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Magnetar>AnalogHarmonySynth>ABsynth>Behemoth.
A melx2, or other similar type will get thrown in there too if I'm playing guitar instead and want a more natural drive.

I just got an older frazzdazzler that I'm going to have to find room for as well.

Dirt in Chain
Fuzz Probe-Tone Reaper-Dirty Bomb-Mastotron-Lotus Drive

Cornish NG-2>SS/BS TAFM>DE TBD>TS-808(reissue). I'm content for now.

Tone Reaper v2 -> Hi Five -> 3-knob Great Wall -> Algal Bloom -> 1970s Distortion+. the Tone Reaper goes in front because i run it on batteries since it sounds better, and thus it's simpler to place it where the input is unplugged when the cord is disconnected from the board. theoretically the Hi Five is there to balance the level between the Fender and other guitars; it sometimes gets used for mild OD. i prefer to keep things in declining order of gain, which seems to make it less noisy when i have multiple fuzzes going at once.

i just took a couple of things off the board after my most recent experience playing with normal people; i love my Phantom Ring but for most applications it's like clearing brush with nuclear weapons, and i'm going to send my Fatman to 3xfx and see if they can cure the aggravating noise problem it's had ever since i got it. when i start doing more of my own style of stuff i'll use the PR again. i have other stuff that doesn't fit on the board, most notably a Truly Beautiful Disaster which may be too OTT even for my noisiest stuff but which is too much fun with feedback to let go of.

there are still some holes in my sound that i haven't filled as well. i like the Tone Reaper, but it really isn't filling my Mick Ronson needs, so i'd like to find something in that Tone Bender-y area. i haven't yet found the ideal solution to the Roaring Wall of Doom, either...i don't really like Muffs, and most of the non-Muff alternatives strike me as either too conventionally metal or too grainy and post-Devi Ever. i keep thinking, because of my love of Robert Fripp, that a Buzzaround would be the answer, but none of the demos i hear make me shout "EUREKA!" the Great Wall is kind of a compromise solution. it works, but it's not ideal.

[quote="Jero"]Magnetar>AnalogHarmonySynth>ABsynth>Behemoth.
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Holy

I just found a killer new chain this afternoon playing downtuned guitar for a short while...
Mojohand Copperhead-->meathead dark clone-->EQD Monarch

With one side of the Copperhead on, it reduces volume knob clean up with the meathead. With both sides on, it eliminates it and gives it just a little compression. The Monarch gives me more EQ control than my old Rat or the crunch box...

Was afraid I'd miss my workingman's blue, but the Monrach is killer end-of-chain amp-a-like pedal, and the Copperhead double boost is more usable than the boost the wmb had. Good trades, good sounds.

Until I get more money, my dirt chain is just a Bass Big Muff into the overdrive channel of a SS Fender bass amp, which actually sounds great. Really nails the stoner/doom bass sound.

[quote="grindonomicon"][quote="Jero"]Magnetar>AnalogHarmonySynth>ABsynth>Behemoth.
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Yea, I'm extremely pleased with it! By themselves, each great, then you start stacking and the sounds are endless. Those are usually going into a sunn 200s too. Always been interested in trying a monarch, but convince myself I don't need to.

Jero wrote:Yea, I'm extremely pleased with it! By themselves, each great, then you start stacking and the sounds are endless. Those are usually going into a sunn 200s too. Always been interested in trying a monarch, but convince myself I don't need to.

I can imagine... Jamming bass with those pedals for even a week would be awesome. Do you have new link for music? The one in your sig for the blog doesn't work.

Still need to try the Monarch + the crunch box thru 50 watt heads, and the 300w ss amp... But I really like that pedal so far.

grindonomicon wrote:Still need to try the Monarch

oh yeah... i wanted to buy the pedal like crazy and then i got Fix'd and Pinnacle But if i ever sell the Pinnacle, i'm on it

^ I kinda miss the Fix'd...sometimes you just gotta find out.
dirt chain today is: Monarch>Trotsky>RamsHead
sometimes a BYOC MkII finds it's way in there.

Had amazing fun stacking the TAFM and ultra fuzz today on bass. TAFM set super heavy but with lots of clean, then ultra fuzz run fairly low gain so it's like having overdrive/insane fuzz blend rather than clean/fuzz blend, loads of treble for a super heavy garage rock sound. Played Raw Power riffs for aaaages through my crappy practice amp and it was the best bass tone ever, can't wait to do the same thing with my real amp in a week or so.

A fuzz pedal with an overdrive OR clean blend would be like the greatest thing. Or some sort of setup where I could have all my fuzz pedals set up in parallel or series somehow... Get like 4 different fuzzes blended together!

i enjoy using the Distortion+ in a similar fashion, adding it to the heavier fuzz to drive things that extra little bit over the top into squealing ecstacy. when it's added into, say, huge slabs of Great Wall or Tone Reaper you don't even really hear the D+ per se; rather, it bumps up the gain and subtly alters the dynamics and harmonic content of the signal in a way that makes it more ear-friendly while preserving the general character of the Big Loud Fuzz. that's another reason why i love the D+...it just seems to do everything well i throw at it short of Wall of Doom. it works for punk, for 'gaze, for Crazy Horse, for 70's Garcia, for Fast Eddie, for Jack Casady fuzz bass, even for country; it works alone, stacked, as a light boost, an OD, or a raging-full-on Bob Mould/Randy Rhoads attack module. i can imagine living without one, but i wouldn't like it.

Pork Loin->Phantom Octave->Gnome Mini->Green Muff Clone->Dark Boost
The DB is on all the time to thicken things up, I use the Pork Loin as my basic low grind/OD, the PO is used to add synthy vibes to other stuff, I normally stack it with the others to achieve meaner sounds,the Gnome Mini is my octave fuzz that I use to add some shrill fuzz. My Green Muff Clone is set to about 75% blend, and I use either by itself or stacked with all the other various ones for maximum win.

grindonomicon wrote:I can imagine... Jamming bass with those pedals for even a week would be awesome. Do you have new link for music? The one in your sig for the blog doesn't work.Still need to try the Monarch + the crunch box thru 50 watt heads, and the 300w ss amp... But I really like that pedal so far.

I actually don't . I'm still trying to figure out why my blog is down, and my computer is having problems so its going slow...and all my recordings are on that computer. Hopefully I can get it fixed soon.

dubkitty wrote:i enjoy using the Distortion+ in a similar fashion, adding it to the heavier fuzz to drive things that extra little bit over the top into squealing ecstacy. when it's added into, say, huge slabs of Great Wall or Tone Reaper you don't even really hear the D+ per se; rather, it bumps up the gain and subtly alters the dynamics and harmonic content of the signal in a way that makes it more ear-friendly while preserving the general character of the Big Loud Fuzz. that's another reason why i love the D+...it just seems to do everything well i throw at it short of Wall of Doom. it works for punk, for 'gaze, for Crazy Horse, for 70's Garcia, for Fast Eddie, for Jack Casady fuzz bass, even for country; it works alone, stacked, as a light boost, an OD, or a raging-full-on Bob Mould/Randy Rhoads attack module. i can imagine living without one, but i wouldn't like it.

sounds awesome