Guitars Amps and Effects - Guitar Distortion Effects
Here’s an authentic, classic distortion effect—the warm and emotive tone that has ruled rock for the last 30 years. This Behringer product has been designed to compete head to head with leading products on the market.* With the dedicated Sustain control, your guitar will learn how to scream! You get a status LED for effect on/off and battery check, and there is a true hard-wire bypass for ultimate in signal integrity. The VD1 runs on a 9 V battery or a DC power supply (not included).
The BD2 delivers the creamy, yet crunchy sound associated with great blues guitar. Instant access to the kind of warm overdrive and emotive distortion usually reserved for 30-year-old tube amps.
Electro-Harmonix put 2 of their classic transistor '69 plug-in Muff Fuzz effects together in 1 box -– which means double the trouble! Using just 1 gives you a hint of milky distortion, or cascading the 2nd lets you turn your milk into cream. Advance orders point to the Double Muff being one of their greatest sellers.
Housed in a compact, die-cast box with smooth corners, The Little Big Muff presents the classic, true-to-heritage, 1970 tone that falls somewhere between the current U.S. Big Muff and the Russian Big Muff. Its long, silky smooth sustain proves that celebrated sound can indeed come in small packages.
Electro-Harmonix spent many months creating what we believe to be the best heavy metal pedal ever built. The Metal Muff utilizes 3 powerful EQ bands, including a midrange control designed for perfect contouring. Along with beautifully sculpted mids, the Metal Muff offers commanding bass and defined top end—coupled with user-controlled distortion from pinched-edge to totally crushing—making it a heavy metal gold mine.
Like the legendary Big Muff Pi of the 70's, the reissue has 3 controls that let the player dial in the finest harmonic distortion/sustain ever produced. The Volume control adjusts the output level. The Sustain control optimizes the long sustain with just the right amount of harmonic distortion. The Tone control provides a range of sounds, from warm bass to crisp treble. A made in NYC original.
The Smashbox is the most aggressive weapon in the Tone Lok distortion arsenal. Armed with obscene amounts of gain, tight low end, and searing highs, the Smashbox is THE heavy rock sound for the contemporary guitarist.
Others may imitate, but no one else can duplicate the Ibanez Tubescreamer. The Tubescreamer isn't just a stompbox, it's an institution. The latest generation Tubescreamer, the TS7, is no exception. With the Tubescreamer's classic subtle-but-smooth overdrive, the TS7 expands the expressiveness of your guitar while maintaining its tonal integrity.
The TS808 reissue features the same famous large square footswitch and the even more famous warm tones of the JRC4558 chip used in most of the original TS808's.
There is no single stomp box more famous than the Ibanez Tube Screamer. Thanks to tubelike distortion, smooth sustain, fat tone, and acclaim by artists too numerous to mention, the Tube Screamer has been and continues to be the world's most popular solid-state overdrive. So much so that after production of the TS9 ended in 1984, used TS9s were going for as much as 4 times their original price at vintage shows a few years later.
From the same factory as the original TS9. The same hand wired analog circuitry. The same warm Tube Screamer overdrive and sustain. The TS9DX also offers 3 new settings for increased low-end crunch: +, Hot, and Turbo, all of which maintain the original TS9 tonal integrity.
When Dimebag Darrell of Pantera first exploded on the scene, he ushered in a new era of tone and attitude. When it comes to guitar, Dime doesn’t need a 'warm' or 'pretty' sound. He can’t be bothered with 'vintage' this or 'boutique' that. He wants a heavy, aggressive, razor-sharp tone that can slice through a loud band and a louder crowd. It’s a tone that rages with distortion but remains tight and focused enough to keep up with lightening-fast rhythm lines and face-melting solos.
This unassuming little box shovels out enough low frequencies to scare a blue whale. It takes your guitar signal, fuzzes it up, then duplicates it two octaves down.
There was a time when the MXR Distortion+ was the only distortion box that mattered. It was seen on stages worldwide and heard on hundreds of timeless recordings. Building on that proud history, MXR introduces an instant classic, the M-151 Doubleshot Distortion. With two distinct channels, huge output, and incredibly quiet operation, this pedal redefines what a distortion box should be. Dial in blues-approved grind or thick, old-school lead tones on one side. Then, with the touch of a button, call up bottom-heavy modern metal sounds or radically-EQ’ed future fuzz.
MXR and Custom Audio Electronics founder Bob Bradshaw -- two names that have shaped the tones of the world’s greatest guitarists -- join forces to bring you a dynamic new line of pedals. The Boost/Overdrive and Boost pedals are the first offerings in the series produced by MXR, featuring the unique sonic stamp of legendary designer Bob Bradshaw. Since 1980, CAE’s innovative pedal designs were made in limited quantities only for his select clientele. When it was time to bring these pedals to the masses, there was only one name he could trust to deliver the same quality and standards that his customers demand -- MXR. Available only from Dunlop Manufacturing, Inc., the world’s leader in analog pedal technology.
MXR and Custom Audio Electronics founder Bob Bradshaw -- two names that have shaped the tones of the world’s greatest guitarists -- join forces to bring you a dynamic new line of pedals. The Boost Overdrive and Boost pedals are the first offerings in the series produced by MXR, featuring the unique sonic stamp of legendary designer Bob Bradshaw. Since 1980, CAE’s innovative pedal designs were made in limited quantities only for his select clientele. When it was time to bring these pedals to the masses, there was only one name he could trust to deliver the same quality and standards that his customers demand -- MXR. Available only from Dunlop Manufacturing, Inc., the world’s leader in analog pedal technology.
Zakk’s take-no-prisoners attitude extends to his quest for tone, too. When he wanted to develop his signature overdrive pedal, he looked no further than Dunlop. The result is the new Wylde Overdrive.
Originally designed as the R2DU (Rat 2 Distortion Unit), a rack effect with a dual foot switch, the Deucetone Rat brings the R2DU out of the rack and onto the floor and the spirit of the R2DU lives on in two independent rat units that can be used separately or together.
Researched and designed to produce a sound that is radically different from any distortion you've ever heard before — a sound as mellow as a vintage twin, or as bone-crushingly powerful as a battery of those famous English stacks — instantly, at any volume.