Distortion Pedal Options for Metal and Pointy Guitars

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Distortion Pedal Options for Metal and Pointy Guitars

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Hi Guys

Looking at finding 'the' distortion pedal of my tone dreams and am not having much luck. There are so many options out there, with the greater majority towards the classic rock or straight rock n roll type sounds. Demos are usually composed on a Strat/Tele/LP derivative which makes it difficult as Im looking for ...

Then there is the smaller end of the spectrum. The metal pedal. I've looked into and tried a number of these and to make it harder on myself... I usually find that they are too high gain and fizzy/fuzzy.. which would be ok if they were tweakable to tame those frequencies.

So here I am, searching for the Goldilocks of distortion pedals. Not too mild and Rocky, not too gainy and fizzy.....but juuust right. I think this whole 'just right' thing sums up the never-ending quest for tonal holy grail... so Im not too caught up in it all with my head in the clouds, but still... the search continues.

I've recently been looking at Empress Heavy, Bogner Uberschall and Suhr Riot as potential options. Would really like to hear peoples other opinions for this type of thing.

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Re: Distortion Pedal Options for Metal and Pointy Guitars

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I've had the EHX Metal Muff and MXR Fullbore Metal (which you're obviously selling), and I found they fell into the same camp, so you can probably discount the MM.

How about Dr Scientist - The Elements?
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Yup, loved the metal muff back in the day. Still have a Micro somewhere too, just a lil too untamed for my liking

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i have one of these that has shit tonnes of options:

i should sell it,but its probably gonna be the last to go in the cupboard if that says anything :rofl:

how about a dr boogie? tony can build a heap of stuff-pretty sure theres a riot in his schem list

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Get a decent amp.
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Kris wrote:
how about a dr boogie? tony can build a heap of stuff-pretty sure theres a riot in his schem list
Those amptweakers look awesome. Yeah, Im pretty sure he does a Riot clone. I'll shoot him a message.

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godgrinder wrote:Get a decent amp.
nah, boring.

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MXR EVH 5150? Check out Pete Thorns vids of it.

What amp u playing it through?

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Ah Petey Pete. Dude is like.... my spirit animal... I think I have a man crush on the dude.

I kinda cant trust a review from a guy who makes everything sound so damn good.

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What kind of metal tones do you like? E.g. Mustaine and Dimebag both have quite different tones

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Re: Distortion Pedal Options for Metal and Pointy Guitars

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That Pedal Show got Rabea in to help with very, very heavy metal tones and to shootout a bunch of different pedals. They seemed to lean toward the Amp Tweaker Tight Metal. It could brutalize things, but also had a range of different very metal sounds. Powerful EQ and did not seem like a fizz box.

edit: Then again, maybe you mean more classic metal tones? For that, the Wampler Pinnacle I had was very good, although I think a BE would perhaps be even nicer.

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JHorner wrote:What kind of metal tones do you like? E.g. Mustaine and Dimebag both have quite different tones
Pretty much had Dimebag with the the MXR Fullbore. Too fizzy... I dont want a pedal on meth but want it to at least lift a lil.

I guess one of the main reasons is that I play 7 string and am having trouble finding decent clarity.

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Nah, not classical metal




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