Heavy Pedals

[MackSonne]

Hi guys, I need a heavy tone for my music... what can I look at?

 

[PatheinRaindropMoe]

for a easier and more useful recommendation, do state down

1) Budget
2) whats your definition of heavy tone(eg, from any cd, band, guitarist?)
3) what sorta amp(amp make a big different to heaviness occassionally, heavy distortion with tiny amp wont make it)
4) Preference of sound(thick mids, scoop mids etc
5) Peference of pedal with many conrols to shape your sound or simple pedals with few knobs to get a good sound and thats it etc.

 

[keithC]

...(amp make a big different to heaviness occassionally, heavy distortion with tiny amp wont make it)...

actually i think heaviness is all about the amp cab size... and the THUMP.
its impossible to achieve with a small amp..

 

[HarrisonYeo]

actually i think heaviness is all about the amp cab size... and the THUMP.
its impossible to achieve with a small amp..

lol try comparing a marshall mg100 to a jcm800 with the same cabs LOL!

 

[Gr3y]

Recently i built this pedal!

Sorry all senior pedal builders here! But i think i've made the heaviest pedal out there! So far i doubt there will be something heavier!

I'll be getting them properly done up for sale! Interested?

 

[subversion]

if you refer to the Metal Muff review, there are some other pedals on the worthy competitors list which might interest you.

 

[5stringwonder]

Recently i built this pedal!

Sorry all senior pedal builders here! But i think i've made the heaviest pedal out there! So far i doubt there will be something heavier!

I'll be getting them properly done up for sale! Interested?

Looks good for ROCK!

 

[ShredCow]

If we're just talking heavy - the absolute heaviness I've heard out of any pedal is the Toneczar OpenHaus. It makes big muffs sound like little boxes and turns vintage strats into walls of gain - linkin park style.

But if we're talking budget and stuff - you might want to pm subversion about it... he knows quite a few budget high gain pedals.

I would just blindly recommend the OpenHaus or a low serial number Krank Distortus Maximus though.

 

[edder]

is the openhaus boxey? :mrgreen:

 

[ShredCow]

Nope... so far the only ic chipper I've encountered that doesn't sound boxy.

Or maybe... the 2nd one... If memory serves me right, the Demeter Fuzzulator also sounds retarded huge - apparently some kind of fuzz using ic chips...

 

[gsonique]

we all died for 'transparent' ones

ok back to the drawing board

but i will just hold on to a little bit of everthing

 

[ShredCow]

Hehehehe...
Goose dude, I think one of the "issues" with heavy gain pedals is that - they really mess up your tone? Some pedals try to emulate the whole mesa thing, and yeah, okay, they do that @ room volumes... turn it up and then... ehhhh... one thing is that, throw whatever guitar thru the pedal and you find that the pedal adds too much of itself into the tone.

That is one gripe of the metalzone to my ears... stock one of course.

Many of the AMT high gain pedals too... adds a lot of their sound into your tone.