WILL IT CHUG? - TC ELECTRONIC DARK MATTER 

NO, not at all!

I have this pedal and it chugs really good with my Ltd sparrowhawk

Nope!

Dark matter is more like no matter.

No, just like r'n'r pedal from 40's🤔🙄

Or any fender amp

@@globlogabgalab4278 fender mustang

@@brunomonasterio1584 its chugging like hell, have mustang v2 at home

@@fatdydnkn oh, didn't knew about that

Bruno MONASTERIO i mean any thats not a modeling

yep

TC = Team Confused ?

No doubt! Haha should of been called "the fuzz" or "fuzzy wuzzy" LOL

Only the Marshall Overdrive pedal comes close to a real Plexi head. All the others sound good, but not Plexi. No $99 pedal should be compared to a $5000 Marshal amp, I have a pair in stereo YUGE sound !

Thanks I'll see if i can

I got and used a Dark Matter for the heavy stuff I play (stuff similar to Dragged Into Sunlight, Pig Destroyer, NAILS, Converge, etc) and was VERY disappointed at first! Like everyone is saying, the Dark Matter really just isn't as heavy as you'd expect from the name, but notes are clear af coming out of the DM! However, I started running a Fender Pugilist Distortion pedal alongside the Dark Matter, and it SLAMS! The boost from The Pugilist gave DM the balls it needed to chug properly and rumble! Also, using the DM for my tone is good because notes are still crystal clear! PS: a few months back I snagged a KMA Wurm... It's the most gruesome distortion ever!!

What IS set up properly? Cause I've tried this very thing and not gotten great results

@@metallsnubben are you replying to my comment? You're running it with a Pugilist?

@@phatnana2379 Nah the original, putting it as a boost before the amp's own distortion

Also got this distortion, it's really not so metal until you use it with screamer. Ibanez ts7 in my case makes it sound much more angry but still clear

@@Count_Impaler I also push it with a sd1 for hard rock songs

@@KevinsAddiction that's right.... you can stack them pretty well into an already slightly driven amp😉

I like it for stoner rock/metal.

@@regulirobert I actually use my clean amp and push the dark matter with the boss sd1

Thanks for the “heart “ Ola, remember to choose your cheese knobs carefully. #tonecheese

What sort of cheese do you usually use for the knobs? I go with cheddar, but I'm really open for any suggestions

ThornInTheEye cheddar is good for a sharp attack, I use provolone for a buttery balanced tone. Real metal heads use pepper jack, of course

No, but I guess if you observe "it sounds pleasant" but then decide it's not powerful enough for what you doing... that sounds to me that the pedal is fine, you're just using it wrong?

Prasanth Selvadurai a true classic.

nailed it. It's totally AIC or TOOL.

I felt the same way. Not exactly a great metal tone, but definitely useable for various rock tones.

@@mattwilson717 I own Both the T.C.Electronic Dark Matter & Mojo-Mojo pedals and find then to work well With my Diditech GSP 1101preamp processor. Such a deal @ $49.99 each. Two very distintly different variations and flavors of dirt and grind They are in my experiece both BANG FOR THE BUCK pedals.

Agree. I own this and love using it as an OD pedal to push or color an already distorted sound.

really far off the mark, at least for the mojomojo and the spark. the mojo mojo is not suitable as a tubescreamer substitute! i almost bougth one cause it was cheap, but when i went to try it it did not do what i wanted it to do at all! it colours the sound a lot, on its own it sounds kinda vox-y, it doesn't have that much output, and it adds some fuzz in there too, even if used as a boost. not a bad sound, but not at all what i was looking for, and definitely the wrong pedal to try and clean up a muddy amp. paul gilbert apparently loves it to bits, but it didn't work for me at all. the spark on the other hand as a super powerful EQ, insane amounts of output (i mean, it's a booster, it better have insane amounts of output), and again a very different gain structure to a TS. if you want a tubescreamer there's hundreds of other options, but these don't fit the bill at all. imo the spark is way better than a TS at smacking a weak or muddy distorted tube amp to where you want it to be, it does less to the gain structure, but it has way more flexibility than a TS.

@@givemeajackson Agreed. I don't know about the Dark Matter, but I have owned both the mini and large Spark and they are definitely not tubescreamers. The Mojo Mojo is supposedly a Klone according to a few people, I haven't played one myself but it sort of makes sense from the videos I've seen on RU-vid

@@adamskold6395 i don't think it's very Klon-y either. i played a j rockett archer, never a real klon, but imo the mojo mojo is actually it's own thing. the best description i can come up with it's that it does vox AC series things. it's fun with a strat and a tube amp on the edge of power amp breakup, but not something i'd personally use

This is nothing like a tubescreamer, and doesn't really work how you'd use a tubescreamer, unless you're trying to use a tubescreamer as a distortion and pushing it with other pedals, it's a really dynamic pedal and feels a lot like a really cranked 70s amp.

