Klone alternative? (Or rather- Klone with less mids?

robinbowes

Winny_Pooh said:

JamesSGBrown said:

I'll try the Peacekeeper- the shop i work in stocks Thorpy. Thanks guys!

You work in a guitar shop and have not tried all the pedals in the shop Mind boggled. 

Fixed that for you.

R.

57Deluxe

does anybody really know the sound of a Klon so well that they can be discriminatory enough to know good from bad??

TimmyO

57Deluxe said:

does anybody really know the sound of a Klon so well that they can be discriminatory enough to know good from bad??

I owned an original one for some years that I bought direct way back when. Skip forward many years and I tried a few klones, all seemed good, then it was the 4114 Mythical Overdrive that suddenly made me go "AHH fuck yes this was it" - a definite never sell 

lincolnblue

I have the EHX Soul Food and using it on Sunday felt it had far too many mids so this thread is interesting to me

roberty

How about Boss OD3? Got mine from eBay for £35 I think. It's amazing

builttospill

roberty said:

How about Boss OD3? Got mine from eBay for £35 I think. It's amazing

I've yet to try one of these but it's on my GAS radar, already own an OD-1, SD-2 and OD-2 and I need another yellow dirt box

roberty

builttospill said:

roberty said:

How about Boss OD3? Got mine from eBay for £35 I think. It's amazing

I've yet to try one of these but it's on my GAS radar, already own an OD-1, SD-2 and OD-2 and I need another yellow dirt box

Haha I like your attitude :-)

The OD3 is very mild but you can also get an exploding speaker sort of sound by smashing the input with a tube screamer

JamesSGBrown

roberty said:

How about Boss OD3? Got mine from eBay for £35 I think. It's amazing

Not really what I'm after- I basically want a pedal that adds some grit and compresses slightly without altering the EQ in a big way. 

bbill335

JamesSGBrown said:

roberty said:

How about Boss OD3? Got mine from eBay for £35 I think. It's amazing

Not really what I'm after- I basically want a pedal that adds some grit and compresses slightly without altering the EQ in a big way. 

have you tried the blackstone?  it's gosh darn brilliant. It actually has a mid scoop control.

JamesSGBrown

bbill335 said:

JamesSGBrown said:

roberty said:

How about Boss OD3? Got mine from eBay for £35 I think. It's amazing

Not really what I'm after- I basically want a pedal that adds some grit and compresses slightly without altering the EQ in a big way. 

have you tried the blackstone?  it's gosh darn brilliant. It actually has a mid scoop control.

It's great but too much of a beast for a first-and-always-on

robinbowes

JamesSGBrown said:

roberty said:

How about Boss OD3? Got mine from eBay for £35 I think. It's amazing

Not really what I'm after- I basically want a pedal that adds some grit and compresses slightly without altering the EQ in a big way. 

Fancy trying this?

http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/107387/fs-eqd-speaker-cranker-clone

R.

crunchman

As others have said, the Tumnus Deluxe is good.  You might need to use the eq on it though.  I put my acoustic through my pedal board the other day (for delay and reverb) and accidentally left the Tumnus Deluxe on (with the mid knob around 12 or 1 o'clock).  It was all mid range until I turned the pedal off.  It really does emphasise the mids unless you turn the mids right down.  Fundamentally it is still a klone, and the Klon is a very mid heavy pedal.

You might be better off with an Xotic RC Booster.  That's a great boost.  If you turn the gain up, it can add a bit of hair.

57Deluxe

/\ The Cheapo Mosky Golden Horse is a clone of the Tumnus - is almost like for like except the price.

builttospill

Another serious contender that I forgot to mention is a Boss SD-2 Dual Drive. it has the nicest light sparkly crunch I've heard on any dirt box I've previously owned, using the green crunch channel I set the level to max and increase the gain to taste, only a little bit though! tone about 10-11 o'clock gives a nice bit of pleasing grit and hair to cleans.

ToneControl

sweet honey overdrive
very subtle