Original Message                 Date: 06-Jun-01  @  01:07 AM   -   Best distortion?

seenull

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What's your favorite distortion? Are pedals a good way to go, or too noisy?

Not sure how he gets it, but Dillinja has SICK distortion on his basslines.

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Message 11/25                 Date: 24-Sep-01  @  09:58 AM   -   RE: Best distortion?

Vladimir L'Estrange

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Quadrafuzz! Quadrafuzz! Quadrafuzz!

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Message 12/25                 Date: 24-Sep-01  @  11:18 AM   -   RE: Best distortion?

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Yeah, well... by the time i can afford a Tripple Rectifier i´ll probably be in my 50´s. And i also just got a Sherman FB, so i´ll be distorting and filtering thru that. It´s actually a manageable little beast, you just have to be lighthanded when adjusting gain and resonance.

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Message 13/25                 Date: 25-Sep-01  @  09:31 PM   -   RE: Best distortion?

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Pongoid you're probably thinking of the Triaxis preamp. The triple Recto is a 150 watt head  

I love the Boss Metal Zone pedal on synths.. It's got 4 bands of EQ so you can really dial in the dirt that you want, and tons of gain.

I have a Line6 POD and have used it on synths, but really it's a guitar amp simulator and doesn't really do as good a job on synths as one might think. Sounds dynamite on the axes though.

I also get a lot of mileage out of the distortion in the Yamaha 01V. Sounds great on vocals  

-Craig

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Message 14/25                 Date: 26-Sep-01  @  06:54 AM   -   RE: Best distortion?

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I'm thinking the triple recto, but I believe it also has a preamp out. If not, you put it through a power soak, then record it.

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Message 15/25                 Date: 26-Sep-01  @  01:13 PM   -   RE: Best distortion?

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sans amp anyone ??

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Message 16/25                 Date: 26-Sep-01  @  02:20 PM   -   RE: Best distortion?

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Ape - OK, but why anyone would spend $2k on a recto just to use it as a distortion pedal is beyond me  

-Craig

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Message 17/25                 Date: 27-Sep-01  @  09:16 PM   -   RE: Best distortion?

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Not just a distortion pedal. Compressor, tube preamp, exciter, echancer, and some eq. That's what folks spend on an Avalon that won't even get a dirty when you want it to.


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Message 18/25                 Date: 01-Oct-01  @  09:55 PM   -   RE: Best distortion?

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Ummm... Dude.. It's a tube head.. The things you mentioned may be side-effects of what happens when you run through a guitar head, and so you would be technically correct.

But I still maintain that anyone who's going to shell out $2k for a Rectifier head to run synths through when they could have a POD-simulated Dual Rectifier for $299 is either:

a) Stupid
b) Too rich for their own good
c) A guitar player who already owns a Recto  

-Craig

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Message 19/25                 Date: 02-Oct-01  @  09:06 PM   -   RE: Best distortion?

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not so. Until you've used one you don't know. Tubes are tubes and digital doesn't really fake it very well. Keys sound great through it. Drums crunch up really nicely. It adds way more warmth and harmonic content to anything you put through it. It's not a stupid move. It's not a move for someone who's not serious about their sound quality. Side effect? Wake up. That is the entire effect of using such a device.

Ape

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Message 20/25                 Date: 02-Oct-01  @  09:43 PM   -   RE: Best distortion?

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you can be serious about your sound quality without buying a $2000 guitar head to do the job of a Pro Co Rat

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