BEST DISTORTION PEDALS - TOP 10 - GUITAR EFFECTS SHOOTOUT

#1 - Gurus Amps - 1959 Double Decker
#2 JHS - Sweat Tea
#3 Empress - Multidrive
#4 Dr. Scientist - The Elements
#5 Stone Deaf FX - Trashy Blonde
#6 Iron Ether - QF2
#7 Malekko - Sloika
#8 D*A*M - Sonic Titan
#9 Rainger FX - El Distorto
#10 Empress - Distortion

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[stevesweetwater]

I don't know if it's the amp or what but I now know what 10 pedals not to buy.

[omni]

Gad Dayum your tapping tone is to die for. 10/10 would kill for your tapping skill and tone

[DrScientistSounds]

Sounds super badass, nicely done Dennis!

[CharlieetStylien]

hard to choose cause you don't play the same riff for each one...

[JhOtheGuitarist]

Brazilian pedal... King Pedals - Bad Horsie, my favorite!! I love Empress too

[angrygoldfish]

It's a little odd that the Empress Distortion was in the list with the Multidrive since they're partially the same circuits.

[johnetone]

The Elements and Multidrive are my favs here. At first I was like this video sucks. But you actually do get a pretty good feel for the actual sound of the pedals. It's just weird sifting through all of the different rooms and guitars and telephone microphones.

[PDGood]

Of course I disagree with many of these, but still the video is very nicely done. Each pedal is demoed showing something it does well. I think a lot of people will find this enjoyable - I sure did.
The ones that I missed most were the Wampler Plexi (best Marshall sound) and JHS Morning Glory (best transparent distortion). Just my two cents. Otherwise, nicely done.

[GuitarAnthony]

Presuming this was limited to the distortion pedals that you own. Still some nice sounding pedals there. Will look into the Gurus.

[tardisflanagan]

I'm sitting here wincing at this shit, got anything better? #3 was OK...

[mikemcchesney]

I’ve had them all never heard anything with the over all usability as the pinnacle deluxe v2, (What I mean to say is if you have one distortion pedal to use for different types of music the deluxe v2 would be the one to choose imo, the knobs aren’t active but they shure are dynamic. Thanks 4 putting the vid out man!

[rimus]

The Dunes by Earthquaker sounded so good when you turned the gain up I kept expecting to see it in this list lol

You plan on doing a similar top 10 list but for Overdrives?

[badalan]

What song did he play during number 9? Thank you.

[leeshobbyheaven]

Iv run though quick a few distortion pedals. Iv got a marshall dsl40 with gibson les paul pro 2. Iv had the friedman beod (tinny no fatness) mxr superbadass ( again better than friedman but still tinny and no depth) messa boogie full throttle ( ok ish but not very dynamic) now the pedal iv kept after selling all those is the tc electronic dark matter. Its the only one that has depth, Fattness, full tone distortion that can get any where the marshall gorgeous raw gain sound. And guess what its 4 less money than the others i mentioned

[ColeWheelerLyfe]

The Ross, The Rat and The distortion+, my top 3

[LoftOfTheUniverse]

What's the name of that song he plays during the JHS sweet tea

[NukeAllNoobs]

ARC Effects - Crimson King. Designed to do fuzz, but does amazing distortion as well. Check it out

[mixgashaulass]

not even to mention youe should have just said overdrive pedals

[lovecraftmusic]

malekko sounds more natural, not too excessive, not too light

[zerosixdel]

I think that the empress multidrive wins this one