Make METAL GUITARS sound EVIL again! 

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

Praise the saw!

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

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.

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

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!

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

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!

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!

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!

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

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.

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

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

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

The plasma distortion. Enough fukken said!!!

Plays the most hyped pedal of all time "this sounds REALLY SHITTY"

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

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!

BOSS FZ-2 mode 2 is your key to Electric Wizard insanity - welcome to the dopethrone of hell. ;0)

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.

I hate fuzz pedals XD but man, that blending technique is mind-blowing. The Big Muff + Revv is the best combination to my ears but I'm impressed by the behringer, as you said it sounds shitty but it's incredible the sound you can have blending in the Revv! Great video Kohle!!!

If you don’t have a parallel fx loop inside your amp, check out the keymaster from pigtronix.

The "common wisdom" about the fuzzface is that it needs to be connected straight to a guitar with passive pickups to do its thing. Well... The thing most people like it for. It will load down the pickup (impedance mismatch) in a way that actually sounds better with the gain and distortion/fuzz it makes. And controlling it with your guitars volume knob is a big part of it too. And again... That only works well straight to the guitar with passive pickups. The sounds it is known for when used that way are quite far from modern fast metal though. Just for your information though... There's nothing wrong in experimenting. I loved the SF300 combination, but then again, I like fuzzy and nasty. :)

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.

you can do this very easily with a Boss line selector (LS-2) no polarity switch though, but this is how I do this

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.

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.

ssssssh ... stop revealing all the secrets ! I have been using an ocd and russian big muff in parallel and its a killer sound for bass distortion. This kind of setup would be nice for d-beat or crust tone where you don't wanna have the most "clean/tight" distortion but sth nasty instead. Also, instead of messing with an amp's fx loop *which is not always running in parrallel* a Boss LS-2 can do the same job. Ok wanna have another cool tone ? Go gtr-> TS-> chorus and distortion in parallel . Instant atmospheric black metal !

Now play it on an old solid state Randall and it’ll sound like Crowbar. Sick.

It's so sad to live in Brasil, I need to be rich to have any of this stuff.

Fuzz is pretty common in stoner metal. I've been thinking fuzz could be in extreme metal for years!

Fuck yeah! This is exactly what I do! I blend a Diezel VH-4 PREAMP PEDAL with the preamp of my Marshall JVM 410H using a parallel mixer pedal, back into the power amp of the JVM 410 out to a single 4x12. It gives me that huge Adam Jones type of tone in a much smaller and less expensive setup. BUT I can and often do run a fuzz into the Marshall on a clean channel and CRANK the VH4's overdrive channel pushing both with a boost. Absolutely massive sounding. 10/10 highly recommend. What I haven't tried is alternatly putting a fuzz in front of the VH4 pedal, and cranking the Marshall 🤔 Think I'll try that today! Thanks for the sharing this technique with your audience. Metal tones need soul again. All be it an evil one 🤘😉. Cheers!

I love raunchy fuzz and I have a beard..... seriously though, the behringer super fuzz is my favorite fuzz by far. Its only 25 bucks which is amazing

Mode 2 on Behringer SF300 sounds shitty?! What?! Have you ever heard Dopethrone by Electric Wizard? How does that sound shit at all! This is the nastiest most broken and evil sound ever! It's fucking amazing

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

"The Behringer sounds shitty" bro do you even Electric Wizard That pedal solo is literally the thing that makes Electric Wizard Also, for the boring distortion sound, try emulating Memoriam, they have some fucking amazing tones and I'd watch the hell outta that

How about making a video showcasing how to do this with an interface and some pedals? :D

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

The intro song could easily have Svencho growling away on top of all these riffs. It's got an Aborted vibe to it for sure. Also, that nasty tone w/ the Boss pedal would work nicely on an upcoming Benighted record, don't you think? It's the kind of disgusting tone that fits their music perfectly.

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

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!

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!

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.

Now mix the metal muff with the metalzone.

To me, the most evil sounding of them all was the Behringer.

What If you dont have a parallel effects loop?

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

Interesting. I wonder if this would work the other way around. I mean like, the fuzz going into the fx return while using the amp’s distortion. I didn’t buy an ENGL for the clean channel 😂

If Hagrid saw this video, he'd say: "You're a wizard, Kohle." Making fuzz sound good, holy shit! Please, have my like.

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 ! 🍻🍻🍻 👑👑👑🎸🎸🎸🔥🔥🔥

17:01 Behringer+G4 = made in hell marriage

Killer idea!! Your vids are top notch!!

Amazing as always :-)

I also thought of that before. I think Paradise Lost did something like that on "Medusa"... really heavy broken up sound. Perfect for Doomy slow Riffing... Or like the Hesse say "Is gut für Unnarum" ;)

Hey Kristian! Really love this idea for unique tone. I have a chance to buy a Brunetti XL REVO 60 watt version. Maybe you know if 60 watt version is also good and should I buy it or not? I'm looking for some amp what can to more then just metal so would you recommend Brunetti XL REVO 60watt head?

