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 21/25                 Date: 03-Oct-01  @  02:27 PM   -   RE: Best distortion?

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All right Ape, you can think what you want..

I'm a die hard tube snob for years and years of guitar playing. I've played most Marshalls, most Boogies, and dozens of other tube amps. I've played PODs and J-Stations. I don't own a Rectifier amp but have played through them dozens of times. Buying one for use as a guitar amp is an excellent idea, for they are excellent amps..

Like I said before though, buying a $2000 + guitar head to dirty up some synths is just plain stupid and it's got nothing to do with how anal retentive you are about sound quality.

Unless someone else is paying the bills  

Put it this way.. When I need to distort a synth, I reach for my POD, and NOT my all-tube Peavey 5150.

-Craig

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Message 22/25                 Date: 03-Oct-01  @  07:28 PM   -   RE: Best distortion?

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I reach for the best tool I can get my hands on at the time to create the sound I want to create. Sometimes it's a Stomper sound, stuck through a Rat, sometimes it's a serge modular (yes I have friends with those) through a guitar head, sometimes it's a microphone, stuck though hyperprism, and then into a multivox tape delay, then soundforge for noise reduction. Whatever gets the job done right, dude.

Ape

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Message 23/25                 Date: 03-Oct-01  @  09:35 PM   -   RE: Best distortion?

99devils

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Yeah, sure I'm all for using whatever you happen to have at your disposal.. I just don't think people need to buy an expensive guitar head to get a little grit  

-Craig

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Message 24/25                 Date: 04-Oct-01  @  03:22 PM   -   RE: Best distortion?

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agreed - I use a cheap old Marshall 50 watt combo with a pre-distortion... the combi of that cab (2 x 12) and the distortion and pedals gives me a monsterous guitar sound when needed. It squeels alot more readily than my mates mesa which is chunky etc on line out, but never get's that wild.

agreed with P about the original RAT (proco) - the mk2 RAT is weedy... but mine broke (over-stomped) and now i'm using a boss 'turbo distortion'

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Message 25/25                 Date: 05-Oct-01  @  09:50 AM   -   RE: Best distortion?

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The original turbo rat ruled, some git pinched mine after a gig.

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