What is your favorite Overdrive pedal?

[red]

With Jeorge Tripps back, maybe they will reissue it. They reissued the Aqua Puss after all.

Aw, you got me started and I emailed Dunlop, here's their reply:

"Thank you for your email. The next Way Huge pedal we will be releasing this summer is the Green Rhino. We do not have any other information regarding new Way Huge pedals that will be added to the current line. Please check back in 6-12 months."

So, sadly, they aren't planning on reissuing the Red Llama, at least definitely not sooner than 6 months from now. Damn.

[marnold***]

Re: the name

I'm always a big fan of obscure Monty Python references, to the chagrin of most everyone else around me.

[duhvoodooman***]

Re: the name

I'm always a big fan of obscure Monty Python references, to the chagrin of most everyone else around me.

So if I name a pedal "The Shrubbery", will ya buy one, Rev??

[red]

So if I name a pedal "The Shrubbery", will ya buy one, Rev??

The Drive That Says 'Ni!'

[sunvalleylaw]

The Drive That Says 'Ni!'

I heard there was a delay feature so it goes:
NiNiNiNiNiNiNiNiNiNiNi. . . . .



Distortion to suit. It also launches barnyard animals, and has a taunts repeats feature.

[deeaa*]

Yeah and delay speed simply MUST go all the way up to African swallow...

[red]

Definitely coconut-based.

[marnold***]

The Pedal That Goes Ni! . . . Ni! . . . Ni! Love it.

I suppose "The Shrubbery" would have to be a fuzz, eh?

[gregsguitars]

The "Hoochee Mama" by Tim Brown, @ Browntone electronics.

[M29]

I like Voods ZYS MkII.
While I was looking for a distortion pedal I picked up a Marshall Jackhammer OD/Distortion and found it to be an excellent distortion and overdrive combined. This pedal is a sleeper IMHO.

[Eric***]

While I was looking for a distortion pedal I picked up a Marshall Jackhammer OD/Distortion and found it to be an excellent distortion and overdrive combined. This pedal is a sleeper IMHO.

Yeah I found one on ebay a while back too. I definitely do not like the distortion on it, but the OD into a clean amp seems to be good, better than a Bad Monkey anyway. It's loaned out right now.

[M29]

Eric,
What don't you like about the distortion side of this pedal? I actually like it but I have read many who don't. Just curious.

M

[Eric***]

Eric,
What don't you like about the distortion side of this pedal? I actually like it but I have read many who don't. Just curious.

M

IIRC, it has a lot of high-end fizz and not much muscle to it, kind of the tinny, fizzy, faux-metal sound you get sometimes when trying to imitate a very distorted amp. I guess I like a bit more low-end to beef it up if you're going to go in that direction.

If I had it and a guitar on hand I could give you a better description, but that's what I remember -- just too thrashy to be very effective in the distortion mode.

[Spudman***]

The "Hoochee Mama" by Tim Brown, @ Browntone electronics.

Those are amazing pedals...but they'd better be for the price. Yikes!

[gregsguitars]

They beat out every pedal made ,including the "Page " pedal in a blind test two years ago, It so happens that he is my uncle and he stays so far behind order wise (he builds one at a time by hand with only the best components) that I have yet to receive any other that my first pedal years ago...Although he is presently making me a custom five in one long pedal with each effect being able to be placed anywhere in the series chain I wish and independently controlled..Echo,chorus, octave splitter,sustain and overdrive. Greg.

[vroomery]

I haven't owned a ton of pedals. So far I've been through:

non moded DS-1
FullDrive 2 (non-mosfet)
TS-808 from general guitar gadgets (including all mods except mosfet)
and my two day old BYOC OD2 Mosfet.

I've also played around with:
Fulltone OCD
Lovepedal Eternity
LovePedal COT 50

I like most of em but the versatility of the OD2 is blowing me away. It's pretty similar to the TS from GGG which means I can dial up one for rhythm and one for lead. The opamp in the GGG TS is the JRC which is a bit more warm and the OD2 has the BS170 so it's a little more cutting for lead. The cool thing though is that the OD2 opamp is socketed so I could throw the JRC in there and use it for rhythm if I wanted to. I can't wait to explore this thing some more.

[guitardragon]

Another vote for the Fulltone OCD. I couldn't be happier. Great pedal and the only effects pedal I use except for a Fulltone Clyde Deluxe wah pedal and a Morley Volume Plus pedal.

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[sunvalleylaw]

I haven't owned a ton of pedals. So far I've been through:


I like most of em but the versatility of the OD2 is blowing me away. It's pretty similar to the TS from GGG which means I can dial up one for rhythm and one for lead. The opamp in the GGG TS is the JRC which is a bit more warm and the OD2 has the BS170 so it's a little more cutting for lead. The cool thing though is that the OD2 opamp is socketed so I could throw the JRC in there and use it for rhythm if I wanted to. I can't wait to explore this thing some more.

I was just thinking of this thread the other night, as I enjoyed my Zonkin Yellow Screamer. The ZYS that Duhvoodooman built for me is based off that pedal, with a bunch of extras thrown in, and a boost circuit as well. It is really just so nice. I really enjoy setting a bit of boost, for rhythm, and kicking on the OD for lead. Very fun!

[Kazz]

For this week anyway