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Originally Posted by chamberpop
@11 Gauge,
Wow, an ODR-1, huh? Never had one, but always heard good things. Thanks for the pedal guru insight on this thing.
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No problem. I was going to scratchbuild an ODR-1 so that I could have true bypass and generally make it more rugged. Some folks can get the stock ones to work fine for years without issues, but I'd like to make a bulletproof one.
...But the parts count is kind of crazy high for an OD pedal, so I never got back to it. And unless you keep the gain/drive really low, it gets very aggressive, and is much more like a distortion (big surprise). Not how the Nashville crowd uses it, but John Scofield doesn't use a Rat to play stuff like Judas Priest, either.
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Originally Posted by chamberpop
@blowtorch,
Please post if you do the A/B with the Nobels! Thanks!
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Yes - please do! I'm always on the lookout for simple circuits that just plain sound good, because lots of times it is all I have time to scratchbuild any longer. And I am more interested in the comparison at higher gain amounts, since I have a boatload of fantastic OD pedals already. The distortion pedals that have passed muster with me are much more limited - I am extremely picky about upper order harmonic content that causes that "chewing on tin foil" feeling, as well as many of them simply sounding overly compressed, too much "thud" in the lower registers (I don't want a metal pedal), etc. I also loathe pedals with knobs/knobs/knobs/controls/switches/switches/trimpots/etc. - just a 3 (okay, maybe 4) knob layout, please.