Distortion pedal? needed for my Fender Champion - ideas?

Mark van Allen · Post by **Mark van Allen** » 6 Mar 2011 3:21 pm

Along those same lines you might try the Seymour Duncan Twin Tube, two channel tube preamp in a box. It gets the best sound I've ever heard for lap steel slight overdrive to full on tube distortion. I have one I'll be selling, only because I've gone to a smaller pedal that will fit in my pak seat.

Jason Hull · Post by **Jason Hull** » 6 Mar 2011 4:12 pm

The Fulltone Distortion Pro w/ factory chip upgrade. The mini-pots are a knob-twiddlers dream come true!

http://www.fulltone.com/DP1.asp

Steve Ahola · Post by **Steve Ahola** » 6 Mar 2011 9:37 pm

Jason Hull wrote:The Fulltone Distortion Pro w/ factory chip upgrade. The mini-pots are a knob-twiddlers dream come true!

http://www.fulltone.com/DP1.asp

Jason:

I looked online and these pedals have been discontinued, supposedly replaced by the GT-500. But the distortion section of the GT-500 does not have all of the controls (internal as well as external) of the DP-1. I did find several used ones on eBay.

Steve

P.S. This thread got me wondering about which of my pedals I like best for lap steel and I've been testing them all out today and the $400 Ethos TLE wins hands down. It really is like a Dumble Overdrive Special amp with the tubes replaced with a solid state emulation that Rob Hall has worked on for 20+ years.

You get the Dumble Clean channel, the Dumble OD channel and the OD channel with the PAB (preamp boost) engaged. Lindley has been playing Dumble amps since the 70's and it contributes as much to his tone as his B-6's and Supros. In the realm of regular rock guitar, Robben Ford is probably the one most associated with Dumble.

http://www.customtonesinc.com/

EDIT What works even better is running the Ethos into a T-Rex Viper pedal which is similar to a UniVibe. Set the Depth and Speed to maybe 10:00 and it gives a subtle swirl to the sound. One normally associates the UniVibe with Jimi Hendrix or Robin Trower (Bridge of Sighs) but at low settings the effect does not induce queasiness- it just seems to expand and widen the sound. While phasers and flangers sound very dated (70's and 80's) I think that the vibe effect is timeless.

Jason Hull · Post by **Jason Hull** » 7 Mar 2011 4:23 am

Steve Ahola wrote:I looked online and these pedals have been discontinued, supposedly replaced by the GT-500. But the distortion section of the GT-500 does not have all of the controls (internal as well as external) of the DP-1. I did find several used ones on eBay.

I found six Distortion Pros on Ebay. None of them had the chip upgrade, but still worth the average price of $120.

Robert Mayo · Post by **Robert Mayo** » 7 Mar 2011 7:05 am

I like the Zen drive , hoochee mama and the boss blues driver when utilizing pedals , you may want to make the trip with amp and instrument to a local music store and just try out a few and get the one or ones that catch your ear, sometimes several pedals slaved in a chain can even be the ticket to tone.

Tim Whitlock · Post by **Tim Whitlock** » 8 Mar 2011 3:05 pm

Believe it or not, this little $15 Fab Overdrive sounds great to me. With the OD set to zero you get a nice lo-fi bluesy sound. About halfway up and you get a close approximation of the Lindley sound:

http://guitars.musiciansfriend.com/prod ... sku=151848