Whats you favorite dirt box

out of what i tried i got to say my favorite is my DOD FX69B Grunge i love it :mrgreen:

All around, the Jekyll side of my old silver VS Jekyll/Hyde pedal. There are other boxes I prefer for different things, but this is the one that gets the most use and is on more than not.

I have two favorites... Barber 1/2 Gainer, Wampler Sovereign. I can do anything with those two from Johnny Cash to VanHalen with a Tele.

http://www.bazaar-world.com/uploads/amp/48/110300348297-4.jpg

But I usually use this one.
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... RAT

This

Ed Boyd wandered out of the amp forum and mistakenly started posting channel switchers rather than effects pedals.

I don't mind, because he has impeccable taste in amps!

Barber LTD and BMF El Jefe....right now.

Catalinbread Formula No. 5

Ed Boyd wandered out of the amp forum and mistakenly started posting channel switchers rather than effects pedals.

I don't mind, because he has impeccable taste in amps!

LOL! Yep, I'm the guy who answered NO in the "Does your pedalboard cost more than your amp?"

Most my dirt comes from the the amp on my dirty channel.

But I have an old ProCo Rat being repaired that I am still waiting on. Having the Op Amp and footswitch replaced. I also have a VS Route 66 on my board that is my compressor but the overdrive section isn't too bad. Just another Tube Screamer copy I think.

The Box of Rock is cool and I like the Wampler Hot Wired but I aint going to spend that much money on Fuzz box.

Wampler paisley and rocket animal

BB Preamp,JB FuzzFace and Keeley FuzzHead

... RAT

Rat.

A close second, a pedal of my own design:

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Rat.

A close second, a pedal of my own design:

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:shock:is that a piece of a cigar in the pedal if so why :lol:

Of the ones I've tried I seem to stick with the Blue Collar. Sure it's a TS variant but one of the best IMHO.

@ JoeNeri: NOS Cuban power device. Good stuff. I considered buying one for my:
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:shock:is that a piece of a cigar in the pedal if so why :lol:

My patented Butt Chip, far superior to any 4558, 741 or 308.

My current fave is the MHP 72.

I bought this thing cheap to flip it later. I put it on the board just to try it out and now it's going to be staying for a while. Just seems to work really really well with my Fender tweed Deluxe clone.

Well...considering overdrive is my favorite type of pedal...

Visual Sound Open Road Overdrive
CMATMODS Butah
Gearmanndude Luther Drive
Paul Cochrane Timmy
MXR Custom Badass Overdrive
Barber LTD Special Recipe
Barber Super Sport Direct Drive
ZVEX Distortron
Suhr Shiba Drive

Ones I've never owned but dig the tone of...

CMATMODS Signa Drive
CMATMODS Tubeslammer/Hive Driver
Ibanez Handwired Tube Screamer 808
Barber LTD
Barber Direct Drive LG

And one day I'll hopefully own an Analogman King of Tone...in the next decade...

Barber LTD (or 1/2 Gainer, which is like 2 LTDs in one box).

No other OD pedal does edge of breakup tones so well, no other OD works so well for low gain OD tones with a Tele going into a BF Fender, no other OD reacts as amp-like to being goosed by a booster or other OD pedal...

I have had , for a number of years a Boss Ds-1 the old classic , noisy as a freight train ,but whacked up , in yer face dirt , if your going for it and want death or glory , this is the baby for you , immense OD , total dirt , no finesse whatever , looks horrible but so what eh LoL :twisted:

Carl Martin Plexitone Ch. 1 od and ch. 2 distortion

I have a new DS-1. I thought it sucked. Maybe it just didn't like my power supply. It made my guitar sound like a friggin kazoo.

The old ones were kind of cool but I used batteries back then but later replaced the DS-1 with a Rat back in 1988 or so.

65 amp Colour boost
Wampler Pinnacle
Xotic EP boost

Different LoL , never heard it likened to a kazoo before LoL , mines an oldie , bought it when they came out the first time , old components (discretes) had a sound of their own , modern updates made the components theoretically better , but for us musos it was a plague of horrors as they took the roughness out of them , I used to have two WEM copycats for delay duties , through a Linear 100 watt valve amp and a basic 4 x 12 and dirt was a cheese wedge fuzz box , and that was it , oh forgot the obligatory tremelo pedal , sound was awesome , technology wrecked that and we all went super tranny (amps that is) two decades of crapposounds , brittle tinny rubbish

My current fave is the MHP 72°.

