Favorite push-your-amp-over-the-edge pedal?

[misterwhizzy]

Y'all can keep your Tubescreamers and your SD-1s.

I've been on a boost-type pedal-swapping frenzy over the past few days, and I have the same gripe I always do with the SD-1. It cuts too much bass and gives an ice-picky attack. The stock mode on the Wylde Overdrive doesn't cut quite as much bass but still pushes the high mids too much. GT-OD mode is a lot better, but it doesn't quite give enough push to the amp.

The Green Rhino seems like the perfect pedal for my setup. I don't expect everyone to have the same experience, but it just absolutely crushes. It's thick, crunchy, and clear. I don't know why I ever try anything different.

 

[jeremy]

i like the green rhino a lot. i have a mkii and a cameltoe which has the mkiv version. its a modded ts, but a very good one

 

[Ascension]

Wampler belle or Nobels ODR 1 is my favorite. Truly transparent edge of breakup, very good with humbuckers, and truly outstanding with single coils.
Second choice, a Real Klon or a Wampler Tuminus. With the right amp, these are killers.
Cant use a Screamer anymore since I found the Nobels/ Belle!
https://youtu.be/YQH1RZoG-lA?si=NnO08VOlc2a86oU7

 

[Seashore]

I've been liking the HX "Hedgehog D9" (Maxon Sonic Distortion) model into the Traynor for guitar lately.

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[ErikH]

I have several overdrives and boosts.

For clean boosts, a good ole' Boss GE-7 is great. The Xotic FX EP Booster is one of my favorites. I have a couple homemade ones I built years ago too but don't use them much anymore.
Overdrives range from the Boss OD-3 to the inexpensive Joyo Vintage Overdrive and Mosky Silver Horse. The BYOC Yellow Overdrive (Boss OD-1 clone) is awesome. It does cut bass like the original and I haven't put the bass mod on it yet. I might with a toggle switch.
I want to get a TS9. Easy to mod to get more bass and easy to mod to TS808 specs. I like the TS9 for the lower price AND the barrel DC jack. The 808 has a 1/8" DC jack.

 

[Mincer]

Honestly, I use a compressor for that. Either a BYOC one I built, or something in my HX Effects.

 

[Securb]

I use my MOOG Delay as my Boost. I have the MIX almost dry, with a slapbackish setting you can not really hear the delay but it thickens the signal, then I crank the drive on the pedal up a little bit like an EP BOOST. My favorite BOOST is the BOOST in my old-school silver Morley, but that is too clunky to drag around.

 

[Aceman]

I have an amps with "over-the-top" and don't need a pedal.

But - if that is your thing, and I get it, may I suggest:




Although I like the Green Rhino suggestion as well, if keeping the Booty is part of your equation.

 

[Mincer]

The Bad Monkey is also a great overdrive into a clean amp, too.

 

[El Dunco]

If it’s not practical to use the actual tube preamp of my tube tape delay, My custom built Cornhole. Has the same circuit as the ZW and GT-OD depending on how much mids I want with virtually no components in common. It has none of the “clank” the ZW has and is very good at preserving what I like in the amp’s natural tone and adding what I do like about a boosted sound. It also has an LPB-1 to really push it over the edge from extra solo boost fatness and saturation, to a “meltdown/ripped speaker” sound.

 

[marcello252]

The Bad Monkey is also a great overdrive into a clean amp, too.

it's actually a tube screamer with active 2 band control on the output

 

[marcello252]

I've been on a boost-type pedal-swapping frenzy over the past few days, and I have the same gripe I always do with the SD-1. It cuts too much bass and gives an ice-picky attack. The stock mode on the Wylde Overdrive doesn't cut quite as much bass but still pushes the high mids too much. GT-OD mode is a lot better, but it doesn't quite give enough push to the amp.

In case you'd like to try other pedals, may I suggest you to check a Timmy? (ora a cheap Caline Pure sky, it's a clone, although P. Cochrane is a person so nice he deserves to buy from him the original).
The Timmy is a soft clipping OD (like a TS or a SD) but it has a bass control before the OD section and a treble control after the clipping stage, so it's possible to control the right amount of harmonic content you have.
One of the best boost / OD ever made, and it's very transparent