

Best distortion pedal Ive ever owned...

Tweel · Post by **Tweel** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 12:59 am

i just bought this and i love it...great fat overdrive tone.. killer for QOTSA type rock.

Jefferino · Post by **Jefferino** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 1:04 am

The Boss Metal Zone is actually really good- a little touchy on the high end though.

Acid Flashbakc · Post by **Acid Flashbakc** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 2:22 am

i'll second the boss metal zone.. my friend plays it into an ampeg bass amp (for guitar) for his crust band and it sounds brilliant. digitech on the other hand has been nothing but crap for me. if your not willing to drop a ton of money on a nice head then i'd definitely say try out the metal zone

whitemike · Post by **whitemike** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 6:27 am

The distortion I use is the drive function on the large Boss Wah pedal there, going through an EQ pedal (Scooped of course), then a noise gate and into the clean channel of my amp where I push the mids through more on that eq.

This...

goes into...

It's taken me a while to find a distortion tone I've been happy with - But the distortion from the Boss Wah there is fucking kick ass for metal. It's just finding the right amp to push it, which I've gone through so many types to do. (Still searching through... I reckon an Engl/Mesa set up would cheer me up

) Even gone through keyboard amps, bass amps and no-name pieces of second hand shit to see what happens. Sucks when you're picky about tone

hippy · Post by **hippy** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 8:10 am

MOOG everything rules. expensive though.

Three Second Doom · Post by **Three Second Doom** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 11:24 am

I used to use the same B-52 amp. That thing never really handled pedals well, I always just ran straight in. After picking up a tube amp, the difference in handling pedals is amazing. I've never heard a solid state amp take pedals all that well.

Muffin · Post by **Muffin** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 12:19 pm

whitemike wrote:(Scooped of course)

BassPhemy · Post by **BassPhemy** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 1:24 pm

I want to buy a bass wah and a distortion pedal at some point. I had a Boss Bass OD pedal but it got stolen in the great studio robbery of '07.

JesseJames · Post by **JesseJames** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 1:27 pm

Im too lazy to seperate all my shit so I've got these pedals, with this guitar, going into this amp.
The metal master is a nice sounding digital pedal. You just can't use batteries with it cause they are gone in 10 minutes.

Three Second Doom · Post by **Three Second Doom** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 1:39 pm

Visual Sound.

I've got a Jekyll & Hyde, and it rules.

Acid Flashbakc · Post by **Acid Flashbakc** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 1:42 pm

whitemike go for engl man. mesa (if we're talking triple rects) only have one good tone and 99% of the time it'll sound like every other core band that is on that trend

BassPhemy · Post by **BassPhemy** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 1:53 pm

I've never ever bought a distortion pedal for guitar. I've always just ran an EQ pedal through the effects loop and fiddled with the bands and its always sounded great. I'm not really a fan of the super distorted sound anyway. As far as distorted guitars go I like John Petrucci's old guitar sound and then bands like Defiance and somewhat close to Lamb of God's tone. That really dry, crusty, chunky kind of vibe. Where it isn't all that distorted as it is percussive.

Acid Flashbakc · Post by **Acid Flashbakc** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 2:16 pm

yea i've messed with some cheap pedals along with some expensive ones but i'll always just do what i can with my amp and its never failed me.

have you ever tried the woolly mammoth bassphemy? my brother digs his alot but its expensive ($350 and up) for an OD with a noise gate.

BassPhemy · Post by **BassPhemy** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 2:19 pm

I have never heard of or seen that pedal anywhere. Where did he get it?

Acid Flashbakc · Post by **Acid Flashbakc** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 2:29 pm

he got it from an antique shop kinda thing that specializes in strange shit...

this guy makes them from this company ZVEX and i think he hand makes every pedal they sell. it's got a sabbathy kind of sound to it on bass but i think its actually the only bass pedal/od/fuzz that doesnt cut out the bass.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XW8-9P_FFw
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQdTsNwKtkc
are pretty good videos of the sound.

http://zvexamps.com/
is the website, they make some great stuff.

only thing against the mammoth is that it's not so great with active basses but my brother uses a FullTone Dragster to correct the load and it sounds great on his warwick.

JesseJames · Post by **JesseJames** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 2:38 pm

I just got that visual audio pedal. I was looking for a chorus pedal and delay pedal, and this had two in one, and I got it off of e-bay for 88$.

I always use chorus with my guitar, just a slight amount. Clean or distorted. Just makes the guitar sound bigger to me.

BassPhemy · Post by **BassPhemy** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 2:42 pm

Wow, that is too cool. A very Sleep/Steppenwolf kind of vibe to it. Any reason it won't work with active basses? I have a Warwick too and I'm not much for active basses anyway but it has a super high output on it.

