igorBG
April 24th, 2008, 07:31 AM
Ok guys. You won. I just bought Bad Monkey. I believe you when you claim this is one of the best overdrive pedals out there. I am at job, so I must wait to come back home to test it :(
Anyway at first look, I don't know how to open battery chamber, this is similar to Boss pedals, but Boss have screw, and I don't see anything similar here. Should I pull cover up strongly?
pchilson
April 24th, 2008, 07:56 AM
You push in on one of the pivots on the pedal and it releases.
igorBG
April 24th, 2008, 08:05 AM
Thanks, it worked. This is too sophisticated for east european peasant :)
asatfan
April 24th, 2008, 02:13 PM
Igor, let us know how you like it. I bought one last week and hastily put it in my pedal board before band practice. I need more time to experiment with it....
telekaster1999
April 24th, 2008, 11:16 PM
just bought won as well. any suggestions on settings with a tele and hotrod deluxe.
tuuur
April 25th, 2008, 04:37 AM
And don't forget to take and post some pictures! :grin:
igorBG
April 25th, 2008, 12:22 PM
Well this is just first impression, after two hours of playing. It is very good, but I prefer Blues Driver.
Blues driver is warmer, but after 1 o'clock it gets too soft, and notes start to loose definition, low strings specially.
Bad Monkey it much more straight forward, it doesn't color your tone at all, and I suppose that it its initiall purpose.
Anyway don''t get my oppinion to seriously, because I bought both pedals for my Blues Deluxe tube amp, which fill come next week finally (after two months of waiting). I performed test on my cheap practice Marshall, and I used them as distortion, not as smooth overdrive to push tubes harder.
Also, Bad Monkey works great with Blues Driver, you have two different soft overdriver tones, and one stronger when you turn them both.
igorBG
April 25th, 2008, 12:25 PM
Finally I found time to upload some photos. You can see all my photos at:
http://www.tdpri.com/telephoto/showgallery.php/cat/500/ppuser/5234
and here are two photos that you asked for
http://www.tdpri.com/telephoto/data/753/medium/my_gear_018.JPG
and
http://www.tdpri.com/telephoto/data/753/medium/my_gear_015.JPG