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Pedal Distortion

Monday, September 5th, 2011

Pedal Distortion
What Do You Think Is The Best Distortion Pedal To Get?

I have a Boss DS-2 which is decent but I’m sure that there’s a lot better fuzz pedals out there. What do you think is the best distortion pedal to get?

BQ: Favourite song that features the pedal you mentioned?

I like the biting early 70’s fuzz, so I think I’m going with the MXR.
Love me my Marshall Class 5, it gives me my 60’s fuzz natively.

bq: I’m going with “Don’t Take Me Alive”—I hear that was an MXR. not sure, though

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The Harmonic Percolator is a distortion pedal that was made in Milwaukee Wisconsin in the 1970’s. It used a silicon NPN transistor and a germanium PNP transistor in a design that passes even order harmonics while suppressing odd order harmonics. These even order harmonics are more pleasing to the ear than odd order harmonics.

This is the original circuit, not someone’s interpretation of it. The …