Acid Flashbakc · Post by **Acid Flashbakc** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 2:46 pm

yea i don't really know the deal as to why it doesn't work as good with active basses.. i mean it does still work, but i guess just to not as full potential. i don't know how much you're into sleep/stoner stuff but if you ask on stonerrock.com forums you can probably find an answer to that.

what warwick do you have? we have a thumb neckthrough and it seems to work fine. the noise gate is actually really good too.

BassPhemy · Post by **BassPhemy** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 2:50 pm

I have a Corvette Standard Ash. It's Bolt-On and passive.

Acid Flashbakc · Post by **Acid Flashbakc** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 2:52 pm

ah you should be fine then.

should definitely try one out before though. we wanted one for years and then it turned out this old mom and pop guitar shop had a bunch of Zvex pedals sittin around and lo and behold a mammoth.

whitemike · Post by **whitemike** » Sat Oct 04, 2008 3:06 pm

Acid Flashbakc wrote:whitemike go for engl man. mesa (if we're talking triple rects) only have one good tone and 99% of the time it'll sound like every other core band that is on that trend

Yeh I'm wanting to get an Engl head into a Mesa cab. I think that would sound pretty fucking nice.

Muffin wrote:
whitemike wrote:(Scooped of course)

Eat my dick you pussy bitch.

Acid Flashbakc · Post by **Acid Flashbakc** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 1:28 am

definitely go for it.

i play my powerball through my b-52 cab (same as you and i know it's a sin but i'm upgrading very soon) and it kills. i'm moving to vader cab's soon and i'm sure anything with a nice speaker in it will sound great. i'd also have to recommend the powerball... i went out on tour and in illinois (the only place listed in the US besides florida that sells ENGL) i got to play some special editions and they sounded great but if you end up engl i'd gotta go powerball

CFH Eternal · Post by **CFH Eternal** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 1:46 am

Best dirt pedal ever:

Muffin · Post by **Muffin** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 3:39 am

whitemike wrote:
Muffin wrote:
whitemike wrote:(Scooped of course)

Eat my dick you pussy bitch.

I would, but I'm afraid it would get stuck between my teeth!

Pfl?yd · Post by **Pfl?yd** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 10:20 am

Bassphemy! Get a Big Muff! It makes your bass sound like Godzilla getting a hysterectomy with a backhoe!

Pfl?yd · Post by **Pfl?yd** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 10:22 am

P.S. I use a Metal Zone on bass because it sounds like hippo farts when coupled with my Q-Tron+ but the only thing that's useful for on guitar is disappearing in the mix or that really shrill "nu-metal" sound that needs to die.

BassPhemy · Post by **BassPhemy** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 1:11 pm

Pfl?yd wrote:Bassphemy! Get a Big Muff! It makes your bass sound like Godzilla getting a hysterectomy with a backhoe!

I'll have to try one out. The Boss one I had was too much and I just ended up using it for a signal boost pedal after I got a MXR D.I. Pedal but the distortion on that one wasn't the best either.

croninburg · Post by **croninburg** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 6:05 pm

hippy wrote:MOOG everything rules. expensive though.

I really want one of the moogerfooger delays, they're just too expensive though. I'm almost certain that they don't make an overdrive pedal but if they did, I'm sure it would be excellent

Acid Flashbakc · Post by **Acid Flashbakc** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 7:31 pm

Pfl?yd wrote:Bassphemy! Get a Big Muff! It makes your bass sound like Godzilla getting a hysterectomy with a backhoe!

are they better then the muff pi's? i have one and i cant say i like it at all..

Lord of This World · Post by **Lord of This World** » Sun Oct 05, 2008 11:44 pm

my vox valvetronix has most of the effects i could ever want and they're all excellent. and if im recording something i can also use the effects on my H4 or Cubase.

pedals

long4theblur · Post by **long4theblur** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 12:54 pm

Anything for the studio is kind of on the back burner for me right now, but once I do start buying more stuff again, I'm getting the Guyatone Metal Monster:

croninburg · Post by **croninburg** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 1:39 pm

Lord of This World wrote:my vox valvetronix has most of the effects i could ever want and they're all excellent. and if im recording something i can also use the effects on my H4 or Cubase.

pedals

Analog

Lord of This World · Post by **Lord of This World** » Mon Oct 06, 2008 7:20 pm

croninburg wrote:
Lord of This World wrote:my vox valvetronix has most of the effects i could ever want and they're all excellent. and if im recording something i can also use the effects on my H4 or Cubase.

pedals
Analog

My tones are crucial nigga

whitemike · Post by **whitemike** » Tue Oct 07, 2008 1:00 pm

Muffin wrote:
whitemike wrote:
Muffin wrote:
whitemike wrote:(Scooped of course)

Eat my dick you pussy bitch.
I would, but I'm afraid it would get stuck between my teeth!