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penningtron wrote: Sun Mar 02, 2025 7:24 am Unless you make lots of looped trip hop music, stomp box distortion on drums usually sounds stupid..

I've had some ok results if I use the stomp box on an aux send that is returned to a channel for Eq and phase flipping and adding to taste as opposed to just shoving everything into a big muff. A lot of fuzz flip polarity so if you are going to blend with clean you might gotta flip it. I use a red llama clone with a mxr bass compressor on mono drum mic a little. Does the flaming lips thing at worst and the trashy Motown thing at best. Fun to do. Sans amp is a good kick distortion or on a sub kick mic. I had an old cassettes deck that doesn't work that has a 3 way switch for noise reduction that just acted as a cool color switch when slammed that was best for all of it but I got rid of it on a fit of tidyness.

MoreSpaceEcho wrote: Sun Mar 02, 2025 10:34 am If you're going for the Tchad Blake thing, you want the OG Sansamp with the dipswitches, but I agree with FM Penningtron, just do this stuff with plugins now, way easier.

Back in the late 90s I had the non-OG Sansamp and it was ok, it distorted stuff, but it wasn't any magic thing. I think the dipswitches on the OG are where the fun is, so if you were gonna do this.....do that.

While we're talking Tchad, this Level Loc plugin just came out:

https://korneffaudio.com/product/shure-level-loc/

I haven't tried it but it was getting raves over at gearspace. I had to give up on that place because I got tired of having arguments with astoundingly out of touch arrogant boomers, but that plugin is probably fun.

Like the guy said, "Muddy Waters Invented Electricity..."

As for not being a fan of the guy's work, what does he have to do?

Pull a rabbit out of a hat?

Kniferide wrote: Mon Mar 03, 2025 3:17 am

penningtron wrote: Sun Mar 02, 2025 7:24 am Unless you make lots of looped trip hop music, stomp box distortion on drums usually sounds stupid..

I've had some ok results if I use the stomp box on an aux send that is returned to a channel for Eq and phase flipping and adding to taste as opposed to just shoving everything into a big muff.

Yeah, I have a trashy Klanghelm setting that I use for non-close drum mics, but it's usually only blended in about 12-15%. The end result is so subtle I'm sure a colorful EQ could probably get there too.