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Most popular Distortions products (856)

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  ProCo Sound RAT 2

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  Boss MT-2 Metal Zone

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  Boss DS-1 Distortion

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  Suhr Riot Mini

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  Elektron Analog Drive

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  Marshall JH-1 The Jackhammer

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  Amptweaker TightMetal Jr

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  T-Rex Engineering Nitros

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  Boss DS-1X Distortion

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  MXR M116 Fullbore Metal

Latest editorial reviews on Distortions

• 3.5 / 5

  Boss reinvents the DS distortion pedal

  07/30 1

  
  This year, Boss has been releasing new stompboxes at a prodigious pace: two at Winter NAMM and three at Summer NAMM. All are reinventions of older Boss pedals. The DS-1X, released along with the OD-1X in January, is a revamped digital version of the DS-1. How does it compare to its predecessor? We tested them head to head as part of this review.

• Palmer Automat Review

  02/24

  
  On the occasion of our recently published Palmer Mutterstolz distortion pedal review, your favorite website decided to revisit some of the German brand's Root Effects, and here we review Automat, an analog distortion/auto-wah that saw the light of day in February 2012.

• Palmer Mutterstolz Review

  02/13

  
  Back in the day when fluorescent colors were in fashion, amps resembled fridges, all the songs on the radio had a guitar solo after the second chorus, and the Berlin Wall was still standing (Bingo!, the '80s), German brand Palmer made a name for itself among guitar players with products such as the very popular PI-03 speaker simulator in rack format with a gray and austere front panel.

Latest user reviews on Distortions

• “Two Distortion, Each with Unique Tone Characteristics (Classic & Modern)”

  dpFX Pedals Eris Dual Distortion
  10/07 by MGR/Brian Johnston

• “I'm in love”

  Biyang Metal-End
  06/18 by bled4bathori

• “A well-blended octave-up with clear cutting distortion”

  Moody Sounds Octorsion
  02/25 by MGR/Brian Johnston

Latest news on Distortions

• [NAMM] Amptweaker introduces Jr Series effects

  01/24
  Amptweaker has introduced the new Jr Series distortion pedals, three compact (but also less complete) variations of some of their original models.

• [NAMM] Amptweaker presents TightMetal ST

  01/24

• [NAMM] Ibanez to introduce three new Mini pedals

  01/15

List of feature articles on Distortions

• The best overdrive pedals for electric guitar

  03/30 3

  
  With over 100 overdrive pedals listed on just one gear-shopping website, how does one choose the top five? The first order of business is to define the terms: An overdrive pedal should have enough volume to distort a clean amplifier before adding gain from the pedal. It should also have enough gain to provide a dirty sound on its own, though anything over a mild distortion is gravy...

• Understanding Those Magic Boxes of Doom

  06/27

  
  So the bad news is, it’s virtually impossible to tell what the distortion pedal sounds like without auditioning it personally.

• The Next Big Thing in Guitar Distortion

  12/21

  
  If you're a guitarist and you're not into multiband distortion...well, you should be. Just as multiband compression delivers a smoother, more transparent form of dynamics control, multiband distortion delivers a "dirty" sound like no other.

Latest forums on Distortions

• Comments about the review: Review of the Boss DS-1X

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• Comments about the feature article: The Top 5 for Overdrive

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