WILL IT CHUG? - MXR Dime Distortion 

Will it Chug???

They definitely shouldn't sell this toy with Dime's face.

I remember hating this pedal as a kid. I thought when I bought it that it would be dime's sound in a box and was so disappointed that it wasnt

"I am some what disappointed". That's exactly what my brother said when he bought that pedal back in the day.

Will it chug? - Zoom G1on ,please. €44 at Thomann

Ola’s facial reactions were mine the entire video. This DOES NOT sound like Dime.

This is what I like to see in a review. Someone who is brutally honest. He doesn't hold back at all.

sounds like a low budget distortion pedal with a half dead battery.

MXR dime, kind of reminded me more of his, Damageplan sound than Pantera.

When I saw the video was 7 minutes long, I knew something was wrong.

I think the MXR Dime might sound okay with an EQ pedal up front with a level and mid boost. But what's the point when that Apex Preamp sounds so good?

thanks for this series man. i’m a novice guitarist and the pedal i wanted to get had LITERALLY no other videos but yours. helped a lot.

I might be wrong, but I'd be willing to bet its not the same pedal on the inside as it was back in the day. I remember having an all green Dime Distortion pedal back in the 90s, that thing was killer. Nailed that scooped sound. I think it's probably one that would benefit from being plugged into a preamp as well. All that being said, modern day distortion pedals sound so good that it's quite possible I have a skewed perception of what the pedal actually sounded like. haha.

POV the year is 2004. You come home from school and are about to listen to some Sum 41 when all of a sudden, everyone at your middle school knew who dime bag was the whole time.

I have this pedal, hooked it up along with a 7-band eq and a gain booster up to my Mesa Boogie cabinet and it makes some seriously sick sound when the low end is cranked up. Also, I'm really digging that shirt.

“I’m somewhat disappointed” My reaction to almost every MXR distortion pedal I’ve tried.

sounds like the speaker is being covered with a blanket

Will it Chug: The Krank Distortus Maximus pedal. I've been planning to get one for a Krank Krankenstein tone "to go".

I remember when I bought one, packed it back up and bought a metal muff with the boost channel. Way way WAAAAY better.

Not a pre-amp pedal. Needs to go into front end of an amp. Stacking necessary.

I didn't think the pedal sounded too bad on the I'm Broken riff. There's a weird quality with some signature pedals and early modelling stuff where it sounds like a caricature of the sound it's trying to be. It's nice to see a comparison with an alternative product in these kinds of videos, more information and context is always a good thing.

Dime turning in his grave

Almost bought one of them a few times. Glad I saved my money

I bought one of those Dime pedals about 20 years ago, still have it. Theres more gain on the old one than this new version. That horizon pedal is sweet

Check out the MXR Doubleshot, it's the Dime Dist + another more classic thick fuzzy circuit on the bottom. They sell dirt cheap used. Never liked the top Dime circuit too much but the one on the bottom has a great thick classic fuzzy sound, sounds amazing after a phaser. The Dime Dist always sounded way too modern for me, honestly was surprising seeing all the positive reviews for it individually while people seem to hate the Doubleshot.

Bought this when it first came out, immediately returned it the next day. I remember being pretty disappointed in it

Man this was my favourite pedal! Sadly it recently craped out 😔 played through a 2000’s Marshall MG solid state amp and it crushed the tone for 20 years 🤘🏻

bought this pedal back when I had just started playing and when it came in the mail I hooked it up straight away....then I remember using it much after that. I don't think I ordered pedals after that. At least now days there's youtube so its safe to order again, instead of solely trusting what is there in the local music store to try first hand

Check out the Electro-Harmonix Metal Muff!

It did resemble his tone a bit with out the scoop when you had it dialed in like that, but not enough gain.

Wow with that second pedal the sound is really spot on, good tip ola and I love your pinch harmonic technique, sounds full just like dimes

"It's sorta scooped" I mean didn't he have a scooped mid tone?

I’ve got the EVH preamp and it’s a beast. I use it in front of a clean amp with my precision drive and it’s quite the metal chug machine. I’m seriously considering the SD powerstage 170 too so I can get rid of my head all together. Lugging a half stack just ain’t my thang no more haha

This video makes me actually want to test my Dean razorback and all of my pedals that I own to find the answer to dimes sound. I think the amp and guitar pickups will play a big role in this. Maybe test the pedals with some of the older marshall amps made in the uk. Different amp heads. in fact I liked how it sounded before ola even plugged the pedal in.