Mine, too.

BB Preamp
Analog Man modified TS9 reissue (to TS808 specs--much better)
Bad Monkey (just got a used made in USA one last week and yes, everyone's right when they say this is a really, really good pedal)
Jetter GS3 (a dual overdrive I use on my live board and it is just superb)

Fulltone '70
'80s Crest Audio Fuzz Face reissue
Voodoo Lab Super Fuzz
Ashbass Fuzzbrite

Over the course of 44 years I've tried more overdrives and fuzzes than I can remember. I certainly haven't tried them all--who can? and I'm sure there are others I'd love, but these are the ones that work for me that I've stuck with. Would like to have some type of Big Muff though at some point--I had an original back in the early '70s and it was great until it broke. I also traded away a Fulldrive II MOSFET that I liked the sound of (I did not find it to be too bright as others have), but I found the Boost switch to be useless in live performance while the Jetter GS3 two-overdrives-in-one-box configuration is much better and more usable in my opinion.

Timmy! Honorable mention to way huge pork loin.

BB Preamp.

Fairfield Circuitry Barbershop OD and Four Eyes Fuzz.

GFS Brownie Classic (Rat clone), MHP "Galaxie Mod" Blues Driver, Barber Direct Drive. Have pretty much eliminated everything else I have tried; just don't need 'em!

VFE Pale Horse OD: asymmetrical, LED, and MosFet in one.

Barber Direct Drive and Maxon SD 9

Hardwire CM-2 Tube Overdrive.

Sold my Bad Monkey thinking I would not need it after purchasing the CM-2. Although I like the CM-2 better because it's more transparent, I felt the Bad Monkey had better bass response, so looking to get a Bad Monkey to go with the CM-2.

Xotic AC-Plus!! has boost with compression on one side w/ dirt pedal on the other side. Each side has an eq, you can run each side separate or together, and you can switch the orientation on the fly.

TS9 and slightly modded SD1.

A 5e3.

A 5e3.

I've played and used a few dirt pedals and I like the Catalinbred FN5 at 18v and I like the Visual Sound Open Road. However, I don't even use dirt pedals for shows anymore because my tweed amps are just too damn good. I can't find a pedal that I prefer over my tubes and volume knob.

I'm hoping to get a Bad Bob soon... seems to be excellent for my style.

You'll like it. It just gives you "more" of what you already have.:grin:

To be honest i always prefer to to crank the clean channel on my Blues Deluxe, but it's much too loud to play with the band....
Unfortunately i can't find a pedal that comes even close that real tube overdrive....

My all time fav is an original black box Marshall Bluesbreaker. I've posted about it several times over the past 5-6 years. Many boteeks have come and gone, but this one remains.

Not a very versitile pedal.....not much gain on tap and nothing really happens till the knobs are past noon, but the bluesy overdrive tone it provides is quite seductive. It responds extremely well to picking dynamics and cleans up like a good tube amp with the guitars volume control. I love this old pedal!

Sunlion

I'm loving my regular, run-of-the-mill, and recently made in Tawain Boss DS-1. In front of my Mesa Boogie's clean channel it does everything from OD to all-out-80s shred! In front of the dirty channels it smooths everything out and provides endless sustain!

Stock Maxon OD-808 and..........................................


Princeton Tweed amp :wink:

I have a modded Boss MT-2 that is great killer too

GI

Barber 1/2 gainer

Depends. If you're talking fuzz, then my ancient, first-issue, triangle knob Big Muff. If you mean useful gain, overdrive to Marshall sound, then a Blackstone Appliances.

still Klon.

Favorite Overdrive is the Paisley Drive
Favorite Fuzz is Cornish P-1

Fiftieth post in this thread and I'm the first to mention the OCD. I guess love for this puppy is slipping. Personally, I love mine.

I was going to mention the OCD but you beat me to it. It usually occupies the OD slot on my board, though lately I've been swapping it out for a Crowther Hotcake or a slightly modded Tube Screamer (both homemade). In the fuzz department, I recently built a DAM Meathead that I just love.

Fat Boost and OCD.

Individual and stacked.

