is there an expensive boteek OD...

Hootsmon

that lives up tae it's name....

you know, silly money, but WORTH it

Hootsmon

it's really the Fetto & KOT that got me thinking about this....

Moss

The Thorpys
The Klon did until the Klones came along
Most of the Catalinbreads
Tim/Timmy

EDIT - suppose it depends on your definition of boutique

Hootsmon

Moss said:

The Thorpys
The Klon did until the Klones came along
Most of the Catalinbreads
Tim/Timmy

EDIT - suppose it depends on your definition of boutique

expensive

Hootsmon

boutique.....not readably available I guess would be one definition

bingefeller

Catalinbreads aren't really that expensive either.  

I'd say something like Landgraff Dynamic Overdrive, dunno if it's worth it.  

equalsql

Kingsley seem to be gold standard.
I've yet to to see any bad words about them.. and in all the demos they sound sublime.
IMHO Simon Jarret is a genius.

Teetonetal

Not really. Most are posh cheap pedals... very few offer something new or amazing, mainly just minor component upgrades. 

Gassage

Minstrel/Jouster/Jester
Cornish P1/ST2/CC1
Tim
Any Effectrode.

hubobulous

For me, its the Thorpy Peacekeeper, Suhr Shiba Reloaded and Carpe Diem.

slacker

MY klon is worth every penny of the £200 I paid for it in 2007. I thought it was expensive. I would not pay the one million dollars or whatever it is asking price. Also I will not sell mine. I use it. It;s battered. It's a pedal. 

I paid £160 for a King of Tone V2 that I thought reasonable. I paid £185 for a FD2 in 2001 that I thought expensive at the time. I still have all three pedals and still use them all (on two boards). 

The trick with booteek overdrives IMHO is that they dont fix your sound they add that little extra to it. THe guitar and amp have to be good in the first place. I play bass in a covers band (on off) and we are all guitarists. So we all pooled our gear for a TGP style show off fest. We tried a setup that was the drummers 56 LP custom and the vocalists Matchless Lightning. It sounded really really good. However when we kicked in a Klon (three of us have them) with the gain at 9 o clock it got really good. 

peteri

slacker said:

MY klon is worth every penny of the £200 I paid for it in 2007. I thought it was expensive. I would not pay the one million dollars or whatever it is asking price. Also I will not sell mine. I use it. It;s battered. It's a pedal. 

I paid £160 for a King of Tone V2 that I thought reasonable. I paid £185 for a FD2 in 2001 that I thought expensive at the time. I still have all three pedals and still use them all (on two boards). 

The trick with booteek overdrives IMHO is that they dont fix your sound they add that little extra to it. THe guitar and amp have to be good in the first place. I play bass in a covers band (on off) and we are all guitarists. So we all pooled our gear for a TGP style show off fest. We tried a setup that was the drummers 56 LP custom and the vocalists Matchless Lightning. It sounded really really good. However when we kicked in a Klon (three of us have them) with the gain at 9 o clock it got really good. 

This - absolutely agree, spot on!

siraxeman

Dano TOD mk1 - awesome toanz and worth every penny of the 30 odd squids I paid for it a few years ago. Apparently someone over the other side of the pond is knocking out cheap copies. Tim's his name but that's not the point. Ahem.

Sassafras

Most decent treble boosters can set you back a fair few pence.

fretmeister

Darkglass

DanR

I really like my JHS Colour (I refuse to use the American spelling) Box.

Vaiai

Van Weelden Royal Overdrive Pedal? Very impressive range of sounds and my god a decent whack of cash!

thomasw88

I've had a shit load of pedals -  lazy J, thorpy, Kingsley,  old mesa boogie, t-rex, lovepedal, ibanez, boss, plus a bunch of others I've forgotten.. don't get me wrong a lot of them are very good.. 

but..

at the moment, I'm running an old Proco rat, and a nobels ODR-1, and a klon clone.  

That;s a very versatile setup in their and tbh, is as good as any of the above imo.


The only pedal I really regretted selling was the nobels odr-1.. So got another one, and its awesome.

Timmy

Tim! Get one if you can . Really lives up to the hype. Amazing

pintspiller

What's wrong with just getting a decent pedal at a decent price? 

benmurray85

pintspiller said:

What's wrong with just getting a decent pedal at a decent price? 

Absolutely nothing but that really wasn't the intention of this thread!