Was a honor to be in Your video!

"play two notes per minute through three fuzz pedals and smoke a joint in between like the Doom guys" lol, that's hilarious

Make metal dirty again

"Kaputt, Kindergarten and Blitzkrieg" I'd buy that album based on the title alone

Congrats Christian - you've just found 90's sound of Polish metal bands :D

I really like using a fuzz pedal and a TS style overdrive in front of it. It doesn't give you a super tight sound, but it absolutely makes it way more usable for riffs, and it makes palm muted actually work.

This is the kind if thing I'm looking for. The old school swedish dm/hm-2 tone with more control.

"a bag of potatoes falling down the stairs" hahaha holy shit that was a good one, i'm gonna start using that

The DARK SIDE of DISTORTION! Who's coming with me? Any recommendations from your side?

This is why I love Sludge Metal so much. All kinds of different nasty tones. Fast or slow.

You can get a mighty mean tone by boosting a JCM-style amp with a Metal Zone. I'm currently using that on my Doom project with a Peavey Windsor and it sounds very reminiscent of The Vision Bleak's older tones.

An album with a great dirty guitar tone is Remission, the first Mastodon album. That tone always blew my head off.

"a bag of potatoes falling down the stairs" is probably the best description of guitar tone I've heard in a while hahaha

Great way to make a fuzz sound more like a tight distortion is take a less extreme style fuzz (I use a mkII tonebender clone) and max the fuzz on it then stick a treble booster behind it and bam all the low end mess gets cleaned up fantastically. So signal path is guitar into treble booster into fuzz into amp. I’d recommend passive pickups for this but if you use higher output pickups or actives then you’re gonna wanna then the boost down a little bit otherwise it becomes too much. This also works with like a ts style overdrive before the fuzz but not as well. Also I use this in the clean channel with no dirt but it might sound good with the amp a bit dirty idk I haven’t tried it.

I think the Axe FX is the new modern metal sound. Bands are making sounds/tones with those things that can't be replicated with tube amps + real gear. That said...Marshall 2205 + RAT pedal was my go-to back in the day. Not fuzzy. Not distorted. Ended up being something in between.

I'm playing at this moment in a Swamp Sludge/Stoner/Doom Metal band, and hearing the Fuzz instantly takes me to that Sludge feeling, vibe. I'm the guy who will make the fuzz out of control. Awesome one dude.

Second!

Yes, make metal more dirty! Love the tech death metal when it came up but nowadays it's way too clean!

This seems to be what Kurt Ballou does so well.

The Walrus Jupiter fuzz sounds pretty heavy when boosted with a tubescreamer.

I recorded a new song double tracked with different distortion/fuzz combinations. Guitar A was with a Tube Screamer going into a Russian Pickle Fuzz. Guitar B was a Tube Screamer going into a Rat pedal. Huge wall of sound when both tracks are engaged in stereo.

YEESSS! And don't forget to mention, that the part of the secret to your dirty, but still somehow tight sound is your amazing Fernandes baritone guitar! Scale means a lot when you use lower tunings, because it controls the strings tension. Right tension in the strings makes any gain and low frequencies more controllable. A quantity of srings is nothing but more scale length for that solid punchy tone with a lot of clarity. To tell the long story short: strings 27'

The Jupiter pedal kicked ass! Happy new year :)

"Today I want to enter dirt land" - things you can say when dialing in your guitar tone, but also to your girlfriend..

Awesome video! I wish more people would tweak their sound a bit to get more unique tones. We are reamping our album with a blend of boosted 5150 and a Butcher, HM-2, multiple mics, and a mix of speakers. I love coming up with unique yet familiar tones 🤘🏻

How about a ProCo RAT for some dirt?

Sounds good. Cool that it actually worked out well in a mix

excellent content! great to see you have your own channel! Greetings from Ecuador!

Great video. A luxury to hear so many great dirt pedals. I have a power trio. A journalist said my music has a SABBATH vibe but with a Prog Rock sensibility. My pedal board is virtually wired as 4 pedal boards. I use a switcher to switch between them. Each one has about 20 pedals with a compressor, a choice of dirt pedals a gate. delay and reverb. Some have modulation pedals. This allows for dramatic changes between the verse, chorus, mid 8 bridges etc. So I go from low gain pedals for flat picking ...to medium and high gain Marshall type sounds to modern Metal sounds even doom sounds with both OD's and Fuzz pedals. We do my 26 tunes and I use every one of my 72 pedals. In most tunes I use 3 different dirt sounds. I am always looking for better. The Okko Black Beast is a 'must have' Okko also do the Dominator which they put out 15 years ago. They have updated it so it has a balance between the really, really heavy old school and a modern Metal. You will not use on every tune but it killer to write some 'grinders' with. Get your tempo down between 75 to 100 bpm. You will find you come with some really cool new ideas.

