Joyo Sweet Baby Overdrive £25

[mcnach]

Low gain overdrive pedal. Excellent condition but velcro attached to the bottom.

I bought this for very low gain sounds. With the drive fully anticlockwise the sound is absolutely clean, and all the way clockwise you get low/mid gain sounds.
It's fairly dynamics-sensitive, and the "focus" control is the key to how responsive it is.

I've had it for a few months when I was checking out a variety of pedals and I made up my mind as to which ones I want to keep (Darkglass Vintage, an OCD clone and a Soundblox Multiwave distortion), so this one has to go.

No demos on bass, but you get an idea of what it can do from these videos:


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[url="http://youtu.be/gBOwxFNHi-g"]http://youtu.be/gBOwxFNHi-g[/url]

£25 inc. delivery

[dub_junkie]

Hi Jose,
Can the Sweet baby OD be used as a clean boost?
Keir

[mcnach]

I would think so. With the gain all the way down there is no distortion that I can hear, and you can boost it quite a bit.
How clean it is it may depend on the bass. I have not noticed any distortion with any guitar/bass... I'll check with my L2000, which has to be the hottest output bass I ever owned...

Right... since I was at home, I just spent the last 20min playing with this pedal and tweaking things. Gain and level controls are interactive, where increasing gain results in an increase of volume, especially in the first third of its travel.

With the G&L L2000:
Gain fully anticlockwise: entirely clean. You do have a bit of boost available from the level control, but not a huge amount.
Turning the gain control even a tiny bit clockwise results in noticeable distortion. The L2000 is HOT!.

Then I tried a Stingray (actually a USA MM SUB from 2006, but essentially a 2EQ Stingray, same pickup and preamp etc):
Again entirely clean with the gain fully anticlockwise. You can turn up the gain *a little* without adding noticeable distortion, which results in quite a bit of clean boost available. The distortion that this pedal produces is very gradual, so even when I could hear a little bit of grit kicking in, it would still be "clean" in a live setting.

Last, a Jazz bass, passive with Seymour Duncan SJB2 pickups:
Here, you can turn the gain nearly to 50% before you can hear the distortion appearing. It is a very gradual subtle increase, and by 60-70% it's noticeable distorted, if softly so. Turn it up to 100% and you get a clear overdrive (nothing crazy like Motorhead or anything like that, 'though).
With the Jazz it worked the best, because it gave the largest amount of clean boost available and also the widest tonal variation, since the focus control only really works when you turn up the gain.

So, as a mild overdrive... any bass would do. I think it works best with a Jazz (probably a P, etc). I bought it and used it initially with a Jazz, and that was good. With higher output basses you get into "clearly overdriven" territory faster, and can produced more distorted sounds more easily. The G&L L2000 distorted the minute you turned the gain up away from fully anticlockwise... so it varies. I prefer it with my Jazz.
As a clean boost... the lower the output of the bass, the better this pedal would work as it would give you a wider range where you can adjust it. In order to get a large volume boost, you need to turn up the gain control at least 20 degrees or so, and you need a lower output bass to allow you to do that cleanly: The L2000 would be out of question. The Stingray works well, but it's the Jazz that gave me the largest amount of clean boost...

I hope this helps a bit!

[dub_junkie]

Yes sure does :-)
Many thanks
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