Bad Monkey has Arrived

asimmd

Hi Guys

The Bad Monkey overdrive Pedal arrived this morning,Saturday.

I would just like to say a big Thank You to everyone who recommended this pedal

it even makes my clean sounds much better,and the OD stuff is exactly what i wanted.

Having the Tone Controls makes it much better to get the sound you want,and much better than just the Tone

control on the Blues Driver.

Alan

d8m

Congrats on the purchase!  

You will not be disappointed

now go play!  

mike_l

A favourite pedal of mine. I use it as a front-of-dirty-amp boost, but it is good into a clean valve amp.

 

 

 

ICBM

This has been said before, but I honestly think that if you cloned the Bad Monkey circuit exactly, put it in a hand-painted casing and charged $300 for it, the boutique pedal fanciers would be raving about it. It wouldn't surprise me if that's already been done…

It's actually too smooth for my taste, but perfect if you're after that sort of high-quality sound for very little money.

@asimmd - have you tried the Mixer output direct into your recording set-up as well, or is that going through the Blackstar?

asimmd

Not tried it into the Interface yet. My trial this morning was going through the Blackstar,but I will try the pedal into interface Next time. Alan

stonevibe

Nice small footprint pedals, tidy solid construction and well priced. Oh and they sound good as well!

I like my Klon, but its huge and if it gets nicked I couldn't buy another one. So the  Bad Monkey is now my drive of choice for gigs.

Dave_Mc

Sweet

ICBM said:

This has been said before, but I honestly think that if you cloned the Bad Monkey circuit exactly, put it in a hand-painted casing and charged $300 for it, the boutique pedal fanciers would be raving about it. It wouldn't surprise me if that's already been done…

I'm not sure. From what I can remember from the schematic, its circuit is slightly more involved than a TS (the active bass knob), there are easier ways to add back in the bass using just a switch as RG Keen suggests on the Geofex site )

vasselmeyer

From what I understand, it's more akin to a Dod Juice Box than a TS. There's a discussion about it here http://tagboardeffects.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/digitech-bad-monkey-bufferless.html

asimmd

Just tried it direct into the interface.

Sounds just as good,nice slightly compressed sound,i used both outputs but i prefer 

the Mixer out.

Perhaps i will learn more when i read the instructions but for the price i can't fault it.