Your videos are getting better and better !!! This video is very refreshing and really different to what you would find from the main stream Metal KZfaqrs !! I really enjoyed every second of it. Interesting to hear a studio, producer guy explore sounds that are not tight and controlled 😄 !! I believe one of the limit of metal guys today, is we are all afraid to disappear in the mix if our tone is not tight, with a lot of brightness and bite. I think one great example of unconventional metal tones is Rabea Massaad in Toska. He's as well a big Fuzz user. Well he's the only guitar in the mix and the bass guy is super tight and focused so he has monstrous wall of sound metal tones !!!

I feel this is one area the digital domain has a leg up. The only downside is setting up a rig for live use. Although the cost of doing that nowadays isn't super crazy.

High on Fire has some awesome riffs with fuzzy distortion. Love it!

Fantastic demonstration of the tone chasing/finding processes.

I’ve come to fall in love with fuzz pedals. Most people with a cello when they play distortion go high up. I like the low end infinite sustain I can get with a bow. It only takes crunch levels of distortion to turn a cello’s sound to being super dirty. Suddenly you add fuzz to the equation. It would blow the world away.

Pro Tip: take a super thick fuzz with a shit ton of low end and mids and throw a tight drive in front of it. Example: Frost Giant Soma with a Pepers' Pedals Dirty Tree in front of it.

The second riff sounds like some In Flames from the old days! You got me already at that point! Great content as always!

Always love your videos, this ones no exception! Excited for all the new content

Those kind of fuzzier lows in modern metal always reminds me of Heartwork from Carcass, love the guitar sound in that album

This is the kind of sound I like, heavy AF but still controlled. I'm running a TH30 with the gain at about 2:30 with an old school MXR 10 band in the loop to remove some of the boomy low end but keep the depth and sculpt the mids.

cool you're using that Brunetti XL! I used to have the XL Revo2, it was an amazing amp!

When you played the first chord on the Okko pedal with the Kaput turned up, I immediately made a stank face. That sounded incredible.

Awesome video! Thank you so much Kristian!

Also that tone is amazing and the pictures of sausages cooking really needs to be a channel in itself

1:14 dude the riff is amazing !!!!

I really love your channel and how you work and think, I am all about unconventional recording and doing something crazy as Sylvia Massy and here you have so much great stuff! Thank you and keep rocking!

Dude you are just great! Pushing the envelope. Dispelling myths. Keep up the good work.

1:14 that rhythm slaps

Great riffs and great tones!! \m/

Hey, Kohle! You need to try the Karma Suture (germanium fuzz pedal), from Catalin Bread, used in front of the hi gain channel of a metal amp. Use it like you would use a tubescreamer! Sounds awesome! I've been using this setup with an Engl Powerball. It's weird but, it's like the pedal gives the amp another set of balls, it does something i can't explain to its attack that is thick and balsy, but without the typical "spit" of most fuzzes! Great video, hugs!

Happy new fuzz year👍

I have been experimenting with this for sometime. It has been quite enjoyable. Rabea Massaad uses this as well. Tasteful introduction of fuzz with a high gain tone gives a lot of thickness and character.

That was fun and inspirational, as always. I feel Will Putney does a good job in getting more distortion and mayhem into modern extreme metal, for example on The Sea of Tragic Beasts by Fit For An Autopsy.

To tame the lows it might be interesting to try some multiband distortion pedals and/or a combination of different pedals run in parallel through a high/low crossover pedal.

I've been adding disgusting octave fuzz just over top certain riffs in my productions lately and I love it. Really adds another layer of brutality. Sick video brother, as always. Happy New Year 🍺💪

I prefer the late 80's thrash metal tones.

I find some, especially cheap, fuzz pedals work great into gain channels as boosts. Fuzz/drive all the way down, tone just over 12 o'clock, volume up. It has a similar effect as the tone in your video. Acts like a tube screamer but with a bit more grit. Instead for a tube screamer in front of a fuzz a top boost or mid boost also tames the fuzz bottom end well.

Would love to see you do a video on running your guitars through a bunch of household appliances and other crazy shit... light bulbs, drill, vibrator... things I'm sure you've got laying around the studio haha

Great video as usual, greetings from Argentina

I’ve recently been playing with a similar idea. I have the Old Blood Noise Haunt Fuzz and drive it with a Behringer SF300. I use the mix knob on the Haunt to blend to taste. Just waiting on delivery of my Oh My Goat ;) to blend that in place of the SF300

i was actually just considering running a "metal distortion" through a fuzz face and vice versa to see what i end up with. might update later if its got good results.

