As a doom/prog/noise guy, I can confirm I have been doing this for years. Love the stuff man

Praise the saw!

The main guitar tones on Sepultura - Roots were achieved with a modified Big Muff (added tube gain stage) by Indigo Ranch Studios owner Richard Kaplan (RIP). Add a bit more presence and/or treble to those guitar tones and you get something quite similar to what you hear in this video. Fuzz tone that chugs. Love it.

The Big Muff and Behringer pedals sounded so cool paired with the Revv. Great stuff, Kohle!

Have you heard END? It‘s Will Putney‘s band where he also plays live (with members from different well known metalcore bands). There he has a really nice aggressive, heavy tone. He uses a Way Huge Swollen Pickle (muff type) into a 6505+ but he uses the fuzz to get kind of an HM-2 chainsaw tone. Then he adds a low octave for the chugga chugga and it sounds SUPER heavy. And they play in Drop C!

When you add the TS to the Big Muff, it sounds like an HM2!

watching how you blend basic metal tone with HM2 on the Aborted session, i start blending mine with RAT when the genre calls.

That big muff combo is incredible! All of these tones are unique, and seem like they have solid applications. Killer video!

Holy shit that was great. And the best part is... is that i have all of these fuzz pedals bahaha Time for some fun on my day off!

Follow me to the Dark side of Distortion! What are you guys doing to sound dirty?

Very HM-2-ish sounds - which confirms my suspicion that the HM-2 is actually a fuzz pedal on steroids. The split setup certainly gives you more options then the HM-2 alone, without losing any br00tality. I personally liked the sounds with the Big Muff and the Behringer pedal best. Great video, as always - keep 'em coming!

thanks for being our crazy german metal scientist, we appreciate it!!

Thats so funny that this popped in my feed. I just got a new tube head and i have an hx effects ao ive been experimenting with different tones of gain stacking a lot lately using the 4 cable method and some creative signal routing and ive got great results lately from blending overdrives, distortions, and fuzzes. It seems like you're getting the same results, the tightness and brutality of a great metal tone, and The shining personality of the fuzz coming through at the same time. It just gives such good character to your tone

Sounds just great man, this is exactly the devilish science we need! I'm definately gonna try this in the digital, once I get my Neural DSP Quad Cortex.

Loving your Videos. it´s so much fun seeing you doing and loving the shit you do and learning a lot on the way. Makes me wanna instantly grab my Fuzz pedals and start going.

Think I liked the cheap 'n nasty Behringer the best, loved the bite that it had. Bender came in last for me, too mid/boxy driven for my taste. Another great vid, driving home that it's important to experiment w/your guitar tone!

i can also recommend using a 'range-master' type treble booster before a lower gain fuzz. it can really break through the muddyness while still being harsh and aggressive!

This demo had some great sound! When I listened to the comparison at the end, I liked the final result with the JHS fuzz best, due to the artifacts/character on the high mids, and how they interacted with the bass guitar. I dug the mix with the JHS Bender the best in this group. Always great to learn from the masters, and this thorough comparison test was great fun! Thanks for the video.

I happened upon the combination of modern distortion and fuzz as a makeshift approach to getting that dirty sound you described in your last video. This video is wonderful addition and very helpful! Thank you!

Those are all great sounds - I've got lots of ideas now. Thanks, man!

I have a boss ls-2 line selector that works pretty well for mixing pedals. A big muff mixed with a boss sd-1 was pretty interesting. I also like to run a hm-2 in one loop and leave the other loop empty to use as a clean blend. Definitely recommend for anyone who wants to experiment around.

Great video, I love the more broken tones, more character in your sound

Killer idea!! Your vids are top notch!!

Th more I watch the more I actually really like every single sound you've pulled out of those pedals.brutal.

The way Kohle mimics his guitar sound with his voice is some kind of art and hilarious. Also toneblender is a cool name

Great video Kohle! Love both the combinations of the preamp with Big Muff and the Behringer pedal. I think that really gives back a bit of the raw un-controlledness that new amps/distortion pedals have lost through today's supreme build quality.

Maybe also try a Proco Rat pedal, I really dig it as a raw sounding boost with lots of character. The Boss JB2 might also be a intersting pedal as you can do a parallel blend of OD and distortion.

Thank you for the insight,you're awesome. I also appreciate the personality. Makes the video very enjoyable to watch. Rock on🤘

All you need is them pedals you got there. Stacking is the way to go but you took it a step further into bad ass territory. Such a versatile rig you got in this video. I'd love to have that revv

AMAZING!!! Such a great idea - I'll definitely try that! Thank you so much for sharing!

