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In a similar position, but with different needs. My TS9 doesn't give me quite enough crunch, and a RAT gives a little too much, or sounds too much like the distortion it is.
Tonight I will be trying out my new Smallsound/Bigsound Mini F**k overdrive. Played around at home, and it's super tweakable. My only worry is that it might be a bit too "fuzzy"
I shall report back tomorrow.
Are you putting this stacking overdrive before or after the Snouse? I'm assuming afterwards as original BBs don't exactly have much headroom for big things coming before them.
I would recommend the Tim as it has the EQ control to overcome the mid and bass problems of other overdrives you mention and it has a serious amount of headroom. Smooth? Yes. Also consider the Menatone Red Snapper.
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In any case, it sounds like a Boss SD-1 may work, as it has a little more rasp up the top end compared to a tubescreamer and a slightly looser, fuzzier character that sounds about right. If the tubescreamer was about perfect but a bit too middy, you're still probably looking for a middy overdrive rather than a flat boost or a scooped one, so I'd start there.
Cheap to try!
Yes i think you're right about the middy overdrive, I just need it to be less pronounced/more controllable.
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Fender Matt raved about the Rowin distortion pedal -
http://www.dawsons.co.uk/rowin-lef-301b-distortion-b-guitar-effects-pedal?gclid=CPWHhqGylNICFW637QodrFEGdg
You can get then super cheap direct from china on ebay. Same for the Eno Myomorphia rat clones. I just picked one up and you'd have a hard time justifying the extra cash for a proper Rat.
And I immediately thought "You want amp overdrive then".
Which might seem harsh on pedals. And let me be clear, I like pedals. But, Because of the nature of the signal chain and the various tone shaping stages of a guitar amp, it's not always easy to get a dynamic overdriven chord signal into the front end of an amp and have those qualities make it through to the speakers - usually the amp fucks it up somewhere along the line with some combination of IM distortion, harmonics on harmonics, and compression.
So you have a couple of choices as I see it. Either get an amp with lots of clean headroom at all stages and a pedal that gives you dynamic overdrive with some girth (which of course has knock on effects on all your other sounds), so something like an amp-in a box; One of the Bogner.Mesa/ Tech21 type pedals, maybe something like the Zvex Distortron which I found quite thick and dynamic...
...or you search for that magic pairing of a pedal that somehow delivers a signal to the front of your amp (that you otherwise like the sound of) that your amp somehow mangles into a tone you perceive as dynamic/ heavier. This involves trial and error and in my experience is almost impossible to predict in advance - because it's harder to know in advance which random assortment of clipping diodes and IC chips is going to mangle your tone in a particular way that means the way you play guitar comes out of your amp of choice sounding the way you want it to.
It might be a Bognor Red. Or it might be a Danelectro Daddy-O. I'm not kidding about that last one - I found at one stage with an amp I had (Vox Nighttrain) that the Daddy-O, all £20 of it, beat a whole host of much better regarded and more expensive pedals from OD-3s to OCDs with that particular amp. But with my AC30, the Daddy-O sounded like fried jobbies.
I don't know exactly what my point is or how helpful I'm being. I suppose my suggestion is, try all kinds of random stuff and eventually something will click for your playing, taste and rig.
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I'm learning very quickly that Youtube video mean absolutely jack shit too. Why even bother watching demos? Even demoing pedals in the shop is useless - I demo'd a Looking Glass at PMT in Manchester, with a Tele and the amp I have at home - sounded ace. At home, it still sounds ace, but I'm picking up parts of the sound I don't like.
There's a pedal rental company in the US that mails you pedals and you have a subscription. Wish we had that over here!
One thing I have learnt is that FET based drives are definitely not what I'm after. They have a very glassy top end which I'm not a huge fan of. The only FET drive i've not experienced this on is the MOSFET clipping selection on the Dunes.
FET makes lowend quite fizzy as well. The Looking Glass is a bit like that. People say FET drives are very amp like; but they don't sound like any amp I've ever heard!
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A bit off the beaten track, but I love a Harmonic Percolator dailled-back as an overdrive. A bit more grit and character than a Klon(e) or TS.
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Tubescreamer style drive with a bit more scope on the tone controls.