TC Electronic Dark Matter Distortion Effect Pedal

Good, but not perfect. I bought this off of a recommendation, with the intent to dial in a good black metal sound. Unfortunately, the lack of a mid control made it hard to get the right tone; in general this clearly wasn’t made for treble heavy tone at all. The distortion had too much of a buzzy-woobly noise with the settings I attempted to use. While initially disappointed, I fiddled with it a bit and dialed a pretty crunchy old school death metal sound by boosting both eq knob a bit, and cranking up the distortion…

Usable, Musical Distortion I wasn’t sure what this was going to sound like. I wasn’t going for any particular tone, but I wanted something a bit more on the distortion side to compliment the Green River Drive I’ve been using for OD. Took me a while to mess with the EQ and get that right, but now that I’ve dialed that in I’m really impressed by this guy. Really musical, somewhat crunchy sounds can be achieved across the gain spectrum, but I’m most impressed by the unusually beautiful tones I can get at lower gain…

I came away from this one not very impressed I had this for one day. For less than 50 bucks I had to try it. Now I can see why it’s so inexpensive.I compared this head to head with the Mooer Solo, (Suhr Riot Clone) that I find to be fantastic, and Way Huge Fat Sandwich (Awesome Distortion Pedal)Here’s the deal….The Dark Matter was flubby, broke up in an un-organic way, didn’t have as much gain and has a far less musical break-up with the gain rolled down to 1/4 regardless of switch position (that has minimal effect) or…