DigiTech Grunge

Its pedal with 4 knobs: output, high, low, and level. If you're familiar with distortion pedals, this should be a cinch.

If you're looking for a grungy tone, this may not be the pedal you're looking for. It takes a lot of messing with the EQ to get a decent grunge sound. I run a Boss Super Overdrive in front of it and I'm able to get a much better sound.

However, this makes for a GREAT black metal pedal. If you want to sound like Mayhem, later Darkthrone, and Burzum, this is the pedal for you. The EQ is fairly responsive. This pedal is LOUD.

I'm giving this thing a 7/10 in this category only because it isn't very flexible

This thing is pretty durable. I've had it for about 5 years and this thing is in great shape. The paint is shipping a bit, but thats only a minor cosmetic flaw. The knobs seem pretty sturdy. This thing has been stomped on pretty hard over the years; I don't think i'll need a backup.

Never dealt with DigiTech, and based on the experience I've had with their pedals (this, the Hot Head, and the death metal), I won't be needing to deal with them any time soon.

For what I need it for, this thing does its job very well. If it got stolen, I'd totally pay the $40 to get a new one.

It's pretty easy to use if you know how pedals work in general. But it can be a little hard to get the best sound out of it because like most distortion pedals it can be very noisy if the amp you play through has no noise gate.

I used mostly Deans and Ibanez with it, through either a Marshall halfstack, Crate Halfstack or a Line 6 combo amp. It can be very noisy if your amp is on a high gain/distortion setting. But when I used it on a Clean, or low gain setting it wasn't noisy at all. Also it is very powerful, on a half stack, I can put the clean volume on 1 and it is louder going through the pedal than me playing on 5 on a normal distortion setting with no pedal. Overral sound is pretty good, but a $100+ distortion pedal is obviously better, this is a great pedal for those who've the economy has hit hard being only 40 something dollars

Very Reliable, like another reviewer said, you could drop this out of a building and it would still work.

I haven't called customer support, but when I bought it from guitar center the guys there were very helpful with getting me insurance on it and yadda yadda yadda

For me, I play metal and it's pretty awesome for the low growls and high gains of metal and chugging guitars. For someone actually playing grunge style music, it might be too heavy for you unless you can find a style that you like the most.
I compared it to a digitech metal pedal and a boss metal pedal, forgot the names, but it seemed to be as heavy as them, but once you get a heavy sound with it, thats it, unlike other metal pedals that allow you to change up the sound alot while keeping it very distorted.

This pedal has 4 knobs - one for volume, two EQ and a distortion level. Very easy. I bought a DOD grunge when I was 15 and had it figured out in 5 minutes, even when I had no experience of such things.

I bought a DOD grunge as one of my first distortion pedals years ago. I sooned learnt that over the top distortion pedals don't cut through with a band. They are designed for kids to make a racket in their bedroom - and indeed they sound good at bedroom levels. With a band you just get covered in fuzz and squealing feedback and it sounds awful.

After I got into noise I discovered that I liked the DOD grunge again. You can make squealing feedback and out of control sounds and I remain convinced that if it cost $200 and was called a "noise swash destroyer" then people would kill theirselves to get one. The other day I saw this pedal (the digitech reissue) in the shop and decided to try it out.

The sound is nasty and over the top. It sounds very poor, thin and noisy, but isn't nearly as extreme as the DOD grunge was. Shame. It's a decent noise pedal, but there are better ones out there. It sounds nice and heavy at home into a small amp, but a mush with a full band.

The two outputs are handy because you can create feedback loops easily.

The digitech cases are solid and have a good switch. They appear reliable. I took my pedal apart to rehouse it in a box as a feedback loop as a synth tone generator. When you take it out of the box you see that the knobs and pots are cheap plastic, the circuit board is floppy and the jacks are mounted onto the board. It is uncanily similar to the design of a a rockteck pedal put into a metal case. Deceptive appearences. I feel very sad that the old DOD pedals (with their flakiness and much hated plastic switches) seem very reliable compared to this cheap rubbish. Poor show digitech.

Never tired, but DOD never replied to me ever. They are the same company.

