A Guide To the Best Distortion Pedals on the Market

How can you sleep at night, knowing you demonstrated a distortion pedal as a light overdrive? I mean, come on! 😂🤦🏽‍♂️

Blackstar Dual HT Drive. Absolutelly nice one with very nice set of features

To the man who narrated this video, please get into recording audiobooks. Your voice is brilliant

Still can't do without my Orange Bax Bangeetar. Not a distortion pedal and I think it's been discontinued but man it can dial in any dirt sound you can imagine.

I am using a Prince of Tone - it's shit; Also a Keeley Modded Ibanez Tube Screamer - also shit.

For the last 9 or so years my main has been the Fulltone GT500. It’s got a Marshall sound without being to muddy. Also works well with single coils.

Cmods brownie dis or a cheeper unit jayo crunch

Thank you 😎🤙

At the moment I’m using the eyemaster distortion pedal and I love it

Currently using the Wampler Pinnacle and the JHS Series 3 Distortion (whiteface Rat upgrade).

zoom multi effect makes me wanna throw all my drive pedals

I never buy anything made by Fender.

A distortion pedal review without demo’ing the sound?? WTF??

Так при помощи какой педали можно призвать сатану?:)

The pugilist it's the root of my sound!
Pugilist into Rat into Fuzz!
You can fell it, when it's missing!

DISLIKE/THUMBS DOWN

Best one I've gotten is a clone of the Earthquaker Devices "Life Pedal." It's basically a vintage rat module with a boost and octave up knop and 3 clipping options. Even though it's a clone it sounds amazing. The actual models are in the $500+ range due to limited production.

I've been using my Dual Rectifier tone for the past several years until a few months ago when I picked up a Revv G3 Distortion pedal and holy cow! This thing is fantastic. I can get a distortion that is crunchy in the mids like a Marshall but still has that gritty and scooped tone I can get out of a Boogie amp. Love it.

Boss DS-1 Distortion & MXR M75 Super Badass Distortion on one of my pedalboards ! Wicked, Cool, Dark, tonality ! They all Crunch ! Clean up very well with your guitars volume ! Serious Distortion for the Serious Hard Rock player ! Peace ! 😎👍✌

Boss Metal Zone Waza. It is great for heavier stuff. Low gain is more usable than you'd think. And the Waza gives you 2 modes. The amount of hate the original MT2 gets is ridiculous. You can make it sound like crap easily, because of the powerful EQ. Set it right, and it is good. However the Waza version is in a different league. Amazing.

Stop talking and let us hear the damn distortion panel

Revv G3 overdrive/distortion pedal

Friedman BE OD ! Tubescreamer TS10. TC Electronic Spark . With my Marshall DSL. It's all I will ever need.

I love the Fulltone OCD, it's my main distortion pedal

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I’m currently on my (very old and first) distortion pedal: Digitech Metal Master. It’s not great! Currently searching YT for videos like this to find out which distortion pedal might be best for metal these days!

So.. Non of the top 5 guitar distortion pedals for 2021 is from 2021? And two of them are over 40 years old? .....

Wayyyyyyy too much talking… not enough pedal sound. Pointless.

The Rat is amazing paired with a tube screamer

ive been thru multiple distortion pedals trying to find the right one for me. for the moment im likeing was the suhr mini riot .

I really love my Vertex Dynamic Distortion. It’s a bit scooped on its own (which is perfect in certain scenarios!) however how it stacks with other pedals, and the character it imparts there, is where it shines. Running into a Klone for smoothness or a low gain Bluesbreaker are the two ways I use it. Sounds absolutely massive, feels good under the fingers, sustains for days, and cleans up amazingly with the volume knob. The blend of fuzz and traditional distortion is a plus.

this guy just dont shutup

Rat is a Lot quieter than the Ds-1 :{

I think the BOSS DS-1 is the worst pedal I've ever played.

Revv g3. So heavy so tight so clear love it

I think the new Metal Muff with a noise gate needs more credit. Its only around 75$ brand new! And is amazing!

Currently using the line 6 Uber metal.

Right now I'm using the Friedman BE Deluxe two channel.
Probably one of the better gig pedals. I can set one channel for lower, or classic gain stuff, and the other strictly for metal and hard rock.
Expensive...yes.
Worth every penny...yes.
It just sounds so good for the size.

AC Noises VOLA.

The proco turbo rat is a lot better than the standard rat in my opinion.