themajormiller wrote:I have one of THESE and I am very happy with it. It's a bitch to find the right tone, takes a lot of tweeking. Worth every penny.

But I will also vote for the Tech 21 distortion.

That pedal looks very interesting. How versatile is it? Is it mostly just an overdrive, or can you get full on distortion too?

endofanera wrote:Only 149 bucks!

http://www.zzounds.com/sku_FEN023450000 ... 0234500000

And they even look the same:

am I the only person who didn't like it??? I tried that and the fox tone machine on the same day and the tone machine kicked its butt...

A vs B wrote:

themajormiller wrote:I have one of THESE

That pedal looks very interesting. How versatile is it? Is it mostly just an overdrive, or can you get full on distortion too?

It's more of an overdrive, but, through trail and error, I've gotten some pretty crushing distortion out of it. But I suppose it depends what kind of distortion you're looking for...

Hey Food,


there are also three related threads:
Distortion Pedals

Guitar Pedals

and

Tube distortion


I will once again suggest you check out EHX's hot tubes for the reasons I have given in these threads.

ha I like how those two pedal threads to this one show a progression for me and what I use.

I've tried alot of these pedals but would like to add that pick-up, the guitar and the amp all play into your dist. -- I have an original Full-drive 2 with p-90's and a bassman that works ok together -- however, I would stay away from the blue Full-Drive 2's - also, depending on the sound you might want to use an equalizer pedal

bumping this thread.
i have a friend that is going to the usa soon and i want to ask him to buy a distortion pedal to me.
i want something versatile (lots of gain, but not 'metal' gain) and high-quality, plan to spent about 100-150.
my choices for now are into a visual sound jekyll and hyde (which i havent tried but i heard good reviews, specially here) or a tech 12xxl (i tried this one and is awesome). any other suggestions?
i play a 335 copy with upgraded pups and a fender tele.

Benny wrote:bumping this thread.
i have a friend that is going to the usa soon and i want to ask him to buy a distortion pedal to me.
i want something versatile (lots of gain, but not 'metal' gain) and high-quality, plan to spent about 100-150.
my choices for now are into a visual sound jekyll and hyde (which i havent tried but i heard good reviews, specially here) or a tech 12xxl (i tried this one and is awesome). any other suggestions?
i play a 335 copy with upgraded pups and a fender tele.

Seeing as I use pretty much the same gutiars as you, allow me to make a suggestion.

Get 2 gain pedals. You use a valve (tube) amp right? Get a boost pedal (MXR Microamp, EHX LPB1 etc) and an overdrive/distortion of some sort. I like ProCo Rats, but I've also had good sounds using the Boss SD-1 and the Ibanez SD9 Sonic Distortion.

Hope this helps.

Thanks!
yeah, i thought about the two pedal combinations, thats why i was interested in the jekyll and hyde (tough it has a tubescreamer, not a booster)
i`m not sure about boosters because i never actually tried one. i have a valve amp, but only worked with overdrive and distortions.
i don`t know if i like the proco rat.. all my favorite guitarists use them, but when i played one (the turbo rat actually) it was too 'focused' for my tastes. i`m more into an open, airy distortion.

Turbo Rat is a different beast than the rat, although there is a easy mod that makes it a crazy pedal.

Rat is more like a tube screamer with distortion characteristics. It can go from overdrive to power chord ranch and can be good I used two of them on my bass in the 80's at one point as they were had a decent eq. I also used a Heavy Metal pedal too as I could get more bass as opposed to treble. They don't get much use these days.

This summer I bought a couple of the effector 13 pedals (a suckka punch is a nice boost bite and slightly distortioney sound on high - compared to the fuzz which would be too much for most people) these days that I like a lot and a prescription yard box that I think has a nice sound. You might try the XXL with the warp to the left it has a nice jangly tone. It seems to be great on some guitars and nothing on others so it matters which guitar.