This is a decent pedal for anyone who plays at home into a practice amp. It will give you a heavy rock, grunge or metal tone at a cheap price. Don't expect it to sound good with a band. I found it to be a Disappointing pedal, but it's alright I guess.

This is a pretty simple pedal, it got 4 knobs: Loud, Low, High and Grunge. The "manual" comes with som suggestions, how you can turn the knobs, to get different sounds.

I have tested it with my Fender Jaguar HH with dragster humbucker, into a Peavay 25 watt combo, and a Marshall JCM800.

Let me say, that first of all I bought this pedal some years ago, and it's my first stompbox. At that time, it sounded so ******* cool to me, but as the years have past my opionien have went from "WOW"!! too "ehw".
Right now I'm using it as a boost, and it sucks at that too.
I think the tone of it is sounding very thin and digital. Well then, it isn't analog I know. But for me, this is just sounding to fake, to be real.

I think I could knock out my sister for good, with this pedal. The only thing is the plastic knobs, but I haven't had a problem with it.

Haven't had any complains or stuff like that, so haven't been in touch with them. Therefor, no opinion.

I play lots of styles, but basically blues, funk, rock. And for a beginner, this is a good distortion pedal, but not for a more experience player.
But as I said, right now it's on my board, trying to act like a boost pedal. Along with my Rat2 (modded), Carl Martin Red Repeat and my Crybaby GCB95 (modded as hell!).

The Digitech Grunge is easy to use just like any other distortion stompbox. It is special in one way though. It has both an amp output and a mixer output which has some cab emulation. The cab simulation is more of a bandpass filter or 2 which cuts some low end and kills all the highs (15KHz).
For only having low and high tone controls, it offers a good deal of tonal control.

This pedal is misnamed and should be called crunch or something to that effect. It is not for guitarists who like to "work" the distortion by adjusting the guitar's volume knob. For best results this pedal should be used with passive pickups into a "guitar" amp using 12" speakers.
Smaller speakers tend to exaggerate the highs too much and active pickups drive the pedal too hard and it gets a little muddy.
I also tried it on a Crate AC125 amp which has 2x 6" spkrs and a piezo horn. It sounded horrible until I tried the Grunge's "mixer" output. Awesome tone through an Ibanez Talman. Try the "mixer" out when running into a small practice amp to tame the crispies.

The pedal is well built. Very rugged. Stomp boxes tend to be very reliable from Digitech so a backup isn't an issue.

I've never needed customer support from this company in over 20 years.

For hard rock or metal, this is a nice pedal. The "mixer" output is a nice feature that helps it to sound good on several different types of amps. Great pedal for the money.
Put an eq pedal next to this for more tones.

pretty straight forward. volume, highs, lows, and amount of grunge. as long as your not a complete idiot you'll be able to use it properly. The presets in the tiny manual pretty much show all you can actually do with this pedal, which isn't much. it doesn't take long to figure that it doesn't have great sound. although it is usable. I currently use it as a distortion for my bassist bass. it works surprisingly well with the right amp

I used this pedal though a esp m-200 and the tone was horrible. that i blame on the guitar though. I also put it though my ibanez sz prestige which has emg 81/85. That produced a "usable" tone, and by all means is it good. its good enough to play with but tone wise horrible. one good thing about it is that it is pretty much noise free. since there are cheaper pedals similar to this on the market i wouldn't really buy this one for its tone... or its anything.

Man you could do anything to this thing and it would survive. seriously id be interested to know if anyone has thrown this off a 20 story building just to see if it would survive cos i think it would

Never delt with Digitech and don't intend to. i can imagine them being horrible in this department though

I play alot of everything. Stuff from muse to slipknot. You wouldnt be able to get anything like that on it. i bourght this just so i had a distortion and at the time i thought it was good. ive come to realise it isnt good at all. you may be able to get tones like.... nivana, but tones like that arnt very good in the first place. i have since given this pedal to my bassist to use as a distortion and purchsed a digitech rp350. mainly because it is really versitile but im still not happy with the mediocre tones of digitech

Four knobs, for volume, low, high, and gain...it couldn't get much easier. I like it for a solo sound with the Loud knob at 1 o'clock, Low at 10, High at 2, and Grunge at 2...that gives it a thin sound if it's alone, but if you have a distortion pedal before it in the signal path it still stays rich (if fuzzy). That said, it works on its own for Mudhoney covers.

