I regret selling my jsx

Fuken love my DirtyTrees

Song name please?

Tiny minute differences.

I put a Klon clone after it... Less harsh. It's like you're putting it in a dirty amp

Cheers man, Would there be any possibility to you make a video with the Joyo Vintage Overdrive connected to the Digitech Death Metal? I wanna see and know how much juice can extract from the sound using both pedals.

That dip in the mids on the Suhr RL actually makes a huge difference, especially with an American-voiced amp with 6L6's (i.e. Mesa/Boogie). It gets really scooped in the mids, boomy in the bass, and harsh in the treble. This might sound good while playing solo, but it just gets buried in a mix. The low end gets all muddied up with the actual bass, the mids don't cut, so the harsh screechy/fizzy frequencies stand out more. The Fractal X-Load is much better than the SRL. It has more depth and dimension, a little closer to how the DI sounds with an actual speaker connected for the load. And it has US and UK voicings. The Rivera Mini Rock Rec is a lot flatter: more mids, less bass, darker, kinda boxy. The DI -> IRs sounds best with speaker(s) still connected, but that defeats the purpose of silent recording. Reactive load technology still isn't up to par with real speakers, but of these 3, the X-Load is the closest (though still quite different). I haven't tried the Captor yet, but will probably pick one up soon. I think that seemingly small difference in the midrange will make a big difference in a mix.

Slaughter of my Ears 😂😂😂

I own it for 30 years almost. This pedal sucks tone like u wouldn’t believe! It’s a trash can classic so I’ll keep it lol

Running in parallel might be another cool addition for shootouts, its one of my favorite features of the medusa

@Dome should i do the 9v psa mod to my hm2 or keep using it at 12v ?

HM2 > Altar

Does it matter if the 12v output is 300mA or 500mA?

My power supply brick has 9v 300mA ports and 9v/12v/18v switchable ports that are 500mA. Will the 12v 500mA switchable port be okay to use? The reason i ask is, in the video the 12v port has 300mA. I really dont want to cook my MIJ HM-2 and i dont know much about voltage and milliamps.

Had my mind set on a BD-2 but now contemplate the SD-1 instead. Nice bluesy and rock sound.

It's great how you have so many good visuals with the review. Very helpful.

Thanks for this! So on these vids, are you running white/pink noise for the EQ visual?

Amazing pedal, been using for 5+ years. It sounds close to Marshall amp sound (jcm 900 is the closest I think), The key is the volume on the pedal should be at least at 50% (the pedal does not have a ton of gain). Also freq and countour controls are really versatile, you can reduce or add low frequencies depending on the guitar you playing

Thanks for your review! Mine is coming today and I can't wait.

i'm a newbie, can i use this pedal for distortion and i add Booster Pedal to make the sound better, so it would be Zoom 505 MultiFX + Booster Pedal

Lets have that trendkiller demo Dome. It was meant to be the end of the line, so it would be fitting now that he's quit.

Cool, den Preamp suche ich auch schon lange. Hat ähnliche Möglichkeiten wie der e570 Preamp. Aber leider ohne Noisegate, warum auch immer 🤷🏻‍♂️

Im dying to hear what it sounds like out of a 6505/5150 but not one person has posted a single video doing so 😢

Nice

Great demo - but to show the bass-range you need to crank the depth first: it's like our cut control but inverted. Meaning at fully CCW you'll get a low cut at almost 800hz making it tight but thins out the bass. Fully it let's the whole range through and gives the bass control full effect - it goes into ridiculous territories even with the active 16dB bass boost 😁

Can’t deny to be happy about the mids, can you? Haha. I Love this pedal, it’s a different beast

Im thinking the comp may come into play more when you are cranking that low end-might stop some of that big bloom you get on ringing chords. I was surprised how well it played into a driven channel. Daniel is the man!

This pedal brings back many memories for me. I was about 13 years old and it was my Birthday. My Mom took me to a used gear shop and let me pick out a pedal...(probably 1987 ish...yeah I'm old.) Anyway, I picked this one. I had sooo much fun with that pedal. I had no idea what I was doing or what the knobs meant, but I felt like a guitar god when I plugged into my Crate amp at home and chugged some drop D riffs. Sounds pretty damn good! I'm guessing it's not fully digital. Probably analog distortion section with some ancient DSP for the chorus and delay.

Thanks for the post. My '94 is about to go to the amp shop. Now I can explain what's cracking out on the knobs.

I like the three band equilizer section, but more bass would be fine. The boost function is great. It's not really a doom pedal, but I like it. I have to try it...

I am impressed. I write and only play my own material and borrow and blend all Metal styles. I might flat pick the verse with a low gain pedal and then use Doom like power cords for the chorus etc. The thing about this pedal it sacrifices beyond stupid gain in favor of leaving in some rich harmonics to give a detailed tapestry in the mids. Dare I say it? It simply has tone instead of only might!!

i have the aod. best overdrive ever; sounds like shit; sludgy, sludgy dirty boost. tryna acquire the afz and adt to complete what i personally need from the series.

I played this at guitar center and wanted the eight string but they didn’t have any of those exact guitars I gotta wine red Les Paul instead and traded that for my lp junior i play 12-80 though so sometimes I play this stuff too the highest I tune in c standard or drop b I don’t like the drop c metalcore anymore you just grow out of it when everyone does it for 10 years it gets a little old lol

I actually have the earlier blue version of this pedal from the mid 90s. It works great as a boost with the gain at zero. As a distortion my one reminds me of the old Marshall Guv'nor. This one seems different somehow, need to get one & compare.

I recently got one of these for $45. I figured why not. It’s ended up being my main distortion. The key for me was lowering the bass since it’s so punchy, but you can actually get a really nice and smooth distortion out of it (granted it only does high gain!).

Going to run my pepers pedals Fury 158 pedal through my katana, this should be fun

hello! how does it sound when there is a metalzone or another preamp pedal in its FX Loop?

Dome could you consider re demoing this one day would be interesting to hear how it stacks with a HM2?

"How many tube screamer clones are we going to see? How much money are you going to waste buying the same tube screamer clone over and over and over and over again? I say no more, Excise it like a boil." LOL. The schematic has been posted online. (its a tubescreamer with a google search result for 3 band eq)

I like the glossy hammered finish

thank you bro ;)

thx amigo

I didn’t mind this one but the HTS and Weltall are miles better to me especially for the music I play.

Long overdue is the trendkiller.

range is interactive with grip, its a variable value that changes the gain for mutes/stops. It is most noticeable into a real tube amp, which is what it was designed for. Left switch, enrage is clipping removal. Lotta people like this one driving a high gain 100w+ amp, its on a few notable albums/ live rigs. Vitriol for one, Kyle swears by this pedal.

I still like the clear bite of the original m2

Can Nirvana be played on it?

Fuck Fractal! Marketing scumbag tactics, now finally being exposed by the myriad of similar/superior sim pedals and plugins!

Why you did not change the Tightness parameter?

This guy HAS to be German…