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Looking for unique Overdrive/Distortion/Fuzz Pedal.

Step 1: Get overly offended about a remark online
Step 2: Overreact because overly offended
Step 3: Get called on it
Step 4: Get overly offended about being called on being overly offended
Step 5: Make lame misogynistic insult in an attempt to project your own insecurities onto others

I have been told that this works best when done anonymously from your parents' basement...

That's quite apropos, as Peter lived in his parent's basement until 2 years before he died....
However, my parents are both dead, thank god, and didn't have a basement, but a crow's nest looking out onto the Atlantic ocean.
Lastly, you forgot the autobiographical Step 13: Stop taking yourself so seriously, as I can't take you seriously at all... have a day







Some days, it's just tooooo easy to fell like a genius
 
you want to be different to everybody else but are asking for what they use?

you contradict yourself. To get a sound that none of us have you surely need a pedal that none of us have.
So all I can add is to NOT buy a Sansamp PBDDI coz you'll sound like many of us.

or think outside the box and get some non bass pedal, might not sound good, but could be unique, the mxr blue box or the DOD buzz box (clone of the mxr) will get you a unique sound, Joyo makes a fuzz octave pedal real cheap, fuzzrocious makes unique fuzz pedals, though they're rising out of obscurity as a business so their sounds may not be unique soon, I have the bdpg from them, I feel its one of the most unique, individual sounding preamps I've ever played through, though it isn't gimmicky, you can find/shape a awesome dirty sound with it.... I admit that I keep my favorite players in mind when shopping around for gear, but I know it will still sound like me in the end...
 
Well this is a fun post.

Lemme revive it. :dead:

I'm messing with the Gonkulator setting on my BP355, and it's a helluva lot of fun with a 5th-up fixed pitch harmonizer.

Also, I'm a fan of the Catalinbread Heliotrope for a nasty drive that's more ring-modded robot orgy/massacre than classic distortion or fuzz. You can dial in anything from subtle pain to crushing agony, and can control the ring mod effect intensity to a nice degree, too. It's hard to make your MAIN driver, but I bet it could be done.