Quick Tube Screamer "vs" Bad Monkey question..
With the drive cranked (and volumes set to unity i suppose) do they have the same amount of dirt available? Or does one have more than the other?
Just asking because i'm currently looking at buying a Tube Screamer and i've got a Bad Monkey (on loan from a friend) and while it's nice, i'd prefer a little more dirt from it.
I've never AB'd these but I'd suspect not. However, I think we might be missing the point with these pedals, which are at their best when pushing a valve amp over the edge.
Setting the vol to unity and using the clipping from the unit as the only dirt-source might not be getting the best out of them.
What amp are you using?
Save your money and get a Joyo Vintage Drive. For £29 this is a great Tubescreamer clone. If you want more drive get the Joyo Ultimate Drive also £29, better still buy both and run the Vintage into the Ultimate for a great lead sound even with a clean amp.
As has been said above, the Tubescreamer - and the numerous clones out there (how many green OD pedals does one world need?!) - isn't going to give you oodles of gain. It works best when driving an already crunchy amp over into more OD.
If it's a fatter, thicker, more sustainy sound you're after, it's not a TS
I found an OCD clone to do exactly what you're after, although I was after more dirt than a Boss OD-1, not a Tubescreamer.
It also has a fuller frequency response, that mid-hump/bass-cut thing is fine for the "pushing an amp further" thing described above, but sounds weedy if you're getting all your overdrive from a pedal.
I'm not one for pushing an amp into overdrive as i like all my distortion at my feet (just keeps things consistant, or helps to at least).
Amp wise i've got a Custom Vibrolux-Reverb (pending Moyer mods) bought for it's clean tone.
Not really after a fatter, thicker, more sustainy sound either, thats what the big muff is forhaha.
Just after one for a dirty mid humped thing, don't need a ton of gain but more than the Bad Monkey would be nice, but not necessary.
Reason i wasn't really asking about alternatives was: THIS(which i just won).
For me, the primary reason to get a Bad Monkey over a standard TS-alike is to use the bass control - you can get a properly dirty, bottom-heavy drive out of your amp without changing channels. With a TS pedal, you've got mid-hump or nothing, depending on whether it's turned on or off
Originally Posted by nocaster
I agree with that !
For me, the primary reason to get a Bad Monkey over a standard TS-alike is to use the bass control - you can get a properly dirty, bottom-heavy drive out of your amp without changing channels. With a TS pedal, you've got mid-hump or nothing, depending on whether it's turned on or off
The T.S family and clones are designed to push and shape the tube preamp stage of an amp not to add lots of distortion . The bad monkey is pretty good doing that pluss as stated it has seperate bass treble controls for more control .
There are loads of distortion pedals that take things up a slight notch from a T.S one of my favs is the Turbo Overdrive by Boss , that one has two settings one obviously is turbo mode .
They were designed to sound like an overdriven tube amp, not to push one. It's in the sales literature link and the manuals link
I've got an OD-2 and OD-2r already. The turbo mode is amazing with lower gain but once you start turning it up past 10 o'clock it gets way too bassy for what i want.There are loads of distortion pedals that take things up a slight notch from a T.S one of my favs is the Turbo Overdrive by Boss , that one has two settings one obviously is turbo mode .
What things are designed for and what they are used for is not always the same.
Some of the best noises ever made were made by people using things wrongly.
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