bifurcation
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I feel like every time I look at a new distortion/fuzz/overdrive, I'm always hearing "it's a Rat clone" or "it's based on the Tube Screamer." (especially the TS.)
And I get that different parts and power and configurations can radically change the sound and feel of any given pedal, but I still hear that a "Life Pedal" is a Shin-Ei FY2 into a Rat, and the "EQD Palisades" is a TS808 with a bunch of options dumped on it. An "OCD" is apparently based on Voodoo Labs Overdrive, which is a sort of cascaded MXR Distortion+, which is apparently also based on a Tube Screamer?
So, if we took all the distortions on PedalPCB and put them in buckets, would most of them be based on:
the Muff,
the Klon,
the Tube Screamer,
the Rat,
uh...
the Blues Driver?
and, uh, the Fuzzface?
I guess I'm curious if there are some truly unique circuits out there? (like, the Jext Telez White Pedal has that fasel inductor in it, what's that about?)
But I also wish I had a list of what everything is! I love the Mountainking Megalith, is that just a something into a something? What about the Gamechanger Audio PLASMA pedal? Is that just a ... I dunno, Muff with a xenon-filled tube instead of diodes or a transistor?
Help experts! Enquiring noobs wanna know!
And I get that different parts and power and configurations can radically change the sound and feel of any given pedal, but I still hear that a "Life Pedal" is a Shin-Ei FY2 into a Rat, and the "EQD Palisades" is a TS808 with a bunch of options dumped on it. An "OCD" is apparently based on Voodoo Labs Overdrive, which is a sort of cascaded MXR Distortion+, which is apparently also based on a Tube Screamer?
So, if we took all the distortions on PedalPCB and put them in buckets, would most of them be based on:
the Muff,
the Klon,
the Tube Screamer,
the Rat,
uh...
the Blues Driver?
and, uh, the Fuzzface?
I guess I'm curious if there are some truly unique circuits out there? (like, the Jext Telez White Pedal has that fasel inductor in it, what's that about?)
But I also wish I had a list of what everything is! I love the Mountainking Megalith, is that just a something into a something? What about the Gamechanger Audio PLASMA pedal? Is that just a ... I dunno, Muff with a xenon-filled tube instead of diodes or a transistor?
Help experts! Enquiring noobs wanna know!