DigiTech Grunge

Dialing in your tone on your amp and set-up may take some tweeking but it doesn't get any easier than 4 knobs!

I run my Fender American Double Fat Strat, American Fat Strat Texas Special and an Ibanez RG into a 535Q Cry Baby wah (the one with a fasel inductor in it!)>Ibanez Keeley Baked Mod TS-9 > Digitech Grunge > Ibanez PH99 analog phaser > input of my Mesa Boogie DC-5. The rest of my effects, (Chorus, Tremelo and Delay) are ran in to the effects loop of my DC-5.
For the amount of dirt this pedal puts out it is astonishingly clear of noise.
I tried this pedal one time when our group was asked to play out of the blue at a Bible conference. They had the "Grunge" pedal tucked away in the back of the church and I used it to play a cover of the Evanescence song "Bring Me to Life" (a Christian version of course!) I was impressed with the sound and thought I would purchase one someday. Despite the fact my DC-5 will rock the house just fine I wanted to use this pedal to target heavy Rock/metal tones of Nickleback. It does a very good job at this and lets me dial in my rock rhythm and solo tones (using my 5 band EQ on the DC-5 to dial in lead tones.)
I have found that this pedal responds nicely to the volume control on my guitars. If I drop back the volume it cleans up, full volume = full mayhem!

No issues as yet but I have not had it for long.

I have not needed it for this product.

I have been playing guitar for about 18 years and play everything from pop rock to hard rock, metal and Blues. This pedal helps cover the heavy metal portion nicely.
I would replace it if lost or stolen.
My feeling is that this Grunge pedal sounds much better than Boss distortion pedals. Boss does a great job with delays reverbs and other effects but Digitech does a better job with distortion in my opinion.

Easy

Fat sounding pedal.
Not muddy like a lot of boss pedals are.
It's not very organic but that ok for my style of music.
Perfect for those who like to play lowtuned metal, grindcore, metalcore, crustcore or stoner.

4 Knobs, easy to use, I like more bassy tones and the EQ is great for tweaking the sound. Easy to get more treble and middle tones for cutting through if needs be. The loud Knob is brilliant-the pedal can get very very loud with little/no background noise. I use an OD pedal directly in front of it and this sounds amazing. Manual is decent-though I didn't need to use it at all, no real need to as it's very intuitive.

I got this pedal because it sounds different to any other Distortion pedal I've used-It's grittier, dirtier and sounds cool! It blows the other guitarists sound out of the water-which is helpful because I play lead-and he has a vox tonelab! It's easy to get metal sounds (just a bit dirtier)Not much noise either-and thats without using my Boss Noise Suppressor. I use the lowest Grunge setting and this suffices for metal sounds (i play metally type stuff), turn the grunge up and extreme distortion results-proper cool tone.

I use a Strat/Jag into Planet waves tuner pedal->Morley Wah/Vol->Diamond Comp->Vox Big Ben OD->GRUNGE->Marshall Regenerator->Marshall Vibratrem->Digiverb->Boss Noise suppressor->Peavey Windsor 100w Head/cab->Damage Control Timeline (in Effects loop)->AMP

Never let me down-it is made of solid metal.

Had it stolen from my car and found it lying in a very muddy puddle down the road and was there for 1/2 a day and I just washed the mud off and let it dry for a few hours and it played amazingly well as usual.

Would gig without back up.

Never used it, don't think I'll have to.

Great!

come on, it has 4 knobs.

you need 2 minutes to find out how it works.

i use this pedal every time i need an over the top distortion. It is raw, brutal and it got fat low end.
its good for Grunge, hard Rock, Stoner Rock and some rawer forms of metal. Although, if I would be in a Metal band, i would play the Boss metal Zone or the digitech Metal master instead. Tis pedal??s tone is really raw and sometimes a little too fuzzy for heavy metal, so it??s a good deal if you are in that grunge/doom/stoner etc. sound.

this pedal sounds good so far with all my other pedals. I run different kind of guitars (Humbucker-, singlecoil-, les paul-type, strato-type)through a Dunlop cry baby, then comes the "grunge", an electro harmonix little Big muff, danelectro daddy-o overdrive, EH Small Clone, EH small stone.

my unit sometimes creates an annoying very dark feedback at high volumes, but don??t forget, it??s an ANALOG pedal! (although the company is called DIGItech...)

the sound is really compressed, pitch-harmonics are easy.

What i sometimes don??t like is that the sound is not very organic. it??s fat and deep, bu it could be a little more subtle.

don??t buy this pedal if you think grunge = Nirvana. if you like to play nirvana, chose a ds-1 or something. this one is too heavy.

its build out of metal, dependable.

of course i gig withit without backup. should i have a complete second pedalboard in my bag, just for the case or something?

never dealed with digitech.

over the time i played rock, blues, so-called "grunge", stoner rock, (irish) folk, and sometimes some metal.
i play in a stoner/psychedelic-rock band, where a little big muff is my distortion of choice, but this thing is useful from time to time.
for this music it??s a little too heavy, but nevermind.

if it were stolen, i would replace it with another distortion/high gain-pedal, just for trying something new.

