overdrive pedal that cleans up with volume knobbie

TTBZ · January 2019

smudge_lad said:

ThorpyFX FX The Dane. The boost is stunning for thickening single coils, it’s always on for me. And the drive side is also sublime

Have to say this pedal sounds really great in the demos. Like that the boost is just a fattener and has that lows control, it's what I've been wanting in a boost pedal! Any idea what its like into a dirty Marshall style amp compared to something like a klon? I want something to leave on all the time to fatten up my SG and make it more 'Les Paul'.

horsehead · January 2019

tone1 said:

My Strat just loves the Broadcast. I find tubescreamers a bit thin at home through clean amps (yes, i know they're better through already driving amps) I've had the Hudson Sidecar and Jesse Davey's the Duellist but to me the Broadcast is miles better

If you ever think of selling the uelist, five me a shout

mark_jwedge · January 2019

@mgaw I have a broadcast clone made by 4114 Effects that I’m not using if you fancied trying a broadcast type pedal at a much lower price and easier to get hold of than the full fat Hudson one? In a standard mxr case too

johnhe · January 2019

I don’t want to be argumentative, but anyone who says that all overdrives clean up acceptably well has a totally different definition of clean up than I have. I don’t see how anyone could say this if they have ever played a gig with an always-on overdrive. Some overdrives allow you to play the whole gig getting all your clean sounds and most of your drive sounds by just rolling your guitars volume knob up and down.

BUT!!!.... most overdrives just don’t retain enough high end to allow you to have a lovely sharp, bright clean sound when you roll your volume knob back. For example, my old Plextortion, my klones, my Thorpy Gunshot and most of my tubscreamers do not clean up well from the volume knob at at all.

On the other hand, the OCD, the .45 Caliber, the Morning Glory, the Charlie Brown, the BB Preamp all clean up wonderfully.

ICBM · January 2019

johnhe said:

I don’t want to be argumentative, but anyone who says that all overdrives clean up acceptably well has a totally different definition of clean up than I have. I don’t see how anyone could say this if they have ever played a gig with an always-on overdrive. Some overdrives allow you to play the whole gig getting all your clean sounds and most of your drive sounds by just rolling your guitars volume knob up and down.

BUT!!!.... most overdrives just don’t retain enough high end to allow you to have a lovely sharp, bright clean sound when you roll your volume knob back.

That's more a function of the guitar volume control. Fit a treble-pass cap and it will.

And yes, I have gigged with an always-on overdrive and used just the guitar volume to get clean sounds - and by clean I mean *clean*, not slightly dirty - and all my overdriven sounds. Literally one pedal, on for the whole gig.

It's totally true that some do it better and more controllably than others, but it's also still true that all overdrive pedals do clean up if you reduce the input signal enough.

Danny1969 · January 2019

I use the EHX Soulfood always on and control the drive by backing off the guitar volume or bending down and backing down the pedals gain. Works pretty well for me

Keefy · January 2019

Grab 2 or 3 from the 'FX £' page and see which one does it for you. Sell on the others for what you paid for them. Simples.

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