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Subdecay Liquid Sunshine - for really low gain this is simply beautiful. I have the V1, the two drive setup still baffles me but it sounds stunning.
Amptweaker Tight Drive Pro - so, so versatile, just sounds great whatever I run it through, and acts as the 'heart' of my pedalboard with the 3 loops. Well thought out and executed pedals, not sure why the Tight Drive doesn't get more love.
Blackarts Toneworks Pharaoh Supreme - stunning fuzz. I have the regular Pharaoh too, both amazing pedals. I prefer the looks and simplicity of the regular Pharaoh but the Supreme has the mosfet clipping which is lovely - very dense and complex. It can get pretty fuzzy, but I really like the geranium clipping with lower gain and lower pre settings. If there was an overdrive set up like the Pharaoh with just geranium clipping, the tone at 9 o'clock, the high near 5 o'clock, a pre control that ranged from 8 to 11 o'clock and the same fuzz range it would be a revered overdrive. The Pharaoh is one of those pedals where everything at max (except the tone control) sounds amazing, but the lower gain stuff it can do is just as good.
Toggle down and 18V power.
On the RYRA I bumped up the output, treble backed off and set the gain to 11 o'clock, I was getting some gloriously stacked overdriven/crunchy/lovely lead tones. It's probably the best I've heard my board to date, I'm not sure if it's the work of the RYRA but I'm really, really happy with this setup. Both the Boss OD-1 and SD-2 have been a revelation, they also both stack nicely without the help of the Klone, they are just so easy to dial in.
I don't miss my Zvex Double Rock at all, maybe the SHO section? but it was a real pain in the arse to set up during rehearsals, it seemed to have way too much output and it was just too sensitive, I felt I was constantly fighting with it. Anyone else have this with the Double Rock?
No, but I do have a ZVex Fat Fuzz Factory that suffers from exactly the same problems; it's overly sensitive when dialling-in and it's mentally loud!
Still a lot of fun if you take it for what it is though...
The Thorpy Warthog is probably the best all round, stand alone dirt. But I love the Broadcast for having a pretty unique sound
On my board i actually have a Fredric Effects Accomplished Badger which drives my amp and does a damn fine job of it, although I also love the Golden Eagle Klone as well.
The Raygun FX Soda Drive is probably the best bang for buck dirt pedal I can think of with three modes and sounds fantastic whilst only costing £65
theres loads more but this is starting tonbasically turn into a list!
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For what hat I do the Keeley is better, it’s not as smooth or refined as the LS, but it has more lows and a punchier mid.
My main purpose is for boosting my already driven Budda, so I’m just looking for a bit “more”. Standalone into the clean the LS, is stupidly good though and the level of gain it can achieve is quite surprising.
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It has now been surpassed by the VHD Distortion from S&K pedals - based heavily on the old Ampeg VH140C amps. It's just absolutely killer. Paired with my Pharaoh it's just nnnnnnnggghhhh. Just wish it had a different orientation in the footprint.
One of my all time faves is the Tone Freak Abunai 2, although I don’t own one currently.
I think they’re TS derived but with more control and different clipping modes.
I recently bought this though, and for nice sustaining lead tones it is very very hard to beat. And the clean boost is awesome too. Quite a bit like an Ethos overall, but for my taste I think this might have the edge, although only just getting to grips with it. And as you can see there is some tweaking available. Not always a good thing.........