In my path for Hendrixy things since I got my first strat just a few years ago I got into fuzz pedals as well after univibe stuff as a start.
The best demo I found, of not so many to my surprise. Not sure how this got under the radar not having reviews page up and down on youtube.
Three distinct modes. tight, vintage and heavy. Bass+treble controls, blend knob and choice if dry signal enters before or after eq controls. A section with mids parametric eq and even can be run with expression pedal or just set to boost for solo or similar. Separate switch to kick in when you need or just permanently on.
I got mine yesterday, and the range of sounds never sease to surprise. This demo above captures quite a few of abilities.
And even as True Bypass was not mentioned, I had doubts. But testing with a bypass looper I hear absolutely no difference as pedal is not engaged and through a true bypass looper. So fits right in the chain of pedals just fine.
Specs does not say buffered or anything either, so I hesitated.
Specs say 160-180 mA is rather consuming, if your power for board allow that.
Chief Disruptor - underrated fuzz with so many options
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- KVRAF
- 2703 posts since 23 Mar, 2005 from Detroit
I’ve been eyeing this pedal too. I have a EHx Green Russian Reissue and a Rams Head clone (Chicago Stompworks Violet Rams Head). All the demos i’ve seen make me think it lives up to what it says it can do.
Do you think this is the end all for getting any muff sound and having all the gain/eq options. The expression filter looks like a lot of fun too. I would use this live on my bass board cuz it has clean blend…currently the Green Russian Reissue has the distortion/fuzz duties but no clean blend, although i kick on fuzz when we go into heavy shoegaze mode and grungey sections of our songs, so im not sure if i really need a clean blend. But for guitar, this seems like a muff Swiss army knife.
Do you think this is the end all for getting any muff sound and having all the gain/eq options. The expression filter looks like a lot of fun too. I would use this live on my bass board cuz it has clean blend…currently the Green Russian Reissue has the distortion/fuzz duties but no clean blend, although i kick on fuzz when we go into heavy shoegaze mode and grungey sections of our songs, so im not sure if i really need a clean blend. But for guitar, this seems like a muff Swiss army knife.
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- KVRAF
- Topic Starter
- 7094 posts since 22 Jan, 2005 from Sweden
If in doubt continue looking
But there were some more metal style ones for Chief Disruptor that may fit your taste better if it was not covered in my first post link.
Chief Disruptor is not part of those in links, but really excel in flexibility.
- three distinct modes to be in ballpark
- bass+treble and pre/post eq blend
- on top of that parametric eq to be there all the time to sculpt further, or kick in as needed
- and master volume out
Yeah, swiss army knife is a good description.
But there were some more metal style ones for Chief Disruptor that may fit your taste better if it was not covered in my first post link.
Chief Disruptor is not part of those in links, but really excel in flexibility.
- three distinct modes to be in ballpark
- bass+treble and pre/post eq blend
- on top of that parametric eq to be there all the time to sculpt further, or kick in as needed
- and master volume out
Yeah, swiss army knife is a good description.