Favorite Dirt & Why!

[Nychthemeron]

There's a lot of rad dirt out there, and some of my favorites that I've had the pleasure of using are...

-EQD Dreamcrusher
-Mellowtone Melx Fuzz 2
-SS/BS Team Awesome Fuzz Machine
-Fuzzhugger Chalice (now defunct)
-Effector 13 Improbability Drive

I do dig a lot of the stuff I've been seeing recently, but there's only so much fuzz one can afford at one time!

[bennybanana]

Does anyone have experience with the VFE Alpha Dog? Crazy amount of options.

Not that particular VFE, but I had a couple of others. I found them to be very average sounding, muddy and noisy, and they both had issues that needed fixing within 6 months. YMMV

Another vote for the Fuck, find a setting, leave it on. Sounds fucken A. Find another setting completely different from the first, sounds even better. Repeat ad nauseum. Also love for the Sonic Titan, especially at low gain settings, and the LM308 Rat, all the way across the dial.

[Bret608]

I've had a Roger Mayer Mongoose for about six years and love it. It's apparently Rat-based, but it's fuzzier and more aggressive. Yet somehow it works amazingly for chords. It's heavy as hell, but rather than being on the pondering and doomy side, it sounds hyper-caffeinated and way too excited. Also, I got it for a really good deal from a former Roger Mayer US distributor who got dropped or something.

When I first read about, I somehow thought it would get the sounds of the distorted bridge on MBV's "When You Sleep", and I did read somewhere that Kevin Shields has used it.

[DarkAxel]

Generally speaking amp dirt is the best dirt, I think.

In five years of my playing i think i MIGHT have tried one or two amps i really loved for dirt

i probably haven't had any luck so far

[bigchiefbc]

Generally speaking amp dirt is the best dirt, I think.

In five years of my playing i think i MIGHT have tried one or two amps i really loved for dirt

i probably haven't had any luck so far

Yesterday I went to a Daddy's Junky Music that is going out of business, and played the first active dual-bucker bass I could find through a Peavey Windsor head and a Marshall 4x12, cranked it up to about 6, and holy shit, it was fucking loud and FILTHY. Sounded great. Basically sounded totally like a stoner rock Sleep/Kyuss bass vibe.

[Instant Dan]

RAT2 (USA) - Prefer it to the big box and white face rat because it has more gain on tap and is still very versatile
Metal Muff - Love the lows on it and wish the RAT2 could have the same
Monarch OD - An OD but works great for tite distortion, to fuzzy sounding stuff, but works great as a boost for solos or if you want to cut through the mix with a muff-type fuzz.

[DarkAxel]

Generally speaking amp dirt is the best dirt, I think.

In five years of my playing i think i MIGHT have tried one or two amps i really loved for dirt

i probably haven't had any luck so far

Yesterday I went to a Daddy's Junky Music that is going out of business, and played the first active dual-bucker bass I could find through a Peavey Windsor head and a Marshall 4x12, cranked it up to about 6, and holy shit, it was fucking loud and FILTHY. Sounded great. Basically sounded totally like a stoner rock Sleep/Kyuss bass vibe.

i've heard Windsor only with guitar...

it's so funny... they advertise it like an amp for britrock and whatnot... my friend had a perfect doom tone using it

suck it PR talk

anyway... not a bad amp... but i think i'm sucker for Orange dirt

[ateah]

putting an ocd after a nasally fuzz is awesome...

[grindonomicon]

EQD Monarch. Favorite OD pedal I've ever owned... Menatone Workingman's Blue was a close 2nd. Both of them because they have rich chewy OD and excellent gain and tone control. I've got a Sonic Titan clone I really like, but the Monarch is chewier, and I like that in an overdrive pedal.

I'd like to try a Fuck OD sometime. I keep trying 'this makes yr amp sound like it's expoding' pedals to complete disappointment tho.

[smallsnd/bigsnd]

I'd like to try a Fuck OD sometime. I keep trying 'this makes yr amp sound like it's expoding' pedals to complete disappointment tho.

this shit's kinda different, yo.

[dubkitty]

amp dirt: i loves me a silverface Princeton Reverb cranked up, especially if it's biased too hot. WHEE! but the best amp dirt i ever got was from a tweed Gibson amp, probably a '61 with a single 12" or 2 10s...made me sound EXACTLY like Clapton on the "Fresh Cream" album. this was when i was, like, 17 or something, and it sounded so fucking good i've always remembered. someday i'm going to find one of those amps.

[univalve]

Amp dirt?
Any low wattage amp cranked with 6V6 is to be loved by me!
Does somebody here like the Mesa Rectifier? I asume not. Super versatile and a very broad spectrum of dirt tones (yes, and the nu-metalz for sure). this amp is imho absolutely underrated. and it takes pedals well.

[Jenesis]

Catalinbread DLS. Because it's pink and it sounds good.

[DarkAxel]

Does somebody here like the Mesa Rectifier? I asume not. Super versatile and a very broad spectrum of dirt tones (yes, and the nu-metalz for sure). this amp is imho absolutely underrated. and it takes pedals well.

why would you assume that? it has very good growl...

i've played a Dual Recto with my tele. Vintage mode sounded pretty good

[univalve]

Does somebody here like the Mesa Rectifier? I asume not. Super versatile and a very broad spectrum of dirt tones (yes, and the nu-metalz for sure). this amp is imho absolutely underrated. and it takes pedals well.

why would you assume that? it has very good growl...

like i said: gets a lot of hate because of the nu-metalz-shit
but if i think of amp dirt (without powertube saturation) the rectifer comes quite quick to my mind.

i've played a Dual Recto with my tele. Vintage mode sounded pretty good

the new one has even more options for each of the three channels. so you can basicly create three clean-breakup/dirt/overdrive sounds. all sounded very good to my ears...
good point: memo to myself to myself to check it out with the tele.