I use a Squier Strat with hot rails, a Schecter Black Hawk, and a B.C. Rich Bronze Series Warlock in drop-B into a Fender G-DEC. My effects (from the guitar to the amp) are a Morley Pro Wah, a Danelectro Chili Dog, Ibanez TS-7, Ibanez DS-7, Digitech Hot Head, and then this baby. Now first off, the thing's noisy as hell, especially with another distortion before it, but you know what, if you don't want noise you probably shouldn't use a pedal called "grunge". I play grunge-influenced noise shred, and I love using this pedal and the DS-7 for the feedback and harmonics I can get with it. I can get a thin harmonic over every fret with this thing on. Now, this pedal's not for everyone. It doesn't sound good with the gain turned down, and it really can't get, say, a classic rock or thrash metal sound, and it sounds like **** if you turn down the high, but for what it is, it's amazing.
I don't know about other people, but I haven't been able to find a use for the Mixer Out except running to two amps. It sounds flat to me.

Well...it's built like a tank, all solid metal, and I've never had it fail on me. On the other hand, it goes through batteries fast, and when the battery gets low switching gets unreliable. So I'd recommend either using a wall plug or having a backup.

Never dealt with them. Mind you, I got it from a pawn shop.

Well, I've only been playing for about two years, but I've used a lot of different effects and this is one of my personal favorites. I've used it live five or six times, and it's sounded good every time. Everybody I know who's heard it loved this thing on my solos, and for controlled feedback. I really only got it because I'm a sucker for cheap things in pawn shops, but I'm glad I did. I'd recommend it to anyone playing grunge, noise, or punk music.

This thing could not be easier to use. It even comes with a manual which gives you suggestions for types of "Grunge" that you can use. And the suggestions that it comes with sound superb, especially when you filter it through a clean setting (filtering through a distorted setting doesn't go far).

I play this through a Fender G-DEC Jr. (go ahead and laugh) or a Hartke half-cabinet bass amp with a guitar head of some off-brand sort (my Youth Group can't afford a guitar amp). I play usually 2 different guitars; a Fender MIM Stratocaster, or a Gibson 1961 Melody Maker (with no modifications). And there IS a problem. For those of you who have EVER owned a Melody Maker, old or new, you know it only has one piddly pickup. A good one, but it only has one. And when you play through the Grunge with only one pickup/humbucker, the noise sets in. Its not that squealing feedback you hear, its just a crapload of humming and all sorts. Although it does sound more dense and heavy.

But then there's the Stratocaster. Everybody knows they have 3 pickups, weather it be a S/S/S or a S/S/H. I play just a standard with a S/S/S configuration (usually through the bridge and middle) and thats where this pedal really shows its stuff. The sound gets clear and you find you get just the amount of distortion and what kind of distortion you want. Thus you really exploit the tone you're looking for, even that good ol' Dimebag tone (or at least close to it).

So in short, if you're going to buy this pedal, buy it for a guitar that at least has two humbuckers. If you don't, you're in for a world of humming and agitation. But played through something like a Fender Stratocaster, you get a very wonderful bunch of crunch that would make Dimebag Darrell cry.

I'd give it a 10, but the fact that it has to be played through a double-pickup configuration to get a desirable tone just is a bit of a setback.

Its got a metal casing on it, so it'll hold up very very well, naturally. Although the "loud" knob has become slightly loose but not loose enough to where if you move it it'll pop off or move the setting (or just not work at all). I think you could probably hurl this little booger at your little brother/sister and it could stand up to the impact fairly well.

The people at the music store I went to were nice enough to let me diddle with this and several other pedals before I decided. They even provided a free battery. But I guess this part of the review is more or less directed toward Digitech. I didn't pay too terribly much for this [wonderful] pedal, I think I would rather have my father fix it (he's handy with electronics) or just buy a new one at the shop.

