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Hi folks, I’ve had a quick search but can’t find what I’m after so thought I’d start a thread.
I have a Boss BD-2 and am after a second drive pedal. It would be nice to have a drive pedal that compliments it by covering different sounds (and ideally one that could stack with it to give even more variety).
Not a huge budget for this (£100ish), and it isn’t going into a loud tube amp as I’m a bedroom only player (I’ve got a Fender Champion 600 and a Roland Cube 40XL). I’m not into metal so don’t need extreme gain but do like to play everything from The Shadows and Dire Straits through to Pink Floyd, RHCP, AC/DC and Guns and Roses.
Any thoughts would be welcome!
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You could actually get a Waza one for just about your budget, but the plain old standard version is fine. (Unless you have it first in line with no buffered pedal before it, when the bypass bleed can be an issue.)
Or pretty much any other Tube Screamer family pedal.
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Also look at a Timmy or clone. Flexible eq and can do light to medium drive or an eq'd dirty boost.
I was toying with the idea of getting a Rat (or the Mooer rat clone), would that work well with the BD2?
The Rat is also very versatile, more than the SD-1/TS types are. It will do a good overdrive (gain low, filter high), a harder distortion (both in the middle) and a nasty fuzz (gain high, filter low) if you want. I haven't heard the Mooer but I don't like mini-pedals, not least because the small controls are fiddly - and you need to be able to adjust all three easily on a Rat.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Cleanish bd2, slight gain on the ts, stacked was obviously more
Good times
For AC/DC and G&R definitely the Marshall Guvn'r II Plus - I have it on my board with a tube-screamer and a Boss GE-7 EQ. The Guvn'r II is IMHO one of the most under-rated 'Marshall in a box' distortion pedals. It will do everything from an EQ boost to classic Marshall JCM800 and DSL JCM2000 territory.