Overdrive Pedals- what's your favorite?

[saltydogg]

OK- I tried finding a thread similarly titled in the search bar, but nothing came up.

What's your favorite overdrive pedal by any manufacturer and what makes it so damn good? PLEASE ONLY LIST 1 PEDAL...:huh

[benabloom]

Right now if I had to pick just one pedal it would be a Lovepedal Les Lius.

I love the COT50 and this pedal allows me to get the COT50 tones (on tchula setting) and use the volume knob for shades of gain, and then Kick on the second channel for a more satchurated lead tone that isn't much louder. It sounds simple enough, but I cant tell you how many 2 sided pedals Ive been through that just didn't get the boost ratio right. This one is perfect in that it doesnt sound like you stepped on a different pedal when the boost is engaged..it just sound like you made your pickups 2 or 3 clicks hotter...

I run this into the clean channel of my Shiva and it gives me the swampy rootsy stuff that the shiva doesnt inhearently have.

Ben

[Hugo Da Rosa]

For me and my rig, I would say the Barber Small Fry.

Barber makes excellent pedals in general but I love this pedal for its versatility and flexibility. There is so much tone-shaping flexibility in the pedal that you can match the EQ to practically any amp. In addition, you have a toggle switch that allows you to adjust the type of clipping you'd like the overdrive to use - anything from a pedal-like overdrive to a power tube-type overdrive. It gives you the option of how much compression you want to come through in your OD as well as a wide range of gain. Everything from really clean to a Dumble amp cranked.

Now what I personally love most about this pedal is that it cleans it real well with the volume knob. I mean...REALLY well. Some ODs I've played with clean up the gain but you get a loss of tone (ie. treble/bass loss). I even have a cap/resistor pair wired in my volume pot as the treble bleed cap and some drives just don't do that good of a job. This pedal really retains your tone as much as it can possibly do. And with a pedal that cleans up well comes great pick attack too. Softer attack would give you a nice clean tone while some harder attack would really grit up. This pedal isn't leaving my board for a while...if at all.

[BluesHarp]

BJFE Dyna Red. It does low and high gain marshall tones so well and is very amp like.

[wcmiller]

Hands down the Kingsley Jester!! :bow

I own a Zendrive, AC Booster, BB Preamp, Providence Sonic Drive 3 and in the distortion dept MI Crunchbox and Tonebone Hot British all of which go through a Fuchs ODS 50.

I really like these pedals all be it some more than others but the Jester really stands out. None of the other pedals for all of their accolades sound as amp like as the Jester or will clean up via your volume knob as well as the Jester. It has a unique sound that is not Dumble or anything else except for possibly a Kingsley amp which I have never tried. I believe it is designed around the preamp circuitry you would find in a Kingsley amp. (which model I'm not sure). Subjective yes but I love mine and it has moved all of my other drive pedals to the shelf. Good luck.

[Bobster]

BJF HBOD and my Lovepedal Burst Hand-wired Eternity!

[Road King]

Weird as it may sound, and I've owned everything under the sun at least twice. My go to OD right now is a Wampler modded SD1. The Eternity mod. This thing sounds awesome.

[wingwalker]

Just one?! Thats not very TGP!!!

If I had to pick one I'd be thinking a long time so I'll tell ya what Im using right this minute...

AnalogMan King of Tone...what makes it great, read up and believe the hype...it's all true!

[okbutjustonce]

I'm really liking the Barber Direct Drive at the moment. It's knocked a bunch of very highly regarded pedals off the board. There's something very "sweet" sounding about Barber's pedals, but this one is my favorite.

[iggs]

If I had to pick just one ...

Keeler PUSH

[Darkburst]

Fulltone OCD v4!

[jazzandmetal?]

BJFE Dyna Red. It does low and high gain marshall tones so well and is very amp like.

BJF HBOD and my Lovepedal Burst Hand-wired Eternity!

What they said. Can't pick just one.:D

[Deville2Rocket]

Lovepedal Eternity, and the Fulltone OCD.

[dk123123dk]

What - Digitech Bad Monkey.

Why - Its cheap and it sounds good. There are no waiting lists. And I don't see Digitech going out of business soon, so I will always be able to get one if the one I have breaks. I also prefer this style on/off switch, vs the 3pdt switch found on a lot of boutique pedals. Great for dark stages.

dk

[Windup 43]

Yesterday it was the Direct Drive and today it was the Blues Pro. Tomorrow maybe the Rat on lower gain settings? It's good to have choices :D

[FenderBigot]

I'm currently only using a TS-9 and the drive channel of my Blues Deville 4x10. I'm also looking at adding a BD-2 (that I intended to get modded by Keeley prior to the fire nightmare) to my lineup.

