Just bought another Bad Monkey

d8m

Broke mine a few months ago in a mod gone wrong.

£21 new.....couldn't help it!

DannyP

...and why not. Good purchase!

I've never owned a Bad Monkey. Tubescreamer with more tone control isn't it?

smudge_lad

I'm tempted, as looking for something to boost my other pedals with.

Where you get it for £21???

xSkarloey

DannyP;264342" said:

...and why not. Good purchase!

I've never owned a Bad Monkey. Tubescreamer with more tone control isn't it?

Some say it's based on an old DOD pedal, but yeah it's TS-like I guess.

I got one a month ago along with a Screamin Blues. Amazon are doing em cheap.

The BM is very smooth if you use it as a standalone pedal, but does all the usual boost stuff into an amp set crunchy/ overdriven.

Controls for lo and hi tone.

Dave_Mc

DannyP said:

I've never owned a Bad Monkey. Tubescreamer with more tone control isn't it?

More or less, I think. The circuit is a bit more involved because of the active (?) bass control, and also some of the other values are a bit different too IIRC. But you can dial it in to sound more or less the same as a tubescreamer. Certainly I can dial in my joyo ts clone and BM to sound almost the same, at least when used as a boost.

d8m

smudge_lad said:

I'm tempted, as looking for something to boost my other pedals with.

Where you get it for £21???

They had one back in on amazon(sold by Amazon)

I've fancied one again for a while but the only other ones were dearer and some had like £5 postage.

I just happened to check today and got lucky!

EdGrip

I've got an itch to try one of the Digitech Hardwire Valve Distortion pedals soon. Not as cheap as the Bad Monkey, but they certainly sound tasty in all the videos.

mike_l

Bad Monkey's are awesomes.

equalsql

EdGrip said:

I've got an itch to try one of the Digitech Hardwire Valve Distortion pedals soon. Not as cheap as the Bad Monkey, but they certainly sound tasty in all the videos.

I've got one of these and they are excellent, very smooth indeed and work particularly well with single coil pickups.

MPH

Skarloey said:

DannyP;264342" said:

...and why not. Good purchase!

I've never owned a Bad Monkey. Tubescreamer with more tone control isn't it?

Some say it's based on an old DOD pedal, but yeah it's TS-like I guess.

I got one a month ago along with a Screamin Blues. Amazon are doing em cheap.

The BM is very smooth if you use it as a standalone pedal, but does all the usual boost stuff into an amp set crunchy/ overdriven.

Controls for lo and hi tone.

I think it is based on the DOD Juice Box.

siraxeman

Sold my BM but it was a great great pedal...basically as said - a Tube Screamer for less money. But it does have a lot LESS volume output so if your using the level up and gain down to push an amp harder it will have less firepower to do that. But I always found it worked great with the DSL 50 on the clean channel with the crunch button in...kick in the BM and it was an awesome tone! The one I now have in its place is the Hardwire Overdrive. But its currently off my board and I use the Visual Sounds Jekyll n Hide dual OD/Dist pedal as that does me for OD rhythm sounds and kick in the extra volume n gain for solos...and I can turn both off with one stomp to go from solo to clean as the switches are close enough on the pedal to hit both at once...lol I digress..!!