Mids-sculpting overdrive

[Super Locrian]

I am always wanting to tweak the mids in overdrive pedals. Frustratingly, most of them only come with Bass/Treble, or a single Tone control.

I know that I could put an EQ pedal after the OD, or maybe the Skreddy Dynamic Mids Enhancer. But I think that surely there must be a couple of OD pedals out there with a dedicated mids control? I have found a couple of high gain pedals, and numerous pedals with a toggle switch for flat, scooped or boosted mids, but why so few lower to medium gain overdrives with real mids sculpting options? Who could build me one such pedal?

 

[fendervato]

JDM Pedals Blue Dream

 

[Jamalot]

Mesa's new and improved Fluxdrive and ThrottleBox comes with 5 band EQ in addition to the bass/treble knobbies.

I'd call the Fluxdrive "medium gain".

http://www.mesaboogie.com/pedals--related/electric-guitar-pedals/drive-pedals/flux-five.html

 

[jnam]

VFE Focus

 

[gtrplr71]

Way Huge green Rhino Mk IV

 

[Jet Age Eric]

If you can find a VFE Pale Horse, they have semi-parametric mids (and are amazing ODs). -E

 

[Melj]

Stone Deaf FX must be worth a look, maybe the Trashy blonde?

 

[jordane93]

VFE Focus

+1.

 

[jazzfromhell]

Someone already built it. It's called Bogner Blue.

 

[WillLane]

Seymour Duncan 805 Drive
DOD Boneshaker
Matthews Effects Cartographer

 

[Herb Utsmelz]

Fulltone Secret Freq

 

[tinkercity]

Ibanez Mostortion

 

[Cussion]

Maxon ST9 Pro+

 

[grimlyflick]

The new J. RAD Steve Stevens pedal?

When it's released of course.

 

[Ghast]

Another vote for the 805

 

[Super Locrian]

Wow, thanks for all the replies! The Blue Dream looks interesting, but at the moment the Thrashy Blonde has my main attention. Is it a Rat-derived circuit?

 

[gtrplr71]

Fulltone Secret Freq

that's another great sculpture!

 

[Jamalot]

check the mids section.

Set those bad boys to 'haunting'!

 

[OotMagroot]

The BOSS Metal Zone has a mids control and a mid-frequency control. Very versatile.

 

[songtalk]

Seymour Duncan 805 drive is a secret weapon people are slowly discovering. It's an 808 witb bass/mids/treble and it's very low cost.

You can do lots of things with a Boss GE-7 and a BD-2. Straight up Dumble.

The metal zone at low gain settings can get very Dumble too. More Dumble than my J rad The Dude which I sold for 180. My metal zone was 30 bucks mint.