Distortion Like Dimebag

[ambulancevoice]

yeah, does anyone have an idea of a buildable distortion that is similiar to Dimebag's distortion
a clean, heavy, bloody awsome distortion
good for heavy metal you know?

[Barcode80]

i've been doing a lot fo reading about dime lately, and all indications are that he mostly used a zakk wylde overdrive for a lot of his later stuff. plus he had his own MXR pedal (Dime Distortion) he used for a while. here is a list of the rest of stuff he used in his career:

Randall RG100H heads and cabinets (1983 - 1991, 1996 - 1999)
Randall Century 200 heads and cabinets (1992 - 1995, 2000)
Randall Warhead heads and cabinets (2000 - 2004)
Randall X2 Warhead heads and cabinets (2004)
Krank Revolution heads and cabinets (late 2004)
Furman PQ4 parametric equalizer (1990 - 1995)
Furman PQ3 parametric equalizer (1996 - 2004)
MXR Six band graphic equalizer ('the blue one')
MXR flanger / doubler (1990 - 2004)
Lexicon effect modules
Korg Ax30g
Rocktron Guitar silencer
Digitech Whammy pedal
Jim Dunlop Crybaby 535Q Crybaby From HELL

[petemoore]

  So...I think that'd be boiled down to a Distortion plus, modded?

[MetalGuy]

Some time ago I built Randall's  "Preamp from Hell" but it's nowhere near that famous Pantera sound.

[petemoore]

Randall RG100H heads and cabinets (1983 - 1991, 1996 - 1999)
Randall Century 200 heads and cabinets (1992 - 1995, 2000)
Randall Warhead heads and cabinets (2000 - 2004)
Randall X2 Warhead heads and cabinets (2004)
  No tubes? Dude who could get the Pantera tone pretty good used and said DB used solid state heads.
Krank Revolution heads and cabinets (late 2004)
Furman PQ4 parametric equalizer (1990 - 1995)
Furman PQ3 parametric equalizer (1996 - 2004)
MXR Six band graphic equalizer ('the blue one')
MXR flanger / doubler (1990 - 2004)
Lexicon effect modules
Korg Ax30g
Rocktron Guitar silencer
Digitech Whammy pedal
Jim Dunlop Crybaby 535Q Crybaby From HELL
  I could swear I'm hearing heavy compression [and it sounds like the EQ is tweeked during] on 'This Love' s guitar solo's.

[Shepherd]

His choice of pickups was important too...

[Rattlehead]

he used Bill Lawrence L500 pickups

[ambulancevoice]

i just want to know a distortion that can emulate Dimebag's distortion tone
i dont want copy his sound completly, just want a similar distortion tone
or a distortion like the discription i gave in my first post

[mattpocket]

Something with way too much gain!

Maybe a Dist+ with a booster before/after...

[ambulancevoice]

what about dr boogey?

[mattpocket]

Dr Boogey could be good, but I've nto built one... its on my wish list though...

Matt

[black mariah]

Tube Sound Fuzz/Red Llama/Three Legged Dog... they all have plenty of gain. Strap them to a tone stack and see what happens.

[ambulancevoice]

when can i find sound samples of them?

ill try the dr boogey (one day) and that mxr dist + with booster idea

[MetalGod]

the only pedal I've tried that gets you in the ballpark is the Digitech Death Metal distortion (DOD DM dist is the same thing).  these are very cheap to buy - probably easier just to buy one rather than build.

[ambulancevoice]

hmmmm

ive got a pcb layout for a dod death metal

[Ed G.]

Definitely the Bill Lawrence pickup is part of the equation. It's high output but still yields a lot of clarity for those screaming harmonics he got.

He had a real tight sound and I think that was also because he had an all-solid-state signal path. He said he didn't like the 'warm' sound of tubes. I'd try a Boss Metal Zone, maybe modded.

[Somicide]

Darrel used massive solid-state rigs up until his endorsement of Krank.

[black mariah]

You can hear the Three Legged Dog clips at runoffgroove.com. They have all the info on in there.

[sfr]

I can say this - I use my homebrew Dist+ ( a couple values tweaked here and there, and different diodes for each clipper,  but no changes too drastic) slammed with an LPB full tilt on the input, and with a little EQ you can get a pretty workable sound.  Putting my Mr. EQ before it seems to help, but I probably got the sound closest to what you're describing when I breadboarded the tone control - or at least, the mid-section - from the Metal Zone onto the tail end of this LPB/Dist+ combo.  (EDIT:  I believe what I ended up breadboarding and tacking on that same day was the Parametric EQ from one of the articles over at Geofex, which offered much more flexibility than the metal zone EQ which I tried later - the main thrust of that day was learning about filters, not making a metal distortion) 

Realistically, I think the "metal" distortion is all about the EQ more than the distortion.  Anything that doesn't muddy your sound up too much, with some EQ shaping on both ends is going to be the ticket.

[bumblebee]

That MXR dist. DB model of his and a high gain HB 16k+ is as closest I've heard,if i was looking for this sound it would satisfy me.