I have been playing for about half a year, and I like to play metal (I can play some things despite my short period of *ehm* rocking). I would much rather choose this over a Boss Metal Zone or a Digitech Metal Master/Death Metal pedal, it just has a better feel of overdrive as a whole. If you turn it off, it doesn't screw over your preset so thats really nice. If it were stolen or lost, I would be rushing to the store to get a new one ASAP!! I would DEFINITELY recommend this pedal to ANYONE who had an interest in metal/hard rock/grunge (most particularly Nirvana. Ol' Cobain liked to go heavy on the overdrive).

And they're cheap enough. $60-$70. Way cheaper if you can find one used.

the sound quality was very good for harmonics and for power cords and solos i use it with a squier tele costom (p90 humbuckers)and a squier tele thineline through dunlop crybaby,marshall blues breaker 2, marshall regenerator and a orange crush 10 it gives out a very beafy sound good for metal,punk and obviusly grunge not for everyone.

the hard metal cassing pretects it but the but when/if you use baterys they dont last very long

never used it

it is very hard to find fault with this pedal but it is hard to turn the nobes and fiddly to change the batery but over all this is a very good pedal

There is four knobs. Loud (volume), High (treble), Low (bass) and Grunge (distortion). It also has two outputs: Amp and Mixer. There is nothing that makes grunge too hard to use.

I use this little beast with my Marshall 4023. The guitar I mainly use is Fender 60's telecaster with hot rails on the bridge.

Grunge gets noisy if you turn the loud knob too much. There is a lots of bass and treble! The grunge knob has very little effect on the sound (except it adds sustain the more you crank it).

If you use the amp output it sounds like metal zone, which i don't like that much. I use the mixer output. It sounds close to the Lee Jackson GP-1000 for me and it was the sound I was looking for. Alexi Laiho and Roope Latvala are using the GP-1000.

Only annoying thing is the little noise you get but that's not a big deal.

Grunge has metal core. I would absolutely depend on it!

This thing is made for metal and that's that. I can't even think doing anything else with this. It's a great pedal for it's price. If it were lost, I would absolutely buy another one!

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...

Very Easy too use this pedal , There are four knobs, Level, Hi, Low and Grunge i think. The hi and low are your EQ controls, Grunge knob controls the amount of distortion and Level controls the actual volume of the pedal (works best at half way to full). The manual for the pedal is good, it offers you some ideas for settings but theyre not good but hey its handy for pedal newbies.

This pedal really should be named "METAL" instead Of "GRUNGE".

The Grunge knob doesnt make a difference: it sounds practically the same at 10 as it does at 1. The only difference is the sustain is cut. Not all GRUNGE is bone crushing distortion. i use it with my MG30DFX and my JCM900. Big Tonal difference i know but it sounds a bad kind of dirty through both.

I tried to get a grunge sound out of it by trying to get the same kinda sounds a kurt cobain would have but it wasnt for happening.

In the end i gave up on this pedal and took it back to the shop.

It was metal, so i would probably rely on it; with spare batteries and ac adaptor.

Didnt have it long enough :P

I Play Grunge/Punk stff, and this pedal really only dos metal. The grunge knob doesnt work; they may as well rip it off. The EQ is god theres a big difference from 0-10 on the knob.

But trust me if your looking for a grunge/punk sound buy an Ibanez smash Box (SM7). It does this genres job so much better than the Grunge pedal does:

Digitech- Change the name to METAL.

Features 4 controls; Loud, Low, High and Grunge(distortion). This pedal couldn't be easier to set up to the right sound for you. Even changing the battery involves no effort whatsoever. Perfect.

I use a 70's SG and a Danelectro 56 Pro though this thing and it sounds amazing. This pedal is definently suited to those with heavier music in mind. It's relatively quiet (no nasty background fuzz or anything) even when the Grunge is turned up to full. The pedal has a real underlying 'boom' when you turn the low right up. I tend to leave the low on full and have the high and grunge 3/4's of the way round and it really is a hell of a sound. I've been asked to turn to low end down at gigs more than once as the sound technichans are worried I'll blow the PA! It isn't very versatile though, only suited to a few sounds and the gain control doesn't have much effect over the actual sound.

