TR-909 Bass Drum Recorded Through 13 Distortion Units

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The Gear Fiend Presents: TR-909 Bass Drum Recorded Through 13 Distortion Units
1) Dunlop Fuzz Face
2) Electro-Harmonix Metal Muff with Top Boost
3) Maxon OD-9
4) Boss OS-2
5) Boss DS-1
6) Boss DS-2
7) Pro Co RAT
8) Tech 21 VT Bass
9) MXR Bass D.I. +
10) Electro-Harmonix English Muff'n
11) Moog Moogerfooger Lowpass Filter
12) Electro-Harmonix Bass Big Muff Pi
13) Elektron SidStation

[@Cheeseoverdose]

This helped me realize how different distortion pedals can be

[@cerumen]

1) Dunlop Fuzz Face 0:43 2) Electro-Harmonix Metal Muff with Top Boost 0:53 3) Maxon OD-9 1:04 4) Boss OS-2 1:14 5) Boss DS-1 1:24 6) Boss DS-2 1:35 7) Pro Co RAT 1:45 8) Tech 21 VT Bass 1:55 9) MXR Bass D.I. + 2:06 10) Electro-Harmonix English Muff'n 2:16 11) Moog Moogerfooger Lowpass Filter 2:27 12) Electro-Harmonix Bass Big Muff Pi 2:37 13) Elektron SidStation 2:47 I like the DS1 and the RAT but the Tech 21 takes the cake.

[@Yizak]

From the title I thought you meant you ran it through 13 distortion units in series haha

[@Yizak]

***** That's craaazy!

[@aggi999]

It's quite common in the harder styles actually

[@legoushque3334]

Lmao, your profile pic speaks for yourself.

[@terencesterling6839]

@@legoushque3334 vacuum guitar gang rise up!

[@DJAutism1]

If you put it through 13 distortion units in series, you will probably get a result that will be guaranteed to make a child go deaf once they hear it.

[@HardlifeMedia]

That fuzzface sounds really promising for making hardstyle kick drums.. o.O

[@TheAris621]

And the Metal Muff on BigRoom kicks :D

[@daleadelic]

agrred until you check the price of that particular model haha

[@TiagoMilanov]

YES

[@carstenaltena]

Thanks for the sample pack!

[@famitory]

haha when i read the title i thought it was the 909 through 13 distortions in series and i was expecting a clipped mess. instead i got a very nice sample pack. cheers mate!

[@ElectronicazMusic]

Hah! My initial thoughts too!

[@ElectricVillage]

So many of these are useful, but I'm pretty blown away by the Fuzz Face.

[@damnationdefied777]

hell that fuzzface was impressive!

[@shersh4188]

best balance between punch and beefiness: Tech 21, Metal Muff, DS-1. Huge thanks for the samples ! extremely useful

[@ARBB1]

Must've been a large amount of work to make those graphics. Great job.

[@AnsemsApprentice]

I still need to learn how to process a kick to sound like that, but man is that sample pack useful not just to work with but as a reference to aim for and tweak how you want. Really appreciate it, many thanks!

[@into.cassette]

answering the real questions, Mitch - thank you 🙏

[@michaelbauers8800]

Metal Muff, Fuzzface and OS2 were some I liked

[@benjamincueff7753]

rat is the best

[@djvoid1]

Still nothing beats running a 909 though an old Mackie desk and overdriving the hell out of it. If there's a pedal that can emulate THAT, i'd buy it in a heartbeat

[@dddux]

Thank you so much for this sample pack and video even more. It's a kind of a reference video to hear what distortion pedals would be suitable for the kind of sound you're searching for, so you don't need to pick up all 13. :) On the other hand, why not? I love experimenting with different distortion types on sounds. Cheers!

[@cassetteo]

This is a really dope sample pack, thanks!

[@einzigkeit7216]

Thanks so much Mitch for the samples! :-) Amazing Display.

[@contrast-recordings]

Enjoyed the sounds as well as the video. U sir know how to create top quality content.

[@TheFesta01]

Thanks for this. Love me some distorted drum machines.. particularly 909 kicks.

[@daveacosta4166]

wow! The tech 21 and the english muffn just gave the kick one hell of a knock! Anyone else notice that?

[@nym053]

yes. I think that the Tech 21 was best of them all :)

[@Uniboy1106]

2nd is my favourite

[@MARSHOMEWORLD]

VERY very cool idea. Thanks for sharing the samples as well.

[@Michael_H_Nielsen]

Very nice visual communication :)

[@mhv91]

You are the kind of people I like. Cheers!

[@miatch]

I've created a free drum machine to play with these samples, here: www.websynths.com/grooves

[@jonison6847]

Thank-you, perfectly done and very useful.

