| | |  | Effects Pedals | Home » » » Rocktron Zombie Rectified Distortion Effect Pedal | | | | | | | Product Promotions: | | | | | Description: | | You'll swear your sound gets right up and walks out of your cabinet! With an absolutely monstrously heavy sound, the Zombie creates a rectified asymmetric distortion with user control of the symmetry balance of the distortion output waveform. In essence, this creates the psycho-acoustic 3D sound positioning effect that will make your sound jump out of the cab.The Zombie gives you distortion that cuts through the mix, plus two bands of EQ. A control called STARE adjusts the symmetry of the distortion. Turning the control clockwise increases the symmetry offset of the distortion waveform, while counter-clockwise decreases the asymmetry of the distortion. The SCREAM control adjusts the rectified distortion. Use the LOUDER control to adjust the overall output of the Zombie pedal. BASS control adjusts the bass frequencies and TREBLE control adjusts the overall treble frequencies. The ON LED will light when the Zombie is active. The Zombie is a great choice when used with an ALL TUBE guitar amplifier to deliver rectified distortion. It can take a plain sounding TUBE amp and produce rectified distortion that rivals the sound of the most expensive amplifiers in this class. This monstrously heavy sound will cut through the mix and deliver amazing tone! The Zombie features Rocktron’s easy-access battery compartment to make changing batteries during a gig a breeze. For more info on the Zombie, check the manual located in the “manual library” of the SUPPORT section of our website. | | | Features: | |
• Recto Style Distortion
• 3D Imaging
• Full Parameter Control
• Metal Chassis
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 10.75 inches | | Product Width:
| 3.0 inches | | Product Height:
| 6.5 inches | | Product Weight:
| 1.5 pounds | | Package Length:
| 10.5 inches | | Package Width:
| 6.1 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.1 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.5 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 3 reviews |
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 ..dislocating... progressive 90's distortion...Feb 27, 2012
By JColez
"fistfull"
It's simple - I play hard/heavy rock/blues, and I need a lot of gain to solo (it's my favorite thing to do).. This pedal gets me there - to an extent. Plug it in, turn it up and it will dislocate your head (if that's even possible). I've got a 15 watt tube amp (Fender). It's so F..in loud on my 2 or 3 volume setting.. Blazin', tear-your-walls-down loud!! Of course, I use the clean channel and am playing in front of my amp.
The other reviews on this are acurrate. The "Stare" control in my minds-eye is a sort-of midrange setting which gives you tone and fullness. This knob means everything to this pedal. If you turn the Stare down then it goes more scooped. Me.. I prefer mid-range and have my "stare" knob turned all the way up. The Loudness setting is a volume boost setting and the Scream setting is a presence/sustain type setting. I prefer the following Zombie settings: Louder 6, Treble 4, Bass, 10, Stare 10, Scream 10. Distortion... It's a thing of sonic-beauty - if I could come back to life after death, I'd like to be in form of rectified disortion.. (and a few other things). Like other reviewers, this pedal gets 4 solid stars here, however, I wish the pedal had a midrange knob and more bass response. Guitar is a mid-range instrument people! (and a big reason why I don't care for scooped tone i.e. thrash/death metal etc.) However, if you play scooped music this will get you there too, but more for Metallica-ish tone; If death tone is your thing, I've heard other pedals that do scooped better than this... I really think this pedal would sound great along with your bass player (so thumbs up for recording with it). It just misses a bit of the warmth and bass response that my Tube King (Ibanez) has at lower less ear shattering volume. However, this pedal does nicely at higher volume and the bass picks up. It's so loud though. We older guitarists can't destroy our ears while playing at home, so playing with more tone and control at lower volume is certainly great! Its harder to get good tone at low volume with the Zombie. Another quibble is that when I roll-off my guitar volume, the tone loses character quickly and really starts sounds pedal-ly the more you roll-off. Yuck... I guess that if you want less than heavy over-drive you'll have to adjust the pedal. Solos sound good and fat, and rythym is terrific (high volume). For $79, get you one and it will like it as long as you adjust it right, it gives you a progressive rock sound. Imagine AC/DC/Van Halen brown sound on some steriods, or Dokken/Ratt/Whitesnake etc - ...best way I can describe the Zombie. No regrets here and you'll have none either for $79. If you want even more possibilities you can also reasearch Rocktron's Cyborg Disortion - it has 8 different kinds of distortion with preseting abilities (and an EQ for each), and other cool tricks. AS for the Zombie and it's price - Thumbs up.
