digital distortion

[Brow]

No idea what the lad was using, but when I took the Mrs to a gig at Twickenham in 2008, one of the support bands was Biffy Clyro.

They were quite possibly amongst the 5 worst live bands I have ever seen, including terrible pub bands who couldn't really play their instruments. I'm trying to be impartial here, as it's not my style of music either, but honestly they were that bad.

No movement from any of them, except the guitarist kept changing between two equally terrible-sounding guitars between tracks. You want to find out what their guitarist was using, because it was all treble and presence, no bollocks whatsoever. Now I like full-on, nasty, brutal tone, but it's got to have mids and at least a few lows in there, or it just sounds thin and weedy. This guitar tone was just utterly awful.

If it's shockingly bad tone you want, copy Biffy Clyro!

When I saw then he was using a pair of Peavey Classic combos and a few Strats.

[choucas09]

It may not be digital, but the Z-Vex Fuzz Factory is crawling with all kinds of nastiness.

[Ephemeria]

http://www.digitech.com/en/products/death-metal

This pedal by far. It's just overkill, haha

[hincks]

i guess it doesnt really matter wether the pedal is digital or not although it would be an added bonus lol. stuff along the lines of the metal zone or death metal is more the sound im going for stuff like the geiger counter is too out there. all those bit mangling type pedals make alot of weird synthy noises that i dont need

[Afghan Dave]

If it's shockingly bad tone you want, copy Biffy Clyro!

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[WezV]

Actually would feeding your guitar through a ring modulator & a regular distortion (or fuzz) pedal have the right effect?

i was going to suggest this, green ringers make everything sound  pretty nasty... coupled with a particularly nasty distortion - could be quite bad

[WezV]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1eK0JcWdFc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA8MwkAULtM&feature=related

[dave_mc]

also look into the boss mt2. I believe its Digital and its one of the worst & nastiest sounding pedals i have ever come across.

could be wrong, but i don't think it's digital.

really?

oh well. It fits the sound criteria anyway.

yeah probably :lol:

[Philly Q]

When I was at university, best part of 30 years ago, I ordered a funny little homemade headphone amp from an ad in the back of a music paper. 

It sort of worked, but as soon as the battery started to wear out (which didn't take very long at all) the sound would degenerate into a load of chattering noise which seemed to bear no relation to the notes you were playing.

I quite liked it.  :lol:

[Telerocker]

An old Zoom will do. Never heard a proper distortion out of those boxes.

[Sancho]

An old Zoom will do. Never heard a proper distortion out of those boxes.

A new Zoom will also do, for that matter

[WezV]

When I was at university, best part of 30 years ago, I ordered a funny little homemade headphone amp from an ad in the back of a music paper. 

It sort of worked, but as soon as the battery started to wear out (which didn't take very long at all) the sound would degenerate into a load of chattering noise which seemed to bear no relation to the notes you were playing.

I quite liked it.  :lol:

the dying battery thing can work well  - easy to rig up a more practical version too
http://www.beavisaudio.com/projects/DBS/

[Telerocker]

An old Zoom will do. Never heard a proper distortion out of those boxes.

A new Zoom will also do, for that matter

Did you think I would ever check them out?  :lol:

[Philly Q]

the dying battery thing can work well  - easy to rig up a more practical version too
http://www.beavisaudio.com/projects/DBS/

Interesting!

[Sancho]

An old Zoom will do. Never heard a proper distortion out of those boxes.

A new Zoom will also do, for that matter

Did you think I would ever check them out?  :lol:

Well, I got lured into buying a G2 recently :?