What’s your favourite overdrive pedal?

lysander

Timmy and clones for light to medium od, BE-OD deluxe for everything else.

clarkefan

HAL9000 said:

joetele said:

Creed_Clicks said:

Mxr custom badass 78 distortion. Just had a blast of my nephews one and think it might replace my boss super overdrive 

Tried one of these two weeks back in PMT. Wonderful pedal. 

Had one for a little while. Great pedal but ultimately too much of a distinct ‘voice’ for me. Everything sounded like Thin Lizzy.

Nice one, thanks, will have to check it out

Rowby1

Stacking them is becoming my thing at the moment. Favourite combinations are Riot into a Tim Pierce and ODR-1 into Revival Drive. 

Fishboy7

I've rediscovered the Hudson broadcast Low Gain setting. Not so keen on the high gain side, but the low gain is just perfect. 

clarkefan

If I was to use a separate pedal for overdrive it would be a Boss GE-7.

bandmaster188

The vox Big Ben overdrive. Bit of a lump, but such a sweet od.
barber direct drive. Wouldn’t leave home without it.
just borrowed a friends angry Charlie v3 which is also a lovely od, but managed to get the barber to sound almost identical so won’t be needing one.

normula1

TC Nova drive, just bought an EHX East River drive that sounds great too. And I've still got the Boss OD2 I bought 30 odd years ago.

AntonHunter

JayGee said:

Rothwell Hellbender - no idea why these are so overlooked, I know they’ve been around for ages.but it’s just a great crunchy rock drive. Currently sitting on my grab’n’go board with a Fredric Zombie Klone in front of it to goose it a bit for heavier moments...

Good shout, I really rate the Rothwell stuff. 

Jota

KoT

Sassafras

Next month's trendy boutique pedal.

ICBM

Sassafras said:

Next month's trendy boutique pedal.

I prefer last month’s trendy boutique pedal, when the first owners are selling them off cheap and before they get discontinued and the price goes back up...

Tenebrous

So I'm here with the BD-2 & SD-1, both pedals I've owned before, both pedals I'm fond of... But I've decided there can be only one. While the SD-1 was my original choice in this thread, I'll have to re-evaluate once testing is over (I've no need for two/stacking). Stay tuned for totally irrelevant gear news from a totally irrelevant poster.

ICBM

Tenebrous said:

So I'm here with the BD-2 & SD-1, both pedals I've owned before, both pedals I'm fond of... But I've decided there can be only one. While the SD-1 was my original choice in this thread, I'll have to re-evaluate once testing is over (I've no need for two/stacking). Stay tuned for totally irrelevant gear news from a totally irrelevant poster.

Really, really don't sell either of them until you've tried stacking the SD-1 into the BD-2 - it's one of the best combinations. They're very different-sounding and you can set up three great sounds with only two pedals like that.

Tenebrous

ICBM said:

Tenebrous said:

So I'm here with the BD-2 & SD-1, both pedals I've owned before, both pedals I'm fond of... But I've decided there can be only one. While the SD-1 was my original choice in this thread, I'll have to re-evaluate once testing is over (I've no need for two/stacking). Stay tuned for totally irrelevant gear news from a totally irrelevant poster.

Really, really don't sell either of them until you've tried stacking the SD-1 into the BD-2 - it's one of the best combinations. They're very different-sounding and you can set up three great sounds with only two pedals like that.

Aye that's what I had going both before & again now, but truth be told, I'm happiest playing very clean ambient stuff right now & very rarely do I go for either, never mind both. The Big Muff is 100% here to stay, but I feel I can ditch a drive & barely be any worse off.

Been playing with both for the last hour. I prefer the tonality of the BD-2, but the SD-1 seems clearer. Like there's a little bit of fizz on the BD-2 that feels out of place that I wish I could get rid of. If that weren't there, the SD-1 would already be for sale.

77ric

I’m still fiddling with it but I recently acquired a T-Rex Møller 2 and it’s great, it’s replaced a EHX soul food, a Duncan Ep101 and to a lesser extent an EQD speaker cranker. 

Stacked into a green Russian it is frankly glorious. 

Alex335

Duellist into RYRA klone mostly...  
Surprising.. I thought there would be more KOT's in this thread?.. 

tekbow

Since we're on the subject, any distinct differences between the SD-1 and TS in terms of the classic boosting a crunch channel application?

Worth having both for all the price an SD-1 is pre-owned?

Also.. now we're a decade on from the whole buffers vs true bypass debate, are we ok with buffered boss bypass again?

WiresDreamDisasters

Maxon TS808
Boo TS808 clone
Boss SD-2
Fulltone OCD
Friedman BE-OD
Hardwire Tube Overdrive
TC Electronic Dark Matter

MagicPigDetective

joetele said:

Mine is still the Plumes but on reflection I'm a big fan of the Blues Driver. 

Plumes arrived today, really is an excellent overdrive from clean boost to crunch. Great stacked into my new distortion pedal, Walrus Audio Iron Horse. Both have three clipping options, between the two I’m sorted from clean boost to extreme noise. The Iron Horse has real cutting clarity combined with plenty of bass. As you can tell I’m satisfied for drives at the moment, though I want a fuzz

joetele

MagicPigDetective said:

joetele said:

Mine is still the Plumes but on reflection I'm a big fan of the Blues Driver. 

Plumes arrived today, really is an excellent overdrive from clean boost to crunch. Great stacked into my new distortion pedal, Walrus Audio Iron Horse. Both have three clipping options, between the two I’m sorted from clean boost to extreme noise. The Iron Horse has real cutting clarity combined with plenty of bass. As you can tell I’m satisfied for drives at the moment, though I want a fuzz

I've got the Plumes paired with a RAT2 but not sure which way round to put them...