I ADORE fuzz..!!! One must be very strategic in it's usage however. I got the Vox Tonebender sound down, with added disco phaser... for CRAZY solos! haha bless you man. Only just found your channel; instant sub! Stay healthy out there

Great video, you always leave me with wanting to play around with my stuff.

Also, if you're double tracking rhythm guitar, try one extremely tight amp with smooth distortion (like a Randall Diavlo 100) on one side and one that has a very rough distortion (like an ENGL Thunder 50) on the other side. The combination is great!

Thank you and the community for this idea. I will definitely purchase a big muff and an aby pedal to try this method.

Bender and Revv has a clarity and gnarly crackling mid. Great video !!!

This is so cool! definitely going in the tone toolbag There's so much more you could do with octave stuff though, like maybe the 3 man Jack white fuzz/octave would be cool

I use an EHX Metal Muff with top boost and a Pro Co Rat 2 in parallel using an EHX Tri Parallel Mixer. I have never heard such a good tone in my life

OMFG the head with a mix knob on the fx loop is genius! actually allows to blend in another preamp!

OK, now i have to get some kind of splitter to start blending things. Awesome as usual🔥

Beautiful! I know what I'm doing later tonight. BE-OD and a Mountainking Megalith (or the BAT Pharaoh) are gonna be brutal.

Thank you Kristian! I followed along using my Axe-FX III and the FAS 6160 amp ... it was a splendid time under your tutelage :) 4 drive blocks with 4 drives each makes routing super simple and controls endlessly possible :)

Great video as awaited :-) 14:40 is a super oldschool death metal guitar tone. Reminded something like Banished - Deliver Me Unto Pain, my fav metal video, by the way.

Another refreshing and unique video in the KZfaq metal ocean 🤘🏻🤘🏻😄 !! I absolutely loved the big Muff and Revv G4 combination. But all the others were not ridiculous. You are rehabilitating Fuzz pedals for me 😁 !! One very interesting thing in your video was the polarity switch. How is this working ? I am using a crazy stereo pedal from TC electronics called Mimiq. It simulates double tracking and blew my mind in Stereo configuration. However I experienced some "out of phase" issues (my low end was gone). It would be very nice to have a video of you talking about stereo rigs and out of phase issues and how to solve them. Since I tried Stereo and double tracking I think I can never come back to mono 😂. Cheers from Penzberg Bayern 🤘🏻🤘🏻

Awesome. I've been blending my cheap joyo octave fuzz and an acapulco gold EQ devices with the neural dsp plugins just for certain less precise sections in the song. Loving the results. It's almost to clean and boring without it now. Great vid. 🍺💪

Thank you! This was so good! You Sir do deserve a beer!

So I had to write this comment even though I had first watched this video around the time it came out 2 months ago. I was so impressed with the tones you nailed, particularly in how you nailed a tone that was so damn nasty yet detailed enough to be well defined, it inspired me to replicate your setup and modify it for my own taste in tone as I wanted a more traditional "polished" high gain sound; one signal goes into my 1x12 combo Traynor Custom Special 50 and the other signal goes into my Tech 21 US Steel Sansamp, which then hits the return of the Traynor's effects loop. Now I had only gotten the Traynor tube amp in January of this year and it was my first tube amp as before I was using another variant of Tech21's Sansamp that was DI'd into a powered speaker. So since then I had gotten to learn how to use the amp and I had figured that the clean channel could do a clean fender or clean Marshall tone, but the distortion channel had a lot of mids similar to a medium gain channel of a Mesa Boogie mark series. And when I had watched this video, I confirmed that my Traynor amp had a parallel effects loop and I immediately ordered the US Steel Sansamp as it was based off of Higher Gain mesa boogies, such as dual rectifiers, and I assumed it would match up with the dirty channel of my Traynor amp. And because I had learned well from watching this video, I ended up nailing the best high gain guitar tone that I had ever gotten out of my current rig or any of my previous rigs! It does not sound anything like this video as we went in polar opposite directions of tone, but the setup remains the same as yours. I even run not one, but two boosters; a tube screamer clone that goes into a TC electronic spark boost that's setup on the mid frequency setting with cuts to bass and treble. I also can set this up for some of the best clean tones you will ever hear. I can have my sansamp set up for a tone thats dry and just on the edge of breakup, and I can hit the traynor's preamp with a wet signal full of modulation and delay effects while retaining my dry tone on the sansamp. This replicates the much desired Wet/Dry rig without the need of a second amplifier. Thanks again for sharing your knowledge and wisdom to the rest of us! You've for sure gained a lifetime subscriber in me

I have a Line 6 HX Stomp patch where I blend a Hyperfuzz on mode 2 with a ProCo Rat. I wasn't using it for modern metal, but rather really slow stoner/doom/drone. I wanted a cross between the Electric Wizard Dopethrone tone and the huge thick low end of SunnO))). In the A/B in this video, I actually preferred the Tone Bender! Don't really like the sound on its own, but the midrange really popped out of the mix.