****UPDATE****
I've been messing with my rig, and have found the best way to set this up for my purposes/tone. First, I run my Zombie pedal in front of my Fender SuperChamp on the CLEAN channel - very important. So, this is a tube Fender clean channel (I have my amps bass and treble settings on 9 and 7 respectively). The Zombie instructions tell you use on a "full tube" amp, and you should do this. I tried, just for kix, to run this through channel 2 with all the rock voicing/distoritions on my AMP; this pedal sucks added to my other distortions as a supplement. Also, not nearly as loud. I also run my clean volume up to at least level 5-7. This way I'm pushing more power through my tube, yet I don't have to play soo damn loud. The result is a very tonal distorition. I've adjusted ZOMBIE to a 2 Louder setting, 10 Bass setting, 4 treble, 7 STARE, and 8 Scream. If you want to rip your face off, just turn the "Louder" setting up on the pedal from 2 to about 4 and its unreal how loud and full. I run my SuperChamp XD to a Jet City 1 X 12 cab (with Eminence); also, my Fender internal speaker is disconnected. I've also discovered if you're careful rolling off your guitar volume knob it sounds ok, but not great (doesn't suck as I mentioned before). I should note that my combo amp channel 2 is all modeled light-to heavy disotortion, and if you have an all tube amp this pedal will likely sound good on either channel. Get this and adjust it to your liking! Try my Zombie settings on your clean tube head/combo. I also use some delay. It all sounds really good.
 I love itDec 11, 2010
By GuitarGuy
I am really starting to love these Rocktron pedals, I'll probably continue to buy more and more. They are high quality, durable, and great sounding. This pedal is definitely made for one thing - blasting your face off with HUGE, THICK, AND HEAVY DISTORTION UNTIL YOUR EARS ARE BLEEDING. You have a little bit of control over the sound between the scream and stare knobs and the EQ knobs, but make no mistake - you won't be playing any classic rock with this bad boy.
Rocktron is definitely correct about putting this in front of your tube amp. When the tubes get nice and warm this pedal just wails. I tried it in front of my solid state and it was still decent, but there is a marked difference between tube and solid state.
The stare control is really where you get the "rectified" huge amp distortion sound. I don't know another word to describe it other than "saturated." it's intense, and I've never heard a pedal that can really do anything similar. I would recommend this pedal to any guitar player that is tired of low gain or weak sounding distortion. This pedal will thicken out your tone and really stand out when playing with your band.
A Mesa Boogie in a BoxMay 08, 2010
By Slashaholic Anonymous
"Steve"
I can say something about this pedal that I rarely get to say about anything in life: It does what it says it does. This pedal is designed to be used with a TUBE amp; I've only tried it through a tube amp, but all the reviews I've read confirm that this pedal really doesn't sound good through a solid state amp. First off, I play through a fairly odd setup: Various guitars into a pedal board into a Fender Hodrod Deville 212 amp that's running into a 4x12 cab with Celestion vintage 30 speakers. I NEVER use the distortion channels on the Fender amp, I use pedals for all my distortion. And I've used A LOT of pedals.The Zombie turns this rig into a very Mesa Boogie-sounding animal. It is by far the best metal pedal I've tried.
If there's something in particular that makes the zombie so awesome, it's the Stare control. This knob is magical. Turned all the way to the left and you've got a very solid state, metal muff/metal zone sounding distortion. But as you turn the knob clockwise, the distortion becomes more asymmetrical, organic, natural, and tube-sounding. This fattens up your tone, and actually increases the audible volume. I've set mine around 1 or 2 o'clock to achieve a very Avenged Sevenfold, Bullet for My Valentine-esque sort of thick, chunky sound.
Though I'm primarily a rhythm player in my band, leads really sing through the zombie. Again, the stare knob can really bring your leads out in the mix, whereas with, say, the boss metal zone, leads tend to get lost in the mix.
With my one and only complaint that the zombie doesn't have a mid tone control (I play with more mids than most metal players), I really can't say enough good things about the Rocktron Zombie. You can cover a huge range of metal and hard rock tones. If you want a Mesa sound from your tube amp, buy the Zombie.
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