Overdive pedals, on the prowl..

[0175westwood29]

after playing it this weekend the dod bifet booster is a great light od, but i always seem to go back my Cat tail or Kaeden drive from Fuzzrocious from my drive.

[thodrik]

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.

[blank20]

You should check thees two
https://gb.muzyczny.pl/160398_Visar-Stompboxes-Bies-Fuzzoctave.html
http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/HoofFuzz
Hoof is my all time favourite.

[tommorichards]

just got the bb preamp today. Nails it spot on. Thanks chaps.