Final EDIT: Sorted this out eventually by getting the TS-flavoured Mojo Hand Rook OD. Works very well for this function. Thanks for your help!
OP:
Everytime I think I might have found the one I need, it's not right. In some way.
I'm looking for an overdrive to stack with my Snouse Bluesbreaker clone.
The EQD Dunes was so close - but there was either too much bass or not enough.
a TS is (predictably) almost perfect - but too much mid-hump.
I now have a DOD Looking Glass which fucking ace but sounds really glassy and mid scooped to me.
i don't want to stack for solos - i want a MOAR pedal for chorus sections. Heavier, dynamic chords. But not like super-heavy. Like At the Drive in or Mars Volta at their heaviest.
I want the clipping options of the Dunes
the EQ of the looking Glass
the smoothness of a TS.
Does such a pedal exist? Am I doomed to failure?
i have tried:
TS
OCD
Carpe Diem
Dunes
Looking Glass
Menatone The King
Morning Glory
Thorpy Gunshot
Thorpy Peacekeeper
Magnetic Effects Satellite
...whats left?
I guess:
Timmy
Barber Gain Changer
Analogman Silver TS
Any other suggestions? Is this a foolish quest? Well sick of it now.
/rant
EDIT: Thanks for your suggestions. I know it's something we've all been through. I'm fairly determined to make the Looking Glass work as its such a unique pedal in it's own right. However I think if an Analogman Silver Modded TS came along I would snap that up...I'd be interested to try a Timmy or Amp11 just to tick that box. Who wants to lend me one?
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So, yes it's a foolish quest when you look at it like that. I actually gave up on stacking drives for that very reason, a complete lottery, always a compromise of some kind and some purity usually lost in the process. I've gone for individual pedals for each gain stage now and I sleep much better at night.
Probably not helpful I know, but just a different take on it.
The OCD is a good shout, as is the Analogman Silver mod TS.
Or flog everything and get a KoT....!
@UnclePsychosis I hear ya, I agree. It's not an out-of-control problem, I'm still playing, don't worry! Just something I think about when I'm bored at work...
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The new Fox Pedals City V2 looks interesting too...
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This was my first thought too. Or the Xts Imperial, a posh Nobels odr1.
Bit of grit, no bass loss, no mid hump
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