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Unpleasant Surprise for nasty gated fuzz, it sounds wonderful in my cranked up Meatsmoke pre, very full, aggressive and still controllable sound. Wooly Mammoth clone used to be my go to gated fuzz and I still keep it in my board, but I don't use it much anymore.
Prunes&Custard for that unique envelope fuzz.
Robot Devil for bass synth destruction.
MI Megalith Delta for dat metal broot toanz. Elements for more metal broot toanz. It's probably overkill, but I can't decide if I like one better then another. Elements also cleans up nicely and much more versatile of course. Elements also AMAZING after filters, particularly Xerograph. Makes everything 303esque.
B3K for it's specific overdrive sound, which I like.
I've just traded Earthbound Beast since I realized I'm not into muffs. Ring Stinger is incoming and it has a built in fuzz so that's gonna be one more.

Shish wrote:Unpleasant Surprise for nasty gated fuzz, it sounds wonderful in my cranked up Meatsmoke pre, very full, aggressive and still controllable sound. Wooly Mammoth clone used to be my go to gated fuzz and I still keep it in my board, but I don't use it much anymore.
Prunes&Custard for that unique envelope fuzz.
Robot Devil for bass synth destruction.
MI Megalith Delta for dat metal broot toanz. Elements for more metal broot toanz. It's probably overkill, but I can't decide if I like one better then another. Elements also cleans up nicely and much more versatile of course. Elements also AMAZING after filters, particularly Xerograph. Makes everything 303esque.
B3K for it's specific overdrive sound, which I like.
I've just traded Earthbound Beast since I realized I'm not into muffs. Ring Stinger is incoming and it has a built in fuzz so that's gonna be one more.

I'm about to let my unpleasant suprise go out of necessity, but I vow to own it again one day. Its so good, just not using it with my current thing. And I have to push it with just enough gain for it to sound right to me.

that crumbly breakup though. man.

At home i have a shitton, at practice two. I may add two more for stand Out Sounds. But i really like massive different Sounds and i can't think of more than Five...

AxAxSxS wrote:I have 4 separate dirt tones I like. They consist of a Pharaoh on low gain, a cranked little big muff clone, ocd>Quantum Mystic>Revelation, Volt Thrower>The Destroyer.
I control them all via a 5 channel looper. Channel 5 is just boost. I can get all kinds of different vibes going on with how huge it sounds by combining channels. Pharaoh is typically always on and is my go to for lower gain sounds. It makes all the other ones sound better.

using a big muff variant for low gain - only on ILF

My board is mostly dirt and fuzz. It's for stacking or finding the right shade of chaos and destruction.

I have an obscene amount of dirt on a shared pedalboard (ie it all feeds into the multichannel/multiamp array for recording), plus some stuff that gets put in before particular amps.

Speaking just for the shared stuff, it's because it reacts differently with each of the signal chains and the pedals on that board. Ampeg Scrambler into clean amp, dirty amp, clean amp that has too much verb running, etc. sounds radically different than just Scrambler into one, and it's the sum of the parts that I'm looking for.

The other common thing that the dirt on the shared board has is it all gets along well with the Space Echo - either the tape helps smooth out the peaks or the insanity or it just contributes to a greater wall of hell than it alone would be.

Everything on my board interacts well with all the pedals - it's not about having one thing that only works with the VI or the Mustangs or the Jazzmaster etc. That's when I plug in that one thing if I'm using that particular guitar and want that sound.

Getting back to the stacking thing though, some sonic destroyer-type pedals in parallel work grandly in ways that words don't describe. There's a clarity in the grit, in the spitting, ugly octaves and gated hell that comes from the contrasts of two or more of the same thing run on top of each other. Sure, I could do it with overdubs, but it's the moment and playing with what happens that I find worthwhile more than carefully building up XYZ. I can do the latter if the piece calls for it, but that's not why I have a music store's worth of crap inline.

Even this graphic is about to revised, I have a second Test Pattern (with some requested 'yolooncrack' mods to see what happens) to run in parallel that's on its way now. It's linked because it will not fit inline, period, and making it smaller doesn't accomplish much.

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