Overdrive/ Distortion pedals

[melrhyne]

If you can't get a PEEBSound,

Try any of the Mad Professor pedals.

[Melodic Dreamer]

it sounds like we have tastes along the same lines...although i rather enjoy the hillsongr type worship music. i think their guitarists are great texture players and i've learned a lot from them.

i love Mutemath and Wickham as well. My taste runs from bluegrass to gospel to worship to hardcore to math metal...i really like anything if it's quality....and i really try and allow my playing to be informed by everything i listen to. i grew up in a Pentecostal church...so I did the churchy/gospel thing my whole life and joy playing other things more....but that's my roots and it will always be a part of who i am. (but, what made me look outside of church music for inspiration was i started out playing 80's rock/shred....so i never looked in christian circles for influence...so my playing was always out of the box when compared to most church musicians who never looked beyond michael w. smith or fred hammond for music. when most guys i'd play with were hacking blues licks...i was always coming from a much different place conceptually/approach-wise)

Yea, when I started out I was huge into the metal scene. Then I got into the Guitar Shred Heads. Anything from fast shred blues to Neo Classical (Satriani, Vai, Petrucci, V.Moore, Macalpine) type of stuff. From there I got into people like Greg Howe, Richie Kotzen and Brett Garsed. Which lead me to the Fusion guys, Holdsworth, Gambale, Metheny, Stern and so on.
I can't really listen to a lot of my earlier influences, at least not for a long period of time. Anymore I like mixing my fusion influence with the Indie thing. That has became what I love. I modulate between different chordal tones a lot. No so much in a conventional way.
Listen to the playing in these videos, love this kind of stuff.

Lucien Dubuis Trio & Marc Ribot - Bal les masques!

Michael Landau - Ghouls And The Goblins - 3-11-09

[jlynnb1]

i can't listen to the neo-classical stuff for very long. my biggest early influences were Gilbert, George Lynch, Warren Demartini, Vinnie Moore, Yngwie, Greg Howe, Marty Friedman, Nuno Bettencourt...of those guys the only ones i can listen to for more than a song or two are Howe and Moore.

I do still really enjoy Andy Timmons, Richie Kotzen (one of my favs), Andy James, Jeff Loomis, Guthrie Govan, Joe Bonamassa...along with country guys like Paisley/Mason. I like fusion to an extent....but sometimes guys just get too out there for me. I enjoy hearing outside playing as much as anyone....but when there is no melody or tonal center at all it just becomes noise to me.

of course you can't play modern worship music without being influenced by U2/Coldplay...so they are big influences along with Muse. (LOVE that band)

[Melodic Dreamer]

i can't listen to the neo-classical stuff for very long. my biggest early influences were Gilbert, George Lynch, Warren Demartini, Vinnie Moore, Yngwie, Greg Howe, Marty Friedman, Nuno Bettencourt...of those guys the only ones i can listen to for more than a song or two are Howe and Moore.

I do still really enjoy Andy Timmons, Richie Kotzen (one of my favs), Andy James, Jeff Loomis, Guthrie Govan, Joe Bonamassa...along with country guys like Paisley/Mason. I like fusion to an extent....but sometimes guys just get too out there for me. I enjoy hearing outside playing as much as anyone....but when there is no melody or tonal center at all it just becomes noise to me.

of course you can't play modern worship music without being influenced by U2/Coldplay...so they are big influences along with Muse. (LOVE that band)

LoL Yea Worship music has that dotted 8th delay thing everywhere. Thanks Edge! lol
I'm more of a Vibe and Leslie guy than the dotted delay/reverb trance stuff. It's good and all, but it seems over done in the Christian scene.

Andy Timmons is a very Tasty player. He is what Satriani use to be, before he started writing the same comfortable pop tunes. I'm not down on pop by the way. I like a little of everything. Kotzen on the other hand, is still a favorite of mine. I liked him a little more a few years back though. He was writing songs more so back then. He has slowly started getting back into the fast shredding thing, which for me, gets old pretty quickly. If I get an Urge to hear some quick lines, I would probably listen to Brett Garsed. Allen Hinds is another guy that I've got into. More so his live stuff than his CD's I'll have to admit.

Have you heard of a band called Carney? It's another band I'm into really heavy. Love that stuff!

[jivejong]

I just built a BSIAB (Brown Sound in a Box), and I'm really impressed with it. It defintiely nails the Van Halen tone, and has some nice high gain, Marshall-like sounds in there too. I added a contour control to tweak the mids when needed, and I'm very happy with it. A high gain sound that still has good note definition, even with chords.

Next project is to mod my Metal Zone pedal to take out the nasally mids.

[JayP5150]

Cool, Jive, I didn't know you were into that!

Are you on diystompboxes.com?

[jivejong]

Cool, Jive, I didn't know you were into that!

Are you on diystompboxes.com?

Not on that site........yet
Just got into tweaking pedals. After tweaking axes for years, I figured I'd try something new.

Just got done doing the BSIAB and the Blues Breaker clone. Next up is to mod the MT-2 with the Diezel mod, and then mod my Super Comp with the Ross mod.

[JayP5150]

Check that site out. A lot more knowledge and less hype and mojo than the others.

Plus some of the guys from EH, Visual Sound, etc frequent there.

[jivejong]

Just modded up the Metal Zone, and oh man what a difference. Took out the nasally mids, gave the distortion more range, and tweaked the EQ a little to make it more useful. I was actually about to get rid of this pedal until I modded it. Now it's one of my favs. Took it from being a one trick pony to a 10 trick pony. I can get an overdriven sound, all the way to fuzz out of this. And it does the Metal sounds much nicer, and doesn't get as lost in a mix.

Can't believe I didn't do stuff like this until recently. Time for some more experiments.................