Recommend Colorless Distortion/overdrive pedals, kthxbai

[the guy who invented fire]

Re: Recommend Colorless Distortion/overdrive pedals, kthxbai

i just watched a dvd of me playing a show and the tone was KILLER until i stepped on the pedal.

:laugh2: :laugh2: :laugh2:

I have to ask...what pedal was it???

 

[drpietrzak]

Re: Recommend Colorless Distortion/overdrive pedals, kthxbai

i just watched a dvd of me playing a show and the tone was KILLER until i stepped on the pedal.

Lose the pedal. I never sound killer!

 

[jeremy]

Re: Recommend Colorless Distortion/overdrive pedals, kthxbai

its hard to sound bad thru an old deluxe reverb and a strat.

i used a barber ltd and a visual sound rt 66. both are good sounding pedals and the tone didnt suck but it changed enough that i dont think ill be using pedals any more if i can help it. im gonna go back to the duncan pup booster and try that but i notice a slight high frequency thing going on.

 

[Christobevii3]

Re: Recommend Colorless Distortion/overdrive pedals, kthxbai

For marshall like overdrive why not get the marshall governor pedal? There are like two others and clips at this site below

Marshall Pedals

 

[drpietrzak]

Re: Recommend Colorless Distortion/overdrive pedals, kthxbai

For marshall like overdrive why not get the marshall governor pedal? There are like two others and clips at this site below

Marshall Pedals

The Gov'2 is a good pedal for the MArshall thing to me as well. I also like the ED-1 Compressor. As they have a new reverb out it appears worth checking out as well to me.

 

[Lewguitar]

Re: Recommend Colorless Distortion/overdrive pedals, kthxbai

Duncan Pickup Booster or else I'd look for a nice Boss DS-1...MIJ prefered. Those are my favorite pedals for the $$$ and for doing what you're describing and if you don't set the distortion to high you can leave it on all the time the signal will clean up when you turn the guitar's volume control down...that's how Vai and Satriani used thiers. Great pedal. Lew

 

[open]

Re: Recommend Colorless Distortion/overdrive pedals, kthxbai

Klon Centaur
HBE Big D

You can set the Centaur to boost the signal and is clean
and to die for.

 

[ErikH]

Re: Recommend Colorless Distortion/overdrive pedals, kthxbai

By colorless if you mean leaving the original tone alone, just with more oomph to it, then I have to recommend the MXR Wylde OD. In front of a Marshall it is so perfect. You still hear the tone of the Marshall, just with more balls. Everything is still there. It's nice on a clean channel for a mellow, bluesy tone, but it's most at home goosing an already cranked up amp.

 

[jeremy]

Re: Recommend Colorless Distortion/overdrive pedals, kthxbai

to me the wylde od sounds very much like a boss sd1, which isnt that far from a tube screamer

 

[ErikH]

Re: Recommend Colorless Distortion/overdrive pedals, kthxbai

to me the wylde od sounds very much like a boss sd1, which isnt that far from a tube screamer

That's because it's a clone of the SD-1, just with a little more gain, a tone control that works, and it doesn't "color" the natural tone like many others do. There's enough differences in part values and the assymetrical vs. symmetrical clipping between the SD-1 and TS series that make them stand apart on their own.

 

[Lewguitar]

Re: Recommend Colorless Distortion/overdrive pedals, kthxbai

i just watched a dvd of me playing a show and the tone was KILLER until i stepped on the pedal.

That's really funny!

All I ever use is my Strat or Tele, a George L. cord and my Deluxe Reverb amps (or sometimes my Matchless Chieftan).

No pedals...even the best ones sound artificial and un-organic to me.

But that said, my favorites would be the Boss DS-1, Duncan Pickups Booster and the Fulltone 69...none of which will you ever see me using when I gig.:laugh2:

Lew

 

[jeremy]

Re: Recommend Colorless Distortion/overdrive pedals, kthxbai

erik, i thought it colored the tone, not as much as the ts or sd1 but it sure isnt as transparent as id like.

lew, it was my daytona (aps aps twangbanger) - monster jazz cables - dlx reverb with the ltd and rt66 in there just incase. but as always if its there ill step on it

i need to finish modding the dr, im still not using the normal channel

 

[ErikH]

Re: Recommend Colorless Distortion/overdrive pedals, kthxbai

Jeremy, it does color it some, it just colors it the least out of any OD I've tried, including several high dollar overdrives. Now, I haven't tried the OCD and really have no desire to, especially since I started making my own pedals. I've got a few overdrives I need to finish up.

I've used the ZW-44 on several different amps and on each amp, I can still hear the natural tone of the amp itself as if the pedal was off, but with a splash of the OD. Even on my Valvetronix, the AC30 stills sounds like the AC30, just with a little more kick.

Out of the three, SD-1, ZW-44, and TS, I find the TS to color the tone the most.

 

[Lewguitar]

Re: Recommend Colorless Distortion/overdrive pedals, kthxbai

erik, i thought it colored the tone, not as much as the ts or sd1 but it sure isnt as transparent as id like.

lew, it was my daytona (aps aps twangbanger) - monster jazz cables - dlx reverb with the ltd and rt66 in there just incase. but as always if its there ill step on it

i need to finish modding the dr, im still not using the normal channel

Same pickups I have in my Daytona, Jeremy.

You ought to put reverb on both channels (it'll make the normal channel have more gain and a ballsier tone), replace the tone caps in the normal channel with a pair of .02's and a 250 pf silver mica treble cap.

I also reduced the negative feedback and made the input resistors on the input to the normal channel smaller so that channel overdrives easier. I think of the normal channel now as being my single coil channel and the vibrato channel as being my cleaner channel and for humbuckers.

 

[jeremy]

Re: Recommend Colorless Distortion/overdrive pedals, kthxbai

i think the ocd colors the tone as well, not a bad pedal but not my favorite.

 

[wildstar]

Re: Recommend Colorless Distortion/overdrive pedals, kthxbai

Easy: Xotic RC or AC Boosters. The RC goes from clean as a whistle boost to bright and strong Fender breakup boost (it has a gain and volume control, as well as bass and treble.)

The AC goes from very slight break up to snarling, amp-about-to-melt Fender dirt, with the same control configuration as the RC.

http://www.prosoundcommunications.com/english/

Highly recommended for exactly what you're describing, IMHO.

Cheers