Notities12 Degrees of Saturation - Key Guitar Overdrive, Fuzz and Distortion Sounds
Guitar Pedal X
Dit artikel bespreekt verschillende overdrive-, fuzz- en vervormingspedalen voor gitaar, met een focus op de Elektron Analog Drive als veelzijdige keuze. De auteur deelt persoonlijke voorkeuren voor bepaalde pedalen, zoals de Xotic EP Booster en de Strymon Riverside, en hun verschillende geluidsinstellingen en toepassingen. De effecten en prestaties van deze pedalen worden vergeleken en beoordeeld.
If you had to buy just one pedal that did near enough everything, you would likely go for something like the relatively new Elektron Analog Drive - with its 8 independent wholly analogue circuits.
In fact all my overdrive and distortion pedals run into the front of the amps, through Alchemy Audio modded Boss NS-2 Noise Gate and modded Boss GE-7 Equalizer - with Strymon Modulation and FX added at the end of the chain.
I have my Xotic EP Booster on permanently to add a little warmth and extra dynamism and headroom into the signal path. I use the Strymon Riverside for my actual lightest level ’Boost’ gain stage - the lightest of barely there gains with just a little added colour via the tone controls.
Best for me though is the One Control Persian Green Screamer which has a switch for TS808 Vintage Mode, as well as TS9 modern.
My choice here is an excellent mini Japanese pedal (sister company to Xotic) - the EWS Little Fuzzy Drive - this has two toggle option voicings - regular and fat - giving you a tremendous range of tones from such a small format.
ENO Myomorpha, Mooer Black Secret
Chase Bliss Brothers Analog Gainstage,
I have my Riverside set to two quite different gain stages - Brown on the favourite switch, and a very mild, smooth boost-like overdrive on the manual dials. The Riverside has a fairly smooth profile, it does do high gain distortion, but not with that really dirty grit that certain analogue pedals are so capable of.
When I bought the Strymon Riverside I was hoping that this would be the solution to all my overdrive / distortion needs. As reported variously above though, it has its weaknesses as well as its strengths. The Elektron Analog Drive pedal by contrast is what the Riverside should have been - 8 separate analogue circuits which give you everything from the lightest clean boost tones, through fuzz overdrive, and onto genuinely thick metal-like distortion (but not quite BE-OD or Diezel level).