MXr Double Shot Dist.

I have recently bought this pedal.. what should I setthe knobs I'm new with pedals I want one light dist. more like Ac/dc style the darkness blah blah. and one heavy / death heavy enough to play death metal yet light enough to play real metal etc. Thanx!

Put the gain low and the level high, and play hard for the classic rock kinda sound.

For metal, do the opposite.

I have no experience with that particular pedal , but there are some general rules I like to apply when trying a new pedal :

Heavy Metal:
Gain: pretty high
Bass: over 5
Middle: below 5
Trebble: below 5 but higher than mids


Classic Rock:
Gain : Lower than heavy metal (you should be able to play a full chord, say Emin and be able to hear all notes clearly)
Bass : over 5
Middle : over 5
Trebble : below 5

Originally Posted by: XthajestaI have recently bought this pedal.. what should I setthe knobs I'm new with pedals I want one light dist. more like Ac/dc style the darkness blah blah. and one heavy / death heavy enough to play death metal yet light enough to play real metal etc. Thanx!

Tweak it to your liking, you wouldn't destroy it anyway :)
Pedals have pots that might response differently depending on the taper type it uses. OK, there is this standard for volume or tone or whatever, but hey, in those DS-1 I mods, found some came with non std. So it looks like they trying to catch the standard amount of prduction in a day, so they might think, what the heck I'll just use this pot or something.

Just trust your own ear!!!