Nasty, harsh, painful dirt - on a budget

nevada · Post by **nevada** » Sat Apr 18, 2015 10:11 pm

You should look at Boss MZ-2.

Jero · Post by **Jero** » Sat Apr 18, 2015 10:42 pm

Rocktron Metal Planet. You can get mine for $25.

neonblack · Post by **neonblack** » Sat Apr 18, 2015 11:55 pm

Jero wrote:Rocktron Metal Planet. You can get mine for $25.

I'm gonna hit you up Friday. Gotta get paid.

Mudfuzz · Post by **Mudfuzz** » Sun Apr 19, 2015 2:57 am

6 pages and no guyatone tz2? I ashamed of you all so much….

rfurtkamp · Post by **rfurtkamp** » Sun Apr 19, 2015 3:00 am

I don't consider anything guyatone to be "budget" personally - when I think budget I think $50 as the "high end", and mostly the $20-30 junkers.

Mudfuzz · Post by **Mudfuzz** » Sun Apr 19, 2015 3:06 am

rfurtkamp wrote:I don't consider anything guyatone to be "budget" personally - when I think budget I think $50 as the "high end", and mostly the $20-30 junkers.

I think I paid 35 for mine, and you can find them in the 75-50 range usually.. unless hype starts on the big forms.. then they go for too much… but is you want harsh and chainsaw fuzz then...

goroth · Post by **goroth** » Sun Apr 19, 2015 3:10 am

All of those small guyatones (micros, not the mighty micros) can be had cheap. The buffer on some colours the bypassed signal a bit, but they're all gigworthy and rad. And if you're after a noisy distortion who cares about the buffer.

Mudfuzz · Post by **Mudfuzz** » Sun Apr 19, 2015 3:15 am

goroth wrote: And if you're after a noisy distortion who cares about the buffer.

true and if we a talking boss, dod and behringer as ideas.. cuz their buffers are just as bad...

rfurtkamp · Post by **rfurtkamp** » Sun Apr 19, 2015 3:37 am

I've never sat there and worried about the Boss buffer.

But I come from a dark time of DOD hell.

frigid midget · Post by **frigid midget** » Sun Apr 19, 2015 6:08 am

Mudfuzz wrote:6 pages and no guyatone tz2? I ashamed of you all so much….

Not a bad call, but isn't the tz2 just a slightly tamer version of the Boss FZ-2? Meaning it's basicly sort of a superfuzz clone?

Tristan · Post by **Tristan** » Sun Apr 19, 2015 6:49 am

Reading back the comments here I must really like nasty harsh dirt with these in my collection:
Anarchy Audio HM-2
Behringer Super Fuzz
Black Arts Toneworks Pharaoh
Infanem Driving Notion
Jupiter FX Harmonic Fragilator

Some of my favourite combo's:
Harmonic Fragilator -> Driving Notion (thrashy)
Harmonic Fragilator -> HM-2 (blown out)
HM-2 -> Driving Notion (crazy / weird)
HM-2 -> Pharaoh (fuzzy gain and eq staging)
Pharaoh -> Harmonic Fragilator (heavy and fuzzy)
Super Fuzz -> Driving Notion (heavy and fuzzy gain and eq staging)
Super Fuzz -> HM-2 (heavy and nasty gain and eq staging)

KaosCill8r · Post by **KaosCill8r** » Sun Apr 19, 2015 7:01 am

An awesome stack I recently discovered after building an Ampeg Scrambler fuzz the other week is a Harmonic Percolator clone>Scrambler clone. Blending in some crazy octave on top of the HP is noisy, crazy, nasty, splatty, sustaining awesomness. Then the feedback kicks in and it just gets better.

goroth · Post by **goroth** » Sun Apr 19, 2015 7:06 am

This whole thread just makes me want a harmonic percolator.

rfurtkamp · Post by **rfurtkamp** » Sun Apr 19, 2015 7:07 am

I have a Blender in the middle of my chain for the blending stupid fun. Make very splatty crap...very fast.

Tristan · Post by **Tristan** » Sun Apr 19, 2015 7:42 am

goroth wrote:This whole thread just makes me want a harmonic percolator.

You know how to build pedals right?
I think it's not an overly complex build and there should be kits available somewhere.
The Harmonic Percolator falls more into the thrashy / blownout style instead of the heavy category in my opinion, it does however do a nice and raunchy
rock sound with the diodes lifted and it's great fun stacking it into something else (it doesn't seem to like buffers / pedals in front).

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