DIGITECH GRUNGE DISTORTION
When Grunge hit thanx to Nirvana it was an overnight success
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| $35.00 USD ? used |
The band watch to see how its success would be with more than a little apprehension. They were thinking a few hundred sales from a recording not an avalanche.
Grunge came out of need for young players to be able to simply play basic Rock music without the need for big Hair, virtuosity and expensive equipment. Everything about it was small time. A few bad clubs to play with weeks
between gigs for a few dollars or free.The amp of choice was virtually 'whatever' driven by a used Fuzz pedal.
The idea of a good dirt pedal for any genre is not new. The big
problem was simply if you can make authentic Grunge sounds with
an old Fuzz pedal thru your cheap amp then WTF.
So who would buy this pedal? Simple..if you were a kid going to school, living at home with zero experience of playing clubs with strippers and junkies and drunks this was perfect.
A pedal that is half Fuzz and half OD is not new. If this pedal was called the
Digitech DM-1 Distortion with a plain violet paint job it
would be a 'cool old' Metal pedal! The guy that designed it
did a great service for the Doom, Sludge, Stoner King and
Drone crowd ...but Grunge?
CONCLUSION
It is getting close to that borderline where it is so uncool it's cool.
This the time when real Collectors use their ears and grab up these
pedals.
The pedal is not unlike a lot of Fuzz pedals where if you are going to dime the gain it will give you more sludge than extra gain. It's best sounds are virtually on zero. The sustain even on zeo goes on forever. It has more low end than your speakers want to take and more high than your ears can. You will never say "I wish it had more.... " LOL
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