Hello all,
I am looking for something that has two distortion/OD settings on one pedal.
Ideally something that isn't massive like a Vox Satchurator.
I can rule out the Satchurator and Radial Texas bones as I found them both a bit... well.. shit if I am honest
Edit - will consider bigger pedals
Any thoughts/suggestions?
Been looking long and hard at the Palisades by EQD
Cheers
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MXR Double Shot?
TC Nova Drive? Not cheap and not small, but works as two (analogue) pedals in one box. Also has clever bits to store settings in 18 separate patches. When I got mine, I realised pretty soon that it's better to just see it as a sort of cascading gain stage distortion rather than try to set an overdrive sound, a distortion sound and then hope that the two together would work as well. In other words, I use whatever combination of one or both pedals (or gain stages) to get a sound, store it, rinse and repeat.
With the 3-way footswitch, it can be used in bank mode - 6 banks (A to F), each with 3 completely separate sound patches (plus bypass). The switches on the pedal then scroll through the banks and the ones on the footswitch select patches 1,2,3 in the current bank. (So, unlike the Satchurator, you can have On, More and Even More.)
Because it's a pedal with programmable settings, the knobs don't mean much when you select a patch (they're encoders, really), although turning a knob causes a couple of LEDs to activate to show which way to turn it to get it to match its setting in the current patch. If you turn the patch selector all the way to the left, you get to a 'live' or 'manual' mode where all of the knob settings you see are the settings it's using.
Before I got it, I was looking at the two separate pedals idea until I realised that it was quite an expensive way to go with far less versatility (assuming 80 quid or so each for decent overdrive and distortion boxes). The Nova Drive can be had for 160 quid in a couple of places (Anderton's and GAK), and the footswitch is about 40.
So far, I've set up 6 sounds (basically a rock bank and a blues bank, the latter having less crunch/saturation than the former). Scope to add other sets of patches for other guitars, of course. I use bank F for patches I'm farting about with.
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Deucetone rat?
Boss ds-2 (but you don't like satchurator so might not be your cuppa).
I loved the satchurator myself, great for pushing an amp into heavy rhythm and lead.
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