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markroom · Post by **markroom** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 8:48 am

Ànyone know a good guitar pedal to use to distort synths-

I have found when using on board dist effects on my Yamaha Cs1x that i can get nice distortions- but they are only good for solos when i play more than one note it gets mushy-
(like a soft red apple i like grany smiths)

I just what to distort a square wave- i want it to sound very distorted but be usable on chords-

e.g some guitarist say a pedal is good for solos but not chords-

guitarzan · Post by **guitarzan** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 9:19 am

EDIT: sorry, I see your looking for hardware

thought you wanted a plugin. I've heard that the Rockman Sustainer half rack units work great for synth.

sinkmusic · Post by **sinkmusic** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 9:39 am

I am also interested in a "light" overdrive pedal, something that can be not as brutal as "metal" distortion guitar pedal, as the sound is not subtle enough on synth or beats.
Since some days, i am looking for a Behringer VT-911.
It is a tube overdrive pedal.
Maybe that overdrive would be better for fattening than brutal distortion ?
But as that pedal is out recently, i haven't yet found anytwhere to try it.

Benedict · Post by **Benedict** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 9:52 am

The trouble with distorting synths is that while one note sounds great a fist full of em sounds horrid

My solution in my synths is to drive at the note pre-filter so the overdrive is specific to each note. Slightly more CPU but much nicer sounding in my ears.

Not sure how you would do that in the real world other than breaking your chords up into mono lines but maybe that will help.

dry bones · Post by **dry bones** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 11:27 am

'Light' overdrive pedal? Try the Digitech Bad Monkey. I used one recently to fatten up a bass line from my Nova IIX, run through the FX send/return on my mixer, it worked a treat.

sinkmusic · Post by **sinkmusic** » Tue Aug 14, 2007 11:37 am

dry bones wrote:'Light' overdrive pedal? Try the Digitech Bad Monkey. I used one recently to fatten up a bass line from my Nova IIX, run through the FX send/return on my mixer, it worked a treat.

THank you for the tip.

markroom · Post by **markroom** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 8:20 am

Im goona get one of those bad monkeys-

i actually picked up a danelectro Wasabi overdrive- its nice

quite a light distotion sounds good on piano and basic sounds to add a bit of colour to them.

Good distortion for Synth (not just solos)