NGOPD: New Green Overdrive Pedal Day!

[Aceman]

I got one of these:

I plugged it into my Marshall VS100, clean channel, and ran it on a fairly generic setting, and the first thing I said was "Damn, this is TOTALLY the Bryan Adams Summer of 69 tone!!!"

That said I didn't play it until my fingers bled...

I A/B'd it a little with my TS9. Basically, its a TS9. Maybe a little more gain. Maybe not. That is all I have to say about that.

 

[devastone]

I A/B'd it a little with my TS9. Basically, its a TS9.

What made you think it would be anything else?

 

[Dudeman7]

Cool man! Some of those BBE effects were really well done. I have a Mind Bender chorus/vibrato that easily sounds as good as some of my hoity toity boutique pedals. I had heard that the Green Screamer was really cool too.

Congrats!

 

[Drak]

That jet is flying in the wrong direction.
Factory blem?

 

[Mincer]

I couldn't tell the difference with my TS7 on the non-hot setting either. It is a TS with a better switch, really.

 

[Aceman]

What made you think it would be anything else?

Not a damn thing. But the Graphic is super cool.

 

[Aceman]

Cool man! Some of those BBE effects were really well done. I have a Mind Bender chorus/vibrato that easily sounds as good as some of my hoity toity boutique pedals. I had heard that the Green Screamer was really cool too.

Congrats!

I have a BBE Two time with the graphic as well. Its particular, but I really like it.

 

[St_Genesius]

All the pictures of the Green Screamer I've seen have the jet facing the right. Well, other than the plain ones that don't have a jet at all.

That jet is flying in the wrong direction.
Factory blem?

 

[Aceman]

The jet on my actual pedal is screaming left to right

 

[St_Genesius]

AFAICT, they all are. I'm not sure what Drak is seeing that I'm missing.

The jet on my actual pedal is screaming left to right

 

[ErikH]

Man, just about any green pedal with 3 knobs is gonna be a TS clone/variant.

 

[Aceman]

Man, just about any green pedal with 3 knobs is gonna be a TS clone/variant.

Yeah - a lot are exactly the same. But some have their own little unique charm. I have had a basic TS9 for about 25-30 years. Thought I'd mix it up a little!

We'll see how this one goes When I get a chance to really run them against each other.

 

[Mincer]

Man, just about any green pedal with 3 knobs is gonna be a TS clone/variant.

Some have better switches and enclosures, and some have slightly different gain ranges.

 

[ErikH]

Very true on both of your replies. There are some that have the bass boost switch and/or more gain switch. It doesn't take much to take that circuit, make a tweak, rebox it, paint it green and have another variant. I still prefer the original TS808 if I was to use a TS again.

 

[Drak]

I was referring to signal flow direction.
That jet is going out through the in door.
Or in through the out door, as is your preference.

 

[Dudeman7]

I was referring to signal flow direction.
That jet is going out through the in door.
Or in through the out door, as is your preference.

I understood that. Don't know what's wrong with everyone else. Jeesh!

 

[Cdwillis]

If I recall correctly the BBE Green Screamer is the TS808 circuit without the input/output buffers, basically a Son of Screamer circuit. It's a great sound and easy to mod if you're handy with a soldering iron.

 

[Dudeman7]

That whole line of pedals from BBE was clones of other, popular circuits, AFAIK.

Green Screamer = Tube Screamer, Two-Timer Delay = Boss DM-2 and Mind Bender = Way Huge Blue Hippo (Boss CE-2 clone)/Boss VB-2 Vibrato.

Those are the ones I know for sure. I know that the Soul Vibe is a Uni-Vibe clone but I'm not really sure of the exact circuit that they based it on.

Good pedals nonetheless. They were well built, reasonably priced and sound really, really good.

 

[Top-L]

Where was it made?

 

[dave74]

Maybe the best thing since the sonic minimizer. Just joking, nice tube screamer man!