All user reviews of 5/5 for the Maxon SD-9 Sonic Distortion

The PDAL is able to provide its wide range of lightweight and varies a good crunch distortion.
It possde potentiomtres 3:
-One for the gain (distortion).
One-for Treble (tone)
-One for the volume (level)
The switch seems solid: it is not yet a year since I have but it is stronger than my DOD FX 86: has it on!

UTILIZATION

The use of the pedals in itself is childish: you turn the pots!
But the o began to be interesting is when the couple in the clean and distorted sounds or distorted to the amp.
L can spend hours finding and playing sounds DIFFERENT trs

SOUND QUALITY

This gives sound trs Varis:
Its light-saturated lgrement on using only the acute knob level, the others as zero by turning the amp clean sound (crunch trslger).
-Saturated from the blues to rock (overdrive).
-Distorted sound by coupling the pedals overdrive or distortion of the amp. In this case the distortion is heavy or dirty with admittedly a blast when you push the gain back of the amp and pedals: in short rglage extreme.
Finally I use the SD-9 with a combo and a Marshall VS100 guitar brian moore i9p.

OVERALL OPINION

In short, if I compare it with the DOD FX 86, although qu'tant metal, it must be recognized that the Maxon sounds brings much more numerous and more versatile.
The DOD "grinds and transforms" the sound of the amp and guitar of a sudden she enlve lot of heat as well as the special sound of the amp and the guitar while Maxon boosts sound ( rather in the mids and trebles) but respecting its spcificits.
For me it's a good product that can rev to rev match many styles of music as a given that it does not transform the signal of disproportionate Manir.

The SD-9 is a high gain overdrive and distortion pedal. It can also be used nicely as a boost because it has plenty of output. it has a big fat midrange and will work well in a number of applications. I have run it with great results in front of Fender and Marshall amps and it is very versatile. It's definitely not a transparent OD as it firmly puts it's tonal footprint down but it sounds great so who cares! Oh yeah, these are build like a brick!

UTILIZATION

The SD-9 looks straight forward but it's a bit different. On the stock models, the useable range for the tone control is limit as it tends to get pretty bright, pretty quick. So you have to be carefull with the tone control. A lot of people simple turn it all the way down. I owned a stock model and now have an analogman modded version. The AM-modded version make the range of the tone control more useable and I run mine around 9:00

SOUND QUALITY

For me, the SD-9 and definitely the AM-modded version is one of the best pedals you can have. Not only does it sound killer, it also can be used with pretty much any amp and can do a killer boost, od or distortion sound.

I have used mine for so many things, you wouldn't believe it. Even if I don't have it on my board or rack-shelf, I have it with me as it can be a live-safer. I have yet to find an application where it did not sound killer. Most of the time I'm either using it to get a big fat boost on a crunch channel or as an OD/Distortion into a Marshall set clean-ish. It works great in combination with a tubescreamer and boost pedals in front of it.

OVERALL OPINION

Fantastic pedal, very versatile, even with the limited range on the tone control. If they could fix the range of the tone control, it would get a 10 all around from me but maybe the tone control is what gives it it's mojo.