I use a double muff first in my chain as kind of a overdrive and turn it and on a lot. I had not noticed if it cuts any bass (it seems pretty neutral tone wise) to in tandem with other pedals put the bass "in you face more". It seems to make some of the time effects react better.

The Rat is a great pedal I have three right now one from each period. The oldest one (the big kind from the late 70's) was a repair for a band mate so it goes back to him tonight sounds nice though (he plays a SG and gets really great crunch or singing tones). I really like the eq as it goes real dark to treble without a lot of hiss or harshness. The turbo rats have a led compression stage which is fun to disable with a piece of electrical tape but the regular rat is enough rat for me most of the time. Sometimes I use two one for a treble cut high distortion and one for a treble boost overdrive. The two together for lots of umph they also play well with boxes before them. I would check out a Rat a lot of bass players use them.

The metal pedals are nice due to how quiet they are and that you can really eq the distortion. The Ibanez smash pedal is nice cause if you are playing lots of 8th notes and dampening it has a built in noise gate - VOID switch - that really keeps it from getting to the distortion hose level. But all of the metal pedals do well with muting and getting a more staccato sound.

I also use one of the Ibanez fuzz pedals in front of it the two really are part of the same series but sound very different. But I commonly use 3 or 4 distortion fuzz in different combos. With time based effects after and among them.

DS1 is all you need

chairman_hall wrote:DS1 is all you need

Guitar: gibson Sg
Pedas: ibanez tube screamer
pro-co turbo rat
boss dd3
ibanez analog delay
Amp: fender bandmaster head
marshall cabinet

MXR Doubleshot. It's not bad into the Sovtek Mig 50.

Also own but don't use an EH Hot Tubes. My ears tell me the Hot Tubes is present in Neil Young's guitar on the new album. I recognize a creamy chalkiness that I never liked much. It's the Mylanta of distortion. EH still rules, tho.

Just got a Boss line switcher so I don't have to "hard wire" my '64 Fender reverb tank any more...

-r

Currently have an HAO Rust Booster -> Big Muff -> Cusack Music 808 knockoff -> SHO. It's a real nice combo. Full with relatively low feedback.
I recommend checking out the Rust Booster. It's a great and inexpensive botique pedal.
http://www.harmony-central.com/Effects/ ... ter-1.html

i need a quicke suggestion for a dist. pedal. It´s mostly for boosting my pro junior but also to use as a good overdrive when i dont use my amp.
i have a ds-1 but i lend it to my other guitar player... and i was searching perhaps for somethign better. plus i´m on a budget so no weird boutique stuff..

i was thinking about a mxr distortion+, or a rat, any other suggestions?

Jose Luis Perales wrote:i need a quicke suggestion for a dist. pedal. It´s mostly for boosting my pro junior but also to use as a good overdrive when i dont use my amp.
i have a ds-1 but i lend it to my other guitar player... and i was searching perhaps for somethign better. plus i´m on a budget so no weird boutique stuff..

i was thinking about a mxr distortion+, or a rat, any other suggestions?

How dirty do you want it to get?

The Boss SD-1 is good for boosting, as is the Marshall Bluesbreaker (new one) and the Marshall Drivemaster. Boss OD-2 and OD-3 are good too.

The DOD 250 is the same pedal as the MXR Distortion + and usually goes for much cheaper too.

Dod 250 same as mxr distortion? that´s very interesting.

How Dirty? mmm.. a lot. Jesus and Mary Chain (not the fuzz in the first album) would be a good example of what i might wanting to achieve, or Yo La Tengo.

chairman_hall wrote:DS1 is all you need

...if you want a totally cliche tone. I never liked the ds-1. And I spent teenage nirvana-emulation years using one.

Distortion pedals I do like:

MXR D+
Big Muff (USA models)
RAT