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[Jan Deal]

I'm wanting to buy a new distortion pedal to complement my Marshall valve distortion and me EH Big Muff Fuzz box, really looking for something inbetween the two sounds, i.e. harsh sounding but not fuzz so I can palm mute. I very much like bizarre pedals too, and I really can't be doing with BOSS or that ilk.

What suggestions do you kids have?

I could recommend a few sicko fuzz pedals (Prunes and Custard, Fuzz Factory, Octavia) but I'm not sure that they'd give you a tight sound that you can palm mute.

Some sort of valve preamp? Soldano Supercharger? Budda Zenman? Mesa V-Twin?

How about boosting the amp distortion with a tubescreamer (or maxon od808 kind of thing) to get a tighter sound with more gain - A lot of guys do this with recto's and marshalls according to guitar geek

failing that, Keeley modded DS-1/RAT?

[Jan Deal]

Tempted by a V-Twin, but I'm not sure if I can afford such a high price. I'm tempted by a Fender Blender as it's oddness appeals to me. I'm more looking for an oddball sound rather than a tubescreamer boost or similar...

[britheguy]

A Wyllie Moonrock...........cool as fcuk!

You're unlikely to find an oddball sound that'll still give you tight palm muting. I find that kicking in a Roger Mayer Octavia behind my main distortion really fucks things up. A Crowther Audio Prunes and Custard and ZVex Machine would do the same thing - crossover distortion with wierd intermodulation.

MACHINE

scroll down for octavia samples

crowther audio samples

[Old Gold]

ZVex Wooly Mammoth?

[Chris]

try a Proco RAT or Turbo RAT

[Jan Deal]

Originally Posted by SpanishArmada

ZVex Wooly Mammoth?

I read about it, and it sounds really good. But I wasn't expecting the price to be £200!

I've tried Proco RAT's before, and I never found them to be that versitile. They do sound great though...

Originally Posted by Jan Deal

I read about it, and it sounds really good. But I wasn't expecting the price to be £200!

I've tried Proco RAT's before, and I never found them to be that versitile. They do sound great though...

zvex has a new vexter series pedal called a rock box or something, which is apparently meant to compliment marshal amps
there's no samples on the site though.

Originally Posted by Zachery vex

there are three super hard-on circuits in the distortron engine, with heavy filtering pre-emphasis and de-emphasis (post distortion.) it is similar to approaches used by others over the years, in amps and pedals, but with the SHO as the basic building block, it's got its own texture. the multiple-SHO distortion i find to be very criss/crossy, or blizzardy. i'll be putting up a video demo soon.

so basically cascaded mosfet boost circuits with pre distortion high end boost and post distortion high end roll off?

if i had a lot of money to waste i'd definetly get a wooly mamoth and a machine