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Overdive pedals, on the prowl..


tommorichards
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I'm just doing a clear up of all of my overdrive pedals.

One of the best 'sounding like an overdriven valve amp' emulations I have got have been mixing a bass overdrive pedal with a Sansamp Bass Drive, with even the Boss ODB 3 delivering decent results. For a good old school sound while a used the Electro Harmonix English Muff'n which is a great pedal, but it has a really large footprint and it needs a 12v AC current. The connectors to the pedal is also a bit fiddly.

Outside of the usual Sansamp recommendations, the EBS Valvedrive is also a really good EQ/gentle overdrive. The Aguilar Agro is one of my favourites at medium low settings for getting a bit of girth without getting very fuzzy (it could really do with a blend though on higher settings). I haven't had much experience with the Darkglass pedals but they seem to be really good overdrives but despite the name I don't consider them to actually replicate a valve amp preamp.

The Catalinbread SFT would also be a good pedal. I haven't tried it but is another Ampeg clone idea. There is also the Zvex Basstortion but I wasn't really impressed with the one I tried for the price.

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