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rolsteins
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 Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 6:13 am Post subject: Re: your favourite distortion gear |
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| krv wrote: | your favourite distortion gear to run your (modular or not) synthesizer in...
pedal, rack efx, pedalboard, guitar amp....
all opinions welcome |
If you are going for Sunn's kind of saturated/distorted sound, there is no one "holy grail" pedal. This sound timbre is created on layers and layers of differently saturated signal (pedals, tube amp preamp, tube amp power tubes, mic preamps, tape, compression...), feedbacks as well as tracking of "air" because room resonance also is very important.
Everything works that creates additional overtones. Also do not forget a nice analog bass synth layer to support low freqs of distorted guitar.
It is very huge setup that is used to create THAT timbre. |
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here is the overstayer instrument driver chained chan 1 run into chan 2 both cranked fairly high....
http://www.sendspace.com/file/w0s49i
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krv
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| Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 2:15 pm Post subject: Re: your favourite distortion gear |
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| rolsteins wrote: | | krv wrote: | your favourite distortion gear to run your (modular or not) synthesizer in...
pedal, rack efx, pedalboard, guitar amp....
all opinions welcome |
If you are going for Sunn's kind of saturated/distorted sound, there is no one "holy grail" pedal. This sound timbre is created on layers and layers of differently saturated signal (pedals, tube amp preamp, tube amp power tubes, mic preamps, tape, compression...), feedbacks as well as tracking of "air" because room resonance also is very important.
Everything works that creates additional overtones. Also do not forget a nice analog bass synth layer to support low freqs of distorted guitar.
It is very huge setup that is used to create THAT timbre. |
I know... problem, as you can imagine, are: space, money etc... I just want to go in "that direction" with something I can afford and carry with me live 
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+1(2?) on tyme sefari (sot) and big muff
sansamp bass driver(di) for a great overdrive with some clarity control via the presence pot
little phatty overload
guitar rig
eventide
logic's bitcrusher
psp vintage saturator 1+2
ableton's erosion and redux... saturator, bit-crush, rate and/or down sampling plug
mesa boogie dual rectifier
reaktor or any other granular tool |
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rolsteins
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| Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 3:15 pm Post subject: Re: your favourite distortion gear |
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| krv wrote: | | rolsteins wrote: | | krv wrote: | your favourite distortion gear to run your (modular or not) synthesizer in...
pedal, rack efx, pedalboard, guitar amp....
all opinions welcome |
If you are going for Sunn's kind of saturated/distorted sound, there is no one "holy grail" pedal. This sound timbre is created on layers and layers of differently saturated signal (pedals, tube amp preamp, tube amp power tubes, mic preamps, tape, compression...), feedbacks as well as tracking of "air" because room resonance also is very important.
Everything works that creates additional overtones. Also do not forget a nice analog bass synth layer to support low freqs of distorted guitar.
It is very huge setup that is used to create THAT timbre. |
I know... problem, as you can imagine, are: space, money etc... I just want to go in "that direction" with something I can afford and carry with me live |
I could recommend to start with second hand things: pair analog distortion pedals (f.e. two RATs or combination of one RAT and one Big Muff), "not so expensive tube amp" and 1x12 cab. Pair of Shure SM57 (for mids) and Beta52 (for bass) mics will be useful for tracking as well as live shows. Even if you track just one speaker playing around with two different mics will be fun.
Stay away from pedals called "Zvex"and "Klon". They are insanely overpriced. |
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Why Adapter
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| Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2012 6:42 pm Post subject: |
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I cascade both channels of my old Alembic F2B tube preamp.
I just checked, and they still make these, But the price - YIKES! |
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cat6batch
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Big Muff Sovtek
RE-201
A JCM800 with KT88's, power section on full, attenuating with the preamp. |
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BernieB
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| OTO Biscuit! |
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peh
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| Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2012 3:52 am Post subject: |
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Pedals
Death Metal
Black Licorice (as one canny reviewer put it "Like the audio equivalent to drowning children in mud? then get this pedal")
BL is less flexible than the DM but is great at what it does and costs next to nothing s/h |
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plink
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+1 OTO Biscuit.
Also: Kombinat
Randall Lynch Box (modular guitar amp!)
Eventide
Adrenalinn III |
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James Mandible
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Adrenalinn III |
Is the Adrenaline decent on synths? I've always been curious about that and only ever seem to pull up demos on guitars. |
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Count Edlington
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| Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2012 6:47 am Post subject: |
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| The Sherman definitely excels at distortion it can get real nasty, it doesn't do clean though..... |
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dj2sday
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| Suburban Bather wrote: | Metasonix gear
a pair of Plague Bearers
Sub Zombie pedal- http://www.spenceramps.com/subz.html
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BBD delay (100% wet and driven hard) |
Yes! Here's my BBD distortion(when I'm not using it as a reverb  )-
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perfect!! i sue my BBD as distortion most of all |
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plink
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| James Mandible wrote: | | plink wrote: |
Adrenalinn III |
Is the Adrenaline decent on synths? I've always been curious about that and only ever seem to pull up demos on guitars. |
It is pretty cool. I ran the Little Phatty through it and got some great stuff. It gives it that "synth through a speaker sim" sound along with all of the other cool stuff that the unit provides like distortion, reverb, delay, and great filter effects. Combined with some osc FM knob and filter manipulations = very nice. Also sits in the mix well due to it's distinctive tone color as compared to rich VI's or the awesome warmth of a modular. |
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Cat-A-Tonic
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| Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2012 4:58 am Post subject: |
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| Count Edlington wrote: | | The Sherman definitely excels at distortion it can get real nasty, it doesn't do clean though..... |
I'm sure your speaking of the Sherman Filterbank.
This isn't true of the Sherman/Rodec Restyler.
It can be clean, and its soft clipping can get pretty thick,
But it never really gets 'nasty'.
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Count Edlington
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| Cat-A-Tonic wrote: | | Count Edlington wrote: | | The Sherman definitely excels at distortion it can get real nasty, it doesn't do clean though..... |
I'm sure your speaking of the Sherman Filterbank.
This isn't true of the Sherman/Rodec Restyler.
It can be clean, and its soft clipping can get pretty thick,
But it never really gets 'nasty'. |
Yeah sorry I meant the Sherman Filterbank |
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Kurge71
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midfi glitch computer - in a crazy destroyin mood?
faustone fuzz unit - brings out the creamy, wholly mammoth in you
roland beebaa - go, go godzilla |
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Popski
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I've got tons of gtr pedals, mostly hooked on Big Muffs with late 90's black sovtek sounding best to my ears.
I've been using the mooger fooger ring mod (or lowpass) drive on a ton of patches lately. bypassed the effect, just using the drive circuit which is still active when the effect is bypassed, or setting the mix to 0
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MindMachine
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For synths I mostly use the EH Graphic Fuzz or ART Tube Pre. The DOD Grunge does work amazingly well too.
The EH Graphic Fuzz works well between modules.
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