Strait out of the box it took about a minute to dial in something useable and about 5 to dial in the distortion tone I have been looking for for so long.

Four nobs, on and off, ain't rocket science lads.

However, just because it always sounds good doesn't mean its a good pedal. Just means most of the tweakings already been done for you and you therefore have a less versetile pedal. This may not the right choice for complete tone junkies.

My Set up;

Fender Jagmaster with a Super Distortion in the bridge-- E13 Never Drive (octave up+ fuzz)--- Electro Harmonix Poly Chorus--- Snarling Dogs Wah/ Ring Modulator--- MXR Blue Box--- Grunge--- 65w Crate Amp.

No I'm not a grunger or a Cobain wannabe. I play in the stlye of Stooges, Melvins, Sonic Youth, Lightning Bolt, Black Flag, Skullflower, Sunn 0))). This pedal fits all those needs.


This is my fith distortion pedal and I've finaly found the keeper. The others were;

Boss Mega Distortion; very glazzed sounding, I like my distortion to spit a bit, boss pedals seem to be polite, generic and safe. Not what I want from a dist box!

Pro Co Turbo Rat; an overdrive pedal not a distortion. Great for ACDC but doesn't go to the extreems some of us want.

Little Big Muff; big disapointment. Althoug very dark the actual fuzz/ distortion seemed a bit wimpy and the tone of my wank guitar shone thru at all times

Metal Muff; extreemly versetile and comes with a treble boost. However it doesn't matter how you tweak it you can't get away from its slightly hollow, scooped mid sound. The distortion does not go to the extream of the Grunge and it was all but impossible to get feedback out of it (thou I expect it was designed to do that)

Grunge; Rich, warm, fat and ALIVE sounding.

With the grunge all the way ccwise you get something like Stooges Raw Power Sound, all the way cwise and you get a very useable wall of sound that still maintains not clarity and definition, is sensetive to pick attack (as much as it can be when screaming)and has buckets of personality. Not hugly versetile but my personal distortion wet dream.

The low and High controls cover a wide range of useable sounds thou don't go to ridiculous extreems ala Electro Harmonix. I find myself turning down the treble to compensate for the top end the grunge control adds (it is a fuzz distortion after all)

I have not played with the loud control yet.

Looks sturdy enuf. Will need a power suply for sure thou as digital gear kanes batteries.

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This pedal is by far the best distortion pedal I have got my hands on so far, it suits my needs pefectly, dirty, extreem but maintains clarity and definition. As a bonus it only costs ??30!!!! The cheepest pedal I've got.

There is enuf versatility in it to alow a player to find his 'own' sound.

I've been playing over 10 years. I don't have backups because I'm not a ponce. I would buy it again for sure, its only ??30 for christ sake! If someone were to steal it I would burn their house down, force them to watch me steal their mothers anal virginity then make them swallow the pedal whole. Bloody Pikies.

This pedal is very easy to use and it only took a few minutes to find a sound I liked.

I was actually surprised by the type of sounds that came out of this pedal. Once I turned down the high/treble knob and increased the low/bass knob I was able to dial in some great sounds. I consider this a fuzz/distortion pedal. It can definitely be used for hard rock and metal. It is not good for jazz or blues. With my Les Paul and an Epi Valve Junior, I was able to get it to sound very close to the Randy Bachmann "American Woman" tone which made me quite happy.

It seems to be very sturdy and reliable.

Never had to use customer support.

I play mostly blues and classic rock. This pedal is better suited for hard rock and metal than anything else. I like it because it gives me more variety in my sound. It gives me a good fuzzy sound with tons of sustain on tap.

Extremely easy to use. Works like most Stompboxes.

For this particular pedal I can get most of the guitars from Black Sabbath, Guns N' Roses, Greenday, and many others. The distortion is amazing. I am using a Washburn BT4 guitar and a Peavey Blazer 158. The pedal can be noisy or soft depending on what the "loud" setting is on. The effects always sound excellent.

The only thing I would do is buy the power adapter. The pedal eats up the batteries pretty quick.

I play mostly rock, metal, ska, and surf. I've only been playing about 5 months now and I've been teaching myself. If the pedal was stolen, I would buy a new one heck, it only costs about 40USD

Well, easy to use like all those stompboxes, the pots work smoothly and its easy to figure out how to use them, for me, it was very difficult to get a good sound from, when not impossible, maybe its just my amp...

