How many

mike_l

juansolo said:

It's a bad sign when you don't know how many you have, right?

What's worse is when you forget one you've just - last week - acquired

ThePrettyDamned

Route 66, Duncan powergrid.

Soon to be getting a big muff or clone of some sort (need advice guys, love frusciante and Gilmour!) and a ds-2 for more fru tones.

The power grid isn't used as a distortion - instead, it is essentially an active 3 band eq with a butt load of signal boost to take a bandit set to slight breakup well into metal territory.

No such thing as too many

digitalscream

One is too many. Get your dirt from your amp, boys

mike_l

I do that as well........

Shark_Eyes

I've only got four:

Mooer hustle Drive

ProCo Rat

EHX Big Muff Pi with Tone Wicker

DOD Overdrive FX50B - Not on the board, too noisy

Maybe I need more...

xSkarloey

Since getting a Marshall I've used nothing but amp drive. That leaves me with: Bad Monkey Daphon SD-1 clone Screamin Blues Joyo Deluxe Crunch Boss Heavy Metal Behringer Fuzz. The Joyo can go. The rest will stay, because they seem to cover a wide base of sounds, so (I hope!) that's an insurance policy against accumulating more dirt pedals in future.

ICBM

Adji said:

How do you find the flux drive? Been inteerested in them recently.

It's great. As far as I can remember the first overdrive pedal I've ever tried that doesn't have that annoying 'separation' between the clean sound and the dirt as the signal decays back to clean. Surprisingly, it's at least loosely a 'Tube Screamer'-based circuit too, or at least it uses the diodes-in-a-feedback-loop clipping method. But it doesn't sound like one.

So far I've only used it into a clean amp so I don't know how well it stacks with other dirt - it also likes having the tone controls up full or very close, it sounds much more amp-like like that. It's actually got surprisingly little gain too - even with the knob up full it will clean up from the guitar.

I need to play around with it some more - I only just got it before I went on holiday.

impmann

Yikes... don't make me count them. Wayyyyyyyyyyyy too many - I couldn't tell you how many I play around with at home.

But my live pedal board is just...

Pitchblack

Okko Diablo

RAT

Boss DSD3

Homemade Booster (Arbiter PowerBooster clone)

Catthan

Vox wah

EP booster (always on in the loop)

TC flashback

...with the massive MkV footswitch

Back up: BB knock off (in gigbag or car)

Broken: Dunlop Wah

For sale: ClinchFx EP+

6

shady

I used have 5 on the board, if memory serves me correctly:

Zoom Ultra Fuzz/Little Big Muff

Zoom Tri Metal

Zoom Hyper Lead

Vox Satchurator

EHX English Muff'n

I go for 3 now - fuzz, modern filth, vintage filth...covers most bases.  Loads'a dirt is funny though...and I do miss that Hyper Lead, nothing sounded quite like that pedal with a wah in front to get that singing feedbacky thing going so easily.

siraxeman

Boss OD-3

Hardwire Tube Overdrive

Hardwire Metal Distortion

Dano Transparent OD

Dano Overdive

Marshall Guv'nor MK 1

Marshall Guv'nor MK 2

Wampler Pinnacle Deluxe LTD

Mooer Dark Secret (RAT)

Mooer Cruncher

Visual Sound Double Trouble (Dual TS)

Visual Sound Jekyll n Hide (dual TS/Shredmaster)

I  think that's it...off top of me head anyway.

lasermonkey

DIY Beavis Audio Research FKR (four knob rat)

DIY Catalinbread DLS Mk II clone

DIY Catalinbread Formula No.5 clone

DIY Catalinbread Hyperpak clone

DIY Catalinbread SFT clone

DIY Catalinbread Supercharged OD clone

DIY Clay Jones OD clone

DIY Crowther Hotcake ('77 version) clone

DIY Crowther Hotcake ('03 version) clone

DIY D*A*M 1966 clone

DIY D*A*M Drag'N Fly clone

DIY D*A*M Ezekiel 25:17 clone

DIY D*A*M FZ-673 clone

DIY D*A*M Flesh Head clone

DIY D*A*M Grease Box GB-80 clone

DIY D*A*M Meathead Deluxe clone

DIY D*A*M Meathead Deluxe Dark Silicon clone

DIY D*A*M Red Rooster clone

DIY D*A*M Sonic Titan clone

DIY modified Devi Ever Aenima/Torn's Peaker clone (switchable between the two with oscillation and chaos switches)

