Damnation Audio Fan/Appreciation Thread

[willsellout]

I’ve owned most of the Broton stuff and all of the 3 leaf stuff. The vast majority of all of those pedals are gone and I don’t regret getting rid of any of them. My MBD has been on my board since the beginning and it’s never left. The DA stuff is all substance with minimal hype, IMO of course. The 3 leaf stuff is mostly all hype. He had a great pedal in the Groove Regulator but everything else has been really underwhelming to me. Broughton puts out some great stuff and I have always been impressed with his stuff but it can be painful trying to get one. I have yet to be disappointed with anything Jeff puts out. Dirtfixer is next on my list.

 

[willsellout]

Quick question, if you obtain unobtainium, when it’s easily obtained, what does that make it?

Collateral to acquire other unobtanium in most cases.

 

[Elliot Pike]

My MBD-1 has been my go to and never left my board, my MBD-2 was good but not quite the same (then I blew it up whoops) I love love love the dirt fixer and the MBD and do not see them leaving my board and I easily have use for the MBD-1 on the same board, now I only wish I had the ugly twin!!

 

[Elliot Pike]

Spite box question…… how audible is the octave up?? I would love to use one as a pronounced octave fuzz if possible

 

[TodaysTomSawyer]

Spite box question…… how audible is the octave up?? I would love to use one as a pronounced octave fuzz if possible

Spite Box isn’t subtle. Gets searing and nasty! It’s my favorite octave fuzz. Dead quite too

 

[willsellout]

Hey guys. If you could limit yourself on praising pedals that I want it would be great mmkay. Thanks.

 

[Matt Dean]

I just want to point something out real quick...

The 3Leaf thread has 10 pages of product-tying nightmare fuel. The Broughton thread reminds me to set my alarm for 4-5 AM when I want in on a drop. The Iron Ether thread has been like looking at delicious cakes through an impenetrable pane of glass.

Meanwhile, Jeff & Dave are over here giving us the ability to create thunder and melt faces. We barely have to wait, the prices are very reasonable, and the tones are always-on-useful. Well done, gents. The grass is not greener over in unobtanium land.

I long ago drop out of the Broughton thread… I could not handle the cork sniffing pretentiousness and frankly, the more than a few Broughton pedals I did purchase were not to my liking.

On the other hand Jeff’s effects pedals have ALWAYS been on-point… sound wise and price wise.

Edit: I also fried two MBD2s by unconsciously running them at 18v… BIG no no.

 

[Grayskull]

Spite Box isn’t subtle. Gets searing and nasty! It’s my favorite octave fuzz. Dead quite too

Agreed! Just got one last week and the octave up is in your face in the best way possible. The quietness is insane with all the gain that's on tap (even with the Spite fully CCW!). The Depth is brutal too - thunderous! The evil-fuzz spot on my board was previously ruled by the Megalith but I think the Spite Box has the potential to replace it at least for the time being (need to hear it at practice volumes)

 

[kazuhank]

My MBD-1 has been my go to and never left my board, my MBD-2 was good but not quite the same (then I blew it up whoops) I love love love the dirt fixer and the MBD and do not see them leaving my board and I easily have use for the MBD-1 on the same board, now I only wish I had the ugly twin!!

That white MBD-1 is dope.

 

[Erithon]

That white MBD-1 is dope.

And the yellow MBD-1 is even doper! (Is that a word lol?)

 

[kazuhank]

And the yellow MBD-1 is even doper! (Is that a word lol?)

Perhaps, but the blood splatter stands out more on the white.

 

[Erithon]

Excellent point. I've rethought my position: the white MBD-1 is where it's at.

 

[220_Hz]

Spite box question…… how audible is the octave up?? I would love to use one as a pronounced octave fuzz if possible

I’ve been using the spite box as my always on for the last few months in my punk band

the octave up is really pronounced and the bass boost is insanely useful live. I was originally using a super fuzz clone stacked into a curmudgeon 2 into a bloop, but I prefer the spite box form factor. Spite box into the dirt fixer is very nice, but it borders on redundancy IMO

The baseline fuzz is really nice too. I find myself playing with the octave turned off more frequently when I practice at home, but adding it back in makes me jump out more in the top end of the mix at band prac.

 

[willsellout]

So is a dirtfixer necessary if I already love the sound of my dirt? I have a Reinier Gasoline OD, MBD-1, MBD3, and a Justin Chancellor Fuzz wah as staples on my board. All of these pedals sit perfect in the mix and I love the tone I get from them already. What would a dirtfixer add? I guess some flexibility with EQ but I really don’t need to change the inherent tone of anything really.

 

[odarellmc]

So is a dirtfixer necessary if I already love the sound of my dirt? I have a Reinier Gasoline OD, MBD-1, MBD3, and a Justin Chancellor Fuzz wah as staples on my board. All of these pedals sit perfect in the mix and I love the tone I get from them already. What would a dirtfixer add? I guess some flexibility with EQ but I really don’t need to change the inherent tone of anything really.

If it ain't broke don't fix it.

 

[220_Hz]

So is a dirtfixer necessary if I already love the sound of my dirt? I have a Reinier Gasoline OD, MBD-1, MBD3, and a Justin Chancellor Fuzz wah as staples on my board. All of these pedals sit perfect in the mix and I love the tone I get from them already. What would a dirtfixer add? I guess some flexibility with EQ but I really don’t need to change the inherent tone of anything really.

The dirtfixer would add more clean low end to the mix. Like adding the clean knob on the MBD3 to any pedal on your board, plus four band EQ

If it ain't broke don't fix it.

Agreed

 

[willsellout]

I could see adding a little bit of girth to the gasoline and depending on how the Broughton Calamity does at practice I could see using it on that. Do you guys use several pedals in the loop or do you use it to just goose one pedal a bit?

 

[Smurf-o-Deth]

For me, the Dirtfixer is an always-on tone shaper with the excellent four band EQ, and I run whatever effects I might be using (fuzz, filter, octaver) through it to keep clean low end at all times.

 

[kleinenenten]

I could see adding a little bit of girth to the gasoline and depending on how the Broughton Calamity does at practice I could see using it on that. Do you guys use several pedals in the loop or do you use it to just goose one pedal a bit?

I'd be worried that I'd need different settings for each pedal, and that would get expensive and create a cumbersome pedal board quickly.

 

[Erithon]

Do you guys use several pedals in the loop or do you use it to just goose one pedal a bit?

Several

For me, the Dirtfixer is an always-on tone shaper with the excellent four band EQ, and I run whatever effects I might be using (fuzz, filter, octaver) through it to keep clean low end at all times.

I've never tried an octaver in the loop. How and why do you do this when octavers usually have a blend/mix or separate dry volume signal? I'd love to hear more.