48 circuits
Distortion pedals run several gain stages into hard clipping for a saturated sound that stands on its own rather than just pushing your amp. These 48 distortion circuits each come with a free printable drill template sized for their enclosure.
Nothing to tape down, nothing to slip, and it wraps the sides so the jacks line up. The editor makes one from your own layout, for the exact enclosure you picked, $29.
One of the original boutique drive pedals from the 1970s, notable for its method of overdriving an op-amp directly rather than using diodes for clipping.
View template →Based on the MXR® Distortion+ and DOD 250, one of the first drive circuits to use an op-amp.
View template →Compare to Fulltone Secret Freq
View template →Love them, hate them, or roll your eyes with utter indifference - The Beatles kicked out some fantastic tone.
View template →Compare to JHS PG-14
View template →Ed Guidry's high-gain distortion designed to recreate Eddie Van Halen's famous Brown Sound .
View template →Compare to Animals Pedal I was a Wolf in the Forest Distortion
View template →Compare to GTC Bloody Finger
View template →The 1978 redesign of the classic Big Muff, using op-amps instead of transistors. Famously used by Billy Corgan on Siamese Dream.
View template →Based on the Cornish P-2 and G-2, two adaptations of the Big Muff circuit that add Pete Cornish’s meticulously-tuned buffered bypass switching.
View template →Compare to Boss DF-2 Distortion
View template →Compare to VFE Alpha Dog
View template →Compare to Seymour Duncan Dirty Deed™
View template →Compare to BearFoot Dyna Red Distortion
View template →Compare to DOD FX-50B, FX-53, FX-55B
View template →Compare to Cornish G-2
View template →Compare to Mad Professor Stone Grey Distortion
View template →Based on the BOSS® HM-2 Heavy Metal, a unique distortion effect favored by extreme metal guitarists for its characteristic “buzzsaw” sound.
View template →A distortion-tweaker's delight. There's so much tone on tap with this one you'll lose track of time.
View template →Compare to Marshall Guv'nor
View template →Based on the Electro-Harmonic Big Muff Pi, one of the most classic pedals of all time, somewhere between distortion and fuzz with incredibly long sustain.
View template →Based on the Pro Co RAT Distortion, a distortion pedal with a very distinctive and tight mid-to-high-gain character made iconic by 1980s hard rock bands.
View template →Compare to Colorsound Tone Bender Distortion
View template →Compare to Snake Oil Marvellous Engine Distortion
View template →Compare to Mr Black Thunderclaw Distortion
View template →Metal mayhem in a box that emulates some sweet fully Kranked amps, now in a more board-friendly vertical 1590B format.
View template →Compare to ProCo Rat
View template →Compare to Ibanez MT10 Mostortion
View template →Compare to Cornish P-2
View template →Compare to Boss HM-2
View template →Based on the Ibanez® MT-10 Mostortion, a rare and very expensive low-to-mid-gain overdrive with 3-band EQ popular in the Nashville scene.
View template →Compare to Catalinbread Sabbra Cadabra
View template →Compare to Boss HM-3
View template →Compare to Maxon SD-9 Sonic Distortion
View template →Compare to Electro-Faustus EF-111 Guitardammerung Distortion
View template →Compare to Cornish SS-2
View template →Compare to Cornish SS-3
View template →Compare to MXR Distortion II
View template →Big, fat, high-gain distortion with a great range of tones thanks to the Contour control.
View template →Compare to Providence Stampede SDT-2
View template →Based on the Marshall Shredmaster, a great mid-gain amp-like distortion with a 3-band EQ that was Most notably used by Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead.
View template →Compare to Castledine The Wizard
View template →Compare to Funny Little Boxes Skeleton Key
View template →Inspired by the Friedman BE-OD, the Thermionic Distortion provides searing British-flavored high gain tones through any amp
View template →Clone of the MXR Distortion+, the 70's workhorse of the rich and famous (well, Randy Rhodes apparently).
View template →Compare to Dawner Prince Red Rox
View template →Compare to Noel Victoire
View template →Compare to Mr Black White Widow Distortion
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