Boost/OD Pedals?
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Boost/OD Pedals?
Hey all.
Looking to get a nice, but not terribly expensive boost, or OD pedal for my lady friend for Xmas.
Curious what you guys are digging.
She wouldn't like anything that's too over-the-top. Just something to push her Reverberocket and/or Princeton into slightly dirtier territory and to thicken things up a bit. I'd like to find her something with some classic vibe to it, rather than just a boring ol' clean volume boost.
I've come up with some ideas, but I'd love to hear what you all are into.
Looking to get a nice, but not terribly expensive boost, or OD pedal for my lady friend for Xmas.
Curious what you guys are digging.
She wouldn't like anything that's too over-the-top. Just something to push her Reverberocket and/or Princeton into slightly dirtier territory and to thicken things up a bit. I'd like to find her something with some classic vibe to it, rather than just a boring ol' clean volume boost.
I've come up with some ideas, but I'd love to hear what you all are into.
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There are so many boutique overdrives, if you go on eBay, and just browse overdrive/distortion pedals you'll probably find a nice one for pretty cheap.
How cheap is cheap? For $50 a TS9 is probably the best you can get. For $100 you can probably find a lot of cool stuff.
How cheap is cheap? For $50 a TS9 is probably the best you can get. For $100 you can probably find a lot of cool stuff.
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I really like the hotcake into my deluxe reverb, I bet it would sound great with the princeton. I like the LPB-1 too, but I find that it is better for a my amp is going to blow up sound. The digitech Bad Monkey does a nice tube screamerish thing for under fifty bucks. I also hear a lot of good things about the Danelectro TOD which is under fifty bucks as well.
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It's not sexy and may not make a good gift as a result but I love my DOD FX50 (2 knob version.) I think the FX 250 is a similar circuit. I've had it for about twenty years. To me tubescreamers boost the mids way too much.
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OH YES!jv wrote:Crowther Hotcake.
also, Paul Crowther stands behind his products and is very prompt in both correspondence and in getting any problem sorted out.
the Hotcake is sounds great to me and seems to love EL-84s and 6V6s.
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Electro Harmonix makes a bewildering array of fuzz pedals. There is the plain old big muff, the nano muff, metal muff, bass muff germanium muff, double muff etc. I picked up a double muff a little while back. It just has a knob for each "muff" and a single or double switch. On single its just kind of chimey with no sustain (think later joy division). With it gets pretty wooly.
Most EH pedals are pretty affordable.
The nano, double and little-big muff are all well under of your price point.
Most EH pedals are pretty affordable.
The nano, double and little-big muff are all well under of your price point.
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The Hotcake is definitely a cool pedal.
There's also an awesome boost pedal called a Timmy. I can't recall who makes it, but it's a boutique thing with a waiting list. It's an incredible boost pedal with really useful tone controls and the ability to just give you "more" of whatever you want. That thing gets A LOT of use at our place.
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There's also an awesome boost pedal called a Timmy. I can't recall who makes it, but it's a boutique thing with a waiting list. It's an incredible boost pedal with really useful tone controls and the ability to just give you "more" of whatever you want. That thing gets A LOT of use at our place.
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stop blabbing our Hotcake secret! seriously though, Crowther Hotcake is the best pedal I've ever owned -had it for about 4 years now i think. i plan on getting a backup in case i lose it. it is hands down the warmest, most responsive overdrive i've ever heard. i doubt you'd find one under 150 though.
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