hola the fx thread. this is another 'i can hear a sound in my head, what pedal makes it?' threads.
i want an extreme tinfoil across speaker sound from an fx box. preferably cheapo (behringer, joyo, mooer etc) or i can build not too complicated things on vero.
to qualify the desired tone, it's extreme comb-and-paper distortion but brittler, more metallic-y rattle-y sounding (more sheet metal than snare rattle). maybe a bit of ring mod and reverb can add that metallic aspect, but an all-in-one effect is obviously my ideal.
sadly i don't have a studio space to experiment live (small flat with noise-sensitive neighbours, so straight into mixer).
the voice on this drugstore track at 13s+ is sort of a tame version of it for ballpark flavour, but it's more classic comb on paper. i want this effect turned up to eleven with a harsh and brutal sheet metal ring. almost painful-to-listen-to harsh.
thoughts welcome?
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Or just guitar - distortion - desk with no amp or model.
The Boss FZ-2 Hyper Fuzz is a copy of the fuzz circuit, but with active EQ added which can make it even more nasty and DI'd sounding, if you want.
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thanks for the reminder, ICBM. i've being going cocked wah into fuzzwar (muff with a mutant tone stack) into a verbzilla on plate. but it ties up a lot of crap for one sound. i've got the behringer sf300 (fz2 clone) but hadn't thought to try it as i have it categorized as a thick fuzz in my head, but you are right about the fy-6 having that metallic thing. i will play around with it.
thanks matty, i have a built but unboxed RG Keen telephone thing, which i think is a variant. i'm just hugely lazy about boxing up. but probably time. the 'junk tone' another variant i think.
generally i think i was just wondering if there was a one-stop-shop pedal. companies like behringer, dano, joyo sometimes release odd clones/variants of forgotten things that often have a quirky feature like this, even if they are often not great at the thing they are supposed to be. like the reverse delay on that dano whatever (green one). maybe not this time.
but even if the ideas in this thread get me down from using three boxes to using two with same results, it will have been a useful exercise.
thank you all.
thanks for the reminder, ICBM. i've being going cocked wah into fuzzwar (muff with a mutant tone stack) into a verbzilla on plate. but it ties up a lot of crap for one sound. i've got the behringer sf300 (fz2 clone) but hadn't thought to try it as i have it categorized as a thick fuzz in my head, but you are right about the fy-6 having that metallic thing. i will play around with it.
thanks matty, i have a built but unboxed RG Keen telephone thing, which i think is a variant. i'm just hugely lazy about boxing up. but probably time. the 'junk tone' another variant i think.
generally i think i was just wondering if there was a one-stop-shop pedal. companies like behringer, dano, joyo sometimes release odd clones/variants of forgotten things that often have a quirky feature like this, even if they are often not great at the thing they are supposed to be. like the reverse delay on that dano whatever (green one). maybe not this time.
but even if the ideas in this thread get me down from using three boxes to using two with same results, it will have been a useful exercise.
thank you all.
so i get where you are coming from. but doesn't cover the filter aspect or the metallic echo-reverb quality (metal plate reverb) i was hoping to find in the mix.
i would revive it to try for this purpose but it's currently 'in a state of flux'. by which i mean it worked, and then i 'modded it' and it worked less, quite a lot less to be honest, virtually to the point of not at all. actually to be more specific, exactly to the point of not at all.
in fact... i broke it.