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You should look at Boss MZ-2.

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

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

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

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

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.

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...

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.

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...

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

But I come from a dark time of DOD hell.

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?

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)

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.

This whole thread just makes me want a harmonic percolator.

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

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).