my first overdrive pedal

[tristan]

I'm 30 and I've always played straight in the amp...love my ENGL but I missed a few more gain, so the amp was hard to play with my legato...

so I bought a ridiculous cheap chineese pedal (belcat) and my life changed...I have all the qualities of my amp, with the little gain ad I've always wanted...

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I've ordered the MXR gt overdrive custom shop...

TRISTAN HAPPY !!!

 

[robelinda2]

wow thats amazing, your first pedal, what took you so long????

 

[starsky]

I think I had a pedal BEFORE I got my first amp back in the day

Only by a few hours though...

Seriously though, that's amazing you've never had an overdrive pedal before now, even for home practice. I guess that opens up a new avenue of gear purchasing for you now though. Vintage Tube Screamer?

 

[Spudmurphy]

Nice one Tristan.
What Badcat model did you get? - and how expensive are they?
Cheers
Spud

 

[Tim O'Sullivan]

I love the Boss Super Overdrive, and great value at £39!

 

[tristan]

Nice one Tristan.
What Badcat model did you get? - and how expensive are they?
Cheers
Spud

it's a BELCAT pedal, 30€ !!! but I'm waiting for my MXR custom shop

 

[Jonny Dubai]

mate you gotta check out AMT pedals. Having listend to your sound i think they will suit you. They blew me away!

 

[uvacom]

Nah, see - this is an overdrive.

I've got one on order right now.

 

[augustyn]

tristan,

theres a not very wellknown builder in czech republic called george dennis.
he makes great pedals. on is calle the tube and is a tube distortion pedal with volume function. make great sounds and fits perfect to my engl sovereign amp.
George Dennis LTD
he is a german who is in prague now.

 

[jeffrey]

I always liked the TC line booster, very clean.

That being said, I haven't owned a pedal other than a wah/volume in ~20 yrs.

 

[koogie2k]

Tristan can play his guitar with garbage can as an amp and school many of us with this AWESOME playing.......never knew you played straight through....more amazing to me....but alas, I am a hack.

 

[silverburst]

That reissue Tube Screamer is pretty nice too.

 

[Vlad]

My current favorite is the Xotic BB preamp. It's very smooth and warm. I use it with my '71 Super Lead. It's also super transparent. The most transparent boost/OD pedal I've ever heard.

With my Bogner I like the OD808.

 

[blackspy]

Nothing better than a 1980's vintage Boss SD-1. Awesome for giving that extra edge to almost any amp.

 

[Vlad]

here's a really quick test clip I did today with my OD808 into the Bogner XTC Classic

http://home.comcast.net/~vladimirberns/pictures/petrucciJamBogner.mp3

Pardon all the clams.

 

[wolfbone07]

I get great clean sounds out of my rig, but the distortion sounds aren't so happening. I really like the Boss DS1 for my distortion needs. Mine's been moded, but the stock one rocks out of the box.

Tristan, love your YouTube and MP3 posts my man. You add a lot to the forum. It's great to have you around.

 

[tristan]

I get great clean sounds out of my rig, but the distortion sounds aren't so happening. I really like the Boss DS1 for my distortion needs. Mine's been moded, but the stock one rocks out of the box.

Tristan, love your YouTube and MP3 posts my man. You add a lot to the forum. It's great to have you around.

thanks, it's great to be here

 

[tristan]

wow thats amazing, your first pedal, what took you so long????

it's a question of culture...I first started to play in multi FX units like zoom 9002 and korg A3...then I came into the rack thing...bogner, soldano, and all the stuf...to get more gain, I used to plug a rack compressor before the preamp...later on, when I get into amps, it was 5150 and it did not need no gain add...

the engl is my fave, but it just needs a little more drive...and I discovered the ovedrive concept via amplitube 2.... strange isnt' it ?

so now I play with the OD and even my clean sound is warmer than before...

I'm very happy with it, and now I can't wait my MXR custom shop

 

[tristan]

Tristan can play his guitar with garbage can as an amp and school many of us with this AWESOME playing.......never knew you played straight through....more amazing to me....but alas, I am a hack.

yes it is very hard to play straight... now with the OD I don't need to be a marathon man anymore.

for the garbage, I used to play Ibanez guitars when I was 15...it could sound but coudl not stay in tune

 

[phatduckk]

santa just got me a maxon od9 it sounds super naturanl (no pun intended) i like it alot.