If you could have only one dirt pedal..

jfrey · Post by **jfrey** » Thu May 26, 2011 11:48 am

I'd want some kind of triple overdrive/fuzz/distortion pedal. I don't know what exactly.

Wes Mantooth · Post by **Wes Mantooth** » Thu May 26, 2011 12:19 pm

jfrey wrote:I'd want some kind of triple overdrive/fuzz/distortion pedal. I don't know what exactly.

Empress Multidrive?

jfrey · Post by **jfrey** » Thu May 26, 2011 12:21 pm

Wes Mantooth wrote:
jfrey wrote:I'd want some kind of triple overdrive/fuzz/distortion pedal. I don't know what exactly.

Empress Multidrive?

Maybe. Never used one before.

dr.morton · Post by **dr.morton** » Thu May 26, 2011 12:24 pm

PTP Tromboner.

coldbrightsunlight · Post by **coldbrightsunlight** » Thu May 26, 2011 12:31 pm

Out of stuff I've owned and tried, SS/SS TAFM. It's my 'go to' fuzz sound and it's pretty versatile. A gnomeratron VTF might change my mind though, they look pretty nice.

sylnau · Post by **sylnau** » Thu May 26, 2011 12:56 pm

Liquid Gain Hydra

adrianlee · Post by **adrianlee** » Thu May 26, 2011 1:36 pm

If it's one box I'd say the hoof reaper. 3 pedals in one!

foomanfat · Post by **foomanfat** » Thu May 26, 2011 1:49 pm

I think I would go with my JHS modded big box Rat RI. Pretty versatile piece of pedal with lots of tones that I like.

Jero · Post by **Jero** » Thu May 26, 2011 1:53 pm

Out of the things I've used/own...absynth 5k.

Fuzzy Picklez · Post by **Fuzzy Picklez** » Thu May 26, 2011 1:56 pm

A RAT for sure.
You can seriously pull a ton of sounds out of them.
They rule.

Jero · Post by **Jero** » Thu May 26, 2011 2:00 pm

Hate this thread...wanting rat again

Achtane · Post by **Achtane** » Thu May 26, 2011 2:08 pm

Arc Flash

hclapp219 · Post by **hclapp219** » Thu May 26, 2011 2:13 pm

Hmm, this is tough, but probably the Dream Crusher for me.

dubkitty · Post by **dubkitty** » Thu May 26, 2011 2:16 pm

my ancient MXR Distortion+, now and forever. it does nicey overdrive, it does late-70s Garcia, it does Rust Never Sleeps-era Neil Young, it does Wall Of Husker Du...basically anything that sounds like an amp with 6Lx tubes being harmed. and it does all that before you get past 12:00 on the Distortion knob. it doesn't do the enormous fat "English" Marshall-y Tone Bender/Muff/Kevin Shields thing so well, which is a bummer, but since my Laney VC30 has the low-frequency Greenbacks i can cop some of the British sound by manipulating the amp. i've found that even with all the fuzz/distortion on my board--i just took two fuzzies off but still have three fuzzes and a boost in addition to the D+--i still use the D+ 60% of the time i have a fuzz switched on. it has a wonderful just enough/not too much quality about it where you can wind it up to screaming ferocity without losing definition. if i was going to criticize it for anything i'd complain that it gets thin when the distortion is cranked way up, but isn't that true of 90% of the dirtz on the market? note: mine is a block-logo D+ circa late 70s which i bought used c.1983, and is the only one i've ever played; i may have just gotten a really good one, and the others may all suck stones. i have no idea at all whether the modern ones are any cop whatsoever.

devnulljp · Post by **devnulljp** » Thu May 26, 2011 2:21 pm

Without a second's though, Red Rooster.

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