Overdrive / Distortion tone

[Vosk]

Hey guys

This is a short clip of some distortion tones I like:

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Sample 1 : Nick Oliveri - Queens of the Stone Age - You Can't Quit Me Baby

Sample 2 : Nick Oliveri - Queens of the Stone Age - Give the Mule What It Wants

Sample 3 : Les Claypool - Primus - Have A Cigar (cover of Pink Floyd)

I REALLY like sample 1 - If I could get this that would be great.

Pedals I am looking at:

Vintage (80s) ProCo Rat
Marshall Guv'nor
Sansamp BDDI
Boss DS-1 (Japanese Model)
EHX English Muff'n

Which do you think would be best for achieving the sample 1 or 2 sound? I put in Sample 3 ... well I don't know why. I like that tone, but I don't want it I guess.

 

[The BurgerMeister]

you'd need something gritter than the bddi... i'd say go with the muff'n.
that thing KICKS. and you can get all those sounds on it.

 

[Vosk]

bump

 

[Vosk]

double bump

 

[lowmid]

I'd say an english muff'n but it's more to the buzzier side

 

[Nyarlathotep]

Ya, my EM is kinda buzzy, though my setting is "crank everything". That way I get all the buzzing of the boosted gain, treb, and mids, but I also get the smoothness of extra bass!

 

[TheBrad]

I think you could get 1 & 2 with a Hao Rust Ride and the proper EQ.
P.S. maybe a Ric too?

 

[lowmid]

I'd say precision bass into some kind of ampeg, or a multidrive

 

[Higgie]

I can get that Claypool sound with my Tonefactor Hellbaby. But they're not made any more. The guy that made them said he would re-release them under his own company, so keep a look out. Nice grit.

 

[TaySte_2000]

I can get that Claypool sound with my Tonefactor Hellbaby. But they're not made any more. The guy that made them said he would re-release them under his own company, so keep a look out. Nice grit.

Thats not happening now as the guy has stopped making pedals and left the pedalworx company. So thats annoying.

 

[TheBrad]

I'd say precision bass into some kind of ampeg, or a multidrive

Good call, I was thinking P. But it reminded me so much of Lemmy, I just thought I'd throw the Ric name out there.

 

[Higgie]

Thats not happening now as the guy has stopped making pedals and left the pedalworx company. So thats annoying.

Ah, that's a shame. Guess it makes ours more valuable though?

 

[Vosk]

Thanks guys. I'm leaning towards the Muff'n, I'll have to try it out first of course.

 

[EricF]

Samples 1 & 2 sound very Muff'n-ish, but Sample 3 probably not.

I love the sounds I get from my Muff'n. As I've mentioned in other threads, the magic came for me when I swapped out the stock 12AY7 tubes for a pair of higher-gain 12AX7's. I run the gain setting at about 45-50% and get a nice moderately heavy OD sound. If you crank the gain, it sounds pretty wicked.

 

[rayzak]

I've been getting some convincing Kyuss bass tones with my Homebrew Hematoma.... although i'm more of a Scott Reeder fan than a Nick fan.

 

[BassJunkie730]

You should circle around the Doom, stoner rock threads and maybe get some ideas. I know they're are many ways to achieve this from Simply overloading a vintage board when recording to using a behemoth live rig consisting of multiple amps and such.

Most will agree the best way to get a live overdriven tone with the muscle for fundamentals behind is to just use a clean amp and an overdriven amp.

No matter what you do to get the first two tones you have to get something with muscle and beef behind it. I have a big muff and it's more wall of sound than a focused grunt.

the HAO seems like a good idea and a few guys around here have found ways to get the lowend back from the HAO - but from what I hear it's overdrive tone is awesome.

I'm currently investigating the Hematoma as well.

my 2 cents

 

[tplyons]

Owning 3 of the 5 you listed....

I'd say one is a bit Muff'n ish, but more along the lines of a vintage RAT or Guv'nor. The 2nd one is more Guv'nor than anything else IMO.

 

[Hookus]

My favorite thing about the Muff'n is being able to EQ it just like a tube preamp. I guess that is all the Muff'n is anyway, a tube preamp. I, too, set my gain about 12 o'clock, then slightly boost lows, slightly cut highs, and set mids at 12.