Need help making hard/heavy tone - noise issues

#1

Hi everybody.

I’m trying to make up a hard rock / heavy metal guitar tone with the Dwarf.

Nothing fancy, I just need a solid distorded backing guitar tone plus a solo tone in a pedalboard.

I thought a basic Onix pre, a Mod Cab with a compressor and a distortion plugin in front would suffice, but I’m having problems finding the correct combination.

I tried with the Mod Big Muff but it’s too fuzzy and vintage for my tastes.

Then I tried with the EZComp and DS-1 but they seem to be way to noisy, to the point of being unbearable.

Am I doing something wrong? Does anyone have suggestions?

Thanks.

#2

You could look at this thread for ideas Will it chug? Share your heaviest sounding boards here . There are a number of heavy boards linked there. I would also recommend looking at Aida-X models of heavier amps. AIDA-X - MOD Audio and models at Tone3000 Aida-x NAM Profiles & IR's · TONE3000 .

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#3

Hi thanks, I’ll try some of those.

Modeling asise, do you have any suggestion about what distorsion/amp/cab combo to use and maybe why I could be getting so much noise with that specific distortion “pedal”?

#4

I really like the distorsion of the Colombo pedals

#5

I was just thinking the same thing. You could try the trial Colombo plugin taster Plugins - MOD Audio. If you have a MOD Dwarf or MOD Duo X, you could buy one of those Colombo pedals (the taster is free). I believe there will be the ability to do so for Desktop, but that may be far enough in the future for you to want a more immediate solution. In terms of noise, the Muff is a wooly pedal. The Collision Drive has a cool built-in noise gate, but there are a few noise gates. I’m not sure what your setup is, but noise can come from a variety of sources. I would recommend you also investigate gain staging and compare different stages in parallel as well as series.