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On a wider note, MXR really seem to have upped their game recently (and since they recruited Jeorge Tripps). The Badass line of pedals all seem to be well reviewed, the new Variac fuzz looks intriguing and the Echoplex delay sounds amazing. Kudos to them.
in my brief experience the OCD sounds like a modded TS with more low end and fizz on top. TS being smoother and more middly. My point was really that building the two sounds into on pedal would not take that much work compared to other circuits.
The TS uses Soft Clipping while the OCD uses Hard Clipping. Both diode clipping, but clipped in a different manner.
Soft clipping is typical for TS style drives. Also, Zen Drive and Timmy, etc.
Hard Clipping is used in pedals such as the Rat, DOD250, Riot.
What I meant, purely from a sound point of view, is that the OCD is a much flatter eq - very similar to a MIAB. The Tubescreamer obviously cuts bass and pushes mids - neither of which the OCD does.
I love both, and a tubescreamer stacked into an OCD for solos is one of music's finest pedal pairings IMO.
EDIT: I know you know this, but just in case he doesn't- having the diodes to ground doesn't necessarily mean a high gain, hard-clipping distortion-style pedal. Depending on what's used as clippers, you can still get a fairly soft-sounding, more overdrive-style pedal from clippers to ground. E.g. Klon Centaur, Fulltone OCD, MXR Distortion + etc.
Yes, good point in regards to the hard clipping not just being for full on distortion.