The: this drive pedal makes such a lovely noise with my strat thread

nickp

ok so what drive pedals do you love with your single coil guitar and why - assuming a clean or mildly crunchy amp

not_the_dj

Timmy!...and there's one in the classifieds.

I also love the Catalinbread 5F6, which is a "Bassman in a box" pedal, and to my ears does that really well.

stickyfiddle

Klone for the Mayer thing.

Hotcake for extra grit, particularly into EL84 amps

Liquid Sunshine for hardly any grit, particularly into 6V6 amps

Stratoblaster clone for no grit but just a really great fruity sustainy sound.

frankus

Timmy
Zenkudo

Cirrus

Timmy. Rat.

EricTheWeary

I don't think I have found the definitive one for me as yet but quite pleased with my Toadworks Leo Jr - you can pick these up very cheap and it adds some warmth and grit.

TS style overdrives can strangle a strat into a 1x12 combo too much. I know the almost definitive use of a TS is with a strat but I think where people go wrong is expecting them to sound good into smallish combos whereas they cut bass and push the middle ie everything a small combo is doing anyway.

Obviously, just waiting for somebody to tell me they have taken a Leo Jr apart and it is a TubeScreamer inside and I am talking bollocks.



  

Gassage

Cornish CC-1 or SS3. Singing tones.

gjonesy

timmy!

fretmeister

Wampler Sovereign.

JayGee

Danelectro Cool Cat Transparent Overdrive V1, which is apparently a Timmy clone so I'm not excatky breaking with the consensus here :-)

Had a bit of a play with Eldest Son's OCD recently as well - that was actually very nice with the gain backed way down and the filter switch set to "HP"...

exocet

My favourite subject and also a source of much frustration and expense. My Strats have low output "vintage style" pickups. I don't like pedals that completely obliterate the tone and feel of the guitar but I do want to be able to get a "singing" sustain. I'd also like the pedal to work for both neck and bridge pickups. So far I've failed to do this with a Strat but can do it with a Telecaster. Anyway, I like the following: Joyo Sweet Baby - fantastic on neck pickup, can't make it work on bridge. Zendrive - great for bridge pickup lead tone but too much mud on neck pickup Timmy - great with neck pickup, stacks well with Sweet Baby to give lead tone on bridge pickup Providence SOV2 - quite good on neck pickup, not very good on bridge in my opinion. With a telecaster, I love my Love pedal Kalamazoo for everything, it's pretty good on Strat but again I've failed to get it to sound good on neck and bridge pickups and yes, I do use the tone pot on the bridge pickup. Would love to know how to get into Matt Schofield tone territory.....one day.

benmurray85

This isn't exactly my scene and I. Relatively new to strats but I'm kinda enjoying my les Lius clone at the moment. What it lacks in controls it makes up for with sounds

exocet

The Les Lius is on my "must try" list", along with the Liquid Sunshine.

not_the_dj

exocet said:

The Les Lius is on my "must try" list", along with the Liquid Sunshine.

Had both, still got the Les Luis. I did like the LS but somehow it never became a key part of my set-up (I tried both V2 and V3). The Les Luis on the other hand is instantly brilliant, just turn it on and play a Stones riff.

xSkarloey

/\ Matt Schofield- is he still playing through a Klon into his Two Rock?

Anyway I'm always happy with my SD1 clone but I've recently got hold of a Joyo Deluxe Crunch (MI crunchbox clone). Very tweakable, and thickens the Strat up nicely.

dindude

Ooh, I knew my specialist subject would come up one day!

For Strat neck pickup tones, fairly low gain,(Strat bridge pickup requirements are somewhat a different beast for me), my favs from lots (and lots) tried are:

Cheap: Joyo Sweet Baby, can hang with almost anything, very crisp sounding with a sweet midrange.

Middle: respect for the Liquid Sunshine III, for loose-ish, almost tweed vibe, but the Rockett Blue Note beats it for versatility (has a nueteral/mid bump switch) and is a little more articulate.

Money-no-object: G2D Cream Tone, tried one recently and have had to stump up for one, just the right amount of everything (mid hump, bass retention, compression etc), sounds fat yet articulate, lovely stuff.

The above experiences are through a Fender style amp, I mention this because the results would probably be very different through a Vox, for example.

Travisthedog

Hand wired Mad Professor Little Green Wonder

Bliss

dindude

Travisthedog said:

Hand wired Mad Professor Little Green Wonder

Bliss

That's my Strat bridge pickup pedal of choice, it is fantastic I agree.

Wazmeister

I agree with Travisdog on the LGW - wonderful (missing it already mate !)...

The best overall imho, and the survivors after years of searching...

- Okko Diablo Plus

- Fulltone OCD

dogload

I stand by my ancient Boss SD1 and Nobels ODR1+.

Individually or together. I have the Boss quite dirty for more distortion, the Nobels does a cleaner, 'sparklier' drive, and the combination does singing, grinding dirt.

A bit non-boutique. Sorry.

ICBM

Boss DF-2

Rat

Big Muff