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So my current dirt chain is Fix'd fuzz->Cbread DLS->Wampler Pinnacle (older version, 2007 with boost footswitch)

Yesterday i went to our garage to test the Pinnacle and compare it to DLS. Foolishly i thought i can choose between them... nuh-uh

DLS on 12V, Rock mode and Gain on half - VERY transparent. When i kick it in, my tele just gets a bit of dirt on top of it's sound. It's a bit crunchy, very twangy and coherent (LOVE IT WITH NECK PICKUP). It also stacks extremely well with Fix'd Fuzz - and that's my main choice for solos.

Pinnacle on the other hand clippes harder (well it's a distortion pedal), isn't as clear and transparent. The way i set it (modern mode probably, gain on half) i can get two very usable gain stages out of it - nice juicy crunch and full-on rock growl with boost engaged. It doesn't stack up well with Fix'd, but i can achieve good results hitting it with DLS. I don't like it very much for solos - too EVH 80's metal... but all things considered it can do much more than that.

so its clean, a bit dirty with DLS, nice and juicy with Pinnacle, rock-zone with boost engaged, ballsy fuzz with Fix'd and great fat yet cutting solo sound with Fix'd->DLS

i never expected to have three dirt boxes like that. I think i have to wait for natural selection to kick something off the board because right now i can't really choose... we'll see what happens

what's your story with your dirt pedals?

ps: is this thread stupid?

My dirt section is:
PC fx Fuzzy Lady -> LG Hydra -> FC Four Eyes

I'm using the Fuzzy Lady on the gated side with the fuzz back and the volume to max. It give me a static garage tone.
The Hydra is set to low gain (very versatyle with two gain knobs low and hi)... with my amp it sound vintage... similar to a twin.
And I use the Four Eyes for the nasty gnarly stuff and more (I'm just experimenting with it at the moment since I just got it).

Will add the Dr. Scientist The Elements (at the end of the chain) when it will be avaliable.

I always like to have four dirt pedals... Low gain overdrive, low gain fuzz, high gain distortion and high gain fuzz.

On my amp, I can combine channel A and B (A + B) so I'm also using this function so B boost A.

For a good long while, it was octave fuzz -> overdrive -> muff/muff-like -> EQ/giant fuzz. I've lately rethought that, not sure what the hell I'm doing now.

I have gotten used to combining my amp's channels which already makes for a little gritty sound the way I put it.

Right now I have a ton of Fuzzies, the survival of the fittest will eventually cash one or the other in, but for now I am happy with all these options:

This is what I plan on using as my main dirt for now:
Harmonic Percolator > Halloween Fuzz > Black Cat Superfuzz > Mountainking Ruckus > TAFM
That is a lot of stuff and I am relatively sure i will downsize it sooner or later. But it's delightful how every one of these has it's own flavour and most of them combine quite well and let me go from screeching a nail on a chalkboard (perc & halloween) to straight up punk tone (halloween & superfuzz) to the cavernous pits of hairy balls (ruckus & tafm). If I want to add a kick into those big balls I add the perc to the doom combo, if I want a grittier punk tone I go superfuzz into tafm. And every single one of them sounds really good on it's own. The perc does this compressing that I love, the halloween sounds like I thought a rat'd sound until I heard a real one and that made me look for the sound I had in my head, superfuzz is a new addition, but it does octaves and has a ton of variety at hand, ruckus is just a really nice sounding OD that's a bit on the bassy side and can go from slight grit to fuzz territory, I love to use it to add a slight hair when I play normally and break up when I hit it, really easy to dial in with this, the tafm I use for that saturated synth-like sound where the guitar just takes off into full flight.
To be honest I have not yet played this at rehearsal. But I have spent quite a bit of my saturday working this out. I think it will be awesome.


4Eyes into Y4545 for noisy freaky shit. This will be tested in my drone project. It might work. Then those two'd hit the Infanem Harmony Synth. Or maybe the Y4545 goes into the chain after the harmony synth.