Well, I don't know what the rigs of my favourite artists sound like, so I don't know. You can get the guitar tone of the new Helmet recording, Monochrome, when turning grunge down to about 6 o'clock and the high at about 2 o'clock.
I'm using this with a roland micro cube, through which it sounds decent, and the clean channel of a Marshall Lead 100 MOSFET, my main amp through which it sounds horrible - Waaaay to much high end. The low end was alright, but even with the high knob turned all the way down, my ears were hurting after playing for just a few minutes. The thing has lots of high end (did I mention, that it has a lot of high end?) and delivers a good chunky sound (when you turn grunge up far enough) and also lots of low end, think it would be a good tool for bassists, too. With Humbuckers it isn't noisy at all, even when run with a power supply, with singlecoils there is loads of buzz, but youre not gonna use this with singlecoils...

Made out of Metal, made for metal guitarists...
I wouldn't use it on a gig, but I think it would a reliable tool to deafen your audience...
Just make sure you don't use it on batteries, the pedal eats them up pretty fast.

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I play Stoner Metal with some -core influences, its not a good match, way too shrill and too sterile. I'm playing for 2 years now I own a roland Microcube, a Marshall lead 100 Mosfet head with a 4x10 box (maybe thats why it sounds that shrill) a cort zenox z22, a fender mexican standart strat, a Danelectro Wasabi overdrive (rules), a DOD Fx20c Phaser and a Behringer AB200 Ab-box.
If it where stolen or lost I would be angry, cause I'm gonna send this back to the store soon, would be sad for the few bucks. Next time I'd probably buy the digitech hot head or something with a warmer sound.
I love the looks of the Pedal, the Chunky sound, when you use the mixer out to record something and its price. I hate the piercing low end and its cold, sterile tone. My favourite feature is the battery case under the footswitch.
Compared it to my wasabi overdrive when pushing the drive channel of my amp with it, found it sounded much better.
When I used it at my band practice, the other members shouted at me to "turn that shit down"...

Very straight forward as most stomp boxes are.

I'm surprised at how good this thing sounds. Generally speaking I'm not into Distortion. I'm more of an Overdrive guy. But I was looking for a pedal to plug into the front of my Peavey Classic 100 that would give me a Metal, rockin', Mesa type of tone. My amp does Classic Rock and all but high gain stuff quite well. I wanted something that picks up where my amp left off and that would give me a bit more modern tone. This was a perfect choice.

It isn't like other distortion boxes I've tried in the sense that it isn't overly buzzy. If you like buzz, it can be dailed in so that it buzzes like crazy. But the buzz can be pretty much dialed out too. The "low" and "high" tone knobs enable you to customize the tone and really make it your own pedal. A "mid" control would be nice but there is a decent amount of versatility as it is.

I'm impressed with how it still allows the guitar's pickups to have some characteristics that shine through. It's obvious when I change from neck to bridge pickup and each guitar takes on it's own characteristics in many ways. The guitars I'm using are: Epiphone Elitist LP, EBMM EVH, PV Wolfgang, a guitar I made with dual humbuckers.

I'm use to distortion sounding fairly generic, harsh and one dimenstional. This has good usable tone. The compression blooms and morphs into overtones which impresses me. I've not gigged with it yet but I'm confident that prudent adjusting it will work just in in this regard. There is almost nothing about the tone of this cheap little box that is bad. It doesn't clean up very well with volume adjustment from the guitar. And the "grunge" knob affects the gain from relatively light to almost over the top. But it won't go from almost clean to over the top. It won't do Blues or styles other than Metal or the Alice in Chains kind of Grunge. So if you need something else, look elsewhere.

I agree that it sounds more Metal/Hard Rock than Grunge. Of course I know what Grunge music is. But I don't really know what a "Grunge" guitar tone is or how you can classify something as Grunge the way you can classify Metal and Jazz tone. Basically it has the tone I was looking for regardless of what the name is. By using an eq in my loop I can make it sound amazing. Shockingly good for the price.

My rating of 10 takes into consideration the price of $40. If it were $150, I'd probably rate it an 8 or 9. As it is, it's an amazing value and a great way to add dimension to your rig if you're in the same position I was. And I use mine with a Daisy Chain so I can't testify to how well it works wtih batteries. The battery that came with it new was almost dead.

Don't know yet. seems very well built. I dont' think much of DOD pedals but I decided to take chance on this Digitech model. It's so cheap though that if it only lasts a year or two it's pretty easy to replace. I have no reason to believe it won't last though.

What a bargain! That is a bargain for me! I'm completely satisfied and it does exactly what I wanted it to do. Couldn't ask for more at this point and all for $40. Doubt it will become my main tone but I have no reservations about using it as one of my "go to" tones.

Its a very easy pedal to work with.. no hassle... Took me exactly 2 mins to get the tone I wanted

The SOund quality is amazing... Clear crunch on the Mixer output, though the amp output gets a bit fuzzy on live situations.

Great for all kinds of music, from death metal to AC DC to Nirvana to even alternative stuff..

Due to low power or amp/other settings, sound may suffer, so always power up correctly..

Very dependible....

Fantastic value... Excellent tone, very good variation... 2 outputs for ur sound... looks sweet...