This is exactly how I use it and it colors the existing distortion nicely.

Exactly! The name of the pedal makes no sense when it's clearly an overdrive, unless there is something wrong with just this one being tested.

I'm not sure but the difference between an OD and distortion may be in the circuit design. How it clips the signal

Yep - this! Fails as a stand-alone distortion but is a nice alternative to a TS pedal.

I think also so like a tube screamer. Full volume, no gain because the gain sounds pretty shitty 😂

To me the name sounds more "cosmic" than metal.

@@visualdarkness I agree.

I think it's supposed to be because dark matter is invisible, and the pedal is supposed to be a transparent sounding drive, so it's kind of a clever name except that most people looking for guitar pedals aren't going to make the connection from "black distortion pedal" to "astrophysics". I actually have one and I quite like it, but I use it more for gain stacking to make really nasty doom metal or grindcore sort of tones, and for blending on bass. Good for punk, too, but definitely not intended to be a chunky death metal pedal

Get the fangs for chugging

When you read "Dark Matter" you think "holy shit! I'm gona die because of this chug!!"... Aaaaaaand, no way... Just to play rock n roll or stuff like this... but, it sound fine, just not for chugging 🤷🏻‍♂️

TC Electronic's Spark Booster could be a good fit to go together for a better sound

David Niles Jr yes, that’s what I use but didn’t want to sound like an advert for TC😉

I use mine by running it into a Throne Torcher HM2 clone, and on bass I do the same with a Darkglass B7k and it makes some awesome sounds. Definitely fun to use for that sort of thing, and you can make some disgusting doomy-yet-grindy sort of tones with it. I've used it for some pushed cleans too, to good effect, but I don't think anybody's buying a pedal for pushed cleans.

I was given one of these and I use it for stoner rock/metal riffing

More expressive

I think I've met her

Best would be for him to go to a music store, find a guitar and amp like he owns and try different kinds of dirt pedals with it. He probably also has a limited budget?

@D Zuke If you buy this on amazon for $100 ..... the Dark Matter is a $40-50 pedal when you get it from a proper music store, and it's not good for metal even when thrown in front of a good tube/valve amp, but that how it was intended to be, shame on the music stores that to put it up as a distortion for metal, didn't even found it good as a boost for a metal sounds, I just don't like it's tonal range. I agree, DS-1 would work, but still depends on the kind of metal tone he wants, even BOSS MZ, MC or EH Metal Muff Nano works when finetuned, heck if the amp has enough oomph but just misses the tiny bit extra even a clean boost or even a TS can work out pretty well.

Depends what you want it for i guess but I'd be very disappointed if I was after a high gain chug.

@@Golem29 for chugging of course!

Yeah, the name sounds super heavy, but the pedal is more or less a hotter tubescreamer style overdrive circuit. That's why I think the name is unfortunate because people buy it expecting like a metal distortion or something.

It's actually a good mid gain pedal with something like a Plumes driving it, but for straight up metal it's no bueno.

Underrated comment 🤣😂🤣

Seriously. Not saying there isnt a use for this pedal, but the sound he got is radio rock all day lol.

@@mattmcfarland3491 exactly

The satan is based on the engl savage...

@@Soldano999 no guff. Just making an observation on people are always going to complain, and finding humor in it.

Yes, i guess people are like this

If he uses the same type of guitar to test pedals and amps it is better i guess. Testing the gear not the guitar and seeing the difference with similar guitars.

People just really suck Ass!! Quit complaining.

Uhh...this is the internet..No?

probably mostly people who buy pedals because of this video, gets home, makes it sound like shit because they cant play like Ola, then blame the amp instead of their skill level. Ola could chug with a 30's lapsteel guitar plugged into a Twin Reverb through a metalzone if he wanted to. wouldnt sound great, but it would still sound chug

The problem is that it won't chug.

@@martinkrauser4029 sure it doesn't. With an overdrive in front of it as a clean boost or even with a little drive, it can be more aggressive, more Metal. In fact, TC designed the MojoMojo overdrive and Dark Matter distortion as some kind of brothers pedals. To use them separately or together for more gain. But it's not made for chugging.