At the moment I'm just running TAFM>Zoom Ultra Fuzz. TAFM for blended super heavy riffing, cool mid-gain fuzz and light fuzzy od (with clean and fuzz about equal it's ), Ultra Fuzz for trebly OD, velcro and oscillating. Stacked they do a ridiculous sustain lead thing that's waaaay compressed and has a slow attack and tails off into noise . Got a Fairfield Four Eyes coming, and I'm planning on modding the double muff I have lying around to be better.

Also cranking the gain on my DMM on either 100% dry (pretty fuzzy and touch responsive) or 100% wet (so much fuzz).

muff (usually black) -> melx2 or wolf cpu -> wah (I count it because I usually leaved it cocked for different textures*) -> cc/dc
*bass + big muff + wah in full toe up = tasty

I have a Verellen Big Spider -> Mellowtone Melx2 -> "Rockson" HM-2 copy -> Arc Flash. All save for the Arc Flash are in the loop of a Chk Chk Boom.

My small signal chain is basically "well this sounds good but it sounds better in the Arc Flash". Except the HM-2 never sounds good. The only reason it's on my board is because I have so much space and nothing else
You can do some wacky things when it's Chk Chk Boom'd, I guess. Perhaps it'll find a use in the future.

The Big Spider into Melx2 is nice as well, but the compression in that configuration kinda kills the ULTRA HEAVINESS of the Spider. It doesn't like being hit by other fuzzes, or maybe I'm not that into really splattery sounds.

In short, Arc Flash makes everything better. I have an on/off relationship with the Melx2 but I'm hesitant to ditch it because I really like the artwork and simplicity of it

monkeydancer wrote:At the moment I'm just running TAFM>Zoom Ultra Fuzz. TAFM for blended super heavy riffing, cool mid-gain fuzz and light fuzzy od (with clean and fuzz about equal it's ), Ultra Fuzz for trebly OD, velcro and oscillating. Stacked they do a ridiculous sustain lead thing that's waaaay compressed and has a slow attack and tails off into noise . Got a Fairfield Four Eyes coming, and I'm planning on modding the double muff I have lying around to be better.

Also cranking the gain on my DMM on either 100% dry (pretty fuzzy and touch responsive) or 100% wet (so much fuzz).

Hope you like the 4Eyes (one of my favorite at the moment)... I will get an expression pedal for it soon!
Also can't wait for news on Fairfield Circuitry new pedal The Unpleasant Surprise (Experimental Fuzz/Gate).

Chain HI5 > LAL SOF-88 > Electric Apple > Great Wall > Wolf Computer > Katana Sound SBF

The EA and SBF and sorta the main sounds, sometimes together depending. LAL SOF-88 > filter is my main synth sound. WCPU second synth sound, sometimes together for madness. I use the great wall with any of the others basically to add extrA heavyness.... and the HI5 is or when I need to blast any and everything.... That make any sense?

I have three pedals OTW, and got rid of a bunch of pedals I wasn't using or didn't like enough... This is what I like right now:
grindoom guitar---- tuner splitter
'a chain' = Dwarfcraft PassPlanePlus->Katanasound Thundercloud->Crunch Box-> (Handsome devil 1x12 combo + 1x12)
'b chain' = HM2-> (Traynor Bass Master into 2x12 or 4x12)

Going to try the Traynor with different fuzzes, but I love that HM-2 grind. Might replace the Crunch Box with a Monarch, and/or the pplane+ with an Internet for the combo/ 'a chain'.

My chain is kind of weird, but I've found that it sounds great with my rig this way.

4545 > Blargg > Singing Tree > SuperCollider > TAFM

4545: fucked up noise and chaos for heavier songs, subtle radio-ish static and matching the pitch of the oscillators to the part I'm playing for more ambient stuff.

