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Not sure if a treble booster would count? They definitely dirty up a bit when you crank them but I'm not sure I'd consider them an actual distortion. Whether Wampler or JHS do, I dunno.
CMOS ones like the Craig Anderton one which a lot of others (Red Llama, Hot Tubes etc.) are based on. Presumably that's one of them.
JFET cascading type ones I would guess. A lot of the more modern amp in a box type pedals are like that, including a few Wamplers I think, so presumably that's one of the categories.
So I would say:
Vintage-style fuzz (maestro, fuzz face, tonebender etc.) with cascading transistors EDIT: I think they're cascading transistors, aren't they?
Big Muff (cascading transistors- I think!- (apart from the op-amp versions!), clipping diodes in a couple of feedback loops, Muff tonestack)
Octave Fuzz
Distortion+ and all hard-clipping-to-ground distortions
OD1/Tubescreamer/SD1 and probably even including Timmy, Bluesbreaker, etc.- overdrives with clipping diodes in the op-amp's feedback loop
CMOS (Craig Anderton/Red Llama/Hot Tubes etc.)
Cascading JFET amp in a box type pedals
That's 7. I'm definitely forgetting about something really obvious there. Probably more than one. EDIT: Crap, the Electra. I guess that would count? That's 8. But I still would put money on my having forgotten something obvious! EDIT #2: Blues Driver? Is that different enough?
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I wasn't going for the circuit lineage so much as when someone like Joyo or TC or Wampler for that matter decide to make a range of derivative pedals what are you most likely to find in the line up.
Anyway as far as I am concerned there's only 2 types of gain pedal the ones I like and the ones I don't.
This thread has made me count my gain pedals. 11. So maybe there's 11 types of pedal.
I was also wondering about the cascading transistor fuzzes which also have hard-clipping diodes to ground, like the Jen Fuzz III or the Jordan Bosstone... I forgot about them. Whether they're a different category or sort of in-between a fuzz and a distortion, though, I'm not sure. I'm thinking in-between...
Oh yeah absolutely. I just thought it was interesting looking at the actual circuit types. I've probably got the wrong end of the stick regarding that, though, I know just enough about electronics to usually come up with the wrong answer!