TC Electronic Dark Matter Distortion

I was very surprised finding this quality for such a price. The Dark Matter might be a digital pedal (which I'm usually not a very big fan of), but it has a wide range of sounds. It varies from a light overdrive type of sound to a heavy crunching sound. I also like the bass and treble knobs. But please TC Electronics: Get better on/off switches on your pedals, because they are very fragile!

Dark Matter Distortion aims to give you that powerful, super-musical roar of an early plexi - a sound that will satisfy even the pickiest players out there. We are confident we have achieved just that, and this is one of those pedals you have to try to believe what it can actually do for your distorted sounds.

Dude. Lady.

Stop reading this and go buy a TC Dark Matter. Right now. It's worth it.

Whether you want an easy and simple lo-gain for post time-effect creaminess, or you want to front load your amp with an array of dark and throat lows all the way up to shrieking and squawking hi's. Get this. It's not a metal pedal, so don't fool yourself into thinking you're going to gain town, but this rock-minded distortion will carry you through any classic song on its own, or can be used with other friends to build great shoe-gazey goodness. It's a fully responsive, dynamic, and powerful distortion pedal. Keep the level above noon for unity or boost, or cut your volume down to size and get gainy after some other great effect. This pedal sounds great all over the board, and it's ridiculously cheap for the effect contained within.

This pedal sounds more like an Overdrive. Of course you have a distortion, but you can clean the sound almost 100%! We never have that with Distortion pedals, only with Overdrive pedals. I trusted some videos on the YouTube, but when I tried by myself, I only got to those great tones using a little bit of crunch on the amp, so the pedal was pushing the sound. The pedal alone has a lot of low-end, and when you try to get rid of it turning down the BASS knob, you will end up with no body at all, just a skinny sound. I think you need to try it before buying. It ended up as a medium drive option to me, so I still use my Mooer Rage Machine to high-gain distortion. Maybe when I get an Overdrive pedal to push the Dark Matter, than I can stop using my Mooer.

I don't use it much, but comes in handy when I need a Paramore, Fall Out Boy type of tone. Great pickup for $50

This pedal is, well, a distortion pedal, and the only real reason I bought it was to hear the difference between overdrive and distortion (my amp has built-in overdrive). It's a good pedal, but it adds a lot of midrange, which is not what I look for in a distorted song (I love midrange, don't get me wrong). There's also this "voice" switch that doesn't really do anything, as far as I can tell

I use this as a gain boost into a BBE green screamer. By itself it has more scooped mids but pushes the bbe nicely.

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the gain is horrible and sounds like a muffled wet fart, do not buy if you like high gain metal only good for a lead boost with amp gain

Bien puesto su nombre, una distorsión cremosa y con peso absorbente 100% recomendable y un precio accesible se puede lograr mucho con poco dinero

Useful, easy distortion pedal by TCE. It isn´t anything special, but it should be nice in some kind of songs. I tried to use it in my board and I can say I´m satisfied.

Super versatile, wide range of sounds(from a crunchy punch to an extreme distortion), the cheapest and best distortion pedal!

Great price for a great tone and pedal.

Definitely not a high gainer. I just used it for a few days when I was testing various distortion pedals. Again, if you look for an overdrive with more low-end, this might be something for you.

Great Distortion Tones baby, makes my pickle tingle

I love this pedal, very useful for getting heavier chunky sounds similar to Metallica or Muse's heavier tracks, I love it.

This picks up right where the MojoMojo leaves of, so I use them together. I often mix a little bit from this, with more tone from the Mojo. There are endless things you can do with the 2 pedals without introducing a lot of noise into the signal path.

Really nice for some fuzzy leads and heavy riffs.

Got this little beauty on a TC Festive Special Offer - well almost. Still waiting for it to turn up. Youtube vids look promising though.