Best DBA Pedals For Someone New to the Brand???

[Dheuthymos]

Title says it all. I recently copped a Reverb Machine and Echo Dream 2 but I'll probably wind up flipping them at some point.

What are the best pedals in this line, particularly for noisey and sludgey music? Is it advisable to look for older versions of pedals? I've heard that the original Echo Dream was vastly different from the ED2. Thoughts?

[colenboozey]

Reverb Machine is my favorite DBA pedal. The noise you can get from that before your dirt is absolutely the noisiest.

[UglyCasanova]

What are the best pedals in this line, particularly for noisey and sludgey music?

Maybe not the brand I would go to first for sludgey toanz, but the Fuzz War is pretty savage.

Is it advisable to look for older versions of pedals?

It's mostly the ED that's way different.

I've heard that the original Echo Dream was vastly different from the ED2. Thoughts?

Yes.

[Dheuthymos]

That's good to know, so I should put reverbs before dirt? I thought putting reverb after dirt would put some space around the dirt, and dirt>verb would put like dirt across the whole wider signal and just make a lot of noise???

[UglyCasanova]

The DBA verb is very hollow and metallic/clanky. I don't think it sounds that great before dirt, personally. Makes everything either too shrill or boomy.

[Uncle Grandfather]

armageddon...got a glass hero clone
thee fuzz war overload...love the fuzz war but this is just insane

sound saw...glass hero also makes a great sounding clone
kill kill filter...could be considered two channels of 1/2 of a sound saw, but i've been able to play all circuits of the sound saw and the kill kill has its own voice. with either of these two pedals you are opening up a world of tone with your existing dirt pedals.

i like all of their pedals as they sound original and perform great with any input source. looking forward to the evil filter. only production model i don't have is the apocalype because all but one of its modes are available as individual pedals that i already have...and i'd rather be able to stack them etc. also i think its fuzz mode is from the armagedon too but not 100% sure.

[Uncle Grandfather]

i love putting the reverberation machine pre and/or post dirt. just depends on what type sound i'm going for and i usually don't know that until i try it out in different parts of the pedal chain. its a pretty versatile reverb for just having two modes and that "fuzz" dial.

[UglyCasanova]

It does sound good, I just prefer it post dirt because it accentuates either very high or very low frequencies. Unless you've got a fuzz that deals well with either incoming highs or incoming lows, you're going to have a bad time running it in front. That's my experience, at least.

[Uncle Grandfather]

yeah its two modes are rather drastic as far as that goes. would be pretty awesome with a more flat eq setting option on the pedal, but i almost always use my maestro filter to sculpt thing up for me.

[UglyCasanova]

And that is why I love you

[resincum]

try some of their fuzz; if that doesn't hit the spot maybe they're just not your cup of tea? I personally love the ED2 and the Kill Kill Filter is really cool, like UG said it opens up a world of tone with your dirt.

[Dheuthymos]

yeah, I have noticed that my Pharoah Deluxe is pretty bad with incoming highs (and actually generates one of its own). hhh.
perhaps the topic of reverb+fuzz combos is worthy of its own thread. Keep the DBA's coming.

[zzuFrepuS]

Apocalypse is a great place to start. lots of fuzz in one box.

[Pete]

I seem to be the only one in love with the Soundwave Breakdown (3 knob version). I think that pedal is amazing

[repoman]

My Reverberation machine sounds like a slightly lofi spring on the bright and a murky plate on the dark, but I think the pedal is more in the 'normal' sounding area than on some noisy crazy style. Awesome reverb pedal.

The other DBA pedal I really really like is the interstellar overdriver, which I thought was awesome for a light overdrive when I had one.