For me the Fat Boost works particularly well with an HB-equipped Les Paul.

8 knob Top Boost in a Can as an always on drive into a Vox ac30 CC2. Leave the drive up pretty high and roll volume down for cleans. This pedal works exceptionally well in this application, and it has a built in boost to boot! Two fuzzes as well, a D*A*M* Tone Bender MKII and a GS Wyllie Rising Sun superfuzz variant.

Rat

Almost any circuit Big Muff. Also loving the G2 copy I have (Muff like) and have really been digging the OD and Boost modes on the Analogman Prince of Tone.

Seem to change on a weekly basis for me. Right now, it's the Barber DDSS and Menatone Red Snapper.

Biyang Fuzz Star
Joyo Ultimate Overdrive


Recently got these pedals, only took minutes for either of these two to weed out most of the dirt pedals on my board. I have the joyo Vintage OD also at the same time, sounds nice too, tame compared to the ultimate. Most that others have posted I've never had the chance to try. I got these pedals for under $30 each, after feedback on them here on this forum. being relatively new to effects I appreciate the opinions and discriptions.

Can't say enough about the Fuzz Star, exactly what i was looking for.

I was going to mention the OCD but you beat me to it. It usually occupies the OD slot on my board, though lately I've been swapping it out for a Crowther Hotcake or a slightly modded Tube Screamer (both homemade). In the fuzz department, I recently built a DAM Meathead that I just love.

+1 on the meathead. It doesn't really fit my style, but I recently built one for someone else and that thing has balls! I added a switch for the "dark" mode as well and actually prefer that to the original.

I like it subtle.. Sparkle Drive is still king for me

im building a bsiab2 so we'll see how that turns out

Wampler Hotwired and Keeley Modded ts9

My fave (besides the 5e3) is a "more" box:

Fulltone OCD here.

The Smallsound/Bigsound ***** Overdrive. Having tried many, still being in possession of a Paul Cochrane Tim and having a few things on the way, there's very little I like more than it that I've found yet in a pedal.

I bought this thing cheap to flip it later. I put it on the board just to try it out and now it's going to be staying for a while. Just seems to work really really well with my Fender tweed Deluxe clone.

Timing. I've never seen these talked about here before, but I bought one a week or so ago, I'm just waiting for it to show up! I used to own a Zinky (Supro) amp which had a phenomenal drive channel. I'm hoping this gets close to that sound :grin:

My fave (besides the 5e3) is a "more" box:

^ Well Hoss, at least you are consistant! :lol:

Tim. Followed by a Rat.

That's a cool pic of the Bad Bob Mr. Fezz.

That's because Fezz is a cool dude. Follow Fezz into the light... Follow him!

That's because Fezz is a cool dude. Follow Fezz into the light... Follow him!

:lol: I'm a goober.:cool:

Jetter Gear Helium. Perfection.

:lol: I'm a goober.:cool:

A goofy goober?

Hardwire TL-2. Was recommended by a couple of posters as being a way to get a Boogie sound in a pedal. Not exactly. Kind of a Boogie/Marshall hybrid. At any rate, exactly the tone I was looking for.

What I was not expecting from a solid-state pedal was the touch sensitivity. Keep the pedal gain about 10 o'clock, play with your guitar's volume knob and it does a pretty convincing old-school screaming tweed impersonation.

Crank the gain past 3 o'clock and you're pretty firmly in death metal territory, which isn't a place I live.

I run gain at 12 o'clock, little bass bump, little treble bump, midrange stays pretty much flat. Switch on "tight". That's the sound I've been looking years for, right there.

At any rate, it's one of the most versatile pieces of gear I've ever owned.

Analogman Silver Mod ts9 which is his 808 spec with upgraded components that mitigates the mid hump, improves the bass response, and yields a clearer overdriven tube sound. I love mine.

If I still want a good bit of the guitar's tone, I go for a Boss SD-1 the most. This works well for both high and low volume. When going for a particular fuzz sound, I prefer the OOP DOD FX-52, Classic Fuzz which has a bit more personality and is not too expensive.

right now my favorite is the tall font green russian muff

Ibanez Jet Driver!!!

Blackstone for me.

this1smyne The Pearl

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right now my favorite is the tall font green russian muff

Mine is the Tall Font Russian clone from Wren and Cuff.
In od territories, it would be, these days, a BB Preamp I got in a trade.

