Adventures in pedal stacking

[ohsojayadeva]

I'm doing some recording right now for my goth-project, and decided to mess around with stacking some of my dirt pedals to see what sort of textures I could come up with. The other day I came up with a combo that's really awesome- it's actually one of my favorite new sounds, and I'll probably use it a bunch on the record.

I have a DS1 (reprzent) that I modded with all of the "standard" mods available on the internet- more gain, smoother, less harsh sound, more low end asymmetrical clipping, and so forth. With the tone on 12 oclock, and the gain on 3 oclock, I ran that puppy into a DE hyperion, with the control at 12 oclock. Usually when you get to this level of control on the hyperion (in my experience) chords start to get a bit funky, and the synthy, splatty sounds start to become more apparent (but that might just be me, most of my guitars have fairly high output). Running the DS1 into it somehow made it sound less splatty. It's got that pedal-rock, marshall in a box, modded DS1 thing going on, but with the edginess of the hype making things exciting. Very cool!

[floating opera]

i've pretty much had the same experience w/ stacking "out-there" pedals: an overdrive is too weak but high-gain dirt ends up "competing"/overpowering it. so something off-the-shelf somewhere in the middle works great; takes the edge off the "out-there" pedal but makes the off-the-shelf pedal more interesting--

i've also discovered that stacking "out-there" pedals really is never as good in theory as it seems it should be. case in point. you'd think a CN-1/TGD would be really awesome but its really like that dejected feeling a girl feels when yr bangin' her girl and you come way before she does and she rolls her eyes and she's like, "Oh hell no..." kind of like that.

[spacelordmother]

I've gotten some good results running several different Devis (Hype, Cherry Pop) between my OD and Sovtek Muff. Adding that nasty Devi love before the Muff just makes it that much more insane, while putting the Devi after the Muff tends to push those circuits into splattery, gated territory.

This is why I have been so interesting in the DBA Sound Saw. Being that it's a dual notch filter with variable boost, it seems like it was made for taking your favorite fuzz flavor and pushing it out the Nth degree without all the mess. (unless that's how you want it!)

[blicero]

Original Marshall Guv'nor into LBM is what i've been running lately and it is pretty fucking awesome. turn the tone on the big muff all the way down and the guv'nors gain all the way up and it seems like you have loads of low end fuzz underneath the marshalls top end. it sounds pretty noisy on my strat but i find it's a good way of making my guitar sound really 'urgent'. with this set-up the opening riff from plug in baby just kills

[retinal orbita]

I thought this was going to be pictures of a guy literally stacking a bunch of pedals on top of eath other...... you know like a tower or what ever.......

[HippieHiku]

I thought this was going to be pictures of a guy literally stacking a bunch of pedals on top of eath other...... you know like a tower or what ever.......

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