I fucked up when I bought my current gear 2 years ago. My guitar is a LTD M-400 that suits death metal well, but my amp is a Traynor that is more geared towards blues (works good for doom).

The Traynor doesn't have near enough crunch or distortion for death metal, so I'm wondering what are some good quality distortion pedals that can give me a nice death metal crunch/fuzz?

It will take me too long to save up for a good dm amp (my current amp is great, just not for dm) so I am going to go for the pedal route til then.

Any suggestions?

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I practice with this through an old Roland Super Cube-40(It's actually older than I am )

It does a great variety of metal tones. I get a good early-mid 90's death metal tone out of it, as long as I keep the 3-band EQ knobs under 12-o-clock.

Digitech Metal Master - provides a very crunchy and edgy tone when needed but it will also easily be able to put out a thick tone through your amp. The treble/edge/crunch component of the sound is the most important to come from a pedal if you can already get a blues/doom tone.

I actually bought that a long time ago.

Mine produces a lot of buzzing (I could get a noise gate) and well, it will suit me for now but it's no long term solution.

The buzzing might have to do with the wiring in your house or something.

I play my Metal Muff with a 9v power supply plugged into a surge protector. When I'm doing nothing on the guitar, there's the buzz. However, when I use a 9v battery instead of a power supply, there's no buzz.

I'll try messing around with that.

I use a Boss HM-2 and so did bands like Dismember, Entombed etc. but they don't make them anymore

Most likely a ground issue, I never had trouble with one though I did use it with a noise gate when I used it.

The amp and pedal are plugged into the same power bar that a mini-fridge and computer are. Probably one of those?

I use a DOD Death Metal pedal, and I never get any noise or buzzing, and through a good amp (not mine), it sounds fucking godly, dude, even with passive pickups.

I'm looking for a good pedal too. I played the Digitech RP350 yesterday in-store but I'm not quite sure about it. I'm actually playing a Digitech RP50 at this moment and I've got a nice Dying Fetus / Obituary tone out of it (just a tad too much distortion though but it sounds brutal) but the punch I want from my sound isn't there. The punch of songs like Justifiable Homicide by Dying Fetus.

Anyone has any suggestions? A pedal is seriously preferrred because I haven't got enough money for a whole new halfstack. I have about 200 euros for the pedal.