I need an advice about distortion pedals! help me!

[nero1985]

hey you guys,

i need an advice about distortion pedals,

the sound im trying to get is a Eddie Van Halen meets SLASH sound, you know like a chunky MARSHALL SOUND,not too much bass but not to much treble, not a DARK, HARDCORE sound but more like Classic Rock but with a lot of sustain, like alot of distortion but with a Clear sound not FUZZY, wat pedal would u recomend me? eighter a DIY or a brand pedal, i thought of the MXR Double Shot and the Boss Metal Zone wat u guys think?

My band is sponsored by Sam Ash so i can buy free pedals every month but i wanna know wich one u guys think would give me a good sound, when i recorded my band's album i used a Marshall Silver Jubilee (the amp Slash always uses) moddified for Scott Ian from Antrax and i got a cool sound, i loved the sounds i got out of it, listen to the demos and tell me wich pedal would give me a sound like it

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THANKS!

[nero1985]

by the way my guitar is panned all the way to the RIGHT

[Mark Hammer]

Make a BSIAB (Brown Sound In A Box).  Doesn't get much more direct than that, I guess.

[Transmogrifox]

Nice work on the recordings  :wink:

Here is a clip of a distortion pedal I made that might be of interest to you.  It definitely has that balls-to-the-wall 80's crunchy sound to it.

http://www.putfile.com/media.php?n=metal2clip

It's just me fooling around.  The guitar work isn't anything to to raise an eyebrow, but I think it demonstrates the sound of the pedal ok.  This was just using my Les Paul into the distortion pedal directly into the sound card without any effects.  I'm using Audacity (free recording software) which is ok.  Anyway, it sounded right when recorded in at the recording level, but then I normalized the tracks, and Audacity does something to make them sound grainy (maybe clips them a bit) so I applied some simple EQ after normilizing to make it sound like it did before normalizing it--so the only effect used was to make it sound like it was not effected.

All that to say, this is probably what it would sound like if you plugged it into a mixerboard straight into the mains.

I'll some more later today if I have some time and try to get some straight tracks with no drum beats--just guitar alone.

I don't recommend the metal zone pedal.  I have actually been quite happy with the DOD American Metal pedal.  It's the only commercially available pedal that I have owned that I haven't felt an urge to modify.

I think you may also do well taking some time to listen through the ROG audio samples.  I think one of the ROGs may accomplish what you want.

Hopefully somebody else will chime in about commercially available pedals that produce a sound like that.

The MT-2 is too "flat" and "sizzley".  There's not enough chunkiness to it.

[Stevo]

Boss Heavy Metal is coming back into style not to much high gain stuff but in the middle almost an over the top SD-1 overdrive on steroids... Pick one up on e-bay they are one of the top sellers of all time for BOSS... I have their book this pedal distortion is a smooth wave but long crests which I guess is the sustain and heavy sound you will get ...HM-2

[Transmogrifox]

The DOD American Metal and Boss HM-2 are almost identical--circuits differ very little.

Here is another sound clip of the distortion I mentioned earlier:

http://www.putfile.com/media.php?n=D386a

Edit:
And another one,
http://www.putfile.com/media.php?n=D386b

If anyone is interested in building it, you may pm me for a schematic...and I also have 3 PCBs left for it if any want to build it as a kit.

I listened to the BSIAB II clips, and I think I have to second Mark Hammer's recommendation for that one.  It's a real winner for that sound you described.