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#42 ·
I have a Boss SD-1 that I modded. You put a Keeley compressor in front of it and run it into a Twin Reverb.

Most of the pedals listed are internally darn near identical. It's the filtering (capacitor values) that end up pleasing the ear, and everyone likes something different. Mids make the guitar tone. I will say that the Bixonic Expandora is worthy of mention in the list.
 
#44 ·
Hmm, I don't own one--(Unlike Distortion pedals where I don't own one, I own four--for ODs I own none.)
But of the ones I've tried:

Boss Blues Driver is my favourite
I have been tempted to buy one more than once.
 
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I don't want to be a fly in the ointment here, but the Klon KTR and earlier versions were NOT designed or intended to be "overdrive" pedals in the same way as many of the others listed. The overdrive produced was intended to come from the amp, with the pedal preconditioning the signal to extract pleasing overdrive from the amp itself. This is distinct from many of the other pedals mentioned, which will produce a recognizable overdrive sound almost independent of the amp they are used with. That distinction is, admittedly, lost on some people, since many like the sound of a true overdrive feeding an already dirty amp. Heck, I find many overdrives I've made make the dirty channel of my cheap solid-state amp sound better than it does on its own. But they also have an identifiable and pleasing sound on their own when the amp is set clean. I had two ungooped Centaur boards for a short period, that Bill Finnegan sent me, and found them to be rather unremarkable when used as if they were more conventional overdrives, at conversation levels, into a clean amp. Think of the KTR as a dirty-able booster.

In my band days, I used a compressor as my booster to push my EQ pedal and amp into overdrive. Compressors tend to rob overdrives of their touch-responsiveness, but they DO produce a more consistent overdrive tone, which can be useful and pleasing in some contexts.
 
#46 ·
mhammer said:
Think of the KTR as a dirty-able booster.

Compressors tend to rob overdrives of their touch-responsiveness, but they DO produce a more consistent overdrive tone, which can be useful and pleasing in some contexts.
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Agreed re Klon type pedals-some of the cloned versions are tweaked to be a bit better as true overdrives, but in general they are best to boost an amp (or boost other pedals, which is mostly what I use it for)

I use the compressor after overdrive and before mod and delay to avoid that issue
 
#47 ·
  • Klon KTR
  • Hudson Broadcast
  • Xotic custom shop BB Preamp Comp
That’s this week..... until my next “OD/Fuzz Anonymous “ meeting.
 
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zdogma said:
Agreed re Klon type pedals-some of the cloned versions are tweaked to be a bit better as true overdrives, but in general they are best to boost an amp (or boost other pedals, which is mostly what I use it for)

I use the compressor after overdrive and before mod and delay to avoid that issue
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I also use my KTR to boost the Zendrive or the TWE-1.
 
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