Do you use two OD pedals ??

[Robert1950]

Does anyone here run two OD pedals, one for rythmn crunch and one for lead? If so, what do you use and what type of amp.

This would seen to make sense with a Fender, so you'd have three basic sounds and then you could sculpt the tones with the guitar volume and tone controls.

[Xanadu]

well I use a Boss DS1 for rythm, then add in a blues driver, with the gain rolled off, and the level up, for the lead.

[SCREEM]

well I use a Boss DS1 for rythm, then add in a blues driver, with the gain rolled off, and the level up, for the lead.

this is great for single channel amps.:DevilGuitar:

[Xanadu]

this is great for single channel amps.:DevilGuitar:
well yeah, if the amp has a second channel, chances are its better than the pedals.

[faracaster]

I have three actually.
When I'm using a single channel amp, I have use a Seymour Duncan Pickup Booster pedal for a completely clean boost to drive the amp a little harder for either more delicate solo passges or a little edge for blues stuff. Then I have an old RAT pedal from the mid-eighties. I bought it new and have never stopped using it. This gives me my standard rock tones. And recently I added a Big Muff for that BIGGGG sound. Kinda like a guitar being played at one end of a long hollow log. I use it specifically for just a couple of tunes we do that require that kind of sound.
When I use an amp that has an EQ bypass (Kingsley, Two-Rock) I just use that function as my low boost setting and bypass the Duncan Booster pedal.

cheers
Pete

[iggs]

I got 4 for different flavours + levels of distortion and use a Dual Loop A/B switcher from Skreddy pedals to switch between the two pairs:
Side "A": Diamond Fireburst and Subdecay Blackstar
Side "B": Cusack Screamer Fuzz and Xotic BB Preamp

:rockon2:

[david henman]

...tonebone: trimode for crunch and overkill, hot british for modern high gain.

-dh

[PaulS]

Presently using a Boss SD-1 which I have modified beyond recognition and in front of that I use a Rangemaster style clone which I built , setup up similar to the katana boost . Use the SD-1 for the overdrive and kick in the boost for some solos. These two are followed by a Fulltone deja vibe and a homemade trem pedal.

[Robert1950]

Presently using a Boss SD-1 which I have modified beyond recognition and in front of that I use a Rangemaster style clone which I built , setup up similar to the katana boost . Use the SD-1 for the overdrive and kick in the boost for some solos. These two are followed by a Fulltone deja vibe and a homemade trem pedal.

God it must be nice to have the skills to do that. I've installed a couple of USB cards in a computer and a new speaker in my amp and that freaks me out.

[Robert1950]

...tonebone: trimode for crunch and overkill, hot british for modern high gain.

-dh

What type of amp do you run it through? How do you chain your stomp boxes? ( Ithink that's what you call it ??????)

P.S. Lou at Kaos was very helpful again today.

[PaulS]

God it must be nice to have the skills to do that. I've installed a couple of USB cards in a computer and a new speaker in my amp and that freaks me out.

Well as an occupation i work in industrial electronics so I have combined my trade and my hobby and have a lot of fun doing it. I have also built wah boards and setup my own special version. It has both the yellow and red fasel which you can select either or select them in series. I have also installed the Crybaby sweep selector switch but I really only find three out of six positions usable for me, and of course TB.

:food-smiley-004:

[david henman]

What type of amp do you run it through? How do you chain your stomp boxes? ( Ithink that's what you call it ??????)
P.S. Lou at Kaos was very helpful again today.


...glad to hear it! the amp is a traynor ycv40wr, a 40-watt 1-12 combo. i run the tonebones in front, and the effects pedals through the effects loops.

the tonebones are expensive - i had to really bite the bullet to spend $600 on a couple of distortion pedals! but, no regrets - i'm glad i did it. i was never able to get the kind of overdrive and distortion i wanted from solid state pedals.

-dh

[Milkman]

Clearly most of us need varying degrees of distortion. Having two overdrives is a perfectly accpetable way to get this.

I suspect a more common combination is one overdrive and one distortion.


Personally I use a programmable modeler (Vox Tonelab SE) and set up the patches in banks of four patches.

Typically it goes:

Patch 1. Clean
Patch 2. Overdriven (mild to hairy as hell depending on the song).
Patch 3. Distorted
Patch 4. Solo


If there are specific effects I want for a song, this is also easily programmed. As a singer (sort of) it's great to be able to have the required patches programmed in sequence so I don't have to look down while I'm singing to make sure I nail the right sound.

[fuel37]

I have a few overdrive/distortionpedals on my board.

