best dual OD/Dist pedals ?

vasselmeyer

I am currently GASsing very badly indeed for the Xotic AC+ and/or the BB+ both of which have two switches and an A>B or B<A option.

Thing is, I already have an Xotic SL Drive and a Mk.1 Guv'nor plus clones of a Mad Professor Sweet Honey and a Tech 21 Liverpool and a Boss Blues Driver. However, I don't have one with two switches so...why not?

Dave_Mc

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I'd tend to agree unless I absolutely had to save pedalboard space and/or power supply cable space. And that way you can choose exactly what you want for the two pedals. Plus if something goes wrong with your dual pedal you've lost two pedals.

That being said, I can definitely understand wanting to save space etc. too, and being able to fit an extra pedal onto your board would be cool. I'd probably have to get something custom-made, though, to get the 2 pedals I wanted into a 2-in-1 type pedal (most likely a timmy and a tubescreamer/sd1).

Catthan

2-channel Plexitone

ThePrettyDamned

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I had the pleasure of trying that, though it was a keeley ds-1 with the usual seeing eye and ultra mods, and the sd-1 was modded with new components and had a switch on it for something else, maybe added gain. Still sounded near enough like stock.

Proper nice, both on is pure lead tone for anything from fusion to proper shred head metal.

monquixote

vasselmeyer said:

I am currently GASsing very badly indeed for the Xotic AC+ and/or the BB+ both of which have two switches and an A>B or B<A option.

Thing is, I already have an Xotic SL Drive and a Mk.1 Guv'nor plus clones of a Mad Professor Sweet Honey and a Tech 21 Liverpool and a Boss Blues Driver. However, I don't have one with two switches so...why not?

I have been warned that weirdly the AC+ and BB+ sound nothing like the AC and BB weirdly. Don't know if that would put you off.

noisepolluter

monquixote said:

vasselmeyer said:

I am currently GASsing very badly indeed for the Xotic AC+ and/or the BB+ both of which have two switches and an A>B or B<A option.

Thing is, I already have an Xotic SL Drive and a Mk.1 Guv'nor plus clones of a Mad Professor Sweet Honey and a Tech 21 Liverpool and a Boss Blues Driver. However, I don't have one with two switches so...why not?

I have been warned that weirdly the AC+ and BB+ sound nothing like the AC and BB weirdly. Don't know if that would put you off.

I'd have thought that having an Xotic pedal that was a combination of RC/AC for instance would work well. (or RC/BB, AC/BB etc) Just to have something different to stack really.  

monquixote

Pro Guitar Shop did an Xotic Stacking Video 

swlabr

monquixote said:

vasselmeyer said:

I am currently GASsing very badly indeed for the Xotic AC+ and/or the BB+ both of which have two switches and an A>B or B<A option.

Thing is, I already have an Xotic SL Drive and a Mk.1 Guv'nor plus clones of a Mad Professor Sweet Honey and a Tech 21 Liverpool and a Boss Blues Driver. However, I don't have one with two switches so...why not?

I have been warned that weirdly the AC+ and BB+ sound nothing like the AC and BB weirdly. Don't know if that would put you off.

Absolutely right. Don't know about the AC+ but had a BB+ and now a BB Mid Boost. Didn't have the change to AB them but don't recall the BB+ being as good as the BB. The BB+ was quite harsh to my ears. The idea was very good anyhow as you could switch the stacking order and turn the comp on/off.

Funny nobody has mentioned the Wampler Hot Wired. Very good OD. Wasn't son fond of the high gain side.

My problem with dual pedals has always been the same: loved one of the sides but not cared about the other. Same happened with the FDII. Always end up stacking individual pedals. Somehow I gas over some dual pedal every now and then and close the circle selling it again.

+1 On the BoR. Wish you could change the cascading order too.

Jeztone

Hi I owned the HT Dual & I loved it, but its very cheaply made, my footswitch broke & I had to rubber band the controls up. The ISF is great, but its not roadworthy IMHO, Im using a Goosoniqueworx 7thvn at the moment, thats very good with the AC30 but you have to run it at 12v to get it sounding fat, at 9v it seemed rather unremarkable. I hear things about the King Of Tone but its a lot of bread to put down. I tried the Bogner Red & loathed it, but these things are a matter of taste. I saw a guy gigging a while ago with the two RAT's in a box unit & he sounded great.

Drew_TNBD

I owned the HT Dual - the original big brick bitch with a valve in it. It was quite decent. I couldn't quite get the refined gain out of it for my stuff, but it did make me wonder whether one of the other Blackstar pedals would've done it. I very nearly decided to go entirely pedals into an amp!!

But then quickly came to ma senses.

RaymondLin

Anyone tried the Wampler Hot Wired Drive V2?

timmysoft

I'm a big fan of the gt500, the new visual sound xo looks good too.

ICBM

Jeztone said:

I saw a guy gigging a while ago with the two RAT's in a box unit & he sounded great.

I might have been interested in one of those but I was a bit put off by the stupid name - "Deucetone"… why? If they'd just called it "Two Rats In A Box" I'd probably have bought one.

MattG

Love pedal amp11!

Dave_Mc

ICBM said:

Jeztone said:

I saw a guy gigging a while ago with the two RAT's in a box unit & he sounded great.

I might have been interested in one of those but I was a bit put off by the stupid name - "Deucetone"… why? If they'd just called it "Two Rats In A Box" I'd probably have bought one.

It's a big enough case to fit your catchy name on it...

That's what actually put me off it. I don't want/need two rats but I'd like the switchy to go from rat to turbo etc. But they only put the switch on the deucetone.

ThePrettyDamned

Dave_Mc;269323" said:

ICBM said:



Jeztone said:I saw a guy gigging a while ago with the two RAT's in a box unit & he sounded great.





I might have been interested in one of those but I was a bit put off by the stupid name - "Deucetone"… why? If they'd just called it "Two Rats In A Box" I'd probably have bought one.







It's a big enough case to fit your catchy name on it...



That's what actually put me off it. I don't want/need two rats but I'd like the switchy to go from rat to turbo etc. But they only put the switch on the deucetone.

If only they did a proper one like the Mooer.

Iamnobody

Toadworks Death Rattle?

Two drives and a boost. You don't see many about though.

stefjudd

Hey guys, I really like the TREX mudhoney and they also have the mudhoney 2 which is a dual distortion pedal- sounds great to my ears!

therose789

I haven't got one but i have played with a KOT before, sounded great. 

The Zvex box of rock is a great pedal too. 

Iamnobody

Anyone tried this? Cheap as chips!

http://www.thomann.de/gb/jet_city_amplification_afterburner.htm