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and your father smelled of Overdrive

Distortion, boost, fuzz, overdrive are the most popular effects in guitar player arsenal. And the main reason is to make you sound dirty. Ok, and maybe hold a lil' longer, I mean sustain that note.

For the best results you want one of those puppies to be the first in your effects pedal chain. But make exception for Wah-Wah and put it upfront for better colouring. This is not a hard rule and its a good idea to experiment with your pedals order. WARNING - you might get unexpectedly awesome results.

Here is my take on all that crunch 'n' fuzz and here's the combined result of that quest (not in a chronological order):

  •  Gain - that's what you're trying to increase. Boosters are in this category. They first appeared in '60s and names like Vox Bass/Treble Booster and Dallas Rangmaster Treble Booster still ring the bell for many musicians out there. That's the sound of Jimmy Page, Brian May, Eric Clapton from that time. Currently most of the pedal companies make their own version of booster.
     

  •  Overdrive is the second link in a chain. OD is the most popular branch of all. Look for "overdrive" in the name of the pedal. They're designed to recreate the sound of an overdriven amplifier. There's no pedalboard w/o one.
    Classic pedals are:
     

  • ibanez ts808  Ibanez TS808 Tube Screamer Overdrive - the oldest model made by Ibanez and Maxon in 1979-81. This is the sound of Eric Johnson and Stevie Ray Vaughan.

ibanez-ts-9  Ibanez TS9 Tube Screamer - followed footsteps of TS808 model as well as TS-10.
Carlos Santana, Greg Howe, Monte Montgomery (on acoustic guitar)

       DOD is also followed the Ibanez footsteps with their own models.

      

  •  Distortion - all kinds of. Full on sound alteration, squashin', compression, EQin'.
    Classics are:

    OGOGO MXR distortion MXR Distortion Plus      in reality is an overdrive pedal, despite of its name.
    that's the sound of Randy Rhoads on
    Ozy Osbourne's Mr. Crowley
    OGOGO-ProCo Rat     ProCo Rat first released in '79, probably is the most favorite of all distortions. Did I mentioned its heavy?
    John Scofield, Kurt Rosenwinkel

boss-ds-1 Boss DS-1 Distortion Pedal first issued 'round '78.

 

Marshall Shred Master is a newest hard player on the distortion market.

  •  Fuzz - that was the beginning. Invented even before the boosters to recreate the sound of saxophone on the guitar. What you hear as a riff for Rolling Stones' (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction is Keith Richards playing through Maestro Fuzz-Tone.
    Class of Fuzz includes:

    OGOGO-FuzzFace Dallas-Arbiter FuzzFace     is featured on a lot of Jimi Hendrix' solos.


    OGOGO-Big Muff Electro-Harmonix Big Muff  

  • and Little Big Muff

 

  •  Styled creations. The pedals that designed with particular music style in mind.
    Styled classics are DOD Grunge Distortion, DOD Death Metal Distortion, Boss Hyper Metal,
    Akai Shred-O-Matic    .

  

OGOGO - Little Big Muff Listen to my Grade Whore (from Snowflake EP) - both guitar parts, left and right channels, recorded with vintage (one knob) Electro-Harmonix Little Big Muff Pi -

It's practically impossible to get that kinda thick, full body sound from modern pedals or software simulators. And, also, did you notice how great the song is? :).. ooh, I love you..
 

I wanna say big THANK YOU to all of my guitar playing friends who helped me with this magic ....

Here is the list of other overdrives that I used over times, in alpha-beta order (I hope):

Boss - Turbo OverDrive OD-2, DS-1 Distortion, OverDrive/Distortion OS-2, Heavy Metal HM-2, Hyper Metal HM-3, OverDrive OD-1
Danelectro - Grilled Cheese
Epiphone - Distortion EP-DI-10
Ibanez - ClassicMetal CMS, SM7 Smash Box Pedal with Noise Gate
OGOGO - various fuzz/distortion/overdrive pedals I build for myself.

Musicians:

Adrien Belew - Source Audio Soundblox Pro Classic Distortion

Joshua Cain - Z.Vez Super-Duper, TC Electronic Vintage Dual Distortion

Peter Frampton - Fulltone OCD Distortion Pedal, Seymour Duncan SFX01 Pickup Booster overdrive

Reeves Gabrels - Source Audio Soundblox Pro Classic Distortion

Mike Keneally - T-Rex Dr. Swamp Dual Distortion, Soundblox Multiwave Distortion Effects Pedal 

Joe Satriani - Vox Satchurator Distortion
Earl Slick (David Bowie fame) - Fulltone Octafuzz
Andy Summers - Love Eternity Overdrive, Z.Vex Fuzz Factory

Victor Wooten - Source Audio Soundblox Pro Multiwave Distortion

Manufacturers:

Amptweaker - Tightdrive

Barge Concepts - BB-1, BP-1

Chellee - Odelya

Cornell - Overdrive Special, T.M. Boost

Danelectro - Cool Cat CF-2 Fuzz

Fulltone - Octafuzz (Earl Slick)

Hermida - Nu-Valve

MXR - FullBore Metal

Pigtronix - Aria

Prescription Electronics - Supernatural Germanium At Its Finest

Pro Co - Whiteface Rat Distortion

Rocktron - Rocktron Third Angel Distortion, Valve Charger Overdrive 

Source Audio - Soundblox Multiwave Distortion, Soundblox Pro Classic Distortion, 

Tanabe - Zenkudo, Dumkudo, Twin Custom, Sunkudo
TC Electronic - Vintage Dual Distortion
Third Angel Distortion - Rocktron
Tonehunter - Hot Tuna, Juicy Fruit
T-Rex Effects - Tonebug Distortion, Dr. Swamp Dual Distortion

Visual Sound - Drivetrain, Chainsaw

Xotic Effects - EP-Booster

Z.Vex - Distortron
Vox - Satchurator Distortion

WMD -Geiger Counter

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