Overdrives that also work into clean amps

Dave_Mc

+1 on the bad monkey being very underrated

the screamin blues is pretty nice, too. Nice to have a transparentish option with tons of level boost available on the cheap too. Might be a bit bright into a twin-type amp set clean, though.

kelvinburn

Visual Sound Jeckyl and Hyde?

You still get the bass boost on the OD side.  Hyde into clean amp for the distortion.  Cheap and simples!

fretfinder

Megii said:

Hope it's not hi-jacking the thread to much if I also ask what people think are the best pedals for use just with a totally clean (solid-state) amp, and getting a smooth liquid kind of lead tone?

My band mate has a Yamaha 100w 2x12 tranny amp and the drive channel sounds pants so he borrowed my Analogman silver mod TS9 and it sounded great - so much so that I had to nick it back off him sharpish. He's now got a Visual Sound TS9 copy and sounds good with that too.

ICBM

fretfinder said:

Megii said:

Hope it's not hi-jacking the thread to much if I also ask what people think are the best pedals for use just with a totally clean (solid-state) amp, and getting a smooth liquid kind of lead tone?

My band mate has a Yamaha 100w 2x12 tranny amp and the drive channel sounds pants

I've got one of those (a B100-212, I assume his is something like that), and the onboard distortion is actually OK... through different speakers. The stock ones are much too hi-fi and sound nice clean but dreadful with distortion. The ones in mine were knackered so I put some Jensen Mod 70s in it and it sounds far better, especially if you crank it up a bit.

It's never going to be 'smooth' or 'liquid' though...

(Which to me is a good thing! But not what he wants to hear I suppose... )

It is for sale too, if anyone who has been reading the Epic Fal thread wants it!

frictionfraction

Bogner blue and red at great into a clean amp but also work well into an crunchy amp as well. I tend to find most pedals go well into a crunchy amp but finding that dirt into clean is more problematic. The mojo hand rook and rook royale offer a completely different palette to the bogners but also go great into both a clean and overdriven amp. At the moment the rooks are my go to pedals.