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  3. /Hard Rock
  4. /Muddy

Muddy gear for Hard Rock

What Hard Rock artists actually play that sounds muddy, ranked by how many of them use it

Also called mushy, woolly, undefined, boxy, muddiness, mud

Ibanez TS9 Tube Screamer

Ibanez

used by Mark Tremonti, James Hetfield, Marty Friedman +3 more

Ibanez TS808 Tube Screamer

Ibanez

used by Yngwie Malmsteen, Slash, Adrian Smith +1 more

MXR M169 Carbon Copy Analog Delay

MXR

$140via Reverb

used by Joe Perry, Vinnie Moore, Synyster Gates +1 more

Electro-Harmonix Big Muff Pi

Electro-Harmonix

$75.01via Reverb

used by Ace Frehley

Fulltone OCD Obsessive Compulsive Drive

Fulltone

used by Robin Trower

MXR M103 Blue Box

MXR

used by Jimmy Page

Ampeg V-4

Ampeg

$559via Reverb

used by Joe Perry

Boss OC-2 Octaver

Boss

$195via Reverb

used by Richie Kotzen

Deacy Amp

amplifier

used by Brian May

DigiTech Whammy DT

Digitech

$233.44via Reverb

used by Uli Jon Roth

Fender '68 Custom Princeton Reverb 12W 1x10 Tube Guitar

Fender

$1469.99via Reverb

used by Gary Clark Jr

Fulltone OF-1 Octafuzz

pedal

$410.22via Reverb

used by Gary Clark Jr

Knight Audio Technologies Kat-STB

pedal

used by Brian May

MXR M109 Six Band EQ

MXR

used by Jerry Cantrell

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