Your choice of distortion pedal....(FEEL FREE TO POST!!!)

[hellmurderer]

What about Digitech's Metal Master? I'm currently using it :wink:

 

[fenderrules]

ds-1 for me. chose it because it was cheap but realized i could get alot out of the small orange box

 

[sleepykitty]

yes capt_oreo
may muffs rule the world!!!

 

[bouncychu]

where can i get ds 1 for 60 bucks?i always thought it was like 100 over dollars? so i guess im wrong X= i need distortion bad lol. my amp only got overdrive.

forgive me im a 100% noob when it comes to paddles.

 

[Marksman]

Can OD Pedals be categorised under Distortion Pedals?

If so, TS7 gets my vote... =)

If not, GT-2.

 

[BloodSolo]

PROCO RAT 2 baby ... the most weird sounding yet ... the most sweetest among all the pedals i've tried .... hehehe .. juz hear the tone once .. fell in love already hahaha :lol:

 

[shioks76]

overdrives: Im using the ts7, od3 monte allum mod
distortion: I using double muff, metal muff, mt2.

 

[Dscythe]

You guys ever tried Fulltone Distortion Pro DP-1? It rocks!

 

[dric]

i'm using a scrwedriver as my overdrive. and modded jnh as my main distortion.
my first distortion pedal was the jackhammer. i'd say its a really good pedal. you can really tweak the knobs on that thing and get all sorts of sound. but, its rather muffled.
as for the ds-1. i regret selling it away!!!!
but i dont regret buying the jnh and screwdriver.

 

[ShredCow]

Hehehe... the DS-1 is an oh-so-nice pedal for using to record @ home... or playing @ home. Try to turn up the volume on your amp, and watch the bass disappear! 8O

Yeap, it tends to thin out, and the tone stack is HORRID... you wanna cut thru? Oh, up the tone. Up the tone? Oh, lose your low end. Like.. totally. Don't wanna lose your low end? Up the bass on your amp... then your clean tone just dies. Its also noisy. Its NOT transparent - thins your tone, guts your low end.

Its a good thing to mod the DS-1... when there's improvements available - always a good thing to check it out. That's why Satch and Vai, both use MIJ DS1s, and Satch has his DS1s modded... Vai used to go for the Keeley modded DS1s.

For comparison's sake.

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/songInfo.cfm?bandID=641337&songID=4862879

This is an MIJ DS-1... silver screw, momentary LED. Setting is:
Tone: 12:30
Vol: Max
Dist: 3:00
Never changed thru out. Something cool.

 

[jony]

BB preamp doing it for me now. Punchy, Kinda transparent, and a very watery overdrive like sound. EQ shape is reminiscent of a Fender amp OD but with more gain. Sounds almost... Dumble like. All this with a Telecaster.

Works for me now... Not sure about the future. I'm happy though.

 

[gsonique]

 

[KennethC]

goose, sometimes I really wish I were living in the USA. could buy all the ENGLs, Mesas, Oranges, etc I wanted. And those we have here are quite a bit cheaper over there!!

 

[kank_39]

+1 to goose! Amp distortion best!

My personal recommendation:

Can get locally somemore. :smt023

 

[gsonique]

those laney is tha beast .... it eats dirt pedals :lol:

u can use an overdrive pedal to play metal with that animal .....

 

[edder]

Ahseng says a good amp is a clean amp like how a good piece of meat is a bloody one.

 

[jony]

 

[kank_39]

:lol: :lol: No need overdrive pedal also can metal. Just plug into the hi-gain input and chugga chugga to infinity! 8O

 

[hifi_killer]

od : digitech bad monkey. the extra low and high knob are very useful, so i'm not switching to tubescreamers.

distortion : MIJ DS2
nails John frusciante's live tone very well

 

[KissMyAxe]

BOSS MT-2 for me. I just love it. It got ummmmpppphhhhh