Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: BloodMountain on November 18, 2006, 11:45:18 AM
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the krank distortus maximus... awesome destroying high gain distortion monster pedal, or a weak excuse for krank to sell stuff?
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If I were you I would get the Krank Distortus Maximus
5 Stars in Total Guitar Magazine
Whos it for?
Fans of dimebag, Shadows Fall, Arch Enemy etc; lovers of loud guitar, basically
Information
Origin: USA
Type: Solid State distortion stompbox
Controls: Master Volume, Gain, Bass, Midrange and Treble
Sockets: Guitar input ; output and power adaptor
Additional Features: On/off footswitch , LED status indicator,
Power: Single PP3 9-Volt Battery or 9 Volt DC mains adaptor,
Contact: Sounds Great, 0161 436 4799
Web: www.krankamps.com
Alternatively
Digitech DHH
Hot Head
Retroman Lola
Review Quotes:
"We came to rock. You'll no doubt remember the fun we had with a pair of krank stacks - the Revolution Seris One and Dimebag Krankenstein - not too long ago. Well, the Distortus Maximus took us back to those halcyon days."
"It has the old school rock charm of The Revolution, but whack up the gain and you can get those Dimebag sounds that many other pedals cant deliver."
" We do miss the trouser-flapping bottom end that we got from the Krank 4x12 cabs, but even through our 60-watt combo we managed to put an evil grin on our faces."
"Distortion pedals dont get any better than this"
"This pedal kicks ass"
"Dimebag fans will sleep with it ; others wont be able to sleep without it."
"The Distortous Maximus offers a great range of tones - including vintage rock sounds - but its at its best punishing eardrums."
"As its Gladiator namesake once said, "I am required to kill, so I kill. That is enough." We couldnt have put it better ourselves!"
"For: F*ucking Rocks"
"Against: Two words: Battery Access"
The only downside I can see for it reading the review in terms of against is the price, which is £140.
I hope this helps because it took me ages to type out in the original post and then copy and paste it from that in 2 seconds :P :wink: ,
RorySRV,
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yeh thanks... i have that review yes... VERY TASTY! but......
you cant always trust reviews.... i need more opinions and/or sound clips... i have listened to the wondertone ones and theyre awesome
http://www.wondertone.co.jp/products/krank_soundclip_2.htm
its right at the bottom of the page
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if i recall, total guitar also gave 5 stars to the krank revolution 1 head, and 4 1/2 to the krankenstein. both of which were incredibly over-hyped, under-specced, over-priced one trick-ponies.
I haven't tried the distortus maximus, but put it like this:
presumably the distortus maximus apes the sound of the krank amps, but not so well.
i thought said krank amps suck.
see where i'm going?
I know I wouldn't trust a total guitar review if it told me it was sunny outside.
I'd take a look at an HBE big D distortion pedal, it's a great pedal for a similar price. I think HBE have a metal distortion pedal coming out, not sure if it's hit these shores yet, though.
(all this is my personal opinion, by the way)
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There's also the Electro-Harmonix Metal Muff, but I haven't tried it.
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If I were you I would get the Krank Distortus Maximus
5 Stars in Total Guitar Magazine
Total Guitar would give a steaming pile of sh*t 5 stars if it had a guitar plugged into it.
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the krank distortus maximus... awesome destroying high gain distortion monster pedal, or a weak excuse for krank to sell stuff?
If you're hunting for Opeth you'd be better off with a Laney amp.
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i know, but im not after an amp, am i? Laneys rule, but first i need to get a new guitar, maybe a bareknuckle in it, then probably a new distortion box (to replace the Zoom 505 which sounds cool, but just isnt what im looking for)
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^ are you sure you're doing things the right way round?
unless you're using totally the wrong guitar for the job (i.e. your current guitar is a jazzbox, for example) the quickest way to get the tone you want is to buy an amp aimed at that tone.
Pretty much everything else is just a quick fix which may fool you into thinking it'll do the job, but within a week or two, you'll realise that it's not cutting the mustard. And then you'll be on to the next quick fix...
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^ are you sure you're doing things the right way round?
unless you're using totally the wrong guitar for the job (i.e. your current guitar is a jazzbox, for example) the quickest way to get the tone you want is to buy an amp aimed at that tone.
Pretty much everything else is just a quick fix which may fool you into thinking it'll do the job, but within a week or two, you'll realise that it's not cutting the mustard. And then you'll be on to the next quick fix...
+1
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i see... great advice! you made me realize how much of an idiot i am! right, so guitar and possibly pickup upgrade first, then amp... trouble is, the Laneys are single channel. any ways to change from clean to monstrous distortion instantly on a single channel?
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VH100R is 2 channel isn't it :twisted: :twisted:
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Opeth (at least, Mikael Akerfeldt) uses a GH100L, which is single channel, plus is fairly cheap.
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Opeth (at least, Mikael Akerfeldt) uses a GH100L, which is single channel, plus is fairly cheap.
