Explorer84
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I recommend getting one. The Gain Changer SR has the eq of three of his overdrives in one pedal. It’s very transparent and versatile. And if you don’t like it they’re not hard to resell.
Need overdrive pedal for rythm rock tones
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I recommend getting one. The Gain Changer SR has the eq of three of his overdrives in one pedal. It’s very transparent and versatile. And if you don’t like it they’re not hard to resell.
El Dunco
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These days you’re super spoiled for choice with rock tones from a pedal. I recommend going to a guitar store and trying out the latest and greatest through an amp similar to yours as even youtube demos aren’t going to match your experience 1:1 if their amp and speaker is completely different.
marcello252
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I agree , even the terms '70s hard rock' could cover a lot of different sounds, you have to try and try between the suggested pedals, trials and errors
El Dunco
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It’s pricey but if I could justify I would absolutely get an Origin Revival Drive. Covers the sound of basically every amp through history and they even model the power amp response where you can control the sag. It’s a shame it costs almost as much as an amp head because one of those on the floor sent to anything from an IR to a clean Class D power amp and cab (like a Powerstage,) you could have literally any era of amp sound you like, fully analog. I toyed with the idea of the paired down Hot Rod RD but I don’t “need” it so much as I just want it.
RanchManSandy
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Build the Aion FX Guvnor clone. It's phenomenal and has options and EQ sculpting for days
marcello252
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I did it even better, I bought a second hand Guv'nor II (40 €, a pedal nobody wants) and converted it in an original Guv'nor , it works flawlessy and it has a Deep control pot the orginal had not, ah!
Ascension
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THIS! What you like may be different from what we like. Also, different pedals react differently with different amps.
misterwhizzy
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This is exactly what I use my Friedman Small Box pedal to do. Marshall Origin 50 set to ever-so-slight breakup with the volume knob cranked for cleans. Small Box for old-school, classic rock pushed Marshall tones by itself, hair/classic metal with a Green Rhino in front, Recto tones from a Revv G4 into the effects-loop return.
Rex_Rocker
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Don't go for an SD-1. Your MXR M-77 is pretty much an SD-1 with EQ capabilities.
chadd
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I use my amp in the crunch channel with just a bit of breakup, kind of a marshall clean to add a bit of sauce for some Hendix/Frusciante rhythm chords thing. Now I want a pedal to reach a marshall 70s hard rock sound to 80s classic metal without having a big jump in volume, kind of high gain but still can give me some dynamics and string definition. The thick and sustain for leads I can get by stacking my MXR M77. I will use this with a couple of Strats, one with STK-S6 in the bridge, another one with 59 bridge.
* I don't want an overdrive with a bump in the mids, I already have one but I use it mostly for leads.
* Not a clean boost, no treble boost. All that sounds nice but really need to fine tune the volume when padal is engaged.
* Extra points if it has versatile eq controls, like 3 band eq or a low freq cut at the input.
* I think I am be asking for an overdrive pedal that has a kind of falt eq character. A transparent overdrive?¡
OCD and an EQ to further shape the tone.
Butch Snyder
ObsoleteChickenPickingologist
I have one. It doesn't leave my pedalboard. My personal favorite is the old DOD Overdrive Preamp 250. I like the SD-1 enough that I don't buy one.
