Most disappointing distortion pedal you ever tried

I’m a mad scientist. I can usually get a usable tone out of just about anything with enough fucking around. I certainly have thrown a few pedals in the trash within 10 minutes. I’ve also sold some that I wish I hadn’t. Would like to have the SLO preamp back to give it another chance. The one pedal I hate is the OCD. it has a certain nasally characteristic to it that makes me almost nauseous. 🤷🏼‍♂️
 
ROSS (not BOSS) distortion pedal. If a MXR Dist + messed around with it’s cousin’s Fuzz, this would be the offspring
 
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headlessdeadguy said:
I’m a mad scientist. I can usually get a usable tone out of just about anything with enough fucking around.
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Generally agree with this. But there are some things that are just so bad that it's impossible to get any kind of usable tone. Gorilla amps, and the DOD American Metal pedal fall into this category.
 
The Carl Martin Plexitone. The gold one. My first lesson in buying pedals demo'd by Pete Thorn. That dude makes everything sound good, but I HATED that pedal lol
 
It might be loser error but I didn't get along real well with Suhr Koko boost nor the Pepers Dirty Tree. Just too over the top and hard to control the gain. Much prefer the simple and trusty SD1 and Bad Monkey for clean OD boosting.
 
I decided to get out and compare some overdrive, boost and distortion pedals with a THD Univalve.

So far the amp sounds best without them.
 
I believe the OCD is a underrated boost for high gain. Some complain it's not as tight as a TS but plenty of amps don't need that much low cut - Marshall derivatives especially. The OCD's lack of mid-hump and switchable high shelf make it really useful in lots of situations where a TS sounds honky or lacking teeth. I am running the Univalve moderate crunch. Adding the OCD V2 and Zuul+ for more saturation and gain.

I probably would not have plugged it in if not mentioned in this thread.
 
Techdeth said:
I do not like any distortion pedals . They just sound synthetic compared to real tube distortion
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Exactly

But for whatever reason I keep trying different pedals with different amps.

If I turn up the amp to get a similar sound with just the amp. The amp alone always feels and sounds better.
 
I recently bought a used Catalinbread Dirty Little Secret from a local GC. I couldn't even get a usable sound out of it and I'm not being dramatic. It was horrible. Returned the next day.

It was used, so who knows....
 
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