Should have called that pedal SUN IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND!

The trick is to use a cranked mid boost before the fuzz with the fuzz gain backed off a bit. Hard clipping is still hard clipping, but it will tighten up the bass some. I have gotten a pretty passable metal tone with a Rat boosted in this way, although the Rat isn't a fuzz, more of a distortion, and the Big Muff works in a similar way if you want a thick and scooped distortion. Big Muff typically wrecks your bass like a fuzz, but mid boosting cleans it up.

i just got me the Jive pedal. it´s awesome. adds really interesting textures to your tone. and it seems the LED has been adressed. mine isn´t that bright at all. thanks for the suggestion, Chris.

Hey man reminds me of downs 3rd album over the under tone that I love dirty yet still punch and some clarity cool for more bluesy metal!

That speaker combo just awesome Can’t get enough of that brutal tone Haven’t been able to put my guitar down since giving it a try Keep tone advice coming 👍👍

Boy, that was a nice fucking riff at the beginning. It gave me some In Flames vibes.

A lot of the gnarly overtones and nastiness you bring up are exactly why I love the Proco Rat and the HM2 so much. That Okko Black Beast reminds me a lot of a Proco Rat, would not be surprised if the circuit is similar. Gotta run that Grindstein in the crunch or lead channel for some proper chainsaw tone. Clean channels or power amps just can't quite get there. ;p

I agree, the Tubescreamer can help to tame the otherwise unusable fuzz coming outta nother pedal. Mainly only cuz it's hard to find a good fuzz while stuck at home, I had to make do with the other "fuzz" I already have now: an OLD DigiTech Grunge. I got that one as part of a set of second hand pedals full of Ibanez Series 7 pedals (including the SM7 Smash Box, which is what I really wanted) plus a bunch of other pedals including the Grunge. For the longest time I've never really played much with it cuz it's a "bit" too uncontrolled. However during the past year (2020), with one being stuck at home with lots of extra time and less things to do, I started messing around those pedals in my "unusable" pile. With a Tubescreamer (I'm using the TS7 Ton-Lok version) it becomes a bit more manageable and actually sounds fairly good. However, not good enough to topple my current pedals for the heavier hairy side: Ibanez SM7 Smash Box, or my occasional alt, the MT-2 Metal Zone (which is admittedly finicky as hell AND prefers to be in the amp's return loop).

This is brilliant...personally I love fuzz....for bass. Not a fan for guitar by itself but this video is chock full of badass ideas

I simply love the tone and sound produce with the Jupiter alongside other effects, reminds me of Old Swedish Death Metal!!!!

Thanks for the heads up, I just ordered a Jive pedal based on this video

very interesting topic. this is exactly the subject i'm dealing with and I also had to realize that the nice bruzzliger fuzz and a tightly distorted sound somehow don't go together. But the first sound you played came very close to that. I play an Engl Ironball and I think it has something doomy about it. I've experimented a little with a TCElectronic Rusty Fuzz and the "famous" Super Fuzz from Behringer and when the Rusty is easily integrated into the lead channel, the whole thing is pretty cool. Tc's mojojmojo overdrive has something fuzzy too. My goal is to get an early Black Sabbath sound on steroids. A Sound between Stoner like Bongzilla and the tightness like every modern Metal Band xD. A tight bruzzler ;) The only sound of what worked roughly for me is Nola from Down. It's an amazing sound. A mix of harsh modern distortion with a retro-oldschool-blusy-fuzzy sound. It has the hardness of modern metal but also a lot of warmth. And warmth is the thing that i miss in typical metal Sound

My favorite tone is my Mooer preamp live emulating an ENGL Blackmore with a Maxon 808 overdrive going through the Rattlesnake IR from your Eminence Metal IR pack! It sounds amazing!

Great, that at 13:30 the harmonies are staying melodic.

Intro Sounds awesome! I used a Fuzz (Blackout Effectors Blunderbuss Fuzz) as a boost for years. Last summer I also used a Behringer SF300 on the Fuzz 1 setting alongside a HM2 clone in the studio to get a really disgustingly awesome tone for a part of a song. If you want to use a Fuzz for a metal tones I would suggest to use it as a boost like a Tubescreamer, Fuzz pedals have more character tough. The Behringer SF300 on the boost setting is a damn nice OD pedal as well, sounds way better than the 23€ it costs!

