FX69-B Grunge

Stop rite now and listen you will love it or hate it. Ok I give an easy ten for straight up metal and grunge noise rock. If you payed for this and expected to sound like your guitar god guru like VIA, Malmsteen, Satriani, Hendrix, Steve Ray V. Pearl Jam etc. HA HA, you wasted your money. This is for the crunch, thrash, extreme, heavy, garage grunge, sounding music like Pantera, Mudvayne, heavy-heavy metal. I'm not that positive if iys for Bullet for My Valentine, All that Reamains, As I lay Dying nu metal though, but I would try it with this too.  Ok I love this metal I bought hoping that it was going to give my sound I longed for crunchy riffs that peak out on awsome highs and a nice dirge chug on them lows. This is by far an most awsome pedal and will go down on history as "THE SOUND" mark my words 10 years from now with guitar hero and rock band these pedals are extremely cheap in price and will be snached up by the masses chunkin away in their bedrooms and them kids will harkin back to a day the plugged into this. My gear is straight up metal, B.C. RICH Warlock widow head stock with double hum pick ups, the sound that made Metal History starts with this axe the 80's like Motley Crue SHOUT AT THE DEVIL, DANZIG, MISFITS, LITA FORD, SEPULTURA, PANTERA all heavy metal sounds and looks start with your axe, then from there I got the Marshall its a halfstack MG100hdfx, I plug into a Boss tu-2, GRUNGE, DODfx747 Super Sonic Stereo Flanger, then a DOD Stereo Chorus then into the clean channelI also have overdrive on my amp. I have a Boss Heavy Metalhm-2, a DODS Super American Metal FX56-B, Digetech HOT HEAD, DOD Intregated Tube Overdrive fx100, Ibanez Classick Metal Soundtank, Digetech Tone Driver Overdrive, and a Metal Muff. The only pedal I like besides this is my Metal Muff. The rest you need an eq and other stuff to get the metal sound My Marshall overdrive channel is awsome. I also have a few processors but I like to tweak my sound this pedal gives awsome pinch harmonics. The only two distortion pedals you will ever need is the Metal Muff and the GRUNGE they both give a unique sound in their own way. If your not into expensive tube amps that you have to replace and replace them more if you are in cold northern climates to get the sound you want buy this pedal or the Metal Muff. IT gets the TEN- 10

If it broke I would be amazed its built like a tank ready for war or better yet ready for a mosh pit. I would gig with it and not a back up, but I switch back and forth between my Metal Muff always have a plan, if you fail to plan you plan to fail.

Easy as "PLUG IT IN/ DUH" 4 Simple knobs -Loud, Low, High, GRUNGE!   guitar in , speaker out, a monkey can figure this out, it comes with instructions but do you have a brain, you would be an idiot if you really needed them but for resale or collectable sake keep the insructions in the box. 

No if it broke I would get another at a pawn shop or online bidding for next to nothin. Now that I think about it I may snatch another up and mod it, I saw mod kits for it somewhere, I wonder what that would do to this monster? Never dealt with customer service. 

Ten I play metal as if you couldn't tell. Perfect for metal, definatly has the major crunch factor for dirgey crunchy riffage.    I would buy another if I lose or break it, may pick up another since they extremely cheap, best sound for the money infact its underrated as far as price to quality. Nothin to dislike about the pedal the name may not fit, makes you think of Seattle, Nirvana etc, I think the the name should be GRUNCHY,    

I use it through a marshall combo and a Crate halfstack.  The thing is pretty good compared to some of the other pedals I got back in 2002 when I bought this.  I first bought the Boss DS-1 and was severely let down with the quality of it.  So I returned it and bought the grunge pedal.  Great decision.  This pedal is really underrated... although most of the settings aren't that great, it has a few that are really good... I got a good thrashy tone and a good hard rock tone out of it as well.

It's pretty solid.  Although a wire did come loose in it after 5 years of stomping, but it wasn't a hard fix at all.

Very easy to use.  Don't remember it having a manual... doesn't need one.

I dunno

I play metal... death/doom/thrash/traditonal... hard rock, blues.  I've been playing over 11 years... it sounds great on all my guitars... including the cheapo yahama starter guitar I used to own.  I own a few amps, etc.  I would probably buy a used one if I lost this one... I doubt i'd get the new digitech one or buy it unused.

You buy stuff for its proper use.  The Grunge name is off the mark.  It's shards of glass and razors on your skin.  Some don't like dat.  tsk, tsk... But some do it in the dark recesses of their rooms at night.  Grock!%3  Sure does a proper grindcore, butt-crack in your face, metal-hellion thang.  It's all noise.  Almost white-noise at times.  Works better with humbuckered guitars for me.  Tuned down and dropped D.  Maybe best with loud solid-state amps.  I have all tube amps.  The knobs are touchy.  You gotta play with it to find your range(s).  There's distortion beyond distortion.  Saturation.  Compression.  It's annoying and at times relentless and satisfying.  Like flipin' the bird to all who come near.  Wanna make people go away?  Plug it in.  I get no shortage of complaints when I use it.  Fu&k the neighbors.  Whinners!!!  No esoteric terms describe this mutha!  A cheap little selfish stumbling-block to your goals and objectives.  Dial the feedback to a delicious onslaught.  I seldom use it but it has it's twisted charm.  Like picking at a festering wound, ... at times pleasing ("Er, Ugh, heh heh, ... me make blood.  Heh, heh.")

I've dropped it numerous times.  Bounced here and there.  Still works.  I don't know anyone who would work on these.  Seems like an oxymoron.  Or just a plain moron.  Why tweak with its nastiness? The big black button stopped working, ... kind of.  Blasted it a couple of times with my foot.  Smacked it around a bit, you know, like the good ol' TV's of yore.  The kind where the picture would go a little haywire and you just slam the big wooden cabinet and it would come back.  Back to reality.  The Grunge was like that.  The button has not given me problems since.  Guess I taught it a lesson.

Pretty easy to adjust. Four (4) knobs left to right: LOUD, LOW, HIGH, GRUNGE.  Kind of like Volume, Bass, Treble, Gain/Overdrive dials ... times 10!  Everything's touchy with the unit.  Small tweaks mean alot.  Nothing subtle about it.  Has a power LED and a wide black plastic button with a goofy metallic purple crackle paint job.  Queer cool.

What dat??? Really, I'd probably pay more in postage than it's worth.  Don't know what the warranty is but I bought it about five years ago at a G-Center grand opening.  Think I got it for $29.95 or something like that, brand new.  Seems kind of cheap.  Definately mass-produced.

Play most styles, for 25+ years.  Got plenty 'o gear, old and new.  Guitars, amps, pedals, etc.  It goes best with my Mesa with EL34's (better than 6L6's for Metal, Hardcore, etc.)  It has its use.  Using it for regular Rock, Pop, Blues, Emo even Grunge(?), etc., could let you down.  Don't kid yourself.  This dumb-ass thing grates the sensibilities nicely.  Obnoxious!  And I'm over forty! This pedal is not for "tone" (puhleeeeeZZ!) you suck ass flamers.  Yeah I have nice toney mid-seventies pedals too.  That's not this. If you wanted to sound like Clapton, Jimi, Carlos, Eddie, or a million other like 'em, ... why'd you get it?  Wanna get a Dime vibe?  Get one.  It's Metal Hell!  Like caustic acid in your veins.   This ain't rock'n'roll, ... this is genocide.  (db)