But if I had to pick only one, then I'd research one with a boost on it too like the Tim or the FD.

[benjisaynomore]

Oye...too many to choose from.

King of tone
Fulltone anything
Barber anything
and whatever else.

[Drifting]

For me and my rig, I would say the Barber Small Fry.

Barber makes excellent pedals in general but I love this pedal for its versatility and flexibility. There is so much tone-shaping flexibility in the pedal that you can match the EQ to practically any amp. In addition, you have a toggle switch that allows you to adjust the type of clipping you'd like the overdrive to use - anything from a pedal-like overdrive to a power tube-type overdrive. It gives you the option of how much compression you want to come through in your OD as well as a wide range of gain. Everything from really clean to a Dumble amp cranked.

Now what I personally love most about this pedal is that it cleans it real well with the volume knob. I mean...REALLY well. Some ODs I've played with clean up the gain but you get a loss of tone (ie. treble/bass loss). I even have a cap/resistor pair wired in my volume pot as the treble bleed cap and some drives just don't do that good of a job. This pedal really retains your tone as much as it can possibly do. And with a pedal that cleans up well comes great pick attack too. Softer attack would give you a nice clean tone while some harder attack would really grit up. This pedal isn't leaving my board for a while...if at all.

TOTALLY AGREE!!! I just got mine, my first Barber pedal at that. Got a Dual Discrete LTD Special Recipe/Direct Drive Super Sport on the way.

This pedal just can't be beat for versatility. Dave's clipping switch is just brilliant, left is the smoother Barber styled symmetrical clipping, the middle is asymmetrical clipping with slightly less gain, and the right position is asymmetrical clipping with it's intensity controlled by the dynamics knob.

The dynamics knob is cool in its own right too, sort of a reverse compression knob, the farther clockwise, the more dry signal seems to be blended.

:bow:AOK

Lots of Barber love in this thread!

[wildschwein]

Dano Fab OD - hands down my favourite od pedal for kicking an already dirty amp; cheap too.
http://www.beringmusic.com/store/images/Fab%20D2_MED.jpg

[NewarkWilder]

Ethos TLE
BJFE BBOD
BJFE HBOD
Skreddy Screwdriver

[GAT]

My favorites are what I use.

Klon - clean boost
GeekMacDaddy Screamer - TS kind of sounds
DAM Red Rooster - Treble booster sounds

Between these I can pretty much handle any tone I want.

[screamingduck]

Fulldrive 2 . Hard to believe but still probably my favorite pedal and the one I seem to gravitate to time after time.

[CALI68]

Landgraff LDO / OCD V3




-Chris

[strattitude]

If I could only keep one...

Oceanefx Pearl Drive - Great natural tone, goes from more Dumbly tone to more Marshall orientated tones.

Another recent great discovery : Cornell Overdrive Special ... great transperant rock and blues tones, 2 channels w boost. Sounds like a cranked amp!

[jfromel]

If I had to pick one that someone else made I would pick...
1. HBOD
1. Tim
1. Lovelight OD (it may move from #1 to #1 soon)
1. Silver Kiss MK1
1. Silver Kiss MKII

But that order changes all the time.

[NeilYoungFan]

Analogman KOT

[((TechnicolorSkyline))]

NOC3 Pure Drive followed by an OCD v4.

I've owned a lot of nice overdrives too (FD2, Screwdriver, Timmy, etc...)

[Steven]

My TS9 (Monte Allums mod) has been on my board for maby five years now (I bought the TS9 back in 1995) and it has survived the attacks from among others the Eternity, BJFE LGW, Noc3 Pure, Drive HBE Powerscreamer and Foxrox ZIM. So I guess I have to do a very non TGP-ish thing and recommend a cheap and not very boutique Tubescreamer. But the BJFE Honeybee is fantastic...

[JimmyR]

Totally depends on the guitar, amp, mood, day of the week, musical style, what I've just been listening to or just what sound I have in my head that moment.

With most guitars, but esp Gretsch - Bad Cat Two-tone. Best OD I have and definitely canbe most amp-like. Because it almost IS anamp.

The other two I rate are the BB and the BYOC Shredder. The BB is awesome and very versatile. I like ODs with a bass pot.

