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Original message:438 days 7 hours 57 minutes ago
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Member: Zombre
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Seriously... What's your thing? Myself, I'm a fuzz guy. I LOVE the Big Muff PI, I wish I'd had one years ago. It's the best pedal ever (For me!)


So amp dist, pedal dist, tbe solid state, what's your deal?
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Reply:437 days 20 hours 48 minutes ago
Member: ibzRG
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I like wet ridiculously overdriven tube sound or just mildly driven tube-ish sound.

No particular issues with solid state distortion. My amp is solid state but I don't like its distortion.
So I use a POD to rectify the tone and then do whatever. My bro's is ss too and he makes it sound nice.

Tubescreamer and smashbox into tubescreamer both into a clean tube amp are 2 representative tones I like.
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Reply:365 days 11 hours 11 minutes ago
Member: Jordan "Schreek" Roose
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I'm a slave to cranking the gain to max, throwing on a high end distortion pedal, and pushing the overdrive button.
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Reply:437 days 18 hours 12 minutes ago
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I like a really smooth distortion. I really like the Hermida Zendrive pedals, I\'m thinking about pulling the trigger on one here shortly.
Reply:437 days 17 hours 33 minutes ago
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deep and smooth very warm with enough gain to give a schoch or edge (if that makes any sence)
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Reply:437 days 15 hours 36 minutes ago
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Mesa Boogie Mark IV and also the Tech 21 Power Engine & Trademark 60. The 60 is amazing. it's my fav all-time amp
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Reply:437 days 12 hours 40 minutes ago
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it changes depending on what im working on. recently, i dont know why, but i've been rolling the gain back from the usual 8 or 9 and almost cutting the bass back to 25%.

normally i like some SS amps like randalls and i love peaveys (XXX, 5150/6505). hell, id even settle for the XXL after the crap I have now.
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Reply:437 days 9 hours 52 minutes ago
Member: johnmarkh
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i like a small amount of distortion. a semi hollow with a smooth distortion enough to know its dirty, not enough to kill chord qualities.

one of these days i'm going to try to capture my electric with this tone...every electric recording i've done has sucked...
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Reply:437 days 9 hours 30 minutes ago
Member: Zombre
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Y'know, every electric recording I've done has bit the bg one tone-wise. Why? because of POD's and Boss's... Not that they're bad, but the difference between direct in tone and miced amp tone is like night and day. At the moment, I'm SERIOUSLY into fuzz.. it's almost not right how into fuzz I am...
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Reply:436 days 13 hours 34 minutes ago
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MXR distortion + (original)
Digitech Metal Master.
line 6 uber metal
carl martin crush zone
BOSS metal zone
Ibanez sonic distortion
Ibanez super metal
Maxon ds 830
and several more.

i also own all mentioned.
Reply:436 days 10 hours 41 minutes ago
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also Boss Keeley modified DS-1 and Metal Zone.
Reply:434 days 22 hours 26 minutes ago
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They don't make the Metal Zone distortion anymore, do they?
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Reply:436 days 10 hours 40 minutes ago
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i also really love my Fulltone OCD
Reply:436 days 9 hours 4 minutes ago
Member: jttrussler
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I like big distortion; really heavy and tight. The kind you use for a ridiculous metal solo, even though I don't play a lot of metal. I like the kind that you could use to make the most hardcore kid bow his head to Bach. That of course could be nylon string acoustic, if the kid knows what he's doing. But you know. The intense stuff like Cacophony.

p.s. line 6 uber metal
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Reply:436 days 7 hours 36 minutes ago
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The Big Muff pi, or the Metal Muff... My faves... I seriously HATE the Boss Metal Zone...
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