Reply With QuoteThey did that because the design of the pedal was too strikingly similar to the famous "Timmy" (or was it "Tim"?) pedal, so they redesigned it to avoid getting bad reputation (and a lawsuit perhaps?).
Super Duper Fretter
Cool Cat V2---transparent Overdrive
http://www.coolcattone.com/distortion2.html
Just saw this on the Cool Cat site.......their new V2 TOD pedal. 12 db of clean boost at minimum gain with "under the hood" capability to have "soft, medium or hard clipping" via red diode, blue diode or FET diode.
Wonder how she sounds??? There is no sound clip on the site.
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They did that because the design of the pedal was too strikingly similar to the famous "Timmy" (or was it "Tim"?) pedal, so they redesigned it to avoid getting bad reputation (and a lawsuit perhaps?).
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Canucklehead
What's the buzz between V.1 and V.2 on the TOD... is there a clear favourite?
Gearlist:
Electric: Ibanez 'AS103', Fender Dlx Nash Pwr Tele, Fender Squier '62 JV Strat, Squier '51, Squier 60's Classic Vibe Strat, Epi Elite LP Studio, Hagstrom Swede Acoustic: Larrivee LV-03RE, A&L AMI, Yamaha FG340-T Bass: Yamaha BB 450 Amps: Roland JC-120, JC-50, Peavey Classic 30, Fender Super Champ XD Pedals: Marshall Guv'nor Plus, Danelectro Cool Cat Drive, Transparent Overdrive, Digitech Digiverb, Bad Monkey, Ibanez TS-9, Boss AC-2, CE-5, CS-2, DD-3, DF-2, DS-1, FV-100, GE-7, OC-2, PSM-5, SD-1, TU-2, DVM~BYOC 'Lush Puppy' Chorus
Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St. Clements...
Yea, people say v1 is much better sounding.
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Canucklehead
Okey dokey... came across a V1 in the shop tonight and picked it up... they also had the V2 but thought I'd give this one a shot as I figured it would be a little more difficult to come across. Not expensive by any stretch of the imagination, so a no brainer without even trying it out in the store. They said it had a 30 day return period, but for a pedal in the low $40 range, I don't think you can go too wrong.
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Gearlist:
Electric: Ibanez 'AS103', Fender Dlx Nash Pwr Tele, Fender Squier '62 JV Strat, Squier '51, Squier 60's Classic Vibe Strat, Epi Elite LP Studio, Hagstrom Swede Acoustic: Larrivee LV-03RE, A&L AMI, Yamaha FG340-T Bass: Yamaha BB 450 Amps: Roland JC-120, JC-50, Peavey Classic 30, Fender Super Champ XD Pedals: Marshall Guv'nor Plus, Danelectro Cool Cat Drive, Transparent Overdrive, Digitech Digiverb, Bad Monkey, Ibanez TS-9, Boss AC-2, CE-5, CS-2, DD-3, DF-2, DS-1, FV-100, GE-7, OC-2, PSM-5, SD-1, TU-2, DVM~BYOC 'Lush Puppy' Chorus
Oranges and lemons, say the bells of St. Clements...
Good choice. I think it is one of the best pedals I have. Keep it, David!
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Bronze Supporter
I like the transparent OD quite well with my Tech-21 but it's clearly not as good with my Ceriatone. Funny, though, as I would have expected the TOD to really be very very transparent, but it clearly mucks up the sound and makes it lose clarity much more than the Marshall Jackhammer that's been my fave for years...the Jackhammer still does the best JCM800 crunch I've met so far.
Dee
"When life's a biatch, be a horny dog"
Amps: Marshall JVM 410H w/ Plexi Cap mod, Choke Mod & Negative Feedback Removal mod, 4x12", Behringer GMX110, Amplitube 3/StealthPedal
Half a dozen custom built/bastardized guitars all with EMG's, mostly 85's, Ibanez Artwood acoustic & Yamaha SGR bass, Epiphone Prophecy SG, Vox Wah, Pitchblack tuner plus assorted pedals, rack gear etc. for home studio use.
Regular Fretter
They're good pedals. Turn the bass and treble down for TS-ish honk (but not as pronounced), turn them up for open drives. I didn't find it very useful as a clean boost if you're looking for that function.
Electric: Fat strat > Korg PB > TS7 > DS1 > DD-20 > Cube 60 (Fender model)
Acoustic: Guitar > microphone > audience
Luke Skyrawker
Nice tip. I haven't tried that. Thanks.Originally Posted by markb
"No Tele For you." - The Tele Nazi
Ha! Tele-ish now inbound.