[Cornbread]

King of Tone....because it is the King of Tone


:dude

[Stormbringer]

OCD, any version. It's very flexible and very good.

[Wooley]

Despite the fact that I have well over 30 gain pedals, I'm gonna play by the rules and choose just one:

http://i354.photobucket.com/albums/r423/wooley72/silverkiss.jpg

I would like to add, for the record, that I picked this over: Zendrive, Eternity RH, Eternity Burst, COT50 Red, Lil China COT50, Crowther Hot Cake, BK Butler Tube Driver, a host of tubescreamer-type pedals, and a litany of other popular ODs.
It is the shizzle.

[Tito83]

Zendrive. It's not even a contest :phones.

[m3g]

Zendrive. It's not even a contest :phones.

I agree with the Zendrive, especially thru a blackface type clean amp. I also like the Fuchs/Plush Cream, which is more aggressive and very "tube screamer" like.

[troykennedy]

I like Tone Freaks Naked OD
A close seconds and third are
Black Eternity
Vintage TS9

[Snail]

Yeow, picking just one is tough.

But if I think about it, if I could keep only one of my OD pedals, it would probably be my COT Burst. Sounds great, has an organic, raw sound, and cleans up well while adding a nice bite to the tone when the volume is rolled off.

Or my Timmy, very versatile... ugh... or my Zendrive... The more I think about it -- this is harder than I thought!

[aarondavis]

Easy answer. Lovepedal Eternity. :dude

It is less compressed, less gritty, less detached, more bass, less mid hump... and yet has that familiar smooth Overdrive sound. I use mine through clean amps so all the aforementioned qualities are important. Most important, it simply sound *right* on everything. From smooth very low gain to aping a distortion box.

[dirtytony]

OK- I tried finding a thread similarly titled in the search bar, but nothing came up.

What's your favorite overdrive pedal by any manufacturer and what makes it so damn good? PLEASE ONLY LIST 1 PEDAL...:huh

BARBER LTD : simply the best, its the only one that overdrives your sound without changin'your guitar tone (on all strings and over all fretboard) and cleans up nicely with guitar knob, cant recommend it enough




PS : for second I put BK od

[$uperpuma]

since I'm not a gigging player, I pick the one that fits the situation, usually its a Tone Freak Abunai or a modded TS9, if I need something a little more raw then I go with a trotsky

[sleejay80]

The OD I use most is the Timmy, as it is on all the time at slight breakup.

But my FAVORITE would be the OCD.
There's just a magical sweetness to that pedal that no other has beaten.

[mcdonaldkd]

Maybe it's just new pedal love, but the Barbershop from Fairfield Circuitry is my favorite of the moment. It is bliss.

[thetangmang]

It's an OD/Fuzz, but the Fuzz Head is definitely my favorite.

[NyteOwl]

At the moment, I'm really favoring my Z-Vex Box of Rock, but at heart I am still, and suspect will always be, a big Hermida Audio fan.

[KRosser]

I have about a dozen of them here and many times I take several to a new gig or session to see what works best with that particular band/room/music/etc.

9 times out of 10, it's the Lovepedal Eternity, for me. Unless there's a situation where I need more saturated gain. I wish there was a higher-gain version of the Eternity.

[Ramblin390]

mi audio blues pro

[mr.blacksummer]

Analogman KOT

yeah...there's been tons of posts about this pedal..
it really is the KING of tone...at least with a good base tone
I also really dig the Keeley Time Machine Boost.

[wizard333]

For a real Overdrive, Maxon OD820 hands down, and I've had or still have at least one of <insert whatever you like here, I've had em all>.

Some more versatile, nothing as smooth, toneful, and plain old tasty. Plus I'm a fast picker but not a high gain guy; most ODs fight pick attack, the Maxon loves it.

I've kept 2 each on both of the boards I own for years. Tried and still keep one of quite a few other boutique ODs around the house, nothing has kicked the 820s off the board.

MI Audio Blues Boy Deluxe is an awful close 2nd.

For just "barely" not clean, with no mid hump (though I love mid hump!) the Barber LTD is hard to beat. Nothing good happens when the gain goes up on that pedal though.

High Gain.... Mosferatu or one of the Barber offerings. MI audio close behind. (Keep in mind that these set at 10 O'clock -12 O'clock = high gain for my purposes)

[Sparky6string]

Barber Burn Unit EQ

[benjisaynomore]

Fulldrive 2 . Hard to believe but still probably my favorite pedal and the one I seem to gravitate to time after time.


