The D-Sound Sunny Distortion is a distortion pedal made by D-Sound, a Russian company, and built around the sound of the Sunn Model T amp1. It takes a deliberately simple approach: rather than giving you a gain control to dial in, it ships with the gain stage set at full blast, and you shape the result from there.
What it does
The pedal has one knob, and it is the volume. The gain is fixed at full blast, so the circuit is always working at its maximum saturation1. That makes it less like a conventional distortion pedal with a gain sweep and more like a fixed, fully driven stage whose level you set against the rest of your rig.
The intended use is to let the guitar do the rest of the work. As Delicious Audio's Paolo De Gregorio put it when profiling the pedal1:
"Great way to get doom/sludge/stoner sound. Only one knob is volume. Another knobs is your guitar knobs. You can use it"1
In practice that means rolling your guitar's volume back to clean the pedal up or pushing it to full for the heaviest setting, and using the guitar's tone control to shape the top end. Players drawn to doom, sludge and stoner sounds are the audience the pedal is described for1.
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Questions
How do you control the D-Sound Sunny Distortion?
The pedal has a single knob, which is volume. The gain stage is set at full blast inside the pedal, so there is no gain control on the face of it. Instead, the maker suggests using the knobs on your guitar to reduce or increase the gain and to set up the tone, working the pedal and the guitar together.
What is the D-Sound Sunny Distortion based on?
Delicious Audio describes it as a distortion pedal based on the sound of the Sunn Model T amp, the loud tube amplifier associated with heavy, saturated tones. That basis is why the pedal is pitched as a way to get doom, sludge and stoner sounds from a guitar rig.
Sources (1)
- D-Sound Sunny Distortion, Delicious Audio, 2019-03-19