Best overall overdrive pedal?

[PFDarkside]

Re: Best overall overdrive pedal?

That's easy. The absolute best overdrive pedal is th

Oh no! His transmission was cut off! SDUGF to GJ, SDUGF to GJ, are you there...?


I guess we'll just have to buy them all.

 

[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

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And the real truth is....no pedal ever

 

[Brandenburg]

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And the real truth is....no pedal ever

always better if the amp has a good distortion

 

[treyhaislip]

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And the real truth is....no pedal ever

A minimalist

 

[Shooter.556]

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http://youtu.be/K0oq5jU3FJY

This one has my attention at the moment.. Andy rocks the hell out of this Big Joe...

 

[Name that is a User]

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well I have a VVox VT120 plus, I only use the clean channel on it. Most guitars i use are on the brighter side. does this help?

 

[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

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A minimalist

More focused maybe ??
Haha but really what ever works for everybody!
Personally I have not used od/dist pedals for a long time, while I develop new stuff and eventually will get back making a few of them again, I do not use them myself, all of the enormous amount of pedals I have used and tried, all had that strange stiffness and dryness(subtle in some but still present).

It gets better when used live and loud, but it is still not like an amp, claims of amplike behaviour is there, in in some ways some pedals do it, but they cannot escape that they are just pedals, with subtle or not so subtle differences from a real amp.
Just the nature of the beast.
And has been so for some decades now, all kinds of variations and different setups have been used throughout the times.

 

[Mincer]

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OK, I will attempt to answer this, and say the Dirty Deed Distortion! It really nails the 'overdriven tube amp with a boost in front' sound that did all of the late 70s-early 80s hard rock tones. Since it was build with hard rock/early metal tones in mind, no need to bother with all of the others.

 

[Shooter.556]

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OK, I will attempt to answer this, and say the Dirty Deed Distortion! It really nails the 'overdriven tube amp with a boost in front' sound that did all of the late 70s-early 80s hard rock tones. Since it was build with hard rock/early metal tones in mind, no need to bother with all of the others.

You're not helping my stompbox addiction lol!
I have been wanting this.. I actually have 5 dirt boxes I want at the moment..
Wampler Plexi Deluxe
Wampler Clarksdale
The Dirty Deeds
The 805
The Big Joe R403 or R 404 vintage..

I am a dirt box addict..

 

[Lazarus1140]

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Wampler Plexi Deluxe
Wampler Clarksdale
The Dirty Deeds
The 805
The Big Joe R403 or R 404 vintage..

I am a dirt box addict..

Any addict worth his angst should desire one of these:

 

[littlefish]

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There definitely is no best, as an overdrive pedal plays off your existing tone/gear quite a bit. But I'm going to try to be helpful here and name a few Actually, there's a site that tries to answer this question - before the hate comes in, I like their approach because they count up all the mentions & recommendations from various forums, and then make a master list. While this of course doesn't solve the problem of "best," it helps figure out the ones that are most talked about Here's the article if you're curious: Best Overdrive Pedal

I like the ones they mention, Fulltone OCD, Fulldrive2, Tube Screamer, Blues Driver - two I would add to their list that I really liked from personal experience are the Digitech Bad Monkey and MXR M77 Custom Badass Modified O.D.

Hope this helps. Make a list of a handful after your online research, and get thee to the local music shop to try them out. It'll help if whatever amp and guitar you use to try them out are similar to your own gear. I'm not familiar with the pedal-renting service people are mentioning but that sounds like a nice options as well. Good luck!

 

[Demanic]

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Given the amount of choices out there, the best one is the one that sounds best to you. If you are into spending a bit more, https://robertkeeley.com/product-category/overdrive/ has quite a few different flavors.

 

[DrNewcenstein]

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If you mean "hard rock/early metal" in the sense of 60s hard rock like Yardbirds/Zeppelin, Cream, Steppenwolf, Hendrix, etc and early metal as in Black Sabbath, you're going to be looking at treble boosters and fuzz pedals, and most anything with a 60s psychedelic script or logo, or named "60s" anything, or that has a name that kinda sounds like a band or famous song from the 60s and early 70s.

These include anything that specifically reference Dallas Arbiter and/or Roger Mayer.

 

[Shooter.556]

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Any addict worth his angst should desire one of these:

Yeah, I need this one too.

 

[SirJackdeFuzz]

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What is the absolute best overdrive for hard rock/early metal?

80's era ? . . . i would look no further than an LM-308 chip'ed RAT !

Or maybe even the new Fat RAT <--- check it out.

 

[Name that is a User]

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Thanks

 

[Markk]

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Maybe narrow the question down a bit, for example: best overdrive pedal if you want to get a nice Clapton tone along the lines of the Layla intro using a minihumbucker-equipped Les Paul through a Marshall TSL60 with a Vintage 30....answer: SHOD with focus set at 1, drive and volume set at 11. Amp, of course, cranked to semi-cranked.

:laughing:

 

[devastone]

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If you are using the clean channel on the amp and looking for hard rock tones, then you probably want a distortion, not an overdrive, although the new MXR 5150 "overdrive" would probably make you very happy. Lots of choices from Wampler too, but I would probably suggest looking at Catalinbread if you have a specific tone you are looking for. Most of these fall into the preamp in a pedal category, they are basically an amp's preamp built with FETs instead of tubes.

That said, a Rat is hard to beat, it can do pretty much everything from clean-ish boost, to distortion, to almost fuzz.

 

[Securb]

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This thread is like asking what the best flavor of ice cream is. Jazz guys are lactose intolerant by the way.

 

[TimmyPage]

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This thread is like asking what the best flavor of ice cream is. Jazz guys are lactose intolerant by the way.

Not true at all, most modern jazz players have full pedalboards. Running an overdrive as a clean/grit boost is super common amongst most of my favourite guitarists, both locally and internationally. RAT pedals have also been common on jazz boards since the 70s with guys like Scofield. When I play trad jazz gigs I generally bring my Walrus Audio Voyager as a grit boost, and more recently my SD Vise Grip as a clean boost. I'm starting to see a couple of local jazz players pick up fuzz pedals now too.

The guitar is not a very responsive instrument, at least not compared to a saxophone or a trumpet. We can't growl into our instrument, or whisper into it to drastically change our tonality. I kind of view the guitar more in the lights of an analog signal, similar to a synth, and my pedalboard comprises of my tonal and voicing options. If I want the sound of growling into a saxophone, I can add a little grit to my guitar with an overdrive etc. Jazz has come a long way from the trad jazz stereotypes and misunderstandings I always see posted on guitar forums.