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Author: fichu on July 21 2008 Viewed 724 times. 6 people liked this blog. You can rate it below if you haven't already.
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I'm looking for an effect-pedal to use during performances with my laptop, giving my sound a more analog warmth that can vary from mild overdrive to fuzz.. Examples of distortion that I like are Tim Hecker, Philip Jeck, Fennesz, etcetera. Since I don't know much about effect pedals, I'd like to know what you use or think is good to use. | |
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07/21/08
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quip
bigg muff
or ibanez tube driver
or dod / boss single pedal overdrives
07/21/08
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electrodan
zvex's Box of Rock is really versatile and its sound is phenomenal. It can be gentle or down right brutal. All overdrive tho.
Look at MXR and their distortions... like the Distortion III, that might serve you well, given its flexibility (warm to gritty & everything in between)
There are a lot of fuzz boxes out there... some do "weird" and some do straight forward fuzzums. A bass fuzz may serve well and they are designed to work on the lower freq's and may help with the warmth factor. I've used a bass fuzz with synths before to great success.
07/21/08
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adcBicycle
if you're handy with electronics, build your own perfect effect here:
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07/21/08
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quip
i think when i saw fenezz he had mxr and line 6 pod
07/21/08
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RogerRoger
The subzombie will do some serious damage and is very fast to tweak and still get a good variety: link
I have a big muff pi and am not really that impressed. It's really too sensitive for line levels to get anything subtle.
Tubes for warmth is overrated, especially at bargain prices. Most stuff marketed as tube amplification in the affordable price range is 90% solid state circuitry with a basic "starved plate" triode that just degrades the signal a bit. link
The real deal is almost always expensive and high voltage. And actually glows without LEDs!! 
If your mixes sound cold and harsh, it is more likely your A/D , D/A converters.
If you just want more lower midrange warmth, use a multichannel mixer with a free effects send where the return goes to a free channel strip with its highs shelved off and lower midrange boosted that will mix with the original. Send your program channel out of the effects send. Have the effect channel strip also send out a little bit to itself to create some feedback. Any distortion you may want should be placed as an insert to a pedal or whatever on this channel.
07/21/08
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Roshi
Tim Hecker uses a Turbo Rat, I'm pretty sure.
Essentially, if you have an eq before and after nearly any distortion box, you can get quite a few sounds.
for example: Fuzz = Bass boost + distortion
But!
It really also depends on your input signal - for example, different pedals will respond to different guitars differently - so there isn't a one size fits all solution - try a bunch on your material to see how it responds. I love my behringer gdi25 and my sansamp, and I hear the danelectro french toast fuzz is fun as well.
Also, this was a nice article explaining different kinds of distortion: link
07/21/08
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ejectorset
i've got a sansamp bass driver and everything i've ever used it on sounds warmer/smoother/analoger without adding "distortion".
i used to have the cheapest crappy dod "supra distortion" that i used on my bass guitar when i first started playing and if you got it set just right to where you couldn't tell what it was doing, it was ok. never tried any with my laptop, but thats a good idea.
07/22/08
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kidgamma
i think the metasonix petals are retarded link
07/22/08
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Analog
I love my big muff for bass, but it's got to be coloured by the amp too; straight in it sounds far too crispy.
Behringer do a tube pedal with an actual tube in it, which sounds pretty good. you can actually tell it's overdriving the preamp tube properly cos quiet sounds don't distort as much as loud sounds.
would you need a pair of pedals if your laptop output is stereo?
07/22/08
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fichu
These are some really helpful replies so far, thanks!
I found a secondhand sansamp tri-ac for about 100 euros ($150), thinking about that one..
Also found an MXR Distortion+ for 50 euros, but I'm worried it's not flexible enough and that it only works right at high gain.
Will try them out first of course.
@Analog:
I'm planning to use it as an fx-send on my mixer, so that I can layer it a bit and push it whenever I feel the need for it. So a pair isn't really necessary since I'm also using the direct stereo out from my soundcard. Maybe I will route it back into my laptop so I can make it pseudo-stereo again with some reverb.
07/23/08
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slp
Boss OD-3 is great for overdrive. Doesnt suck the bass out like others do..
07/25/08
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ricemutt
I have a turbo tubescreamer and I like it a lot because there's a few different distortions modes which have really different sounds to them. I use it for exactly what you were talking about and it works well for me.
07/25/08
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fakeBlooper
i wish i could get some zvex pedals, but they're so damn expensive. just watch the videos... i mean COME ON!
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