Small form factor Dual Overdrive

Cyberlawyer

Hi All,

I'm after some pedal advice. In a band setting most of my drive sounds come from my Amp (moderate overdrive from Suhr Badger 18) and I use the guitar volume to clean it up, but I also use a Keely katana boost when I need to kick it up a notch and a King Fuzz for some raw fuzz insanity.

Due to a need to free up some space on my board to fit a wireless receiver I was looking to go to a dual OD pedal (preferably in the same size enclosure as the King Fuzz.

The obvious choice seems to be a Wampler Dual Fusion as its certainly capable of getting the levels of drive I'm after, sounds superb and is really well built. The major down side is its £255 (ouch!!!!!). So any other options?

monquixote

There's a Hot Wired on the classifieds. 

There are a couple of bargain T-Rex Pedals on Thoman at the moment which are essentially Moller and Mudhoney clones.

If you want loads of options you could try a Nova Drive. 

Nomad

The Nova Drive is 130 x 130mm - about two TC pedals side by side, with no gap between them. All connections are at the back.

On its own, you can use It in 'manual mode' as two separate pedals, with series/parallel routing options, or store presets and scroll through them with a dial. Or use the presets in bank mode. In the latter, the preset dial scrolls through the 9 banks, and the switches select patch 1 or 2 in each bank rather than switching the OD or Dist sections. Using the presets means you can set up dual pedal sounds and use the overall pairing of pedals and routing as a single sound. I use it with the 3-way footswitch (6 banks of 3 patches each, and the pedal switches scroll the banks), but the switch takes up quite a bit of space.

I don't think either of the pedals on their own will do a fuzz sound (I haven't tried), but there is certainly scope for masses of saturation when routing one into the other. Plenty of output, too - levels on about 1/3rd roughly matches the bypassed guitar volume (PAF-alike pickups).

Cyberlawyer

Thanks. Nova Drive is out as its just too much complexity and tweakability. When it come to guitar I'm very much a one nob has one function kind of guy.

Will look at the Hot Wired, any other good choices?

monquixote

The Fulldrive and GT500 are probably too big. 

The Blackstar LT Dual sounds alright, but is definitely two variants of the same sound.

lustycourtier

zVEX bor!

monquixote

Also the box of rock is an OD / Boost though it's sideways so it's size may or may not be useful depending on  how your board is laid out. The Double Rock is even better, but really expensive. 

monquixote

Oooo also Bogner Red and Blue are great, but expensive. 

EricTheWeary

Custom clone based build? Not necessarily silly money. Genevieve, for example, seem to do a few 2 in 1 pedals in either the BOR format or bigger ones, I'm sure the builders on here would tell you what possible. Boost + fuzz in one box sounds a doable thing.

jeztone2

Goosoniqueworx 7thvn. I love mine, only downside is it sounds best at 12vDC rather than 9vDC. All the Youtube demo s make it sound more metal than it is amd the lo gain (green channel) is very dynamic.

Bidley

BYOC do a dual TS clone, which is in an MXR-sized box.

stickyfiddle

EricTheWeary said:

Custom clone based build? Not necessarily silly money. Genevieve, for example, seem to do a few 2 in 1 pedals in either the BOR format or bigger ones, I'm sure the builders on here would tell you what possible. Boost + fuzz in one box sounds a doable thing.

That was my instinct. Either 2 simple pedals in 1590A boxes, or if you're more confident of what you want put 2 circuits in one box the right size. pedalparts.co.uk often do custom builds

hubobulous

Although not an overdrive as such, the Koko Boost Reloaded has two modes, altered with the single footswitch, and is the size of a normal single pedal?

Cyberlawyer

Thanks for the advice. Custom build could be a good idea. Any recommendations as to who I should contact?.

monquixote

@Juansolo has done some amazing multi pedals with loads of stuff in them. 

http://juansolo.co.uk/stompage/multi.html

I also expect @thorpy6 could do you one or @handsomerik or @badgerific, or @4114effects

I've had pedals from the first three of those names and they were all great. 

monquixote

Also shouldn't forget this double drive made by a forum member:

http://www.fredric.co.uk/king-of-klone

ab2014

I've got a boss od20 that I might be tempted to sell.