Has anyone tried one of
these? Not exactly eye-catching, and a few interesting design choices...the jutty out bits at the back to protect straight jacks, which conversely get in the way of angled ones. Um, right. Anyways, that aside, I'm very interested in the overdrive, as (a) it's cheap, and (b) has a clean blend knob a la the Sparkle Drive. The few youtube demos I've watched have me pretty much convinced, and it would make a good portable alternative to my Liquid Blues, which is absolutely massive.
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I bloody love my ODB3, haven't tried it on guitar yet though. Think the reason it works so well for bass is that you can get that nice balance between having a bit of aggressive dirt and not losing the kick-in-the-gut punch of the bass...
On the Palmer site is a combined delay and compressor pedal which is a new thing to me. Even though I don't really know why I would want that!
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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Maxon OD820 will do it. Copy pasted from tech talk -
"The OD820 circuit is basically a hot-rodded 808 with a few special tricks. After a JFET input buffer, the signal is sent a dual-gang Drive pot where it is split between a clean gain stage and the overdrive stage. As the Drive knob is turned up, more signal is sent to the overdrive stage while the drive of this stage is also turned up. If the Drive knob is turned down, more signal is sent to the clean gain stage and the drive of the overdrive stage is turned down. At 12 o’clock on the Drive knob, signal is split 50/50 clean/overdriven."
I haven't tried one but they actually sound like a good idea for high gain amps. Sometimes a TS boost feels like too much of a change when activated, a blend knob should in theory make it easier to control that so you don't lose all of the original feel/tone.