good distortion? (Page 1 of 2)

Some of my favorites:

US Big Muff - Hot
Russian Big Muff - Fierce
Fender Blender - the most unusable destroyer of notes i.e. AWESOME
Boss HyperFuzz - One of the few decent boss distortions
ZVex Fuzz Factory - Smmmmoooooooootttthh
ProCo Turbo Rat - Dirt
MXR Blue Box - Destroyer of speakers, chiptune sub-octave fuzz.

OR. you can buy one of my handmade ones
aminstruments.blogspot.com

I prefer to use a wavemultiplier

we got a bunch of different ones at the store you can try out.

for me personally i always used a ross distortion pedal. it is very mellow and smooth.

scrotum smasher's are only produced in a batch off 20.

The best distortion unit I had in the past was a mixer. Seriously.
It was the Behringer MX8000, the 24 channels big box. Cold, crappy, ugly, name it whatever you like.
But the possibility of taking the post fader out of each channel from the top and cascade it to all the other channels
one after the other made it perhaps the best distortion unit I ever had.
The best thing I did with this system was to cascade all the 24 channels and amplify the ground noise of the mixer
itself by adding the gain of the cascaded channels. Some push button action on the last channels (near 0 db!), some delay and effects and voila', minimalistic experimental clicky electronics at its finest
And think about it when I had some real signal coming from some real instrument instead of the ground noise
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whoa, nice looking fuzz pedal Maiovvi! do you ship to the US? I might have to save up for one.

i found that the Way Huge Swollen Pickle which is only $160 has a semi-close fuzz to the $$$ zvex.

also, for $150, my friend's company makes this Fuzz War pedal which is like a Big Muff on PCP. we have a few of his pedals and they are all nasty and dirty and have more gain than any other pedal in my collection. http://www.deathbyaudio.net/

and i've heard good things about Dr Scientist pedals too, http://www.drscientist.ca/pedals/frazz

as well as Mad Professor's Mighty Red Distortion which sounds incredible but is also $$$.

Man! Fuck yeah, the DBA stuff is great, they are miles ahead of me.

I will ship to the US, however I don't have any of that particular circuit anymore (they sold out really quickly, which was definitely good.) There will most likely be an updated version being released next year.

In the meantime I'm working on two things: A ring modulated dual theramin thing which is still at the design stage and a Germanium Fuzz with a few bells and whistles, which I'm waiting for the boards to be delivered.

I love Fuzz, it's the one thing I won't compromise on.

For anyone interested I used to work for this guy: www.bugbrand.co.uk when I lived in Bristol.

Some people here might be interested in his modular stuff.

Back to distortions:

http://www.deviever.com/

amazing sounding pedals.

@neferos, that's a damn fine looking fuzz! old school box design too!

@maiovvi, def keep me posted about any new fuzz pedals you create, i always like to look out for new fuzzes. and that ring mod theramin sounds nuts, good luck with the build!

bugbrand! i really wanted a bug-crusher for a while but the company didn't have them in stock so i ended up buying a "BITRMAN" box by alesis.

deviever cherry popper!

creates some doomy low end.

i forgot i have a tube screamer sitting on my shelf. it's the crappy plastic footswitch TS10 model though and not the nice TS808.

i wish alesis built those Bitrmans and Amplitons more like stomp boxes and less like table top devices, i suppose one could always just re-shell them though..

@bankie, yeah man, devi-ever makes some wicked pedals...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsxlE6mF7-8[/youtube]

tubescreamer? i remember it as the most annoying pedal, i didn't like it... maybe i should check it again

i use fuzzface and some Czech distortion called George Dennis
another weird stomp box here is DOD's Buzz Box it's kind of ringmod/dist
driving gained signal through Electro-Harmonix Microsynth can give nasty distorted sound as well
(especially for drums)