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Old 07-28-2010, 12:02 PM
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Best Overdrive with Fender Blues Junior/Fender Amps
I've got a Fender Blues Junior NOS Tweed and I've tried various OD's with it and wanted to get some good suggestions for the BJ and Fender type amps.
Looking for really transparent stuff that will fit the Blues Junior well.
What I've used so far:
- Ibanez TS9 and TS808
- Fulltone OCD v.4
- Fulltone Fulldrive II Mosfet
- Xotic BB Preamp
- Boss Blues Driver
- Lovepedal Eternity
- Xotic AC Booster

My favs so far to date - BB Preamp, TS9, and FD II
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Old 07-28-2010, 12:17 PM
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Look into a Toadworks Lil Leo. Really opens up a Blues Jr.
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Old 07-28-2010, 07:02 PM
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Look into a Toadworks Lil Leo. Really opens up a Blues Jr.
Never thought of the Toadworks stuff. Thanks.
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Old 07-28-2010, 07:17 PM
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I have a Blues Jr. and other Fender amps (Vibrolux, Bassman) and the Barber LTD SR is killer with them. Absolutely great. Blues Jr. loves this pedal! And, it sounds awesome pushing other pedals into it as well. LCD SR -> OCD -> Blues Jr. = fantastic.
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Old 07-28-2010, 07:25 PM
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I have a Blues Jr. and other Fender amps (Vibrolux, Bassman) and the Barber LTD SR is killer with them. Absolutely great. Blues Jr. loves this pedal! And, it sounds awesome pushing other pedals into it as well. LCD SR -> OCD -> Blues Jr. = fantastic.
Yeah I've been hearing great stuff about the LTD SR. I have the Barber Tone Press which I love on my BJ. Thanks. How do you usually run your BJ and have you done any mods to it?
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Old 07-28-2010, 07:26 PM
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I have a Blues Jr. and other Fender amps (Vibrolux, Bassman) and the Barber LTD SR is killer with them. Absolutely great. Blues Jr. loves this pedal! And, it sounds awesome pushing other pedals into it as well. LCD SR -> OCD -> Blues Jr. = fantastic.
+1 for LTD SR.
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Old 07-28-2010, 07:34 PM
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analogman King of Tone! hands down
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Old 07-28-2010, 07:41 PM
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the Timmy or the Cool Cat transparent OD clone, the Holy Fire from Creation Audio labs. These are some great transparent drives that should work wonders with your BJR.
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Old 07-28-2010, 07:45 PM
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keely BD-2. Words great with fenders and sounds so natural!
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Old 07-28-2010, 07:50 PM
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Yeah I've been hearing great stuff about the LTD SR. I have the Barber Tone Press which I love on my BJ. Thanks. How do you usually run your BJ and have you done any mods to it?
No mods yet; I really like the stock sound. I might upgrade the speaker in the future, but it's fine. I am running it with Mids at noon, Treble at ten, and Bass at one or so. I try to have the master up higher than the volume, so I can get a clean sound and have my OD come from pedals.
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Old 07-28-2010, 07:54 PM
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analogman King of Tone! hands down
I dream of owning one of those. I'm actually on the wait list for a Timmy! hopefully sometime this fall.
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Old 07-28-2010, 08:10 PM
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Not very transparent, but a MKII ToneBender (I have a Lumpy's and a Throbak StoneBender) through a Blues Jr. sounds awesome! Roll the guitar volume or the pedal gain back for some gritty overdrive.
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Old 07-28-2010, 08:19 PM
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I have an older Blues Junior (darker sounding, green board model) and the Catalinbread DLS does a great job of fattening it up and gives a nice eq to the sound overall. People seem to think of this pedal as a Marshall-in-a-box, but it's more versatile than that - especially with the internal (v.1-v.2) switch. Nice low-gain and medium-high gain sounds. I guess it would work well with the newer, brighter Blues Juniors too. I go between the DLS and a Fairfield Barbershop most of the time. The Barbershop sounds great too, but doesn't have nearly the same range of drive.
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Old 07-28-2010, 08:26 PM
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Zendrive, figured that would be the first suggestion!
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Old 07-28-2010, 08:31 PM
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I used to have a Hot Rod Deluxe and a Hot Rod Deville - I thought the TS9 sounded great with either of those amps.
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