Mine is the Tall Font Russian clone from Wren and Cuff.
In od territories, it would be, these days, a BB Preamp I got in a trade.

I too have the Tall Font Russian clone from Wren & Cuff -great pedal. Really covers a lot of ground. Makes my Tele sound thick!

Current fave:
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Mine would be a Timmy, followed closely by the Paisley Drive.

My Mark Humphreys-modded TS9-DX. He made each of the four positions different and very useable. The first position is an 808 clone. The stock pedal simply kept adding bass to each position.

It's the one pedal I'll never get rid of.

Holdsworth. Pedal with so many knobs and switched. Holdsworth. Knobs. Switches. HOLDSWO-----!!

[Head exploded.] :lol:

I'm diggin' my Plimsoul.

Tech 21 Double Drive
Timmy
TS-8

Barber Small Fry
Catalinbread Formula no 5

Digitech Bad Monkey
Fulltone OCD

Fulltone OCD
Boss BD2

Seven pages in and I'm the first to mention the Fulldrive II? It's still my favorite, although I haven't had the pleasure of trying most of the pedals mentioned here. Mine is non-MOSFET.

It's a toss up - if I'm wanting subtle and tasty, it's the TIM. For bold statements, my non-stacking Menatone Fish Factory.

Right now I'm using a BBE Green Screamer, a Bass Big Muff and a Fender Sub-Lime Bass Fuzz pedal. I'm way more of a bassist then even a pretend guitarist. I'm just starting to learn to play guitar so I have more then a few bass effects pedals laying around. All of the above sound pretty cool coming out of a Modern Player Tele Plus and a VHT Classic 6 tube amp in the living room.

fuzz factory!

Paisley Drive for single coils...Euphoria for humbuckers....although both work great with both!

I've had a few along the way, not counting fuzz I dig the OCD v4 it's the middle sound I was missing between my amps drive channel and the other dirt pedals I use.

Barber LTD (or 1/2 Gainer, which is like 2 LTDs in one box).

No other OD pedal does edge of breakup tones so well, no other OD works so well for low gain OD tones with a Tele going into a BF Fender, no other OD reacts as amp-like to being goosed by a booster or other OD pedal...

+1. I stopped shopping for pedals after I got my 1/2 gainer.

So many, for OD it's my blackout effectors mantra overdrive and for fuzz it's my roger Mayer voodoo axe (followed closely by a big muff :) )

The MP Golden Cello is becoming my fav. Once I got inside and tweaked the trimmers, it really made it shine. The stock delay is set too long with too many repeats for my liking. The dirt is more of a fuzz and has a great character to it. I could honestly gig with just this pedal.

My new best friend...


137606

MPH 72 Degrees is still the best low-mid gain pedal I've heard.

i think this is going to take my DOD FX69B Grunge's place best metal tones ive ever heard

Just got a Dr. Scientist The Elements.... Yeah, it's ****in cool.

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I'm with him - Blackstone Appliances for nice dynamic low gain. Two channels is a bonus.

7 pages?:lol:





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Real nice with my brand new Squier Jag.

I use a Fultone Plimsol pedal (nice pedal) through a Fender Deluxe reverb and also run through a old Roland sde 100 delay.

I own all kinds of expensive pedals and out of all of them the one u use the most either with other pedals or by itself is a nobles odr1. Using this on a stock drri. No need for bright cap clip and it stacks very well with other pedals. Most of the time I run an 808 into it and I can get all the dirt I want with no fizz. I love this pedal. This beats out a crunch box full drive 2, ocd gt500 and so on. It just works really well and I don't see it coming off my board anytime soon.

Either: a fuzz factory or screamin' blues, depending on my mood.

My new best friend...


137606

+1 What he said:cool:

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+2

It booted my OCD off my board (for now).

This . . .
137803
has quickly become my fav dirt supply !

Almost always on and I'm learnin' to use the Tele's volume knob ! :grin:

I'll tell ya what my least favorite dirt box is, the one my cats poop in. Thing is STINKY.

Durham Mucho Boosto

Durham Mucho Boosto

I was playing through mine this weekend, it IS a great pedal.

Seldom mentioned, but a great od. The boost is sweet as well.

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