DIY modified Devi Ever Soda Meiser clone

DIY Earthbound Supercollider clone

DIY EHX '78 IC Muff clone

DIY Fender Blender clone

DIY Fulltone OCD Mk 4 clone

Ibanez TS-7 modified to 808 spec

Ibanez SD-9

DIY Interfax Harmonic Percolator clone

DIY Klon Centaur clone

DIY Lovepedal Eternity clone

DIY Lovepedal Purple Plexi clone

DIY Monolith Oracle clone

Pearl DS06

DIY Penny Pedals Fingerprint clone

DIY Retro Channel The Fuzz clone

DIY Shin-Ei FY-2 clone with scoop mod

DIY Sola Sound Tonebender Mk I clone

DIY Sola Sound Tonebender Mk II clone

DIY Subdecay Liquid Sunshine Mk II clone

DIY Sustain Punch Creamy Dreamer clone

DIY Wampler Triple Wreck (without the boost section) clone

DIY Zvex Box of Rock clone

DIY Zvex Fuzz Factory clone

DIY Zvex Woolly Mammoth clone

so I guess that's 44.

Plus a whole load more in varying stages of construction.

What can I say? I just enjoy building 'em!

Fazer

i am so sad that i'm even going to list them in order of heaviness ...

ss/bs sparklemotion
fairfield circuitry barbershop
field effects manifold drive
ss/bs mini
ss/bs fuck
dr scientist elements
iron ether qf2
fairfield circuitry 4 eyes fuzz
infanem step
triton sputnik
ss/bs superpuzzle
fuzzhugger algal bloom

could possibly add the bearfoot sea blue eq to the start of the list as it breaks up if you max gain it.

i've told myself that is it now, no more drives, got enough of a range.
just going to try out the catalinbread karma suture maybe, as it looks a bit different to what i've already got

hubobulous

Suhr Riot

Suhr Shiba

Suhr Rufus Fuzz

Suhr Koko Boost

Xotic SL Drive

Xotic EP Booster

Wampler Pinnacle

MI Blues Boy Deluxe

More than I thought...!

monquixote

hubobulous said:

Suhr Riot

Suhr Shiba

Suhr Rufus Fuzz

Suhr Koko Boost

Xotic SL Drive

Xotic EP Booster

Wampler Pinnacle

MI Blues Boy Deluxe

More than I thought...!

Ooo @hubobulous what's the Rufus like?

nickb_boy

I'm not even going to go there with a list or admitting to how many dirt pedals I've got or been through.
The shrink says I'm in denial, but what do they know.

hubobulous

monquixote said:

hubobulous said:

Suhr Riot

Suhr Shiba

Suhr Rufus Fuzz

Suhr Koko Boost

Xotic SL Drive

Xotic EP Booster

Wampler Pinnacle

MI Blues Boy Deluxe

More than I thought...!

Ooo @hubobulous what's the Rufus like?

Hiya.....I really like it. A huge range of tones in there, and the two modes really offer different feels. I'm still experimenting since it obviously makes a difference with alternative amp settings, and it's that balancing act of finding a point where everything works together.

It was going to be a tossup between the Rufus and Velvet Fuzz, but I didn't get round to trying the latter cos I was really happy with the Rufus and I'm a bit of a Suhr fanboy. I'd still like to try the Velvet Fuzz sometime, just to form an opinion.

monquixote

Funnily enough the Velvet and the Rufus are top of my fuzz shortlist. 

Using a Fuzz Head ATM, but not sure it's exactly what I'm looking for.

hubobulous

Fuzz is a new arena for me, especially since I want to learn slide, and for some reason I have it in my head that fuzz will sound better for me than normal overdrive/distortion.

I trust Suhr gear implicitly, and whilst it can be pricey, I've never once regretted any purchase I've made from the company. I also really like Wampler, but doubt the Velvet Fuzz is required any more....famous last words huh ;-)

littlegreenman

I seem to have got sensible and am down to "amp + 3":

Amp for break-up
BOSS OD2r for crunch (although with the Turbo option, that's technically 2!)
MonkeyFX ValveSporker for bonkers
BS DistX for leads

Just waiting for my mid-life crisis to kick in so I can get a mahoosive pedalboard full of fuzzes