I gave up on my expensive gear, when with cheap stuff and I love my tone now.

That sounded badass, might have to experiment with blending fuzz in.

richtig geil! Wenn wir irgendwann mal ein Album aufnehmen, kommen wir vielleicht vorbei :D

Great riff Christian! Love that!

Good stuff man! I was having trouble as well getting an articulate enough tone trying while still being massive and fuzzy. I now use 2 amps. 1 with super extra fuzz and lows and the other with a tight modern tone and blend the volumes. Each through a 2x12 (:

High on Fire

Dude, your channel is awesome!!! I love it!!! Your channel, Silas Fernandes Channel and Spectre Sound Studios Channel are simply the best on entire You Tube!!! Keep Metal!!!

Modern, overdriven, or clean 2 effects never get turned off in my chain. 1. JHS - Morning Glory (blue side, everything at 12 o'clock) 2. BBE Sonic Maximizer. Those two things just make everything sound better and tighter. The morning Glory is just magic. Especially for single coil clean tones. But even dirty it just adds a presence that my Friedman doesn't have. And love it or hate it I'm sorry the Sonic Maximizer just adds so much punch and saturation like nothing else. I use the rack version and all the hate I've ever seen for it were from the pedal version. I'm sure you've seen them around. But for sure checkout the Morning Glory IMO it's as magical as a Klon or King of Tone.

Nice! This pretty much confirms a lot of my approach to distortion and fuzz when playing Doom. When you engage the Black Beast, its reminiscent of a Marshall Mode 4 head distortion. Its the reason not a lot of people liked it for pure high gain, but it has that same "fuzzed up" quality. I use a Mode 4 for playing Doom metal for that very reason. The problem for me with purely fuzz based doom tones (typically Orange amp clean channels with a black russian Big Muff or Proco Rat in front of it) is that you lose the palm mute "crunch". Having a tube screamer or boost in the mix can bring that back, but hearing this, im hearing the same dirty distortion qualities as my MF350.

Love using super low tuned with fuzz and a TS or Horizon Drive in front. Cut the boost off for leads and kick it back on for chugging and riffs

awesome vid as usual !!! just wanted to give a shout out to - after years and years of trying to find a fuzz pedal that matches the sound in my head - Old Blood NE’s Haunt Fuzz Pedal .. not sure if its the rectifier power section, but i never got a good fuzz tone on my mesa dr .. they all sound great on my JCM 800, but they all sound bad on my mesa.. the OBNE fuzz however changed all that.. would love to see how you would use the Haunt pedal - settings etc. .. thx vm

just bought the jptr micro jive saturator, thanks for the discount!

I haven't bought your IR pack cause i expect to win so.... 😁 Fuzz is not really my thing but to each their own You really think outside the box and are very clear in your ideas, almost got into the fuzz thing. Have a great 2021 Cheers man

Proco Rat or a variant of it dialled in just right as a boost, works perfectly for that dirty nasty sound while still being articulate enough.

Loving your videos🤘🏻I think the Revv G4 and the Big Muff is still the sickest sound so far that you put together. You should check out “The GigRig Wetter Box”

Also for fuzz pedals it's Black Arts Toneworks, Pharaoh being the most recognised from his offer, but in general the guys has his fuzz, dirty distortion game on point so picking other pedal from him might do it for you. Or his cooperation with DOD, Boneshaker

This video was sweet. What would be cool though is if we could hear them A/B in the mix. Those riffs by the way are sick.

For a fuzz (I mainly use fuzz for bass) I have an MXR Super Badass Variac Fuzz, which allows you to adjust volume and voltage. Has a lot of tones in it.

Love it! This is exactly the kind of thing I've been interested in. My main preamp is the Engl e530, which is great, but almost too clean and pretty.

Love the series already.

I would really like to have a Grindstein. Not only are the physical pedal beautiful, every sound you make with it sounds fantastic!. But damn, with the pandemic and just becoming a dad, the Grindstein seems to remain a dream for me...

Though I'm not into fuzz distortion (at all), that intro sounds killer!

the EMG is helping the signal stay tight and compressed but what about with passive pickups?

I have been searching for the same thing. I use a Fuzzlord Troglodyte with a jhs series3 distortion or DOD 250 in front of it. Into a clean amp. I bought the Jupiter pedal, thanks for the discount

Hey Kristan, you said that the HM-2 is a nightmare in the studio. I agree with you, I've been trying to record with one, sending it directly into my audio interface and using an amp sim with it. I've never managed to make it sound good and make it fit in a mix. A video on how to use the HM-2 (and the Grindstein) with an IR in a mix would be awesome.