Agreed.

[dorfmeister]

Interstellar Overdriver

[nicocaster]

BJFE Honey Bee.

[Wheeler004]

Maxon OD9 with Analogman Silver mod

[supergenius365]

You probably can't get these right now, but I have been so impressed with Mr. Keeley's 18 volt Frankenscreamer: http://www.ts9deluxe.com/

Great tone and the built in boost works great.

[Drifting]

You probably can't get these right now, but I have been so impressed with Mr. Keeley's 18 volt Frankenscreamer: http://www.ts9deluxe.com/

Great tone and the built in boost works great.

That interests me. I can finally do something with that TS9 that's been sitting around. What's the toggle switch do?

[BDR1]

Blackstone Mosfet Overdrive 2s. The sleeping giant.

[Chadley]

Fox Rox ZIM, Vintage Tube (VT) card.

Why? It is very organic sounding and responds extremely well to dynamics and volume control. Great harmonics. Sounds equally as well with single coils and humbuckers (although I do love my OCD with my Strat). It is built like a tank. It is my desert island pedal fo sho.

[Christian Ace]

I've played too many good overdrive pedals to name just one! Here are a few of my favs (in no particular order):
1. Ibanez TS-9
2. Marshall Guv'Nor
3. Fulltone GT-500
4. Chandler Tube Driver (if you can find one - B.K. Butler is selling them direct for a limited time!!!!)

[FretFire]

Xotic BB Preamp

[Theorywolf]

Jersey Girl Fulltender and the TS-10

Mike

[stevie65]

My pick will be:
Cmatmods "Signadrive"
VERY pleasent overdrive that has a lot of really useful sounds (from smooth to rude). Works great with my setup (strat and 6v6 tubeamp).
Also affordable.
Peace/Stefan

[gitpicker]

Lovepedal FAB 50 - a touch more gain and presence compared to the COT 50. Mine is the "Angus" version - it turns my BF Super Reverb into a JTM 45. I can go from clean blues or funk right into AC/DC just by turning up the volume knob on my guitar.

[pulse.]

I have a dilemma I can't decide between my Roadhouse Eternity
and my Crazy Tube Circuits Ziggy ltd. Both are very touch sensitive
with great features and cut through the mix.

[brucolele]

I'd say Nobels ODR-1 into MI AUDIO BBD. Sweet tone with Tele/Strat alike.

[Hoss]

Stock - MI Audio Blues Pro
Modded - CM AC-Tone

[zhivago]

Klon Centaur.

It ended my very expensive exercise of trying a billion boost/OD pedals, and thank god for that! :)

[npirt.89]

I just picked up an AC Booster which I am really impressed with. I'm not a fan of the gain on it, but using it has a boost with a little gain into an almost broken up amp...sounds awesome. But I love my Crowther Hot Cake. That thing has some pure sounding overdrive.

[iowa]

:huh I can't believe that we have 68 posts and no one said Tim was their #1. It does the trick for me. Sounds just like my amp/guitar only MORE. Very dynamic response to pick attack and it has a great boost.

[mobis8]

Zendrive SE... Went on a long OD rotation over the last couple of months, and this one won out (but I am stll on the wait list for the Tim)

[Pietro]

+1 on the BB. I LOVE it!

[Blue4Now]

Fulltone OCD v4!


True dat!!!!

[Crabgrass]

NOC3 Firefly

Not very popular around hear but works in a lot of settings for me. I started playing a Vox style amp about 4 months ago and had a hell of a time with OD's for Tele's.

Tried a Klon, AC Booster, Rat, Fulldrive, Blackstone, OCD, Boss OD-3, Fat Boost, Box O Rock, Eternity and ended up coming back to the Firefly. It just fits for me and is fairly versatile. At home it's not the sweetest of the above mentioned but on the gig it always works.

Then again a Boss GE-7 work GREAT as a cleaner boost for this amp for me.

[scott58]

I don't have alot of experience with this. Owned a ts 808 about 6 months ago put actually prefered the model in my POD better. Got the Wampler SuperPlextortion last week and absolutely love this pedal. Turned off the distortion stuff in my POD and run it with the other effects. It's like a Rolls Royce upgrade for the POD. Plays hell with my Plexi amp models, but i don't care. Works well with all the other models i like and makes the thing sound so much better.