I run the signal into a compressor first then into a GoudieFX ts-808+ (ts-808 clone with some more/less gain options) then I run that into a stock TS-9 and then that runs into a modded proco rat that I can set anywhere from a clean boost to... a wide open distortion. I don't use the rat much but I use the ts-808 as my main overdrive and then set my gain on the ts-9 wide open and they sound perfect when switched on together (and the ts-9 sounds good alone).

[Baconator]

I've got a mark IIC+ and although the distortion from that amp is awesome I like to have a variety of flavours on tap. I have a pair of early rat II's, one stock, one Keeley-modded and a big muff. Between the pedals and the amp's two channels I've got a huge variety of sounds. I'm still thinking of picking up a few more, although I can't see myself having all of my pedals hooked up at the same time unless I had something like a Carl Martin Combinator since I hate how my guitar sounds with too many pedals in the chain.

[Dirty_Frank]

I've got more. :wave:

I use a Fulldrive II with the gain rolled down to about 9:00 with my strat over the clean channel for blues and light gain, then I have the boost function on the pedal set at about 3:00, and it takes off like a Tubescreamer through an overdriven amp.

Then I have a SD-1 to run over my amp's lead channel for gain and sustain boost with my Les Paul.

A distortion pedal built by Eric Shannon over the lead channel with the Les Paul for heavier, more compressed gain.

Sometimes I'll combine the SD-1 with the Shannon and slight delay and get really fusion sounding tones.

[allthumbs56]

I must confess that I am an O/D junkie. Currently, I have:

TS-9
SD-1
OD-3
Route 66
BD-2
2 x Rats
Xotic BB
BYOC Triboost

all into a Mesa DC-5.

[Ripper]

I use a Boss MT-2 (heavily modified), Boss MD-2 (again heavily modified), Boss OS-2 (modified), an old Rat, and old Big muff, Ibanez SM-9, a couple of homemade pedals, one patterened after the Distortion+ and one patterened after the ts-808, and a Boss HM-2 modified.

[Tarbender]

I start with a GoudieFX compressor which I run into a GoudieFX ts-808+ which the goes into a Fulldrive II. This gives me every kind of OD that I need. From mellow blues with just a touch of breakup to a full blown growling beast and everything inbetween.

[Ripper]

anybody here every run a visual sound jekyll and hyde? I've always been curious what they sound like.

[CocoTone]

Two od`s and a Fuzz live on my board. I use the London fuzz for nice thick cleans, and hit the Bad Monkey to drive it into higher gain. I use a Blues Devil for crunchy rythymns, and with my wah.

CT.

[ne1roc]

Since getting my Legacy I have turned into a pedalaholic! Not because the amp lacks tone, just because pedals just add more options and sound particulary fantastic on this amp. Currently, I have a Route 66, Jekyl and Hyde, Sparkle Drive and am waiting for UPS to deliver my Keeley Time Machine Boost which will be the jewel of my pedalboard!

[Chito]

Presently on my board, I have the Tonebone Classic, Fulltone OCD and a Boss BD-2 which I use for boosting my solos.

[powrshftr]

I've wanted an OCD for about a year now,how do you like yours?
I currently run an old RealTube (the black and yellow one),and a Prescription Electronics Experience pedal.For a REALLY scary solo sound I like to crack open the Vox Wah pedal and just leave it cocked open in that "sweet spot" where it picks up all those cool harmonics and wants to sustain for days.

Cheers,

Scott

[Chito]

I've wanted an OCD for about a year now,how do you like yours?

I've traded mine for an HBE Power Screamer. I wasn't using the OCD much as I use the Tonebone most of the time.

[Soldano16]

I just recently added a Japanese Boss OD-2 to the Japanese Boss SD-1 that I've been using for ten years.

[PaulS]

Changed my setup a while ago, neverending..., now use a Diamond J drive with the TR boost in it and a Bad Monkey. Use the monkey for the more driven sound and the J drive for the slightly driven sound, The boost works with either. I was surprised at the tone from the bad monkey.

[keithb7]

Boss MD-2 for heavier distortion rock. Boss SD-1 for milder O/Drive rock. Run into a Carvin MTS amp on clean channel. Have another distortion channel on the amp if needed. Also I A/B between that amp and a Epi Valve Jr for other neat sounds. Oh...Almost forgot about the Boss GE-7 EQ that I also use to shape souds when I want to. I like those 2 dist/OD pedals.

