Last week in the “current sounds” thread, I posted some experimenting that I was doing with the distortion effects in the Boss SE-70, and got some good feedback.
Since then, I found a bunch of old threads covering this topic, so instead of spamming more experiments in the “current sounds” thread, why not necro an old thread, but more on topic.
I was surprised as anything that the SE-70 was adding latency to the sound, so I could only use the distortion as an insert rather than send. Even the algorithm that had split the dry/wet channel had internal phasing. The distortion is supposed to be analog, so I assumed latency wouldn’t be an issue, but 
For my personal taste, I’m not a fan of blowing out the kick. Just not a fan of that “BOUWM” sound. But I still like a decent “thud”.
I have a Boss BX-600, which does sound great, but it’s hard to tame the BOUWM that happens.
So I ordered a bunch of cheap pedals from Amazon. I didn’t want to invest in some higher priced pedals not knowing what kind of distortion/OD sounds better. Fun experiment for sure.
The pedals worked just fine as a send, and I didn’t get any phasing/combing, at least to my ears.
On all of the below, there are four channels from the TR-8: kick, snare/clap, toms/rim, hats. Each of these has about a 5-15% send level. Then the return channel is mixed in at around 25%. The FX is EQ’d, with a slight low increase, slight cut at 125, and highs of 8k+ boosted.
Here’s a dry loop, then two loops of the Dark Mouse (Rat) pedal:
Here’s a dry loop, then a loop of the Joyo Baatsin T. OD and T808:
Here’s a dry loop, then the Joyo Baatsin Crunchy, Rioter, and OCDrive:
I also got tried the Joyo Tiny Huge Fuzz and Extreme Metal pedals. Those just blew the sound out, which was fun, but nothing I couldn’t already do as an insert with the SE-70.
I’ve ordered a cheap Mosky d250x pedal that should arrive in two weeks or so.
Overall, fun. I was surprised at how well the Baatsin worked out. It was an impulse choice with everything else in the cart.
If anyone has any suggestions on fiddling with this more, I’d love to hear!