My Deco lives on my AR. Though I don’t love it’s distortion; saturation is nice.
Stereo distortion/FX: Sherman Rodec, OTO Biscuit, T-Resonator…all good stuff.
But the RAT: love it. Surprisingly versatile.
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guys, something like the Rat in addition to distort the sound, give it more presence like the sherman, moog filter ecc… or is limited to only distortion?
If you like the Rat, you’d better solder yourself a distortion or fuzz stompbox…
TechniGuitare has some pretty good kits, and it’s such a pleasure to play with stuff you built yourself !!
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I’ve had my eyes n ears on a Retro Mechanical Labs Electron Fuzz to feed certain outputs on my Rytm. They sound brutal in the best way possible!
Deco is an obvious one.
Check out the Zoom MS-100bt.
It has stereo input/output, but also some emulations of classic fuzz pedals and other FX as well. You can chain FX to find your own sound, and apply a gate to tame the noise.
I prefer it over the MS-70cdr, as some of the bass pedal emulations are not available on the MS-70cdr
I am currently running my MD through a vermona retroverb (spring reverb and kick ass filter unit with very nice overdrive)
- couldn’t be happier… the deco didn’t quite do it for me as I felt it was compressing too strong in the higher drive settings so you’d loose a lot of headroom
From the demos i really like the sound of the oto biscuit, but… I’m looking for something that brings warm to the digital sound of the machinedrum, with the biscuit’s bit crusher, I’m scary about it sounds even more digital 
or I miss something?
This thread inspired me to experiment a bit. Ended up running my MD through my SansAmp British (Marshall character analog distortion/cab sim) with some really excellent results, after some tweaking. Mono-only, but sending it to a short-duration stereo delay (Timeline) opened it back up again.
Also tried it through my Boss GT-10 with less inspiring results. So hard to dial in nuanced overdrive within the COSM world. Great for effects though.
Would love to try with an EHX Micro Synth - those things are great little sound manglers.
I run mine mainly through the rodec for a smooth sound. If I want to be edgy I run it through the minimoog voyager filter. One day I will do some sessions running it through the analog keys filter. My rodec is my throwdown filterbox because it’s the most musical. The voyager filter gets muddy to easily and I end up getting to agressive with it.
i have one of these but havent hooked it up to a drum machine yet.
this thing is a monsta and very different to any other fuzz pedal i have used. for one, the knobs are backwards. no issue there, just takes getting used to.
i love the x1000 gain switch! btw, if you tweak the settings right it will make its own sound (self oscillate?). i played around for hours with it hooked up to nothing except itself, a delay, and reverb pedal. should have recorded it! nine inch nails soundscape type stuff!
stereo distortion pedal? interesting! haven’t seen this yet, will see if i can find any vids on it!
i’ve added a link to soundcloud, most of the videos are with guitars
The biscuit doesnt do subtle saturation well. And honestly it starts to sound pretty same ish after a while. Its not something Id reach for often. I used it more for the delay than anything, which I love and miss but isnt worth 600. It certainly gets a digital high end crunch if you let, it can be warm, buts its alao fairly fuzzy. I dunno, I didnt like it for subtle warmth.
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Aha yes… I think I have one of these sitting in a box somewhere. Thanks for reminding me 
Still on the look for good stereo distortion/overdrive for my MD. Have documented my tries with EHX Platform and Operation Overlord here: EHX Platform & Operation Overlord: stereo dynamics & drive
Now I had completely forgotten about the LPB 2UBE that I had gotten for this purpose many years ago. I hadn’t really found a good use for it back then. Something about the tone that didn’t sit well with me. Dug it out today to give it another go. What do you know? Sounds quite well to my ears now… I think a big difference between now and then is how I process the sound after it and perhaps my sound in general. I like it more raw now.
I’ve been A/B-ing it with Platform’s drive. I think I like the LPB 2UBE better. Low end response is distinctly different. Platform’s distorted kick drum sound has a higher tone giving that hardcore sound much sooner. LPB 2UBE distorts with a lower frequency tone and seems to keep more punch. Gonna give that LPB 2UBE another chance 
Maybe I should try some different tubes for it too, hmmm…
I use some bigger buddy to process the Machinedrum the DSI Evolver Keyboard (this guy is super hot) but the desktop version can do the job considering the prices of the pedals I will go with the Evolver his industrial grittiness is one of the many good things he have under the hood
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Here’s a demo of LPB 2UBE with MD:
LPB 2UBE drive is set to maximum. Distortion amount controlled with the input level switch and the MD’s output volume. The louder the input signal the harder it will distort.
- Machinedrum dry
- Low: hi input level switch
- Medium: lo input level switch
- Max: ramp up to max distortion by increasing MD output volume to max, then back to medium
- Add Analog Heat and Eventide Space fx
- Take out fx > back to low > back to dry
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Sounds good! Interesting!
Analog Drive is really good too. Even better than Heat in high gain registry.
Not analog, but the WMD Geiger Counter seems sick!
Mono, sadly…