The Bad Monkey OD pedal

[telesound60]

just got mine today and so far its freaking awesome i can't stop playing even right now i just stopped to talk about it lol......so i was wandering if any of you had one what you thought of them and does anyone else have a pedal that they can't get enough of.....b/c i sure can't with this pedal

[Beerts]

the Monkey is a great pedal, glad you're enjoying it! it's one of my favorites

[raf]

Love mine...use it typically for solo boost in addition to my dynacomp & tubescreamer....

[Axis29]

Love my OCD and my Carbon Copy and my Fulltone 70 and my Wah....

I like my modded TS-9, and recently got the Bad Monkey to try... I haven't given it enough of a good going through to think it will replace my TS-9...

[Larry F]

I'm using mine with a Barber Tone Press and Blackstone Appliances. It replaced my ToneBone, which had a fizz that I couldn't get rid of. I also tried a Seymour Duncan Twin Tube--yech on that. The Bad Monkey, as inexpensive as it is, gets a very good bit of crunch, which is what I need.

[DickensCPA]

I brought one home today with a loaner Blues Jr and it's the first time I've tried one. I'm really liking it. I could really get used to Fender cleans and then crunch with stomping my foot. The Blues Jr and the BOSS CS-3, Bad Monkey and EH Delay really work well together.

I like being able to set the controls so that I can get that crunch without a lot of additional volume. Our soundguy hates that.

With the deal I'm getting on the Blues Jr, I might keep it, but I'm keeping the Bad Monkey irregardless.

Brad

[Darkwing]

There's no such word as irregardless. You just use regardless!

[DickensCPA]

Originally Posted by Darkwing

There's no such word as irregardless. You just use regardless!

Technically no, but kinda yes. It does use a double negative element in "ir" and "less", but has been common since the 1930's to add emphasis to regardless.

You're not going to believe this but I was in a meeting with some other gentlemen Monday of last week and one of the guys used "irregardless" and another person corrected him. In response, his exact words were what I just wrote above.

That's weird. It's like when someone says a word or place you've never heard of and then all of the sudden you hear it everywhere you turn.LOL!

[91xlntS-3]

Originally Posted by DickensCPA

I brought one home today with a loaner Blues Jr and it's the first time I've tried one. I'm really liking it. I could really get used to Fender cleans and then crunch with stomping my foot. The Blues Jr and the BOSS CS-3, Bad Monkey and EH Delay really work well together.

I like being able to set the controls so that I can get that crunch without a lot of additional volume. Our soundguy hates that.

With the deal I'm getting on the Blues Jr, I might keep it, but I'm keeping the Bad Monkey irregardless.

Brad

The BJr and Bad Monkey are what make up my gigging rig! Also use a E.B. Vol pedal and a BOSS Chorus, but the BJR is the best place to start, IMO!

As all of us have, I've been chasing "that" tone in my head, and this set-up nails it for me! BJr is a great little amp that can gig also! And the Bad Monkey gives me just the kind of O.D. sound I want.

[Tdot]

Another BM+BJr fan here.

[R.B. Huckleberry]

I love the Bad Monkey. Had 2 of them for a long while. Not a big tone sucker, either.

[tele1]

I finally have a tone I love....Tele RI original wiring, Crate V-32, Dynacomp, Bad Monkey, and a DD3.....yaaahoooooooooooooo

[Escondido Bound]

Originally Posted by DickensCPA

Technically no, but kinda yes. It does use a double negative element in "ir" and "less", but has been common since the 1930's to add emphasis to regardless.

You're not going to believe this but I was in a meeting with some other gentlemen Monday of last week and one of the guys used "irregardless" and another person corrected him. In response, his exact words were what I just wrote above.

That's weird. It's like when someone says a word or place you've never heard of and then all of the sudden you hear it everywhere you turn.LOL!