Loving this! Gonna have to try a few combos of my own.

Another great video! I have a preference for the big muff and the super fuzz, but they all sounded cool, I actually have this cheap fuzz with a dry blend, gonna see if it works!

Really really kaput! -best description I've heard in a long time :D :D great video by the way!

Amazing sounds here. Great video!

Loving this video! I was using as a main hi gain tone, a parallel chain with a fuzz emulation in my POD X3 Live, and in the other chain a hi gain preamp with an overdrive, basically because in that way i can hard pan and do instant double tracking, but with a lacking of blending tones (that means in a channel i have the clarity of hi gain, and in the other the lack of clarity of the fuzz but a little bit chunkier). But now i use a POD X3 in mono (not stereo out anymore), and i'm gonna use again a blend in mono of the fuzz and a hi gain with an overdrive. I hope later add an cheap OD pedal like Digitech bad monkey or Marshall guvnor 2 plus to give some more bite to the fuzz octave simulation.

Thank you! I was searching for a way to get a fuzz into a tight sound! I got my Helix now setup with a Revv Purple and a semi clean Hiwatt with the Muff (of course your IR ;D). Sounds brutal af!

Amazing idea thanks so much for doing this video! I'm going straight home and trying this!

What do I do if I like pretty much every type of angry sound there is? Fuzz pedals, overdrive pedals (like the Tube Screamer), distortion pedals, and amp distortion boosted and upboosted. Kristian, wonderful video!

That moment at 11:39 when Kohle realised that it sounds "Black Metal"..... priceless

Thank you Kristian for the question ! It depends on gears, if I'm tube ready, or transistors (solid state technology), digital or software (plug ins), anyway I always crank up the gain on my Krush OD, then into Marshall JMP-1 (tube preamp) than I play the game in every metal contest ! 🍻🍻🍻 👑👑👑🎸🎸🎸🔥🔥🔥

Damn it... I loved the out-of-phase "broken" combination best!

Thank you so much for sharing this! What a killer method, it only starts here. Any combo of drives, distortions, Fuzzes, EQ’s, hell any pedals really, any type of music. The same thing could be done without an amp, you could use an ABY pedal, Morley ABY Mix, EHX Switchblade Pro or EHX Tri Parallel Mixer.

I was getting Triptykon vibes off the JHS/Revv blend. Thanks for the video. Things that make you go 'hmmm' and lab-worthy.

Hello! Always happy to see guitar tone experiments and tone stuff. Any idea if we can achieve the same goal with plugins? Or at least a similar way to blend the fuzz bzzz with the tight thrash! Keep up your videos man!

Love these experiments! Please keep going! I have a non-metal amp, the Laney GH30R-112 combo, its definitely more voiced towards Blues Rock and some hard rock tones, but I've been having great nasty monstrous results mixing fuzz and distortion pedals! Maybe get some non metal amps and experiment with pedals to see what you can get. Cheers!

Hell yeah this episode was cool and gave Me some ideas. As I just bought a big muff deluxe and was blending it with My EVH stealth on the blue and red channels and also using a 10 band eq in the loop giving it a tighter feel and eq-ing the amp as needed

Great demo. I was doing this sort of thing by reamping a clean signal two separate times. I'll have to try this method

Awesome video man! That’s a killer method for developing new heavy guitar tones! Thanks so much for sharing! Here’s some other cheap dirt pedals for blending that work for me: EHX Flatiron Fuzz (Warmer Rat Distortion) Behringer HM300 (Boss HM-2 Clone) ProCo Rat 2 Tone City Matcha Cream (EHX Green Russian Muff Clone, this is the most focused muff model I’ve played, I also own the Triangle and Ram’s Head). I personally think these 3 models are the best sounding muffs, I like them all more than the standard muff models I’ve played. Since these pedals sound better boosted, here’s a couple of cheap tube screamer models too: Behringer TO100 (TS9 Clone) Behringer TO800 (TS808 Clone) I think you’re a killer producer & engineer man! Keep up the great content!

