The rules of stacking dirt

[Chankgeez]

Some fuzzes stack well. Some fuzzes don't stack well. Such is fuzz.

[Ugly Nora]

Why can't all fuzzes get along? Ya know, like people?

[rfurtkamp]

Some fuzzes like the round hole.

Some like the square one.

Some fuzzes don't give a damn about the holes and just want to destroy the neighborhood.

[coldbrightsunlight]

Sonic Destroyer-type pedals usually sit about middle of my wall of gain - sometimes they benefit from stuffs hitting them, and they often like the softening up or sheen of a little more control on top of the chaos.

Yeah this always works for me. Anything balls to the walls crazy is sandwiched in my boards because I find they have the most variation between having stuff hit them and hitting other stuff.

[Eivind August]

Stacking is the shit. Running a gritty od/fuzz into a Superfuzz-ish octave fuzz is glorious.

[KaosCill8r]

Rule #1: You do not talk about Stacking Dirt Club

Rule #2: You do not talk about Stacking Dirt Club

Rule #3: If someone says "stop!" or goes limp the stacking is over

etc.

etc.

His name is Thomas Dalton
His name is Thomas Dalton
His name is Thomas Dalton

[Ro_S]

also nice acid fuzz

+1

[DarkAxel]

definitely depends on the individual pedals

great example is my tuffteef built Fingerprint clone. Anything in front of it makes it BRIGHT and synthy. Anything after makes it much rounder and full, because it doesn't mess with the input impedance
I've used it on it's own, with a booster in front, with the OD after... and combinations favourite lead sound = boosting the input and then taming the brightness with the Mini after it.

and i like to run my Elements last, because since it's a pretty amp-like pedal, i like it the best treated like an amp. so boosting the input and making it a bit more agressive and bigger. Running it into dirt never worked for me

[goroth]

His name is Thomas Dalton
His name is Thomas Dalton
His name is Thomas Dalton

Truth!

[D.o.S.]

Some pedal stacks sound like shit. And not in a good way.

[Ev_O)))]

I go Wooly Mammoth > Mini

and its fucken mad



There is also I diamond comp in between them which I use for a boost. sick fun

[benjuro]

His name is Thomas Dalton
His name is Thomas Dalton
His name is Thomas Dalton

Where we're going we don't need rules.
The Rat into Muff pair makes sense to me b/c of the way someone described them complimenting each other, where one is mid scooped and the other mid heavy...but two high-gainers definitely has the potential for more mud or clipping than you'd want. I use a nice big headroom od-type after high-gain dirt...I've had great luck with a Mini or a Pharaoh after almost anything. Mini happens to also work really well in front of a darker dirt pedal to give it a boost with some bite.

How is that Black Sheep? I can't get past how much I dislike the graphics.

Graphics are silly...pedal is not. I found it squelchy for guitar and I was ready to sell mine until I tried it on bass.

[Gone Fission]

Level-wise, be aware that some dirt pedals compress heavily, including the input signal. Example: when I got my HM-2, I was experimenting stacking a Rat into it. The HM-2 is like two or three types of diode clipping, so lots of compression. Because of the compression I had no idea how loud the Rat was raging as I was playing, so when I bypassed the. HM-2 things were no longer at an acceptable, neighbor-friendly volume. If you know that trick you can use it to your advantage, or get into trouble.

[goosekevin]

Had a marathon stacking sesh tonight trying to figure out what to put on my board and what order
Tested:
rusty box: always at the end and seemed good for taming harsher frequencies and Ewing the whole signal, giving me back some mids
Buzzz: still in the honey moon phase but this stacked so well with the muff that I'm considering keeping the TAFM (previously my one and only) off the board - mud honey were onto something with super fuzz big muff
Fuck: can't decide if I like it before or after fuzzes either way the intricacies are a big overwhelmed?
TAFM: couldn't get things to stack right going into it except the fuck, everyone else seemed a bit too trebly
Iron curtain muff: have previously been trying to flip this and threw it in the test just for fun, but yeah it worked amazingly with the buzzz so I might have to hang onto it

Had to stop because after an hour or so I got a bit of fuzz deafness and in no closer to figuring out an order or rules (so there's no real point to this post) but my main conclusion is stacking dirt is fun

[goroth]

It all depends on impedance, headroom and bass content in my opinion. The only thing I really like stacking is a TS type pedal into other stuff. Otherwise I just like having stuff on its own.

Tomlane - I agree that what's best about the fuck gets lost when you stack it, even though it stacks well.