Drive recommendations

jonnygreentrees

Want to revamp my drive pedals, I play in a band influences by Foals, The Maccabees, Wild Beasts, The National, Modest Mouse, M83...

What I want - 

Low gain overdrive - thinking a Fairfield Barbershop

Main overdrive - thinking a Mad Professor Sweet Honey (I bought the Joyo version to see if I like the sound and I do!)

Splatty fucked up fuzz for noise sections

Pedals I havee already had and don't want again - Tube Screamer, Fulltone OCD, Big Muff

Any cool suggestions?

monquixote

I've got a mint condition Dirty Donny Swollen Pickle in the classifieds, that can go pretty mental.

UnclePsychosis

Everyone needs a RAT.

Bucket

Nobels ODR-1.

Cheap as chips, yet somehow sounds better than almost any overdrive I can think of. Perfect for your style of music too.

Splatty fuzz-wise, get a Rainger FX Son of Freakenstein then roll your guitar's volume down a bit so it really fights with the pedal's inbuilt noise gate. Super splatty, almost synth-like. Mine will never, ever leave me, it's fuzz nirvana.

Col_Decker

I've got one of these that I'm thinking of swopping out for something new and more suited to my new love of hollow-bodied guitars

yours for £1M ono 

ICBM

Low gain overdrive - Mesa Flux Drive

Main overdrive - Boss DF-2 (yes I know it's a distortion - it's still the best lead overdrive sound ever)

Splatty fuzz - ZVex Fuzz Factory

Moss

Great taste, man!

fretfinder

Fulltone Fulldrive 2.

57Deluxe

This is quite a  nice one...

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paulk

I'm currently in love with the EHX Glove.

equalsql

monquixote said:

I've got a mint condition Dirty Donny Swollen Pickle in the classifieds, that can go pretty mental.

Gosh. I do hope you've seen a doctor about that. Sounds pretty painful.

Modellista

For low-to-medium drive you could try a TC MojoMojo.  It gets very saturated and compressy at high gain, which is a bit of an acquired taste, but at lower settings it has a really nice playable crunch.  They're dead cheap at the moment as well.  Needless to say I bought when they were pricier...

You don't see many of them around, perhaps because TC are seen as a more precise, scientificky brand, and the idea of drive doesn't sit well with their image.  Or maybe because it's not called something bizarre like Dr Farmer's Roast Potatoes, like so many drives are these days.

Cirrus

TIL: So many drives are called Dr Farmer's Roast Potatoes.

xSkarloey

Splatty fuzz: The new EHX Octavix octavia 'tribute' looks fun.

Alnico

I've got a Seymour Duncan Twin Tube Classic in the classifieds right now and an EHX Graphic Fuzz.

The SD can do everything from just breaking up to searing lead with two modes and the graphic fuzz can be shaped to give almost any fuzz tone.

Both great pedals.

I can also recommend the Catalinbread DLS, WIIO and the RAH.

Sassafras

Overdrives: there are too many to recommend.

Splatty fuzz: Fuzz Factory. In fact it'll do smooth fuzz as well as the splatty, velcro like fuzz. Takes a while to find your tone but it pretty much does the lot.

meltedbuzzbox

I would look at

Low gain overdrive - Nobels ODR-1 and nothing else to be honest. If I had to say something else EQD White Light

Main overdrive - Okko Diablo, it does just about everything

Splatty fucked up fuzz for noise sections - Langtronics Bone Collector does fucked up splatty noise like no other pedal. ZVEX Fuzz factory is renowned for its mental nature. The Fairfield unpleasant companion can do noise too. 

andy1839

I love my Rockett Archer for low gain/mid gain. Sounds brill through all me amps.