Metal Sound for my vc30;Dr.Bogey,BoogeyMan,or what?

[pagliafieno]

 
Hi!
Hi want to build a metal pedal to use with my VC30 amp..
ao i have see dr boogey, boogeyman...

can you suggest to me the best pedal to do???

Thank you a lot!!

[Seljer]

the general consensus seems to be for the Dr Boogey wins for high gain stuff

[pagliafieno]

OOKKK!!!

grazie MOLTE!!!

[MartyMart]

Or ..... BSIAB II will get you some great rock tones too .

MM

[Bucksears]

Agreed with what others have said:
Dr. Boogey for that scooped-metal, 'Rectifier-sound' (gain set to 60-100%), plus a great 'American' hard rock/heavy metal sound if you set the gain to 50% or lower and up the mids.
BSIAB II for all things Marshall-y. I can't say enough great things about what a Swiss-Army-Knife of a distortion that the BSIAB II is, going from low/mid-gain AC/DC to early Van Halen to REALLY hot-rodded Marshall. If you do (if you could call it) my mod, which is just removing the two caps from the LPF, it gives the tone more 'bright range'. I'm considering building another just to have more BSIAB II options at my feet.

- Buck

[Mark Hammer]

Not to take anything away from the existing EQ stack in the Dr. Boogey, but if "all" one wants to do is get a high-gain scooped sound, then I can strongly recommend the variable scoop I put in my Shin-Ei FY-2, and shown here: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v474/mhammer/moddedfy-2.gif

It's simple (4 parts and a pot), easily moddable, eats up less signal through passive loss than the tonestack and gets you directly to the boosted treble and bass sound in a 3-knob box (gain scoop, volume).  I'm not saying it will give you as much tonal flexibility as a 3-knob tonestack and the presence control, but it WILL produce a great death-metal scoop instantly.  It was taken from the Superfuzz, which is a great metal pedal on its own.

[mojotron]

I have to warn you, the Dr. Boogie is not an easy build, it's not really tough but if you have not built a few pedals before - the Dr. Boogie could be a real challenge.

[mjones99]

I'd suggest a beginner to build the Dr. Boogey in a 4x6x2 steel tube amp chassis, gives more room for the pots and well everything and is very durable and still pretty easy to work as the metal isnt SO thick like the 12x8 or bigger type stuff, costs about 5 bucks more than a 1590BB but I think a beginner would find it easier to layout all those pots in the larger box.