The Behrigher pedal sounded the best, although I love fuzz, and you can never have a bad fuzz pedal, just mixed with a disortotion pedal the SF-300 sounded the best

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

It sounds gnarly af, I wanna get one... Already had Revv G4 and ST9pro+, always wondered if I throw a muff in there or is it gonna be a bit excessive during live idk ( I wanna sound a bit like Suffocation, I know their gear but where I'm from its a unicorn to see those 6505s and whatnot). Been thinking about the behringer superfuzz tho

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!

not bad ! did you tried a boogie mark IV B ? basically the bass knob of the preamp gives you those fuzzy to tight nuances, awesome amp

“sounds shitty?” nope... come my fanatics, listen... (Super/HyperFuzz, or FZ-2 originally) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FSySb9yGhdA.html

BOSS HM-2: everything on full, done: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--MdH7JWkSxA.html

The Revv with the Big Muff sounded best to me. Ihad a big muff back in the mid 70s, and I had forgotten how goid the sound with distortion. (I had a PV Duece with a master volume for distortion, mixed with the big muff for fuzz. I was a bit ahead of my time because everyone thought I was insane for that tone back then. KISS songs with this tone was awesome, but most thought I had went "over the wall" !!! I think this type of tone could work well with modern Symphonic Metal, I'll have to try ! 😉

I too want my own channel to grow. So we have that in common. But the list basically ends there. For one thing, my channel, unlike yours, does not grow.

Peavey JSX, XXX, 6505, EVH 5150 iii Stealth (all spawned from the OG 5150) is by far the best tone in the game and that is facts.... Big facts, Full truth, No lies, No cries, Cant denies, Ham and fries, Really tho the Peavey amps are the best thing Ive ever heard, By far, In a League above, I will say this is my own opinion... It is NOT subject to change I will stand on this hill till the day i die, No Tube screamer needed, pure tone, Basically on every Metal Record you've heard (modern) The Mesa Dual Rec needs the tube scream to even be good, Peavey for life, Hide your wife, Tone for Life....

In the mix that Behringer sounds like *pure* evil. Perfect for like a two bar highlight of “now we are not fucking about”. You can’t mix an entire song like that. But every now and then. Argh.

I've kind of been doing this in Slabdragger since we started, I figured I'd treat my Sovtek Muff as a valve amp and stick a Tube Screamer into it. Hey presto! Precise chugs with filthy fuzz and feedback on tap!

Kristian, try out some Randalls! This is my current rig! Try this out: Left and Right channels: Grindstein first, through a Randall RG100, through to parametric EQ and IRs. Center: Got a splitter to run both a Randall Lynchbox Grail and a Randall T2 in the center I blend these 4 amps together and it makes my sound so fucking thick. Distortion can sound even MEANER when you BLEND transistor / solid state distortion WITH tube distortion. it creates this weird but gnarly saturation without having to do a whole lot of compression to gain "thickness" if I'm making any sense. I know some people like to only double track or quad track, but I like to tri-track. I put guitars in the extreme left and right, but I leave one dead center, and the dead center one I use TWO amps on it. God its so fucking thick (and LOUD!). I have to turn the amps DOWN so the drums and bass can still be heard, lol.

Can I plug my guitar into the big muff , then from big muff out into another effect peddle then into amp

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

Haha been doing this with my EHX parallel mixer... All kinds of wacky sounds. Some of my bottom end going into a bass 115, rest into a 212 amp is a MG100, using Behringer and a Hot wax.... Need a muff soon

Interesting.! I'm using Danelectro Fab Fuzz with TC Electronics Dark Matter.! Hard & Heavy, but not Metal

I used to run my Bass VI into a DOD Bass Grunge, the clean output going into a Danelectro Black Licorice Beyond Metal, and both signals going into a JHS Summing Amp before going into my Randall.

Other options for a metal fuzz: Boss HM…nothing more to say…just ALL GAIN! Greenhouse FX Sludgehammer…don’t really need a clean boost for it, the fuzz is huge even when cranked all the way down. Also has a solid EQ setting. EHX Metal Muff…slightly sensitive, but it does have a good amount of distortion and EQ. Has a boost button too for a bigger sound.

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

Could you put a eq between the behringer fuzz and give it mids so its less.........sneeze coughing?

Finally something useful that I can do with my Marshall TSL60 and its fucked up FX loop. A Lehle P-Split III isn't too expensive in Norway either.