The GH100L is single channel but it has footswitchable gain.....there's your clean and dirty right there.
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^(EDIT: to bloodmountain) 1) it has a footswitchable gain boost.
2) your guitar has a volume knob- set the amp to "meltdown" with your guitar's volume control at 10, and then hopefully, when you disengage the gain boost, and roll down your guitar's volume, it'll clean up.
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i see... great advice! you made me realize how much of an idiot i am! right, so guitar and possibly pickup upgrade first, then amp... trouble is, the Laneys are single channel. any ways to change from clean to monstrous distortion instantly on a single channel?
On a single channel amp you could use something like the Award Session SoloBooster - http://www.award-session.com/solobooster.html
I think its basically just a footswitchable adjustable volume cut. Basically the same as rolling down your guitars volume on an overdriven amp if you put that pedal infront of the amp instead of in the fx loop. Depends how "clean" you need your sound to be though. I am happy with this clean but you might prefer a less gritty clean so may hate it.
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yeah. i was thinking more of a clean clean, without any "subtle" overdrive on. are you sure that pedal can change from clean to huge distortion? wouldnt it just take the master volume down, not the guitar output volume?
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^ yeah. it'll presumably take a lot of the power tube distortion out, but I guess it wouldn't take the preamp overdrive out.
i guess it depends how much gain your distorted sound has. you can definitely get from a rock overdrive/distortion down to clean solely by using your guitar's volume (especially if there's some power amp dirt in that rock overdrive)- perhaps not from a metal overdrive, though.
I guess if you footswitched the gain boost out, AND rolled down your guitar volume, it might do it- but you'd need to get tom to try it on his, first.
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^ yeah. it'll presumably take a lot of the power tube distortion out, but I guess it wouldn't take the preamp overdrive out.
i guess it depends how much gain your distorted sound has. you can definitely get from a rock overdrive/distortion down to clean solely by using your guitar's volume (especially if there's some power amp dirt in that rock overdrive)- perhaps not from a metal overdrive, though.
I guess if you footswitched the gain boost out, AND rolled down your guitar volume, it might do it- but you'd need to get tom to try it on his, first.
I could clean up my GH100TI with the volume, but it wasn't a clean clean.....just sorta clean.
Then again, I'm not that big into clean clean.
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yeah. i was thinking more of a clean clean, without any "subtle" overdrive on. are you sure that pedal can change from clean to huge distortion? wouldnt it just take the master volume down, not the guitar output volume?
Clean clean is overrated......clean with a bit of dirt is where all the mojo's at.
In my opinion. :D
But, if you're want both a clean clean and ball crushing dirt you might be happier with the VH100R.
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^ aye. Am I right in thinking that the iommi doesn't have the footswitchable gain boost?
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hmmm yeah... could you try that tom please?
oh yeah and i checked in the guitar buyer review and it said without changing your gain level.
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^ aye. Am I right in thinking that the iommi doesn't have the footswitchable gain boost?
5 permanantly engaged gain stages.
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I will give it a try when the amps "officially" mine (a week on monday!), although I dont use the GH50L's gain boost really as I dont need that much gain and found it a bit fizzy anyway, but I didnt get to tweak it much. Will let you know next week!
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ok thanks... be sure to give some sound clips too of a crushing high gain fat distortion sound though... please!
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I dont have a mic setup yet so I can only do videos with a camera with a mic that clips really easily so I cant really have the amp very loud.
Although to be honest from the little time I have had playing with it, the extra/hi gain option on the amp seems too fizzy for a "crushing fat hi gain" sound, everyone else says its great for metal but with my setup I've only really been able to get up to a NWOBHM level of gain (something like Diamondhead or UFO I guess) and still maintain a "good" tone. I think its down to my cab though as Eminence dont seem to be that great for metal. I'm gonna try my Behringer tubescreamer copy infront of it to see what thats like!
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^ aye. Am I right in thinking that the iommi doesn't have the footswitchable gain boost?
5 permanantly engaged gain stages.
metal. \m/ :twisted: \m/
oh yeah and i checked in the guitar buyer review and it said without changing your gain level.
maybe they meant without rolling down your guitar's volume, though. I've definitely heard that you can't get crystal clean, and then engaging the boost to get metal (the boost in that case would only get you up to maybe classic rock) or vice versa, but I'm thinking that disengaging the boost and rolling down the guitar's volume MIGHT do it.
we need to wait for tom...
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I managed to get the house to myself for a while again today so I sneaked the laney out of its box :) Using my EQ in FX loop to tweak the tone a bit I got some awesome metal tones with the boost engaged, and even with the boost still engaged I rolled my guitars volume right down for clean and it worked quite well. So I can imagine with a footswitch to disengage the boost and some quick volume control-age you can go almost instantly from hi gain to a passable clean. I say passable because you cant really get a big warm clean sound, but its got that really nice bluesy gritty clean which I like. I tried to get a video but it was too loud for the little mic so you'll have to wait till I can afford a half decent mic if you're after clips!