My Hail Satan Fuzz has a 50% dry wet blend on it and I use that to hit the front end of the blue channel of my 5153. Huge, monstrous sound that could do doom or death metal handily.

Damn Kristin. Another great episode. Thanks for the great content and new tips bruv

Same idea ...but on a budget: Boss Lineselector performs an A+B mix function, has built in volume/pre so you can blend really easy I have used this splitting (but with 2 different distortions) before to record. You can go DI through a single pre or into the front of single amp

Super experiment!!! i would never imagining the results...

One of the most useful KZfaq vids I have seen in a long time, thank you so much!

I ordered a EHX green Russian big muff this weekend and a dual splitter to try this. You inspired me, my dude!

I have been for awhile just hitting the front end of my Black Arts Pharohoh with my favorite Tubescreamer at the time and going straight in the the front end of my amp. Its been my go to thing for awhile. Key is that a little goes a long way.

One of the best videos on KZfaq. Thank you! I've been looking for tips on this forever

Between this one and your video with the plexi + TS + Ratt, I'm going to need to dust off a couple old pedals and give them another go. Thank you for going deep on these combos!

I can’t wait to get home from work and try this. Sounds amazing

I love this. I do it with a Boss LS-2. My favorite heavy tone is EQD Acapulco Gold boosted by whatever I feel like, mixed with a gnarly fuzz.

Tube screamer into a big muff is a great set up. That used to be my live tone. Always sounded awesome. That sound turns heads for sure.

This video sums up precisely what I’ve been after for the past month. Thank you sir!!!

Subscribed, killer tones I'm gonna try this!

The plasma distortion. Enough fukken said!!!

You should have tried the Behringer and the Fuzzface without the Tubescreamer on. Fuzzfaces really like to be first in the chain, and the Hyper Fuzz that the Behringer is a clone of , was based on the Fuzface

I love that! It sounds so heavy and dark!

No experience with doing this in a live setting, but for recording, I generally just record a separate track with the fuzz and blend it with the center "normal" track.

Great trick, I tested it with my Helix and it works like a charm! I will definitely be using this in the future

This is pretty much the same method I do for my tone. Guitar into Tube Screamer, into HM2 but blended in at 40-50% wet and then into preamp. Playing with the screamer’s tone pot really helps shape the tone and amount of character as well

we need more sounds like these imo :) i love it

I love using an od in front of a fuzz, brings out some mids , killer sound, great video

Excellent video! Definitely opens my eyes to fuzz pedals again! 🤟

I want to hear that 3 way splitter/ mixer with the revv, bender, and muff. That seems like it would be killer.

You make the fuzz sound killer, probs never record with it but it sure does sound super fun to play on 🤘

that's a great idea! i'll have to dig out my roadking

100% the best metal videos on KZfaq. So helpful, insightful and inspiring. Rock on Dude. Cheers from the UK!!

Really nice. Big Muff is my favourite, but its my all time fav fuzz anyway. Maybe i would try to put a delay pedal after the fuzz. A slightly flashback of the fuzz on the tight sound of the rev would be great for lead tones.

On my bass, I've been running an EHX Bass Soul Food with the drive cranked all the way up. The tone, volume and blend at noon. It goes into into a Bass Big Muff, tone all the way down and drive at about 10 o'clock and the dry switch on to keep the clean sound underneath it all. Totally brutal but clear.

You have to try a bit crusher pedal. You can get extremely nasty tones with them.

Pretty sweet tones there man!! Is there any chance to achieve something similar without the splitter and with a Ratt and Boss BLues Driver instead of the Revv and the Tube Screamer?

This video was amazing and opened a world of fun to try at home. Making the world a better place (with more metal 🤘)

I was sold on the idea after just your first riff \m/

I have done this a few times. :D ...Turned into Stoner/Doom/Sludge at my old age. I don't gig anymore, so I use only pedals and IR's to record. A Palmer ss-power-amp if I need to jam with guys. Or just PA-speakers, active. I too split the signal, the first usually to Neunaber Neuron as the "Metal" and the other channel usually has a treblebooster into a fuzz into a Matamp-style preamp-pedal. BUT I have not found a way to join them into mono again, so I record it stereo, or put the otherone into a poweramp-cab and the other into a PA-speaker. Oddly enough, the fuzz-channel sometimes needs a buffer somewhere, but it might have actually been a phase issue. Must check. Cheers!

Awesome tones! I think I liked the Behringer blend the most. So nasty.