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NO tried aThrottle box. Yet. But, on paper they look good.
How high gain do you want to go?
Slayer? Maiden? Deep Purple?
Slayer I'd go with any Hi-gain metal-type distortion pedal. Personally I have a Boss Megadistortion.
Maiden Probably a Boss JH-1 Jack Hammer.
Deep Purple A Boss GV-2, or if you can find/get one a Mk1 Guv'nor.
Depending on your taste in amps an MXR Distortion3 is also a nice dirt pedal, though lower gain than it sounds.
Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)
Fulltone GT-500 is good. Depending on how much gain you want, something like an OCD or BB pre-amp might be ok at the top end of their gain range. You'd need the OCD on the HP setting.
You could always get another low/mid gain pedal and stack it with you existing pedals. You could have different flavours of low/mid gain drive that way as well.
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Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)
Its a great sounding circuit . I love the way Jfets (j201's) clip . Even the supposedly low gain pedals grind with those buggers in .
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I recon your method probably steers it away from being a one trick pony . Ive built a few of them , a couple for my self and one for my bro .
I cant fault the G.M schem for brutalz but the original Mesa rec emulation does not translate particularly well to backed off gain but then Ive never owned a high gain distortion box that does .
I was pretty impressed with the voicing . Cap and resistance values over all create that Mesa rec signiture tone . More amp like than I would ever have believed before making one .
Its just the crunch tones that are missing on mine .
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
Agreed on the bass, on the JH-1 and GV-2 both are barely above 0.
I didn't find I needed to fiddle with the mids too much, just turned the bass down, add treble/mids to taste, and gain to taste.
Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)
I hated the one I had. Found it too harsh. But that might just have been my playing, and (at the time shitty) amp.
I might just try another.....
Ringleader of the Cambridge cartel, pedal champ and king of the dirt boxes (down to 21)
I've had both the v1 and v2. The v2 has extra tweakability but I would recommend either depending what you can find. There was a v2 up on EBay that may be worth a look (I have no idea who is selling or if it is still there)