[@winterfox9994]

I liked Metal Muff, Maxon OD9, Boss DS1, and Tech 21 VT Bass

[@dpalaoro]

Man, how did the Chicago house producers do it in the late 80s early 90s? Or anyone during that era for that matter? Some say it was old Mackie cr1604, others say it was those old boss BX series of mixers.

[@andersingram]

surprised how good the ds1 sounds... preserves the transient while dirtying up

[@basiledaudet5774]

The og way is to crank up the gain on the kick channel of a mixer and adjust the volume slider to have a distortion

[@andrebrown4677]

Thank You For Your Time & Knowledge!

[@sounddedaniel8760]

My type of content

[@D322MWUNITED]

2:28 This one is Awesome! :)

[@miatch]

Be sure to try it out here: www.websynths.com/grooves

[@TheHippyHoppyHippo]

The Boss OS-2 emits the most punchy distorted Roland TR-909 kick sound.

[@mikaelsundblad5381]

Great video, and thanks for the samples!

[@louiseisobelevans]

1) Tech 21 2) Bass Big Muff 3) Boss OS-2

[@AW-Services]

So for early 90s hardcore techno gabber the first pedal the Dunlop is the one

[@aurora3655]

I liked Moog, and the Big Muff.

[@andreafalle7193]

Thank you

[@aki_gong6271]

Pretty helpfull! Thanks for sharing :)

[@OGGalleryCrew92]

Running it though a Boss DS-1 is nothing new they did it like that in the early 90 late 80's on all the acid house track thats why that pedal became popular and boss is actually the same company as Roland !

[@ENKTDeeColon_and_randomnumbers]

909 + Pro Co RAT = Gabber kick

[@s7official254]

great video thx a lot

[@aksdblaka]

Boss OS-2 & DS-1 anyday!

[@matisselt]

a very helpful review, thank you!

[@xavierhill5085]

Hardcore 4 life

[@cold00n]

Perfect experiment!

[@awksee]

holy crap amazing

[@Superlover]

amazingly inspiring to me. would be interesting to hear all 13 units chained :)

[@doogleisfat]

@mitchwells When Morgan Quaintance used to play with Does It Offend You, Yeah? he used a DS-2 live and indeed used the external footswitch to change channels.

[@3randilla]

Vt bass kick 8 is clean af

[@testertestable]

Dunlop Fuzz Face best

[@hankigoe829]

metal muff, tech 21 bass and english muffn sound good

[@migraine516]

I love you. More like this please.

[@TheMysticTrance]

Thank you, very helpful video!

[@DoctorBlankenstein]

Thank you for this

[@DoctorBlankenstein]

My vote is for the big muff

[@Jaesee]

The VT Bass sounds best for an industrial style track

[@FortheSoulFtS]

thanks a lot its pristy

[@farcry79]

Thanks this is great.

[@SoundweaversRecording]

Awesome!

[@snorrevonflake]

Fuzzface wins, nothing else even close.

[@ClaudioMonjope]

Fuzz face for me

[@ohstirfry]

The rat 🥰

[@rosati1353]

Cool video

[@Refu83]

1:53 Now we're talking! :)

[@distortimus7631]

1st one 4 sure

[@lazarwolfethebutcher]

I am surprised that I like the metal muff the best.

[@cubis]

This is great! Really interesting how different some of these affect the kick. Quick question: what are you doing in each iteration of the kick per pedal (there is a difference in tone or maybe you're dialing in more distortion or gain or something?).

[@miatch]

I was just twisting the knobs on each pedal. I didn't write down which knob settings correlated to which sample. Also, since each pedal has a different set of knobs, what is being adjusted is different from pedal to pedal. I was just trying to demonstrate how the kick drum sounds through various knob settings on the different pedals.

[@cubis]

@@miatch what passive attenuator did you use?

[@miatch]

@@cubis PM8 Passive Summing Box. But if I were to do it today, I'd use my Radial Re-Amp

[@AxisChemicals]

@@miatch yeah the use of the radial re-amp pedal looks perfect to for that but I wonder wich one are you using, i've seen the orange one has too loop send/return on it and has a much bigger level delivered you think it could well worth it ?! I'm interested as wich one of the 4 radial reamp pedals are you using and how you plug in? Thanks a lot 😊

[@Ksilisab]

OH MY GOD FREE KICKS

[@fisco130]

Hardstyle FTW

[@theallmightyanalog]

Fuzz

[@truman90]

Genious

[@aligato]

Hi ! Thanks for the test. What kind of attenuator or you using ? Is it for the impedance or the amplitude ?

[@BuffetofLies]

Now patch them through all 13 at once!