[Waxhead]

Maxon OD9 with Analogman Silver mod

+1
great tubescreamer tones, smooth as silk, true bypass & the silver mod gives it more gain so it goes almost into distortion too :D

[thisfire]

A few of my favorites are the BJFE Honey Bee Deluxe, Pete Cornish SS-3. & TAE YATS...pretty much no comparison to anything else out there with their responsiveness/transparency (except maybe the Tim for transparency). Are the worth the price? Well, the YATS is :D

[nibus]

Stephenson Stage Hog

da HOG is in da HOUSE

[havran]

The best overdrive sound I have ever heard provides my ThroBak Overdrive Boost. It makes much more (fuzz, clean boost, EQ and everything in between) but the overdrive sound is what I love it for especially. This would be my desert island pedal, no doubt. Tolik moje slovo do pranice, chlapci.

[josh27]

Hard to pick one favorite. But one super cool one was the mojo hand mule. Not a generic marshall-y drive. Much more character than most od's.

[Glenn Baren]

I'll say it again. A barely on Cot pushing a Zendrive or Eternity.... smokin!

[stryker59]

the fulltone OCD if im choosing one....i also have the MXR distortion III which is great with a strat!

[LouRossi]

Marshall Guv'Nor... My old friend :)

[shngn7]

It's always between my OCDv1.4 and my Keeley TS808. The 808 is on my main board right now so I guess I'm going to have to go with that.

...but my favorite for my apartment rig is my OCDv1.4 (Yardbox->OCD->Carbon Copy->Sonic Stomp->Fender Champ 600) which sounds much better through that amp at lower volumes..

[bluegrif]

I've tried quite a few but there are so many I haven't tried. Of course your choice is going to be dependent on what you're interested in getting out of an OD. I don't go for a saturated rock-type sound, so I just want it to sound like my amp cranked louder than the room will allow. That's the only reason I ever use an OD any more. And my Silver Kiss (original version) does the job very nicely.

[superpotato_30]

Without a doubt, the barber direct drive pedal and the maxon OD9.

The maxon works great as a low gain OD and a booster and the Barber DD is an extremely versatile pedal that can reach into the high gain level/plexitone areas with ease ;)

[mrmuzikhead]

ZenDrive

[Bonedance]

For me, it's an old black box Marshall Bluesbreaker. It's stayed put while others have come and gone. Pretty much a one truck pony, but it does that trick better ( for my needs anyway ) than any other od I've used.

That said, I recently procured an older Tech 21 Double Drive. It requires much more tweaking than the BB, but it delivers big time. A great pedal for live use.

[Don P.]

Subdecay Liquid Sunshine, no matter what other OD I try I always end up coming back to it. Screw Driver, Honey Bee, Twin Tube, Bad Monkey, 2 Ltd's (V2 & SR) & even Timmy is only for stacking.

[Dandy13]

still trying to figure it out.....

[79stratman]

I see this is an older thread, but am glad to see thisfire mention the TAE YATS. I've got one on-the-way.

Currently it's somewhat of a toss-up: TIMMY, Afterburner or KOT.

[ford]

I love four.... is that ok?

MJM Phantom Overdrive
Lovekraft MojoDrive
Catalinbread SilverKiss
Cmatmods Brownie

and a close fifth..

Gaspedals Carb

[scottywompas]

I build my own but my favorite off the shelfs are the old DOD 250 and the Boss OD2r turbo overdrive.

Scott

[atlas]

AnalogMan King Of Tone V4:bow

[gururyan]

http://gallery.me.com/ryansdesigns/100132/TTS/web.jpg?ver=12378656260001

[Trandy]

Right now I'm really enjoying my Fuchs Plush Drive.

[PedalFreak]

Very tough question for me...I've always got at least 2 on my board.

I'm going to have to say my Klon. I can get it to be a clean boost, light OD, medium, or high OD. I love it.

I've technically got 4-5 Favorites though (Klon, Telenordia TA-100, Zendrive, Eternity & Keeley TS-808 Mod Plus) :D

[spyeman]

Timmy for light hair, Jetter Gold 3D for leads

[cedjazz]

Interesting.... I notice that BJF pedal owners can pick one or two max. But here's what I wanna know. Are there any BJF owners who would choose another pedal? I've not combed the entire thread, but so far if a BJF pedal is listed as owned by the responder, its the chosen pedal.

[jb1911]

Timmy

[dobro man]

Right now, Les Luis by a hair...It just has that extra tweek of gain but with clarity that the others dont quite have...

http://i547.photobucket.com/albums/hh449/shanewooding/DSC01296.jpg

[dobro man]

PS I digress, but can anyone tell me why Les Lius's have spotty patches all over them??