I remember I borrowed this pedal from a friend back in the day and actually used it on one of my REALLY early covers for youtube, I didn't know shit about anything tone-wise and definitely struggled with it, but I'd love to give it a go again today. I may be one of the few to say it, but I can actually hear SOMETHING in it that has a Dime-esque character to it, mainly in the eq structure I think. It sounds like they were trying to do what the CFH pluggin managed to achieve, in capturing the mixed album tone in pedal form, which has to be a damn tricky thing to do!

I love your honesty. I love your chugs. I love the soothing sound of your voice. I love you.

does anybody acknowledge the fact that this is his old office?

I'm really struggling with this one. . I really do appreciate your work and as a musician knowing without a doubt there are a lot of musical theories I grew up in the 80's and know there are a load of great guitarists (and Bands) from back then and cannot wait until the new (old school) rock comes back. Thanks for all you do m8!

I used to own this pedal, even an older version with oldschool rubber knobs. it had a good tone only in one or two settings, I also used to put it in front of a clean tube amp and maybe the amp's own eq and response helped to achieve a good tone? It was a scoop city anyway and you're right about the gain - not enough for a Dime signature distortion. Unless maybe you need to boost it with an od in front?

Man your guirtar collection is a dream. I still have my dime Washburn (not usa made lol) from like 95-96 maybe. I will never part with it. Headstock broke off twice from falling but it is all fixed up now and still rips! Love the videos!

>Plugs in a Dimebad pedal >chug chug chug .... "Its sorta scooped" Dunno what i was expecting really.

It has a bit of the Dime sound (not much), but lacks balls badly. Question: Is this the new Metal Zone? Can you make it sound good?

I remember buying one of these when they first came 12 years ago after getting some new guitars thinking it was going to really shred, and was sad when it didn't really do much for me. I probably have it in a bin in my storage unit somewhere.

I really love this series, and there are two pedals/preamps that I am hoping you'll be able to do one day, the Seymour Duncan Twin Tube Mayhem and the Damage Control Demonizer. The difficult part about these is they have been discontinued for quite some time now, and Damage Control as a company doesn't exist anymore. They are now Strymon. I've seen both of these floating around on Reverb for ridiculous amounts of money, so hopefully someone can donate them to you for the purposes of a vid or two. Anyways, keep up the great work, Ola!

I was hoping Ola would "dime" all the knobs for science.

thank you very much for the video ola, I'm not a big fan of this MXR dime for me it's only marketing Dimebag never used it during a concert. I much prefer the dracarys wampler or the revv g3

Bravo for being honest Ola! Your face told us everything, your words the rest.

The pedal sounds great - I have just connected it directly to Tomsline Shaper (cab simulator - 4x12 something) and sounds excelent. It has good amount of gain too (with my Seymour Duncan pickup). But probably does not sound like Dimebag - but I have not tried to find that sound.

"Scooped Chugging" is only a dime. Don't miss the sale. Only today.

If your gonna give it away , sign it make it worth a S**t Lol .

Reminds me of the MXR Double Shot Distortion and Mxr Distortion II with added scooped. Here's comparison suggestion for you Ola

I hope MXR asks you to help them update that pedal. That would be sick!

Strange. I've tried this pedal and heard others review it, and while it's not a carbon copy of Dime's sound, I thought it sounded pretty good then.

Can you tell me witch amp is chugging in 0:08? I mean, that is a great chugg

This was actually a great promo for the Apex preamp

Think it might sound a little better into the front end of a two stage amp as opposed to directly into a clean power amp? I wonder if the target market for this pedal would typically have that setup and perhaps it was designed for what MXR deems to be a more "regular" set up. Fun video as always!

Wonder after all these year if that pedal just needed a little help with a boost in front of it. Maybe worth a try?

"Will it chug?" meets "What's the scoop?"

I had one of those mxr dime bag distortion pedals years ago it sounded great

Ola, you should get ahold of a Korg Hyper Distortion 104ds. They’re hard to find but if you do get one they WILL chug.

