Can anyone recommend a non tubescreamer like od?

hugbot · October 2013

I'm looking for a new drive pedal, something

* Mass available, I dont want a fancy pants boutique thing

* Non tubescreamer like

Essentially I want something I can put into a clean amp and have it sound like its being driven to the edge of breakup. TS are great, but they only really sound good into amps that are already kind of pushed IMO.

stickyfiddle · October 2013

Crowther Hotcake

Fulltone OCD

Subdecay Liquid Sunshine

All different flavours of OD that work differently well into different amps. Hotcake is particularly lovely into EL84s and the OCD is better into Fendery amps I've found. The LS is just plain great into everything

Drew_TNBD · October 2013

Fulltone OCD?

dindude · October 2013

Second the Liquid Sunshine, great for this sort of thing (I may even have one for sale shortly)

EricTheWeary · October 2013

Budget?
What amp ? Some od's have better reps with UK vs USA style amps for example.
Any other requirements?

Paul_C · October 2013

Joyo AC Tone ?

not_the_dj · October 2013

You want a Lovepedal OD11, hey look, there's one for sale (link in my sig) ;-)

Seriously though they are very good, I'm only selling it as I've recently got a Timmy back on my board

Sporky · October 2013

Another Liquid Sunshine vote.

Or a Zoom Power Drive, if you can find one.

hugbot · October 2013

EricTheWeary said:

Budget?
What amp ? Some od's have better reps with UK vs USA style amps for example.
Any other requirements?

Blackstar HT40, the clean channel is quite limited so I just want something where I can run the amp clean and use the pedal for a bit of grit.

Paul_C · October 2013

I had an HT-20 and its inability to give that just breaking up sound was why I sold it and bought an AC15C1 - which did just that.

monquixote · October 2013

OCDs work exceptionally well into blackstar amps as do Liquid Sunshines (which are significantly lower in gain)

steamabacus · October 2013

I use an HT-5 at home and I use an Award-Session JD10 into the clean channel for exactly the purpose you describe. I'm a huge fan of them and have used them for many years for various od/pre-amp/speaker sim tasks. They're not made anymore but there's one for sale in the classifieds. It's a mk2, with is voiced slightly darker than the mk1 I use, I believe.

Dave_Mc · October 2013

on the cheap (I'm assuming that's what you mean from your post)

digitech bad monkey
mooer blues crab
joyo sweet baby
danelectro transparent overdrive

there are probably more than that, that's just off the top of my head and what i've tried.

mike_l · October 2013

mxr dist3- more od than dist.
bad monkey - best for boosting a dirty amp.
boss sd2- the crunch setting would, i think, be what you want.

ICBM · October 2013

Rat - possibly the You Dirty Rat rather than the more 'vintage' ones, but if not that then the RAT II.

ThePrettyDamned · October 2013

Boss dyna drive. Incredibly underrated.

hugbot · October 2013

Thanks for the suggestions, I tried a boss combo drive in the shop today and I think thats probably what I want.

kelvinburn · October 2013

Death by audio interstellar overdrive or eh double muff?
Fwiw I have an ht60 which I use clean and get my od from a visual sound jeckyl and hyde. I used to use an old Marshall guvnor which was also very good too

swlabr · October 2013

Interesting read here

swlabr · October 2013

Interesting read here

ThePrettyDamned · October 2013

Not the double muff. Got one here, it's an average sounding drive and an average fuzz.

I borrowed it thinking it would be awesome. It's not.

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