Buy Rocktron Zombie Rectified Distortion Effect PedalRocktron Zombie Rectified Distortion Effect Pedal Product Description:
- Recto Style Distortion
- 3D Imaging
- Full Parameter Control
- Metal Chassis
Product Description
You'll swear your sound gets right up and walks out of your cabinet! With an absolutely monstrously heavy sound, the Zombie creates a rectified asymmetric distortion with user control of the symmetry balance of the distortion output waveform. In essence, this creates the psycho-acoustic 3D sound positioning effect that will make your sound jump out of the cab.The Zombie gives you distortion that cuts through the mix, plus two bands of EQ. A control called STARE adjusts the symmetry of the distortion. Turning the control clockwise increases the symmetry offset of the distortion waveform, while counter-clockwise decreases the asymmetry of the distortion. The SCREAM control adjusts the rectified distortion. Use the LOUDER control to adjust the overall output of the Zombie pedal. BASS control adjusts the bass frequencies and TREBLE control adjusts the overall treble frequencies. The ON LED will light when the Zombie is active. The Zombie is a great choice when used with an ALL TUBE guitar amplifier to deliver rectified distortion. It can take a plain sounding TUBE amp and produce rectified distortion that rivals the sound of the most expensive amplifiers in this class. This monstrously heavy sound will cut through the mix and deliver amazing tone! The Zombie features Rocktron’s easy-access battery compartment to make changing batteries during a gig a breeze. For more info on the Zombie, check the manual located in the “manual library” of the SUPPORT section of our website.
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Tricky little bugger
By Mojo Master
I use this pedal on lead boost for STP's "CrackerMan", and on Collective Soul's "Let's Gel". It yields a high gain, rectified tone. It gets very noisy if you stop playing the guitar and will easily get you into a feedback loop, so stomping in and out of your lead required precision. As others have pointed out, its a tricky pedal to dial in what you are looking for as the controls are not intuitive. I think for the price and knowing how and where and when to use this pedal it can make a good addition to the lead guitarist's pedal board. I have several lead boosts on my board, and this one gets used in our band's sets. I use several different tube amps and it does the job on all of them in terms of creating screamy rectified distortion. One problem that I am having is taming this thing between practice and gig situations. Again, much tweaking is required to get the tone you are looking for.
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excellent pedal
By carol
Very happy with this pedal. My son loved everything about it. Sound is great and received it in the time they said.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful...dislocating... progressive 90's distortion...
By JColez
It's simple - I play hard/heavy rock/blues, and I need a lot of gain to solo (it's my favorite thing to do).. This pedal gets me there - to an extent. Plug it in, turn it up and it will dislocate your head (if that's even possible). I've got a 15 watt tube amp (Fender). It's so F..in loud on my 2 or 3 volume setting.. Blazin', tear-your-walls-down loud!! Of course, I use the clean channel and am playing in front of my amp.The other reviews on this are acurrate. The "Stare" control in my minds-eye is a sort-of midrange setting which gives you tone and fullness. This knob means everything to this pedal. If you turn the Stare down then it goes more scooped. Me.. I prefer mid-range and have my "stare" knob turned all the way up. The Loudness setting is a volume boost setting and the Scream setting is a presence/sustain type setting. I prefer the following Zombie settings: Louder 6, Treble 4, Bass, 10, Stare 10, Scream 10. Distortion... It's a thing of sonic-beauty - if I could come back to life after death, I'd like to be in form of rectified disortion.. (and a few other things). Like other reviewers, this pedal gets 4 solid stars here, however, I wish the pedal had a midrange knob and more bass response. Guitar is a mid-range instrument people! (and a big reason why I don't care for scooped tone i.e. thrash/death metal etc.) However, if you play scooped music this will get you there too, but more for Metallica-ish tone; If death tone is your thing, I've heard other pedals that do scooped better than this... I really think this pedal would sound great along with your bass player (so thumbs up for recording with it). It just misses a bit of the warmth and bass response that my Tube King (Ibanez) has at lower less ear shattering volume. However, this pedal does nicely at higher volume and the bass picks up. It's so loud though. We older guitarists can't destroy our ears while playing at home, so playing with more tone and control at lower volume is certainly great! Its harder to get good tone at low volume with the Zombie. Another quibble is that when I roll-off my guitar volume, the tone loses character quickly and really starts sounds pedal-ly the more you roll-off. Yuck... I guess that if you want less than heavy over-drive you'll have to adjust the pedal. Solos sound good and fat, and rythym is terrific (high volume). For $79, get you one and it will like it as long as you adjust it right, it gives you a progressive rock sound. Imagine AC/DC/Van Halen brown sound on some steriods, or Dokken/Ratt/Whitesnake etc - ...best way I can describe the Zombie. No regrets here and you'll have none either for $79. If you want even more possibilities you can also reasearch Rocktron's Cyborg Disortion - it has 8 different kinds of distortion with preseting abilities (and an EQ for each), and other cool tricks. AS for the Zombie and it's price - Thumbs up.****UPDATE****I've been messing with my rig, and have found the best way to set this up for my purposes/tone. First, I run my Zombie pedal in front of my Fender SuperChamp on the CLEAN channel - very important. So, this is a tube Fender clean channel (I have my amps bass and treble settings on 9 and 7 respectively). The Zombie instructions tell you use on a "full tube" amp, and you should do this. I tried, just for kix, to run this through channel 2 with all the rock voicing/distoritions on my AMP; this pedal sucks added to my other distortions as a supplement. Also, not nearly as loud. I also run my clean volume up to at least level 5-7. This way I'm pushing more power through my tube, yet I don't have to play soo damn loud. The result is a very tonal distorition. I've adjusted ZOMBIE to a 2 Louder setting, 10 Bass setting, 4 treble, 7 STARE, and 8 Scream. If you want to rip your face off, just turn the "Louder" setting up on the pedal from 2 to about 4 and its unreal how loud and full. I run my SuperChamp XD to a Jet City 1 X 12 cab (with Eminence); also, my Fender internal speaker is disconnected. I've also discovered if you're careful rolling off your guitar volume knob it sounds ok, but not great (doesn't suck as I mentioned before). I should note that my combo amp channel 2 is all modeled light-to heavy disotortion, and if you have an all tube amp this pedal will likely sound good on either channel. Get this and adjust it to your liking! Try my Zombie settings on your clean tube head/combo. I also use some delay. It all sounds really good.
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