[mario]

I've wanted an OCD for about a year now,how do you like yours?
I currently run an old RealTube (the black and yellow one),and a Prescription Electronics Experience pedal.For a REALLY scary solo sound I like to crack open the Vox Wah pedal and just leave it cocked open in that "sweet spot" where it picks up all those cool harmonics and wants to sustain for days.

Cheers,

ScottHey Scott, I recently got a OCD (v.2) and I love it! Cleans up very nicely when you turn down the volume on the guitar, but still retains tone and defintion. Highly recommended!

[Dirty_Frank]

I replied in this thread a long time ago, but I've changed.

I still use a Fulldrive, SD-1 and Shannon Distortion, but I no longer use the gain channel on my amp.

All gain sounds come from the Fulldrive in any assortment of settings. If I want a really thick OD, I'll turn on the boost function. The other two are strictly booster pedals.

If I want to cut through, and get a volume boost, I'll turn on the SD-1 set at vol-max, gain-2, tone-5. If I want fuzz, I'll turn on the Shannon. Keep in mind, I'm getting these sounds by playing at a level where the tubes are just starting to break up. I've never been happier, and I'm getting tonnes of compliments on my tone since I've done it.

[zdogma]

I use pretty much the same thing. A clean boost, fulldrive and analogman sunface for fuzz. Run them into single channel amp (Carmen Ghia or Fender Bandmaster) at the edge of breakup, with the volume dialled off just a bit. Sounds great, very versatile.

Took me a while to warm up to the fulldrive. Don't like it much at bedroom levels, but take it to a show and it really shines. I don't use the "vintage" setting much (though it is a good tubescreamer sound), but the flat mid and comp cut are great. I have the Mosfet one, and usually leave it in the Mosfet setting most of the time.

[Rhythmeister]

I use a Vox Brit Boost set to full boost (not treble boost) for my classic rock rhythm tones. I have an Xotic BB Preamp which is in line before the Vox. I kick that one along with the Vox for higher gain rhythm and riffs. This set up is relatively new for me, but I'm getting great sounds with it.

Cheers,
B

[Robboman]

Maybe a bit much, but I like to have a lot of different flavors of drive at my feet. The Hotcake is mainly for clean boost (just a touch of grit), the ts8 side of the Route66 is light-crunch rhythm, Bad Monkey for med-crunch rhythm, the Barber Tone Pump for thick, clear but distorted lead and the Barber Direct Drive is for all out gain / lead... or at least as far as I can get with a single channel Fender amp. I use various combinations of these for even more gain, and all at once to do that big ridiculous meltdown thing where everything goes full feedback at the end of a song.

I don't use any OD on the Zoom digital thing, that's just for verb, chorus, delay, tuner, noisegate, etc.

Here's a pic taken before I squeezed in the Bad Monkey.

http://www.robboweb.com/music/images/pedalboard.jpg

[Mooh]

I want to say that reading about this stuff is fun. It'll be more fun when there's another OD in my rig!

I had that same Zoom GFX-1 pedal (as above) for a while and it worked okay into a solid state Laney, but it wasn't organic enough into the Traynor YCV50 tube amp. Sold the Zoom to an up-and-comer.

My preferred Marshall Guv'nor sounds fanastic into either channel of the Traynor which itself has two gain settings on the footswitch. In combination there are lots of usable tones, and suffices while I shop for other pedals, but it's not enough. Sometimes I miss the Boss Blues Driver I used to use but had to trade for Kraft Dinner or something, but it might just be sentimentality.

What I do know, and repeatedly tell young players, is that you won't know what a pedal sounds like until you try it in your own rig, and have lived with it a while.

The tube Duncan pedal someone above mentioned sounded great the only time I tried it. Anyone got one they'd trade for a cheap plywood classical guitar?

Peace, Mooh.

[Chito]

Was just going through this and realized how much my pedalboard has changed. I have 3 O/D pedals on my board right now. An MI Audio Crunch Box, Tonebone Classic, HBE PowerScreamer all boosted by a BBE Boosta Grande. I've got a Blues Pro on it's way too! I'm thinking it would bump something out. I think 4 is just too much.. :D

[cale0906]

My favorite Od is the original ( Black One ) Reverend DriveTrain !
I had a ToneBone Classic , still have a FullDrive 2 , Sparkle Drive , but the Drivetrain rules for Blues !

[Warren]

Z-Vex Fuzz Factory either straight as fuzz or as compressed and sagged fuzz with the gate on, Keeley compressor and a Blackstone appliance. For about 5-7 different distortion/gain settings on any single channel amp. Sometimes in series, sometimes by themselves.