Blargg: synthy weirdness for leads, also super huge ballsy fuzz.

Singing Tree: I basically build all my other dirt on top of this, amazing low gain od.

SuperCollider: Set for mid-gain fuzzy od type sound, sounds awesome stacked with the ST for a bit more balls, and craaaaazy heavy stacked with the TAFM.

TAFM: Never leaving my board. Set for balls out heavy thick fuzz to destroy your face, and sometimes stacked with the SC to destroy multiple faces.

bob the r0bot wrote:muff (usually black) -> melx2 or wolf cpu -> wah (I count it because I usually leaved it cocked for different textures) -> cc/dc

You didn't like the CC/DC before everything?

Right now I'm:
CC/DC>Rat>LS2 which splits to either>Sobbat DB1 for awesome atmospheric 'gaze
>Gnometron for octave up everything else I've ever heard is made out of labias fuzz

Gonna need to get an Arc Flash though...kicks the Rats ass for high gain and sounds so fuckin good after the sobbat
And either something Muffy or figure out what's wrong with my Russian.

The super chan will be right before or after the rat, and once I get some enclosure a dual melx will probably be after the VTF and a snowflake will be after the sobbat.

Basically I love stacking dirt. Sure I could have a 4 pedal board, but that wouldn't be nearly as much fun.

My dirt:

Wren and Cuff Phat Phuk (PhPh) -> Trombetta Bone Machine (Tromb) -> Dice Works Muff Diver (MuffD) -> Coopersonic Twin Tube Overdrive w/dual 12au7's (Coop) -> Stephenson Stage Hog w/12at7 and 12av7 (Steph) - Runs into a Juke Coda (Jukaditra) amplifier.

So I've got my booster into versatile fuzz into muff type fuzz into JTM45ish tube preamp that can provide an alternate clean sound or some nice grind....Stephenson can provide Marshally or Tweedy power tube grind ....one channel is set up for just on the verge....the second channel for some decent grind.......Coda is set clean.

I can get all kinds of crazy good sounds with various combinations of the aforementioned pedals. Either Steph or Coop are almost always on. PhPh gets the next most use with Tromb and MuffD getting somewhat less use respectively. PhPh, Tromb, and MuffD will almost always get used in conjuction with either Coop or Steph. PhPh is often used to kick Tromb or MuffD....that is the only time I have more than two dirt pedals on. I will often only have one of the fuzz pedals placed in the chain - - - more often Tromb.

I could easily get along with just the amp Steph and Coop.....while I do love fuzz it gets turned on way less than those two pedals. I was getting some great doomy sounds with just Steph and Coop the other night......I turned the bass and gain way up on Coop......gain about 3/4 on Steph.....flat eq....had the bass turned down on Jukaditra. Fabulously doomy and heavy while also being spongy and amp-like. I've never played an ElectricAmp but it got close to my imagining of one. SoniK BliS.

Guitar Board:

Supercollider > Megalith > Pharaoh

Pharaoh: Low gain-always on. Heavy.

Supercollider: Medium gain, Vol max - on most of the time. Heavier.

Megalith: Cranked- on for crazy parts, solos, feedback. Heaviest.


VI Board:

Pharaoh > OX Dark

Both medium gain-on most of the time.

Today I'm using Ehx Black Finger > Ehx 2ube (which I always start with) > An Aardvark > Attack Sustain > Ab Synth > Fingerprint > Jero Muff > Dinosaur Fuzz > Great Wall > Algal Bloom > Snowdrift > Chalice > Dead Hipster > non dirt El Cap > Old Kalamazoo's... The Pharaoh is at the neighbors and I have a "secret build" in the mail so I will update soon... Sometimes I have most of them on but mostly it's combos of two or three... The 2ube, Black Finger, Aardvark, Attack Sustain, and the Dead Hipster are always on... I've found stuff that works for what I want to make so I've been playin and playin and playin... Thanks ILF...