This is a good pedal. Excellent tweakability. Some complain about the brightness so roll it off. If you were using a dark amp you'd appreciate the brightness you can get with this pedal. If you roll the gain back you get a good low gain boost or crank it for some good old school crunchy distortion. Rawk.
Yeah, if that's what you want to play it's pretty good. Has a nice vintage tone to it. Just wasn't my thing.
So it's good for classic rock and that sort of stuff?
It's definitely not a terrible distortion. It's more of an overdrive though, so if you want those awesome metal or punk tones. Don't get one. As a first distortion though, it's alright though. Better than most Boss distortions you can get for the same price.
Would consider it like a person's "First Ever" Distortion pedal? Or just average?
this is a perfect video for it ...short and to the point
I use to have one, I didn't like it too much so I traded it for a Fulltone OCD, which is just a million times better.
Yes, your pickups on your guitar and a nice clean Fender tube amp is a good starting point.
I played them side-by-side this week and went home with the MXR.
It's hard to keep these in stock.
For all you beginners out there.They forget to tell you they are Playing it probabely with a very expensive Tube amp & a priceless guitar.hahahaha
I liked the bypass best! :)
Clearly you don't know what 'tone deaf' means.
lol, i actually bought it since that time too. I didn't intend to buy it for metal purpose, but more for a gritty rock tone. I used it everytime i'm plugged thru my VHT special 6, with my GT-OD as a gain boost.
I have a GT-OD and I love it. Dunno what kinda distortion you're looing for, but this IS NOT a metal pedal. It does give you some nice tones for Skynyrd, April WIne, classic rock kinda stuff
I like this distortion, but would it also be good for punk rock genres or songs by like Green Day, The Strokes, and so on? Or should I consider something else?
yeah what amp do you play in those demos? sounds overwhelming :D
Bad Monkey is better! If you like the natural distortion sounds.It is a tube overdrive pedal.I tried them all and BM is the stand alone distortion all in one most natural sounding pedal out there.
I've got mine last week. First i ran it between my guitar and amp wich is an Blackstar HT-5 halfstack. That didn't sound good. But then i put it in the amp's effectsloop. MAN !!! It rips faces !!! Maybe it didn't sound good between amp and guitar because my guitar has very high output pickups.
i've tried one out for an entire week and did a gig too and it really delivers as an overdrive and as a disto. and it's cheap ;)
What amp are you using for this demo?
Believe me, slightest turn makes big difference
You gotta be shitting me?! I bought this pedal ,went home, played for a while then i ordered a blacktop telecaster. 2 days later i watch this vid and they have the same setup? haha Except i have an overdrive aswell :D
Just got one today. Huge range, great high gain cut. Highly recommend it.
is it good for songs like Led Zeppelin's and Bon Jovi's?
I kind of like it, sounds real nice
What amp was this played through?
He forgot to mention the stage-ready LED.
This is exactly how pedal reviews should be made. Tempo!
that's shit distortion, he had to turn distortion up to full to make it sound difference!
For some reason i thought the Maxon came first? I do like the sounds ive heard on the reviews compared to the Ibanez.
Maxon OD 08 is a take on the Ibanez Tubescreamer TS808 B-| It's better to use the original if you like it so much ;-|
I may just buy this pedal. Nice Tele too.
What guitar is being played?
@Aeroman1996 Dont throw it away, you can still use it 4 blues or anything else ...
@Aeroman1996 keep both but this would proably be better for using live because its try by pass. that's what i think anyway. and it all comes down to personal taste
What was wrong with it? It cant be as bad as the DS1 that was given to me. Some people prefer the OD pedals. I dont know about the 78 but i like the Maxon OD 08. I havent heard any really good distortion pedals. Maybe the Rat reissue?
I've got both, a Tele with Seymour Duncans, and a Les Paul with BurstBuckers and this pedal isn't what it's supposed to be. Like I said, it last 2 hours outta the box and it was ready to go back to the store.
really? huh thanks for telling me cuz i was totally gonna buy one
Your not alone...many people buy pedals and sell them all the time...I've been there and done that. Some are worth holding on to if they perform but I wouldn't buy them just to have a bunch on a pedal board...
I pug the guitar into a chain too...wah-distortion- EQ -phase90- flanger- goes in front to the amp...I use a reverb and delay pedal through the effects loop only. Nothing else goes into the effects loop it sounds better this way.
EVHiii head using 1960 full stack...
This guy is not quite an ass donkey retard when just talking
I made a hasty buying , was no other pedal available at the shop and didnt have time to test it out but the seller claimed it could give a clean boost, was thinking in the similar way you can do to an Bluesbreaker while keeping only the volume knob active and sounding clean without using distortion, i might have done a wrong choice but i'am gonna test it when i get my new cab for my Marshall.
Pretty much any pedal with a gain knob will boost your input signal. So yes that would work using this pedal...
If your just looking to boost your signal I'd suggest using an MXR 6 band EQ...It's will boost the signal and allows you to control the bass-mid-treble...Way better if this is what your looking to do.
Can you use the pedal as a volume boost by having the distortion knob at 0 and using the pedal clean sounding? Recently bought it and havent had time to test it yet so just wondering so i haven't made a bad buying now since it was the only pedal the seller has that he claimed could do an volume/clean boost :(
I bought the MXR distortion+ and recently sold it...It's distortion tones sounded like a OD with mild fuzz rather than a heavy distortion sound. It worked better as a boost than a distortion. I think this pedal is similar sounding with a tone knob vs the Dist.+, It might be the same circut just a differant paint job.
I keep telling myself I need a differant tone but my amp works fine as is...EVHiii head wth celestion greenback & G12-75T in a 4X12
I have this pedal. It sounds like a good distorsion pedal. With the BLUE push in at the top, it cleans up and becomes a fatter tone, and is more of a OD pedal. Very good pedal for the $
Has anybody heard anything comparing this pedal to a wayhuge fat pickle or fat sandwich?
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