Cheapest distortion pedal that can plausibly replace amp gain?

[allstarrme]

Re: Cheapest distortion pedal that can plausibly replace amp gain?

The bogner ubershall and the Duncan palladium gain stage are both great drive sounds with a boost even and used go for ~150. Both have a full eq for dialing in your sounds and tightness. Plenty of videos on YouTube for both. To me they are more amp in a box than just pedals.

 

[Nightburst]

Re: Cheapest distortion pedal that can plausibly replace amp gain?

Wampler Triple Wreck.
Rocktron Silver Dragon.

There is a video of rabea on that pedal show where they test a bunch of distortion pedals, you might enjoy watching that one.

 

[SweetClyde99]

Re: Cheapest distortion pedal that can plausibly replace amp gain?

A Tube Screamer in front would tighten it up some.

It’s a clone of the Suhr Riot. I can’t attest to the Riot being inherently tighter, but it does have a couple of other clipping options that might be more to your liking.

Otherwise, there are a lot of good distortion pedals out there. My favorites have been the Blackstar HT pedals I’ve tried. The Friedman BE-OD is getting a lot of buzz right now too. The JHS Angry Charlie has been a popular choice for a while, though JHS in general seems to be a somewhat divisive topic.

 

[ehdwuld]

Re: Cheapest distortion pedal that can plausibly replace amp gain?

A Tube Screamer in front would tighten it up some.

It’s a clone of the Suhr Riot. I can’t attest to the Riot being inherently tighter, but it does have a couple of other clipping options that might be more to your liking.

Otherwise, there are a lot of good distortion pedals out there. My favorites have been the Blackstar HT pedals I’ve tried. The Friedman BE-OD is getting a lot of buzz right now too. The JHS Angry Charlie has been a popular choice for a while, though JHS in general seems to be a somewhat divisive topic.

Im sure you mean that the other way round
the Riot is a clone of the Screamer

the Green Joyo Vintage drive is a clone of the Screamer
the Ultimate Drive by Joyo is supposed to be similar to the OCD

 

[toowrongfoo]

Re: Cheapest distortion pedal that can plausibly replace amp gain?

I'm not even going to read through this because I'm too OCD, but OCD is probably (maybe depending on generation) the greatest gain pedal ever. They are beyond flexible.

 

[SweetClyde99]

Re: Cheapest distortion pedal that can plausibly replace amp gain?

Im sure you mean that the other way round
the Riot is a clone of the Screamer

the Green Joyo Vintage drive is a clone of the Screamer
the Ultimate Drive by Joyo is supposed to be similar to the OCD

Sorry, I wasn’t very clear there. The Tube Screamer can tighten up the Joyo US Dream. The US Dream is a clone of the Suhr Riot without the toggle switch, which might make the original Suhr pedal more versatile and more useful to the OP. Not sure what the Riot is based on—a Marshall Guv’ner, maybe?

I’ve never played the Joyo Tube Screamer clone, but I do like my Digitech Bad Monkey, which is very much in the Tube Screamer ballpark but with a bass knob.

 

[ehdwuld]

Re: Cheapest distortion pedal that can plausibly replace amp gain?

The Bad Monkey is crazy expensive now that they stopped production

I liked the 808 much better than the ts9
SD 805 is an 808 with extra knobs, right

Again crazy expensive
Not at all " cheapest "

Joyo , Biyang, etc are going to be cheapest
Biyang makes a distortion with swappable chips for different flavors of distortion

 

[toowrongfoo]

Re: Cheapest distortion pedal that can plausibly replace amp gain?

I have to laugh. The "bad monkey" was one of those pedals that they had 1000's in stock at like 29 bucks. Now you are saying they are some kinda rare vintage thing?

(however, I could see the benefit of the bass knob)

I want a time machine. I want to go back to before all this nonsense became so wildly popular, get a thousand of them, store 'em, sell them in this time and buy my own island.

 

[ehdwuld]

Re: Cheapest distortion pedal that can plausibly replace amp gain?

Google one

I had one on my Amazon wishlist till they were discontinued
Then used ones showed up at 89 bucks

 

[toowrongfoo]

Re: Cheapest distortion pedal that can plausibly replace amp gain?

That's just crazy to me. But then again, the "bass knob" does seem to have some extra value.

I remember many eons ago, there was an ibanez (multi pedal) that had a chorus setting that was very desirable and being bummed that people would pay mad-cash for one (like 20 years ago) and now it's like, please, 400+ for the boss "fender" reverb, stop it!

 

[SweetClyde99]

Re: Cheapest distortion pedal that can plausibly replace amp gain?

I bought my Bad Monkey from a pawn shop a few years ago for $20--I talked them down from $25. It's good to know that was a wise investment.

 

[dystrust]

Re: Cheapest distortion pedal that can plausibly replace amp gain?

now it's like, please, 400+ for the boss "fender" reverb, stop it!

I saw that listing and thought the price was insanely high. A quick eBay search shows recently completed listings in the $180-200 range. I guess the $80 I paid about 6 months ago was a good investment. And to think I almost passed on it.

If I wanted that sound today, I'd drop $250 on a Strymon Flint instead.

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