Canucklehead
I've been using this pedal (V.1) a lot the last week or so, and it really shines with single coils. I'm finding it really responsive and touch sensitive when I dig into the strings. You're not going to get any Metal tones out of this pedal, but you will get some great articulate single coil growl!
Gearlist:
Electric: Ibanez 'AS103', Fender Dlx Nash Pwr Tele, Fender Squier '62 JV Strat, Squier '51, Squier 60's Classic Vibe Strat, Epi Elite LP Studio, Hagstrom Swede Acoustic: Larrivee LV-03RE, A&L AMI, Yamaha FG340-T Bass: Yamaha BB 450 Amps: Roland JC-120, JC-50, Peavey Classic 30, Fender Super Champ XD Pedals: Marshall Guv'nor Plus, Danelectro Cool Cat Drive, Transparent Overdrive, Digitech Digiverb, Bad Monkey, Ibanez TS-9, Boss AC-2, CE-5, CS-2, DD-3, DF-2, DS-1, FV-100, GE-7, OC-2, PSM-5, SD-1, TU-2, DVM~BYOC 'Lush Puppy' Chorus
Bronze Supporter
Growl is a good word. I sold mine because it was too 'Brrowwwy', kind of soft-edged but sparse crunch and growl, not really best for my uses.
Dee
"When life's a biatch, be a horny dog"
Amps: Marshall JVM 410H w/ Plexi Cap mod, Choke Mod & Negative Feedback Removal mod, 4x12", Behringer GMX110, Amplitube 3/StealthPedal
Half a dozen custom built/bastardized guitars all with EMG's, mostly 85's, Ibanez Artwood acoustic & Yamaha SGR bass, Epiphone Prophecy SG, Vox Wah, Pitchblack tuner plus assorted pedals, rack gear etc. for home studio use.
Regular Fretter
As I understand it, the v.1 pedal was discontinued due to objections from the makers of the OCD pedals. Seems that the pedal was just about a "clone" of one of the OCD overdrive pedals... Or, it could have been evolution...
Just throwing that out there.
"...and I am outta here!"
Scott
Guitars:
Dean EVO Exotic Burl, EVO Special, Vendetta 1000 FR, Stagg Les Paul copy, Squier Standard Telecaster, Squier MIK Stratocaster
Amps:
Fender Princeton 65 (solid state), Vox AD15VT, Peavey Windsor Studio, Crate Vintage Club 50 2x12
Pedals:
DOD FX40B (x2), FX50, FX52, FX55, FX65, FX67, FX80
Washburn LSESLD, LSBOD
BBE Free Fuzz
Behringer EM300, VP1, PH9
Dunlop GCB-95
ProCo Rat II "The Rat"
DigiTech Bad Monkey, RP90
Rockman Soloist
and many, many, many more!
Luke Skyrawker
That was actually Paul Cochrane of Paul C Audio, the maker of the Tim and Timmy pedals. The issue was that the TOD V1 circuit was an almost identical copy of the Timmy circuit. OCDs are made by Mike Fuller of Fulltone.
"No Tele For you." - The Tele Nazi
Ha! Tele-ish now inbound.
Regular Fretter
Thanks for the correction, Spuds. I had the right concept, just the wrong pedal...
"...and I am outta here!"
Scott
Guitars:
Dean EVO Exotic Burl, EVO Special, Vendetta 1000 FR, Stagg Les Paul copy, Squier Standard Telecaster, Squier MIK Stratocaster
Amps:
Fender Princeton 65 (solid state), Vox AD15VT, Peavey Windsor Studio, Crate Vintage Club 50 2x12
Pedals:
DOD FX40B (x2), FX50, FX52, FX55, FX65, FX67, FX80
Washburn LSESLD, LSBOD
BBE Free Fuzz
Behringer EM300, VP1, PH9
Dunlop GCB-95
ProCo Rat II "The Rat"
DigiTech Bad Monkey, RP90
Rockman Soloist
and many, many, many more!
Luke Skyrawker
I figured as much. Actually, I just wanted to write Paul Cochrane, Paul C Audio, Tim and Timmy so that thefret.net would show up in Google searches. It's all about promo don't ya know.
"No Tele For you." - The Tele Nazi
Ha! Tele-ish now inbound.
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