[Pierrafeux]

I'll go for Hand wired Ltd Ed Ibanez TS8, Vertex Steel String Special and J,Rockett Tim Pierce

 

[TWRC]

I've been though way too many overdrives to count, but my three are (in this order):

• Smallsound Bigsound Mini
• Fairfield Circuitry Barbershop
• Greer Lightspeed
• Honourable mention to the Earthquaker Devices Westwood

 

[Mr.nice_guy]

For things described specifically as "overdrives" in no particular order.

JHS Morning Glory
Klon KTR
Nobels ODR-1

Very honorable mentions to the Boss Angry Driver, the JHS Charlie Brown and Angry Charlie. If we're allowing things described as distortions and fuzzes, or "overdrive/distortions" I could pretty easily make an entire board of RAT/RAT variants and be happy as a clam.

Thanks for sharing my friend
I will need to check YouTube a lot for the next few days
Have a nice day

 

[Mr.nice_guy]

Timmy, Timmy and Timmy.

Really, I also like my Klon KTR but I'd be fine with a Timmy and my volume knob.

Thanks griff

 

[Mr.nice_guy]

I'll go for Hand wired Ltd Ed Ibanez TS8, Vertex Steel String Special and J,Rockett Tim Pierce

Thanks my mentor !!!!
See you this week probably

 

[Mr.nice_guy]

Mythos Mjolnir (Wildwood Ed.)
OCD
Simble

Thanks Yareli

 

[Mr.nice_guy]

Thanks Yareli

Yaremi sorry

 

[vadsy]

three Metal Zones,., in series. only if money is no object of course

 

[zztomato]

Number 1 is easy: V1 BJFE Honey Bee. Just the best ever. Never sounds like a pedal, just sounds and responds like a small tube combo. I've had a few Honey Bees and they have all been a bit different from one another. The one I have had for the last several years is the best.
Next is the Nordland ODR-C and also the Vemuram Shanks ODS. Both Nobels inspired but the Nordland is an updated version by the Nobels original designer.
Lastly, the Peasant by Kingsley. Technically a boost pedal but it will drive anything after it as hard as you want. It has a 12ax7 tube and an impedance control that, when placed first in line, kind of acts like a Rangemaster only, for me, much better and more useful. You will only understand this pedal if you have played one. Highly recommended.

Those 3 work for me. You could use a Klon in place of the Peasant and get similar use from it.

 

[Mr.nice_guy]

I really like my Bogner Blue for low/mid gain plexi type stuff. Great dynamics.

For boosting a crunchy amp, I'd have to say the Suhr Koko Boost.

I'm digging my Seymour Duncan Palladium these days. I run it with the gain all the way off, so I use it like a mid-gainer.

Thanks for sharing

 

[Mr.nice_guy]

three Metal Zones,., in series. only if money is no object of course

Hahahahahahahaha

 

[Mr.nice_guy]

I've been though way too many overdrives to count, but my three are (in this order):

• Smallsound Bigsound Mini
• Fairfield Circuitry Barbershop
• Greer Lightspeed
• Honourable mention to the Earthquaker Devices Westwood

Thanks for sharing my friend

 

[Mr.nice_guy]

Number 1 is easy: V1 BJFE Honey Bee. Just the best ever. Never sounds like a pedal, just sounds and responds like a small tube combo. I've had a few Honey Bees and they have all been a bit different from one another. The one I have had for the last several years is the best.
Next is the Nordland ODR-C and also the Vemuram Shanks ODS. Both Nobels inspired but the Nordland is an updated version by the Nobels original designer.
Lastly, the Peasant by Kingsley. Technically a boost pedal but it will drive anything after it as hard as you want. It has a 12ax7 tube and an impedance control that, when placed first in line, kind of acts like a Rangemaster only, for me, much better and more useful. You will only understand this pedal if you have played one. Highly recommended.

Those 3 work for me. You could use a Klon in place of the Peasant and get similar use from it.

Thanks for sharing my friend
Very interesting

 

[mhammer]

Since I had a couple of pre-drilled enclosures with 6 holes, I was wondering what to do with them. The Mostortion I mentioned has 5 controls: gain, volume and a very useful T/M/B tonestack. What can go in the 6th hole? Then I remembered the kerfuffle over the original TS-808 Tube Screamer, vs the TS-9. The difference between the two is largely in the output buffer. The buffer loads down the signal in a way that can smooth out tone if one is running the pedal directly to the amp. The trouble is that, because of the electronic switching, the same buffer is shared by both clean and overdrive tones. It might help the overdrive, but sucks tone from the clean/bypass. The 808-vs-9 difference is really only the value of two resistors, which I could easily change with a toggle. So that decided it. THIS Mostortion is going to have a toggle to select between the 808-type output buffer and the 9-type output buffer. As it turns out the stock Mostortion has the identical output buffer of a TS-9, so I can use the toggle to plunk an 808 buffer onto a Mostortion. And because I'm using a true bypass stompswitch rather than e-switching, it has no impact on the bypass signal. That's the beauty of DIY.

Just finished tweaking a pedal that's not technically an overdrive but lends itself to overdrive well. The Systech Harmonic Energizer was a sort of variable resonant boost that Frank Zappa used. You can adjust the frequency where the boost occurs over a much broader range than a wah, and adjust the emphasis/selectivity of that boost, and also adjust the gain. Normally, it's a fairly clean output unless you have the emphasis and gain cranked. I thought about it and realized it was a simple matter to mod it to have higher gain and deliberately clip, so I included a toggle to select between hi-gain+clipping and lower gain without clipping. Here's a demo of a fellow's clone. Mine sounds a bit like the pedal used with a distortion.

 

[RYAN1987M]

Used as a clean boost -

Used as a transparent-ish OD -

Used as a 'colour-adding' (aka non-transparent) OD -

The RYRA and the SolidGoldFX were easy picks for me, I knew instantly. The transparent-ish OD category changes with some frequency. But, in general, these are all among the top of the pile -

 

[Kerry Brown]

I don’t use pedals much and have only tried a half dozen overdrives. The only one that gets regular use is the first one I bought, a Boss BD2. The only other one that has stuck around is a Green Rhino. The rest are long gone.

 

[mhammer]

Used as a clean boost -

Used as a transparent-ish OD -

Used as a 'colour-adding' (aka non-transparent) OD -

The RYRA and the SolidGoldFX were easy picks for me, I knew instantly. The transparent-ish OD category changes with some frequency. But, in general, these are all among the top of the pile -

Good choices. Good taste.

 

[ga20t]

Black Box (Bluesbreaker circuit)
BYOC Mini Mouse (RAT), used as a low gainer

These are the only ones that ever stay.

 

[TWRC]

But, in general, these are all among the top of the pile -

We clearly have similar ears / taste!

 

[KapnKrunch]

Stephenson Stage Hog: Lead
Stephenson Stage Hog: Rhythm
Stephenson Stage Hog: Bypass