That damn pedal was a “cash grab” that’s all. Sadly it’s a shit pedal. Just because it’s adorned with Dimes name doesn’t mean it’s not immune from criticism.

It sounds great. You can push the preamp in the pedal with a lot of volume. I think it sounds awesome. Makes me want to buy one. Dime bags rifs had the gain backed off and enhanced on solos by his sound man. I think that lower gain actually sounds heavier. Less muddy sounding and tighter. Just my opinion.

FYI: Combine/stack the MXR dd11 Dime distortion with the MXR ZW44 Zakk Wylde overdrive then dial it in with a MXR 6 band graphic equalizer pedal. And as Dime would say: Getcha' Pull.

i managed to find a pretty nailed tone using the AXE FX III....definitely a wild tone once you actually nail it.

It’s designed to work with Dimebag’s crank tube amplification to push the tubes a way bit harder and it will chug

This pedal never deserve the Dime's Face on it.

It would be interesting to see how it sounded going into a hi-gain amp head (in place of something like a tube screamer).

I’ve used it almost like an overdrive on an already distorted amp and it sounded better. Gets closer to the Dime sound that way.

will it chug: peavey ultra plus

I bought that pedal when it first came out back in 2005, I'm a HUGE Dime fan... I sold that pedal. It sounded like shit to me too...

Will it Chug created head bangers followers🤘

I had this pedal when It originally came out. It was Just Green. Had no Camo on it yet. they re released it after his death with the camo and his image. played it into a Marshall JCM 800 and it didn’t sound too good.then either. But his Wah pedal is my fav wah Dunlop has.

If I'm not mistaken, Ola plays chords often by jumping between the first 2 strings and 2nd & 3rd string power chords using all 4 of his fingers. (That's what it looks like to me) He recently started listening to Megadeth and it's interesting because that technique was pretty much invented/pioneered by Dave Mustaine but Ola just so happens to among those who did it without being inspired by Mustaine.

They used this pedal to record st.anger

I actually kinda dig the tone at 4:05-4:30. It doesn't sound like Dime but it doesn't sound bad either.

Dime himself boosted his Krank with a Zakk Wylde OD ... try boosting into the distortion...

I bought this thing when it first came out and returned it the same day. I was so disappointed. There was a severe lack of gain for a Dime pedal

Ola doesn't realize how much the Megadeth show inifluenced him. Now all his riffs sound like Megadeth, and that's a good thing!

That was interesting.. It didn't sound bad but not that great... was cool to see how you showed different pedal though for similiar sound.

Oh yes one of my friends got this pedal many years ago. I though his pedal had a problem first time I heard it

Glad I bought the mxr 5150 overdrive instead of this...

Lmao. “Does it chug”. I’ve heard Zoom 505 pedals chug more but okay

So the wall in the new place is ready! Wow!

I knew it would sound bad when I saw they gave it Phil's face on Dime's head. XD

he was as we are dime was never happy with his tone!tonehunters we are allways will be\m/

You should include the prices in these videos. Would be nice.

I am glad you gave this review. I had this pedal and I didn’t want to sell it. I tried everything. Different amps and so on. But I couldn’t get anything usable out of.

I'm tweaking I'm tweakin shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit

Trying to make a buck off Dime's name, that's all.

Sounds like it needs to go into a slightly driven/crunchy ss-amp.

Yeah MXR need to reissue this, lots of badass new pedals coming making this thing sound like 8-bit.

It just needs to be used with amp that has some gain! 🤘🤘

Soon as you hooked up the horizon life felt better

Wow, the second pedal sounds way better!!

The old room, Ola the continuity masterer

You can try to add an overdrive before the dime distortion to have an extra gain

Try the boost on, gain all the way up, treble almost all the way up, mids about 2 (not 2 o'clock) , and bass about mid way.... it starts to get there. I have one.

Ola, the one to try would be the Doubleshot Distortion...Dime and MXR original pedals in one enclosure...

Pedal wise closest thing I have found is my mxr full bore metal one thing is that it is extremely tempermental you need to know what you’re searching for tone wise or else you’ll never quite dial it in, if you shift one knob the rest need to shift as well that’s the thing with it

I remember as a kid, I saw this used in a local music shop. I was thinking of getting it, I’m kinda glad I saved some money.