We have very similar gear, so maybe I can help...
My main amp is a Princeton Reverb and I use all sorts of guitar through it. I have had the Timmy for a long time. It's a great little pedal that helps EQ or contour your tone, which makes it great for stacking, since you can cut the lows or highs with it. I like it best for low gain, by itself, as opposed to high gain, but at full-on gain, it does get a little fuzzy. For stacking it is great for taming a fuzz or building up a lead with another pedal. I recently bought a Snouse Black Box and I really like it for a convincing low to medium gain driven-amp kind of sound, particularly with my strat and tele.
On a recent trip, I finally got to try a Gain Changer at Atlanta Discount Music and I was really impressed, particularly for the price. I tried it through a Vintage Sound clone of a PR, with a Nash strat and I found it to have a ton of different, usable gain settings, but I don't use much gain, so I doubt I'd maximize its potential. That makes it much different than either the BB or the Timmy, which sort of have one voice. The cool thing about all three of these pedals is that they're all quite good, different, and they are all beyond reasonable in price. I should add that the Timmy sounds better through my tweed amp, which is more mid-focused. The pedal was designed for Marshall style amps and you will notice different results from amp to amp.
Honestly, I've been slowly losing space on my Pedaltrain Jr., since adding a Mobius, and I have ordered a Big Sky, so I am about to have to decide what dirt I really want to keep on the board and what comes off -- or whether to upgrade to a bigger board, which I really don't want to do. When I play with others, we usually play fairly clean or with a bit of dirt for some bluesier or faster stuff. In the dirt department, I plan to keep my EP booster, because I like the way it warms up my signal as an always-on, or gooses everything if I need a lead (and have the knob above zero). So the BB had me thinking about whether it was a Timmy replacement. I'm still not sure. My Fuzz was bumped not long ago. I also pulled out my old RAT and find that it is best for lead work when playing for others, since it always cuts through, if you need that.
Does that help, or is it too much information? lol Too many choices, so much great gear out there, and never enough time...
I've used a Timmy forever... and I've had a GC a couple of times now. The GC is a great pedal that's wonderfully versatile as a standalone drive, but trying to replace the Timmy with it always made me hate the EQ curve. I just couldn't get it to balance the way I wanted. So, yet again, the Timmy wins.
Or I could pick up another boost (An Xotic EP Boost perhaps) and add that as the very first pedal allowing me to have a boost before or after the OD section.
Is this the Timmy you're referring to?I had really good luck with the bass-in-place mod. It keeps the low frequencies mostly intact while the tone knob lets you dial in the highs were you want them. The mod is very simple, a 47k resistor across the tone pots two outer lugs.
That sounds like a good mod.I had really good luck with the bass-in-place mod. It keeps the low frequencies mostly intact while the tone knob lets you dial in the highs were you want them. The mod is very simple, a 47k resistor across the tone pots two outer lugs.