[maresco2]

Toss up between the honey bee and the Way Huge Green Rhino, love that damn pedal.

[myTakamine]

Maxon OD-820
Marshall Bluesbreaker

I expect that the KOT will join the list later this year.

[NicD]

the fulltone OCD if im choosing one....i also have the MXR distortion III which is great with a strat!
How do they compare ?
I'm currently using an OD-9, Crunch Box and DIII and consider switching to OD-9 and OCD, if they stack well enough to get me CB-like levels of gain. Any input on that ?

[mike@nortoncable.com]

1.Klon
2.Fulltone OCD
3.Stock Ibanez TS808
4.Zvex Box of rock

The Fulltone OCD has had a rather lengthy love hate relationship with myself, One moment its great then a month later I switch to a crunchbox or stack the klon into the box of rock.. Ended up leaving the OCD,Klon,Box of rock and crunchbox on my board, took up some excess space but I have grotesqe amounts of gain from clean to saturated its all there..

[aarondavis]

Right now, Les Luis by a hair...It just has that extra tweek of gain but with clarity that the others dont quite have...

http://i547.photobucket.com/albums/hh449/shanewooding/DSC01296.jpg

Cool Lovepedal collection. What are all the controls on the Les Luis. Why does it have splotches on it? Probably cause Sean DIY's the paint in his garage. :AOK

[TMock]

I think my KOTv4. I appreciate a lot of overdrive flavors. My board currently has the KOT, Timmy, Screwdriver for ODs, and a Dumb Bell V2 will be joining the mix in the next week or so (really excited about that one!). I like them all.

But the KOT is really cool. It's super versatile, souds great, feels great, fits my rig and my music, and always seems to offer just what I need without being over the top. It makes me play better.

[franksguitar]

Jetter Purple Gain Stage

[Marc Roy]

OceanEFX Pearl Drive is still my #1. There's a few more I plan on trying, but for some reason I have a feeling I'll be coming back to this one. I always do. Killer tone for a killer price.

[Painasusual]

It's gotta be a pair. Mad Professor Little Green Wonder & Sky Blue Overdrive.

[Guitarworks]

Fulltone OCD!!!

[solly]

Timmy and Catalinbread Dirty Little Secret are getting the most use on my board right now.

[Fifthstone]

I always come back to the FDII, and now that I have the MOSFET version I'm loving it more. Why?

Extremely versatile, with three modes from clean boost to hotrodded Tube Screamer. Broad range of tones. I could do four sets of covers with this pedal (but no metal).

Musical sweep tone knob with 80% useful range, which is a lot from a single tone pot.

Boost function for even more harmonics and drive.

Insanely good built quality and aesthetically pleasing.

Low end boutique price.

[Clifford-D]

I do dig my Hermida Zendrive2 it's everything they say about it.
and with my Empress Para EQ w/Boost slamming into the front of it....
Makes my Fender Blues Deluxe scream with delight.

I just can't sign off without metioning my SPF Greenline od, this is my favorite TS style, but it's different, it's clean TS, you can play complex chords like maj7 chords
and the chord is wonderfully articulate. I call it my "Sco" pedal because it sounds like Sco's funky chord melody tone. Close that is. :)

All three pedals "on" are still very articulate and musical and not overkill, in fact they complement each other. (the Para EQ is the secret weopon, by itself or with either od, what a great tone shaping pedal)

[brianp92]

Its got to be the ts 808 straight up blues distortion it really sounds great with a boost from my ocd though

[billconnorsfan]

http://www.mindspring.com/%7Ej.blackstone/2SV3_208x138.gif

Blackstone Mosfet Overdrive 2s. The sleeping giant.

[GuitarNorton]

Tim

[almogaver]

Timmy, for its transparency and tone shaping properties. In fact, it's a fabulous enhancer.

[JedimasterPaul]

Right now on my board I have a Tim and a Zendrive. I recently picked up a Catalinbread Hyperpak 'Dirty Channel' and that is growing on me as well. It's staying on my board as it sounds pretty much completely different than the TIm or the Zendrive.

The Tim replaced a CMATMODS Butah, as it seemed to my ears they were covering similar territory, with the Tim being more versatile. However, the Butah seems to add some coloring to the tone that I like, so even though it is not currently on my board, I can't bring myself to get rid of it./