If you had to pick one: Fuzz or Distortion?

[xefned]

I voted for fuzz.

But if you play metal, the answer is: distortion.

 

[jeffwhitfield]

The Rat can low gain overdrive, distortion and a pretty gnarly fuzz sound. And with the drive at noon or lower can do a really good volume knob clean up. Not many distortion pedals can do that

Indeed. And, if you have one with different clipping options, even better. The AionFX Helios that I built can do silicon diodes, LED, and GE ones with a selection switch. Basically gives you a standard Rat, Turbo, and Dirty. I know there’s other pedals that can do the same…just nice to see a DIY with these opotions.

 

[Mentaltossflycoon]

I own one distortion and like 30 fuzzes. My being primarily a bass player makes this unsurprising.