Was it germanium or silicon fuzz face? My guess is silicon because it's the more aggressive one so probably more suited for metal. There's also something like four versions of tone benders that sound slightly different so you got some choices there as well, to get just the one you like. And a million of Big Muffs I suppose. The recent Op Amp Big Muff Pi (Pumpkin Pi after Smashing Pumpkins) might work really well with the metal rig. Like just for example Quiet by Smashing Pumpkins was probably my first touch to a song that actually sounded really heavy. And it was just a strat into op amp big muff into marshall head. Well, and 8 doubling tracks... There's also the univox super fuzz that one of the JHS fuzzes copy, another different fuzz sound. The Behringer was almost like HM-2 actually. Maybe HM-2 blend next? Or TC Eyemaster since it's cheaper. That one is kinda crazy messy alone, but might give a nice character blended. Interesting comparison - blues guys basically live by the rule that the fuzz face has volume and fuzz always turned to max and you ride the volume control of the guitar (to get it to clean up and get some note separation, some people's favourite clean tone is fuzz face with guitar volume turned down). It's not that crazy sound as is, but into a cruncy amp, probably closer to hendrix frying the amp. Tubescreamer was a good idea to begin with to help with the massive low end and lack of mids in fuzzes, perhaps it would've worked even better after them. Or maybe a klon would work even better. I feel like klon is the new secret sauce in metal since tubescreamer is such default choice. I know someone was already using klon into jcm800, but I forget who that was. There are quite a few options when playing with fuzzes. Luckily none of your fuzzes seemed to be picky about having something with a buffer in front of them, some old fuzz circuits hate buffers. Perhaps the fuzz face was a bit unhappy, I don't know for sure, sounded a bit odd to me. The fuzzes actually do give pretty fancy crunch to the sound. That knäckebrot tone. One thing would've also been interesting: the other channel (Brunetti preamp) without fuzz. How chunky would've that tone been? Two tracks after all give some body to the sound pretty much any way you set it up. Oh and one option for this might be like a rack system. Rack preamp and power amp, effects (distortions or whatever you want to put in there) in between, or two different preamps. Most of the rack gear had stereo output after all, and power amps two inputs as well. Almost like the way you mixed the stuff if you put a rack preamp in, one output dry and one to the pedal of your choice (perhaps one output to effects as well, one dry), then both into the same power amp, different channels, and those channels into the same 4x12". Made me kinda excited thinking about the options. Thanks for the video! I feel like you got pretty original ideas and you execute them properly.

I always love Kristian's playing! That song rips as fuck and that tone.... gaddamn!

i do use fuzz for my distortion.. but i put my blues driver first full gain then the full gain fuzz.. and i love it.. especially im using hamer california with emg active 81-85 pickups sets... and im playing blackened thrash metal...

Overdrive before Muff then Wah pedal to bring back the mid when soloing

I have long used a Big Muff and a Tube Screamer split to 2 amps through a Boss DD20 as my "hammer of the Gods" tone. Use the "Brighton Rock" delay timing and lots O whammy bar to create sonic mayhem. Not very usable but a blast nonetheless!

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!

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

Killer breakdown of how to improve guitar sound.. Another thing with new recordings, and I'm sure I'll catch hell for this but it isn't only the strings that are too clean, "over produced"... boring. The drums are was too "clicky" and computerized sounding. Imo.

The best Fuzz Pedal I have used so far is the Abominable Electronics Hail Satan Deluxe. It is the best sounding Fuzz I have heard so far

You could accomplish the same thing by running an A/B/A+B pedal backwards. I've done it.

Really great sounding stuff and really cool signalchain ... but arent there fuzz pedals for metal? The Wurm from KMA sounded really metal I think

what about blending amps for dual guitarists with a fuzz track beneath it all?

Sure, sounds great. But what sounds the most boring and overproduced is not the guitar tone. It's the songs. The tired old riffs (tuned three steps down because everyone does that). The clicky, flat, semi-programmed drums. The lack of any progress in writing. Same structure, same lyrics, same breakdowns and solos. No amount of blending will save a mediocre piece, but a great guitarist with great material could be plugged into a 5150, a Katana or just a fuckin' Metal Zone - I guarantee that tone would be called 'legendary' in 20 years.

wow this sounds epic kinda inspiring me to REVV it up. that’s one brand i haven’t had the pleasure of experiencing yet but now i must

👋 Anybody know what kind of guitar that is?

I do that. But I do it differently. I run a Marshall DSL 100 watt and an Orange Crush 120 side by side. The Marshall takes the fuzz pedal (Catalinbred Giygas) The Crush is just normal gain. These go through separate speakers and volumes are adjusted to be equal. Mids mostly out. EQ to mix the sound. Kinda like how Jay Yuenger did his Mesas and Randall amps.

hi kai

Every musician/ artist, guitarist who plays any instrument including guitar should have their own signature sound and tone. Like a thumbprint.

So, in a totally digital setup, would you be able to bus a DI signal to two channels, one fuzz and one dist, and then blend them? Also some of the fuzzhugger pedals have an OD/fuzz blend knob that could be interesting. Nice tones!

A ProCo Rat or EHX Flat Iron Fuzz would be a great pedal for blending, as they’re tighter than a Muff, but still has that sludgy rasp to it.

But what should I do if i want to mix a fuzzpedal with the preamp of my Orange Rockaverbe 100 mk2?

I got myself the EVH 5150 el34 100 watt head because I thought I loved the tone. Until I saw this video.