When you are wrong you are wrong!

munckee

I had an arion distortion pedal as my first ever pedal and never liked it, as soon as I discovered overdrive realised that was my sound not distortion, never play metal or anything particularly heavy.  Was at @Fuengi s on Monday and as I was leaving he said to try a rat clone he got from a local pedal builder, I said yeah why not.  Plugged it in earlier, brought a huge smile to my face and even caught myself playing the riff from 'the final countdown' which I don't remember ever learning.

What a fab pedal, sorry @Fuengi it caught fire and was disintegrated so there is nothing left to give back not even debris : )

ICBM

Funny, I originally used to think I preferred 'overdrive' (as in a natural amp sound) to 'distortion' (a nasty sound used by metal players etc)... until I accidentally got a Boss OS-2 Overdrive/Distortion pedal - and discovered that my favourite sounds on it were all to the 'distortion' side of the mix control.

I then discovered that what I think of as a good amp overdrive sound is actually quite often more like a mild pedal distortion than it is like a pedal overdrive. The Rat is a good example, and in fact will do a pretty good 'overdrive' sound if you keep the distortion low and the filter high.

Fuengi

That's ok @munckee I'm sure you're insured!!