Recomend a Modern Distortion

[petey twofinger]

what would be a not too complicated high gain , mid scooped sounding distortion that has a vero , with readily available parts . she uses an eq so the mid scoop isnt necessary , i suppose quiet would be a huge plus ...


thanks !!

[smallbearelec]

Pete--

If you need Huge gain, I can't help. If decent would be enough, breadboard an Ursa Minor:

https://www.smallbearelec.com/Projects/UrsaMinor/UrsaMinor.htm

with the following specs:

--MPSA13 Darlington for Q1
--Germanium + Silicon in the top leg of the clipping loop
--Red LED with Vfwd about 1.75 V in the bottom leg

If you like the result, I have some pre-production PCBs that will ship N/C with an order for a Bare Box #1.

Regards
SD

[psychedelicfish]

the spitfire would be an excellent candidate, the vero layout seems to have disappeared though. I might have it somewher

[Tightpants]

Try the Suhr Riot from Tagboard effects. I built this a while back and it sounds great - not exactly mid scooped but quite modern sounding to my ears. If you do go for it make sure you build the latest one with all the corrections (Google "tagboard effects suhr riot fixed").
Cheers,
Pat

[mistahead]

Drop a scooped tone stack onto Tim Escebedos Harmonic Jerkulator - I find it to get beautiful modern prog metal without a tone stack but it could probably be made interesting with the orman Muff style stack two.

[JebemMajke]

How modern? What kind of metal/rock?

Suhr is ok, but it;s not for extreme metal genres.

[digi2t]

Insanity pedal? I've got a vero in my gallery. Pretty high gain, and each gain stage is adjustable as well. My version has sym/asym clipping option as well.

[rousejeremy]

Something with a 386 would probably do the trick. Purple Plexi maybe?

[roseblood11]

Okko Dominator:
http://www.sabrotone.com/?p=658
https://www.youtube.com/results?q=Okko+Dominator&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:de:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&gl=DE&sa=N&tab=w1

[midwayfair]

Any reason that a Big Muff or Whisker Biscuit won't fit the bill?

Also, I think deadastronaut's Spitfire might work. Outrageously high gain, and the modern setting is probably the one you want.

[petey twofinger]

thanks for all the recommendations everyone !

i did try a spitfire and i really do dig the tones , thing is i  can not get it to not squeal . also it seems to just not run on the one rig ... the one she uses which is a hack micro cube amp . i plug it into another test amp , no problem ... when we are at the woods we fire it up , its fine , and hour later hit it , nothing ... i have been over it many times , it is not a vero , an etch ... we are going out often and i am busy with other stuff during the week so a lngthy debug is not possible , in the winter i plan to get it going hopefully but man i am frustrated about the spitty ...


right now she is using a rat and a fuzz factory too . the big muff seems similar to the sound of the rat so i am trying for something a bit different , high gainy but not crazy . she does do leads a bit , single note stuff so a lot of sustain is necessary .

purple plexi is on my list ... for a while now . the riot sounds very enticing aas does the ursa , thanks steve .

i will do some monkey time , eventually soon hopefully . thanks again yall !