Never ever buy this distortion pedal.
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Never ever buy this distortion pedal.
It sucks balls, has horrible tone, and is getting shipped back promptly.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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.
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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
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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.
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.
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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.
what warwick do you have? we have a thumb neckthrough and it seems to work fine. the noise gate is actually really good too.
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Yeh I'm wanting to get an Engl head into a Mesa cab. I think that would sound pretty fucking nice.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
Eat my dick you pussy bitch.Muffin wrote:whitemike wrote:(Scooped of course)
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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
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I would, but I'm afraid it would get stuck between my teeth!whitemike wrote:Eat my dick you pussy bitch.Muffin wrote:whitemike wrote:(Scooped of course)
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Bassphemy! Get a Big Muff! It makes your bass sound like Godzilla getting a hysterectomy with a backhoe!
Izzy: do you realize how broad "environmental science" is?
Izzy: it's like going to school for history
Izzy: well, more useful than that
Izzy: but an expert on the civil war won't know jackshit on uhh
Izzy: something that isnt the civil war
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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.
Izzy: do you realize how broad "environmental science" is?
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Izzy: well, more useful than that
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Izzy: well, more useful than that
Izzy: but an expert on the civil war won't know jackshit on uhh
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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.Pfl?yd wrote:Bassphemy! Get a Big Muff! It makes your bass sound like Godzilla getting a hysterectomy with a backhoe!
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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:
BREATH HOLD!
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My tones are crucial niggacroninburg wrote:AnalogLord 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.
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