What is your favorite distortion pedal?

**sunvalleylaw** · March 28th, 2009, 08:09 PM

Howard Jones!

**Ro3b** · March 28th, 2009, 08:31 PM

John Constable!

duhvoodooman*** · April 6th, 2009, 10:13 AM

Stop it. Just stop it.

**SuperSwede** · April 6th, 2009, 10:58 AM

Tech21 GT2.. and its all mine.. mine I say..... my precious...

**rev156** · April 6th, 2009, 10:59 AM

I've heard the Barber DirtyBomb on UTube and I think it's great but I would like to hear it live.
Cheers,

**Gutmann** · April 6th, 2009, 02:40 PM

The Tech21 XXL - no other Pedal could replace it from the board so far. Makes a monster out of a Fender-amp and clears up with the guitarvolume better than anything i've tried so far. On the overdrive-side, there's the Crowther Audio Double Hot Cake - my personal souvenir from travelling through NZ

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**schenkadere** · April 6th, 2009, 08:20 PM

Originally Posted by Gutmann

The Tech21 XXL - no other Pedal could replace it from the board so far. Makes a monster out of a Fender-amp and clears up with the guitarvolume better than anything i've tried so far. On the overdrive-side, there's the Crowther Audio Double Hot Cake - my personal souvenir from travelling through NZ

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Do you have the original or reissue? I was always curious about those, but never really dug the clips.

Spudman*** · April 6th, 2009, 09:19 PM

Originally Posted by Spudman

Shades of every British artist you've heard.

More like this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hksil-KkebQ

**markb** · April 6th, 2009, 09:23 PM

Originally Posted by schenkadere

Do you have the original or reissue? I was always curious about those, but never really dug the clips.

There are no reissue Hot Cakes. Just different versions. A bit like RATs with the difference being that new Hot Cakes are just as good as they used to be.

**Gutmann** · April 6th, 2009, 11:44 PM

It's the original Tech 21 XXL, the one in the silver box. I use it for 5 years now, bought it used.
The clips show what you can do with it but they could show more flexibility.
Here are two SAMPLES I made, all with the same settings, only the guitar-volume varies.

The XXL has a serious amount of gain when set to minimum - the dynamic sample at the end shows minimum gain with guitar-volume up (G&L ASAT with quite a high output). With the warp-poti, you can change the character of the drive to a really thick, fuzzy tone.

The hotcake really is a bit like a rat but with more transparecy - but never heard one of the old rats. Theres two versions of the hotcake, the normal and the bluesberry. The last one has a bit more low end. The double hotcake contains a normal hc and the bluesberry cascaded one into another which makes it the perfect flexible pedal.
Proguitarshop has a cool demo.

Uli

**schenkadere** · April 7th, 2009, 04:09 AM

Originally Posted by Gutmann

It's the original Tech 21 XXL, the one in the silver box. I use it for 5 years now, bought it used.
The clips show what you can do with it but they could show more flexibility.
Here are two SAMPLES I made, all with the same settings, only the guitar-volume varies.

The XXL has a serious amount of gain when set to minimum - the dynamic sample at the end shows minimum gain with guitar-volume up (G&L ASAT with quite a high output). With the warp-poti, you can change the character of the drive to a really thick, fuzzy tone.

The hotcake really is a bit like a rat but with more transparecy - but never heard one of the old rats. Theres two versions of the hotcake, the normal and the bluesberry. The last one has a bit more low end. The double hotcake contains a normal hc and the bluesberry cascaded one into another which makes it the perfect flexible pedal.
Proguitarshop has a cool demo.

Uli

Yes, i was refering to the XXL about the reissue thing. Thanks for the clips. The XXL seems a bit more fuzz than than smooth and creamy, right?

**Gutmann** · April 7th, 2009, 04:38 AM

Originally Posted by schenkadere

Yes, i was refering to the XXL about the reissue thing. Thanks for the clips. The XXL seems a bit more fuzz than than smooth and creamy, right?

Via the warp, you can make it very smooth and thick - I prefer the warp rather neutral. It only has an additional treble-poti and you can get a real aggressive sound w tele&Fender but set to the right amount (10-11o'clock) it's neither aggressive nor dark and gets quite sparkling when rolling back the volume on the guitar. The low-volume-sample is both guitars with the XXL(same setting), the one from the beginning has a bit less volume.

Here is another vid we made some time ago, the solo guitar at the end is a band mate, all the riffing is the XXL on a Fender Twin:

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The Crowther is definitely smoother at high gain settings.

**Tone2TheBone** · April 9th, 2009, 01:12 PM

I like both my Duhvoodooman SD-9 clone and my Guv'nor Plus pedal. Both sound great...both are very different from each other...both are extremely versatile...and Rob using a distortion pedal with an already overdrive amp is cheating sir.

duhvoodooman*** · April 9th, 2009, 02:14 PM

Here's Gutmann's YouTube link in working order:

hubberjub*** · April 9th, 2009, 04:03 PM

My favorite that I own is my Lovepedal Eternity. I have been loving the Youtube clips of the Hermida Zendrive though.

**Suhnton** · April 9th, 2009, 06:08 PM

Originally Posted by Gutmann

Here is another vid we made some time ago, the solo guitar at the end is a band mate, all the riffing is the XXL on a Fender Twin:
The Crowther is definitely smoother at high gain settings.

Hey cool song Gutmann.

**ZMAN** · April 12th, 2009, 12:13 PM

Hey Spud I saw this thread and lo and behold a Hot British turns up on a local buy and sell. Mint condition 1 year old. $135 can. Do you think I should pick it up. The only distortion pedal I have is the DS-1.
I don't even know what these go for new?

hubberjub*** · April 12th, 2009, 12:46 PM

Originally Posted by ZMAN

Hey Spud I saw this thread and lo and behold a Hot British turns up on a local buy and sell. Mint condition 1 year old. $135 can. Do you think I should pick it up. The only distortion pedal I have is the DS-1.
I don't even know what these go for new?

That will be a huge improvement over the DS-1.

**ZMAN** · April 12th, 2009, 03:10 PM

Well I picked it up. I paid 125 Can. It is a really versatile pedal and goes nicely on my pedal board. It is a year or so old in mint condition.
As you said Hub it is a huge improvement on my DS-1. I tried the Fulltone Distortion and it was not as good as the Tone Bone. I like the fact that it is Canadian made as well.
I will give it a good test over the next couple of weeks.

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