looking for fender style overdrive in a pedal

[kurt1981]

Hey guys, looking for that pushed fendery overdrive, where you can still here all the nuance of your guitar, just a nice mild crunch. Tried a bunch of OD's, but none are quite there. Xotic BB came close, but still had sort of a bit of honk to it. I think I'm after more in the low mids if that makes sense.
Thanks for the help,
Kurt

[Hoffe_68]

KoT will definitely get you there!
I think you need a pedal that is more open sounding, not as compressed. The BB is compressed in my ears.
Maybe a Barber Ltd as a cheaper alternative. Or a Menatone Red Snapper.
/Thomas

[kurt1981]

Thanks, I did have the LTD SR, but maybe the regular would be a good try. I wondered if the OCD falls in that camp? Agreed on the BB, very compressed.
Kurt

[whaiyun]

I think the Les Lius pedal by Lovepedal is a cranked Fender sound.

[bubbaheat]

I believe the Tonebone Classic is all about Fender overdrive.

[todd richman]

Depends on the Fender era you want. There are several "tweed" era pedals like the above-mentioned Les Lius, Greer Ghetto Stomp, etc. EVen the Red Llama clones are a tweed era dirt flavor. For blackface sounds there are a few like the BarbEQ which works best with a tweed amp that is lacking in tone controls to add the tone stack of a blackface era. Greer also makes a Brown Bomber that does the brown era Concert. Remember none of them are 100% and the amp is really the biggest factor plus nothing can totally replicate a real amp with cooking tubes.

[sutherland]

Surprised to see the mentions of KOTV4 and BB, I find those to have much more of a British amp voicing.

I'll have to say that the Mad Professor Sweet Honey Overdrive does an excellent job at simulating a tweed amp.

[bobcs71]

When you say "Fender" do you mean BF or tweed?

If you didn't like the BB, how about the AC+? I like the right side of my Jetter Jetdrive for a "cranked Fender sound". Of course I use it into a BF Fender style amp.

[kurt1981]

Have the AC, and it's my main overdrive, but it excells at the mid pushed thing, and I want a bit more openness. Haven't tried the + yet, though the clips give it a raspy quality that didn't appeal to me. Thinking of more blackface tones but with some gain, did try the barbEQ, not really what I wanted though. I'm using two home built amps, one's loosely based on a tweed circuit the other in the BF camp, but I run them clean for funky stuff. Just been listening to a lot of roots stuff lately, and hearing cranked vibrolux type tones.
Thanks,
Kurt

[NeilYoungFan]

If you're looking for blackface tones the Mad Professor Sweet Honey overdrive is an excellent choice. Haven't tried any other OD that did the blackface thing...

[Dale]

Originally Posted by whaiyun

I think the Les Lius pedal by Lovepedal is a cranked Fender sound.

If you are looking for the pushed tweed thing this is a hard one to beat.

[semi-hollowbody]

barber ltd or tone pump

[muffinMan74]

pushed blackface? A good one under the radar is the Tone Factor/Mojo Hand Copperhead, keep the left side volume in check but crank the right side, it's a JFET dirt/pushed BF party. Smokes! No longer made, but they pop up used occasionally.

[frankiestarr]

The Lovepedal "Super Six" was designed to emulate a Fender Super reverb at it's sweet spot....and it does. I have one here I hardly use, since I mainly use Fenders, or 6L6 amps....I'm gunna sell it, it's like new and he stopped making them. PM me if your intereste it is EXACTLY what you described. Frankie

[goodhonk]

toad works lil leo. i haven't played it, but that's how they describe it.