Thread: Overdrive pedals?

What do you want to achieve? What kind of amp(s) are you planning to use with your pedals? What's your music style? Are you playing humbuckers or single coils? What kind of budget you're looking at?

I just want a heavier, but not distorted tone, if that's a good way to describe it. Think Neil Young Hey Hey, My My or Life in the Fast Lane. I'm playing a fender super champ xd (smallish tube) I play mostly rock & blues, or that's what i'd want the pedal to achieve tonally. I'm playing a single coil tele, and my budget is under 225$

Fulltone OCD might do the trick. Tele's are thin sounding, the OCD will bring some balls. The OCD can get pretty mean but clears nicely when rolling back the guitar's volume knob.

I'm a Les Paul player, so I don't know how the Tele would react with the OCD. However, I do know that the OCD will make my guitar shine in any amp I will plug in. The OCD is an amazing piece of gear.

I would try as much as I can, with my own guitar and amp, and go from there. There are so many possibilities. Maybe a fuzz would do it, you should not rule them out. I recently acquired a Crowther Hotcake from a forumite, and I only have good words for it: lots of balls, less gainy than the OCD, sounds more vintage and less compressed. The choices are out there, what works for me might not do it for you. You have a good budget, you should be able to find a nice boutique od pedal, but you should try it with your amp and guitar.

Other forumites might have better/different ideas/experiences than mine, I hope they'll chime in. This could be debated for months, everyone has their "own tricks" or favorites.

OCD is an awesome sounding pedal. It's good with both single coils and humbuckers. It's great for a rhythm sound but I've heard it's not that great for leads. I don't play in a band so I wouldn't know.

I'm a fan of the tube screamer camp. That would do as well - just a little more middy.

There are a ton of OD out there. Once you go down that path...it can be scary expensive

I have a modded ibanez TS7 that would do exactly what you're looking for :) got it for a very reasonable price - the same they went for in stores.

The guy who does the mods had to postpone business due to personal stuff, but has started back up. I don't have the website or his email off the top of my head though.

I know that the OCD gets rave reviews, also try out a maxon OD808 and look for a used one if that's your preference :)

The two best "bang for the buck" ODs are the Bad Monkey and the SD-1. Each at about 40 bucks new. Take it from an OD junkie. After those two it's the law of diminishing returns.

Sheila needs to get dirty? Oh the shame of it all... ..

Not a distortion guy but maybe a Blues Driver or Boss Ds1? I just run another line into the first channel of my Deluxe, but I actually have thought about a distortion lately.

Originally Posted by shoretyus

Sheila needs to get dirty? Oh the shame of it all... ..

Not a distortion guy but maybe a Blues Driver or Boss Ds1? I just run another line into the first channel of my Deluxe, but I actually have thought about a distortion lately.

Mmm, not so much distortion as a little extra oomph.

But shame on all you members of this forum, for making me so eager to go out and blow a few hundred dollars!

I've been browsing quite a bit, I think I'll pick up a Fulltone OCD, there's a ton of great reviews for it, might as well try one out