Bad Monkey Tube overdrive???

bjeans79

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How good is this friggen pedal anyways? I want to get a good pedal to go with my Strat but has that clean boost Pride and Joy type tone. I know Stevie used a TS808 or TS9, but I was wondering what the Bad Monkey was like. Thanks again experts!

Merry Christmas
 
Re: Bad Monkey Tube overdrive???

I played around with one in the store, and fell in love with it. The simple fact of having separate bass and treble controls gave it a lot of tonal versatility. I have it on good authority that there's one "under the tree". :D

Longer review post-X-mas.
 
Re: Bad Monkey Tube overdrive???

I liked it enough to buy one. While it doesn't have a lot of usefulness in front of the Pro Mod, it's surprisingly useful in front of a POD - it really clears things up in that setting.

Also, if you have a Dual Rec or other similar-sounding amp, I can't recommend it enough for tightening the sound up without loosing that low-end grunt they have.
 
Re: Bad Monkey Tube overdrive???

I like mine a lot. But I have to say, for clean boost I prefer my Arion Tubulator.
 
Re: Bad Monkey Tube overdrive???

I have one and, to be honest is the best overdrive i have used yet. I have been through about 5 different overdrive pedals, i found this is really nice, creamy sounding, and tube like.

It does both overdrive and clean boost really well
Great also for tightening and adding gain to the existing gain channel. I would never gig without mine. I also use a boss sd-1 super overdrive, which adds more high midrange than the bad monkey so in a way lets your solo's cut through a bit better, whereas the badmonkey has more of a transparent tone.
 
Re: Bad Monkey Tube overdrive???

I almost bought one when I bought my DD6. I already had a TS9 at the time, but I REALLY liked the BM pedal.
 
Re: Bad Monkey Tube overdrive???

One of the only good digitech products to come out in recent years, in my opinion.
 
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