I've never had to worry about the reliability of the thing. It has a hard metal shell and I've definently kicked it about enough.

Meh. Don't think I'll ever need to get this thing repaired. And when it does pack in I'll probably just by another one.

I mostly play grunge and metal and this is perfect just for that. It's designed for those who aren't technically great on the guitar. At the same time, it sounds great during the few solos that I decide to put in. My last fuzz box was a Danelectro French Toast pedal, but this definently gives enough fuzz and 'nasties' to keep me happy. I've been playing for about 4 years and my only other pedal at the mo is a Boss flanger. They are both such powerful pedals that they don't work very well together, the flange always seems far too pronounced. The only thing I don't like about it is the fact that it sounds so weak when the low is turned down, but that may just be because I'm so used to having it on full. Also, it is definently way louder than I'd ever use. Apart from that, a F*CKING GREAT PEDAL!! BUY IT! NOW! No, I mean, actually......NOW!!!

Piece of cake really. Twist around the knobs and you've got a killer tone.

I got almost all tones i was looking for. Got the exact ditto Megadeth, metallica, black sabbath, slayer, pantera etc etc etc tone. Not too good for soloing, though the sustain is killer.

This pedal should be renamed to the "Metal" cause thats what it does. Much better than most of the metal pedals i came across/

100% reliable. Even in low voltage, it rox.

Never tried it, though 6 yrs warranty is kickass

Awesome pedal, awesome crunch and sustain. good for metal. awesome even for rock and grunge. Works great with all amps. Has a direct to mixer output option which is pretty good.

All in all, a killer buy. \m/

very easy to use. 4 knobs. , very versitle low and high knobs.

i am running a schecter c1 artist with a jb-4 pickup int a marshall avt 50 half stack. Sometimes i use a morely bad horsie wah. This thing is amazing. i have been looking for a pedal that can go from tool to metallica to a perfect circle and this one nails it. i prefer tis over my line 6 uber metal by far. no noise on my amp and i have to keep the lound at 1-2 or it will start shaking the whole house(not just my room).

seems sturdy enough to me, made of metal, comes with 6 year warranty.

dont know havent use them.

great pedal. much better than line 6 and can go from kurt cobain, to tool to metallica with the turn of a knob. awsome

Simple stomp box. 4-knobs, Loud(volume/Gain), Low, High, Grunge(distortion). Heavy cast metal case. Good switching. Pretty darn sturdy.........AC plug or 9-volt. Im giving it a 5 because it is not easiy controlable in my set up. Too much gain(gotta set it way down compared to my other pedals). Too much high(hiss) but can be tammed. Needs to be tweaked alot different than my other pedals. Not a easy user freindly distortion.

Playing hard body Gibsons thru a Marshall JTM-45 reissue. Signal chain= Wah pedal(area-51),Bad monkey(OD), Double Muff(OD-Fuzz), Grunge(big noise), Small stone(phaser), Delay(digital).
This pedal is alittle over the top for me. It does seem noisey but its got ALOT of GAIN...Seems to work ok with other pedals. Im trying to make it work. I have to turn the volume gain way down or it just screams(takes over) compared to my other pedals. It has alot of bottom. It has way more treble--too much for my taste. I needed a neu-metal type sound for the new thrashy stuff. Not sure if this is answer? It just seems pretty uncontrolable, Not enough range in the EQing to be great? Its ok. It has a nice price tag. Digitech should make this with a mid-shift knob. It needs something more?

Digitech makes very heavy duty pedals. Excellent construction. No problem here.

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Our band plays classic rock, Pop, oldies, new age. Played for too long-----im still learning. If I lost it --well, Id get something else. Would not buy again. I love the price, I hate the uncontrolable noise. Its built well. I did some research and though this would work ---good reveiws here at HC. Wish it had a middle eq knob with less gain. This pedal works for now. Im going to pawn it off to the new-rockers and get a more controlable distortion box. This pedal is cool. Its worth the money. Im still searching.