[@DJAutism1]

You may expect a clipped mess

[@JorisVisser]

Hi, thanks very much for this test, exactly what I needed. One question: @ the FuzzFace you mention 'screwdriver required'. For what is this required? Do you have to alter it to sound like it does in your video? Or something else?

[@miatch]

To put the battery in it, you have to pull off the back, and to get off the back, you have to unscrew a screw. It was designed in the 60s, before they thought of easier ways to change a battery.

[@JorisVisser]

ah it's that simple. Thanks!

[@JosephGallagher]

Agreed

[@KlayySOC]

Wadsworth constant applies.

[@jaykay5486]

Ratty for me

[@sergioobernardi]

HI, i have this ds 1 distortion for distortion everything i could but i find lots of noise while routing it through my sound card, i get the signal out of my board and then through the distortion and back to the board, why do i get lots of noise in the sound capture? how did you reduced the noise in the samples and the video, everything it sounds less noise than my captures. thanks for the video ;)) cheers

[@Ksilisab]

Yeah check again please kthx

[@drydessert4198]

1:56 2:16

[@ZenMountain]

Great video, thanks. Could you please recommend an attenuator? Which one did you use?

[@websynths]

TechtronicMountain I was using a Black Lion PM-8 at the time. But if I were to do this today, I might use a Radial ReAmp.

[@ZenMountain]

websynths mmm... a Black Lion PM-8 is a summing mixer, am I wrong? I was thinking something along the lines of A Design ATTY... but a reamp box makes sense to me...That's supposed to do the opposite from a DI box right? I've got some Germanium pedals that seem to need the right impedance. I'll try a Radial, thanks!

[@johnnybagwash2456]

message for mitch whats the interference noise caused by on all the drum samples I like the ehx metal muff but your samples have like a kind of pumping sound any idea what caused it? regards

[@johnnybagwash2456]

wondered what it was I have a ehx big muff hissings low distortion is hard on my 909

[@drop-e6261]

I'm somewhat confused, Fuzz Face JDF2 or Fuzz Face Dallas Arbitrer? I want to buy that pedal but I would like to know what it is really about the two, because JDF2 is cheaper than Dallas Arbitrer, help please, I do not want to fail

[@miatch]

To make this video and the sample set, I used a JDF2. I am not an expert, and do not know if there is anything different between the two pedals.

[@tolkachev]

try booster...

[@karakta2262]

+Stanislav Tolkachev ...just wanna find out how to create that fucking awesome kick.... and who am I find? mister tolkachev,... ;) in the comments.... please trust me, Im very serious....I could not tell you how many nights with Speed in my head and some other stuff Im sitting on my Pc to learn this shit..... so,.... you REALY help a little freak like me if you can tell me,....what "Booster" you mean??? PS: love your productions and that special kind of sounddesign you do! I know how to listen carefull to music,.....and i do it every day...... best wishes from germany... hope that you producing some new stuff, because I have everything from your music/techno that I could find all over the fucking Internet ;)

[@dj_ejbeats]

What is a good attenuator for this purpose?

[@KingPurcival]

Must have flatulence drumsZZZ!

[@killahkay2112]

I need a passive attenuator

[@plasmaforce11]

2:36

[@loredanamassini9484]

1:00

[@mikey12255]

1:45

[@himmattiwana]

oh i didnt have to watch this ;P

[@meentaalmaan]

Think your website is totally broke, can't play anything, won't let me fill in some of the boxes to register etc

[@miatch]

I'm sorry it is not working for you. I just tried it myself and it worked - I was able to create a new account and login. Are you using Chrome on a desktop or laptop? That's what I test it on, try that if you can.

[@aaaaacl]

Mega fake got same machine same pedals and doesnt sound like that :(

[@javierpiles5833]

Hi Mitch, how did you get that simplified signal??

[@miatch]

Didn't the video spell it out? It shows how I set the knobs on the 909, how I ran it through an attenuator (I used a PM-8 Summing mixer) then through the pedal, then into an Apogee Ensemble. That's it. If I were to re-do it today, I'd used a radial reamp in place of the PM-8.

[@wowerman]

Nice farts man. Is is me after too much beans.But seriously I like that Rat distortion efx.Gives nice boost.

[@flannsixtyseven7489]

all software simulation ???

[@miatch]

No software at all.

[@purelucknoskill5158]

how does the mf101 count as distortion XD

[@miatch]

Some people think the only pedals that count as "distortion" are the ones labeled distortion. Some open it up to include those labeled fuzz or overdrive or tone bender. Other people think distortion is the "change in the form of a sound wave during processing", which we sometimes refer to as THD. In that sense, all pedals distort the sound. It's really just semantics though. Cheers!

[@civicoo88]

c'est déjà dl lool