I'm hoping that I don't sound like a grammar geek here, but it sounds like the speaker at your meeting garbled a usage note found at dictionary.com:

Irregardless is considered nonstandard because of the two negative elements ir- and -less. It was probably formed on the analogy of such words as irrespective, irrelevant, and irreparable. Those who use it, including on occasion educated speakers, may do so from a desire to add emphasis. Irregardless first appeared in the early 20th century and was perhaps popularized by its use in a comic radio program of the 1930s.

So yes, it is a word, but it is a word in the same way that ain't, cuz, would of or various other erroneously constructed words are "words."

Now, back to your regularly scheduled overdrive discussion. . . .

EB

[play_loud]

Is the Bad Monkey really that great?? Its only a pedal i've noticed recently.

I am abit skeptical as I know digitech from the multi-effects unit I have, which has terrible tone suking distortion and OD features on it. They also seem to be very digital and harsh sounding. How does this compare with the Bad Monkey?

[ibobunot]

The Bad Monkey is analog not digital.

[91xlntS-3]

The Bad Monkey also has it's own Low & High tone controls, so you can tweak the sound of the O.D. pedal. I've always hated O.D. pedals, but yeah, this one is really that good! IMO

[DickensCPA]

Originally Posted by Escondido Bound

I'm hoping that I don't sound like a grammar geek here, but it sounds like the speaker at your meeting garbled a usage note found at dictionary.com:
So yes, it is a word, but it is a word in the same way that ain't, cuz, would of or various other erroneously constructed words are "words."

Now, back to your regularly scheduled overdrive discussion. . . .

EB

OK, I can live with that. I guess it just didn't strike me as important enough to research the web and dictionary over it. Just thought it was weird that I never hear it and then all of the sudden it's everywhere I turn. If he digs reading the dictionary that much, maybe that's why he's where he's at and I'm where I'm at.

[photoweborama]

I can get a very liquid over drive sound I can't get with my Tubescreamer

[Darkwing]

I stand corrected; sort of. But I still ain't going to use it! Those of youze from NJ know what I'm talking about.

By the way, to get back to the basis of this thread, I recently added a BM (keep it clean!) to my pedal board. Initally trying it at low volume, I was a bit let down, but at higher outputs, this thing really adds to the sound of my telly. It has a real rock and roll vibe and sounds much netter that the Boss Turbo Overdrive I'd been using.

[rotren]

I think it's a great pedal for the money. It's does a nice job, and I prefer it to a regular tube screamer.

[DickensCPA]

I don't have any experience with the tubescreamer outside of a couple of minutes at a GC, but yesterday was the first day I'd played live with any OD pedal. I liked the BM enough that I don't plan to experiment with anything else. I REALLY liked the sound of it at home in private, but I felt the same way about the Peavey Windsor until I played live. The BD sounds just as good live thru a BJr mic'd. As long as this combination holds up and is reliable, I'm sticking with it.

ETA: One thing of note. With the BM and a BJr, my Boss CS-3 has been completely removed from the equation. I tried all 3 pedals I use in different orders and a compressor just didn't seem to add anything of value to the BM thru the BJr. It didn't sound bad or not do it's job, just wasn't necessary. On a song or two I did use delay though.

[photoweborama]

Originally Posted by DickensCPA

ETA: One thing of note. With the BM and a BJr, my Boss CS-3 has been completely removed from the equation. I tried all 3 pedals I use in different orders and a compressor just didn't seem to add anything of value to the BM thru the BJr. It didn't sound bad or not do it's job, just wasn't necessary. On a song or two I did use delay though.

Here is a fun thing to try...

Bad Monkey with bass turned up about 2/3. Treble about the same. Gain up about 2/3 also. Put a compressor with light compression in front of it, and one after it with light compression also. That is how I get that liquid sound out of my BM. The TS won't do it at all...(can't get there from here:))

[91xlntS-3]

Originally Posted by DickensCPA

I don't have any experience with the tubescreamer outside of a couple of minutes at a GC, but yesterday was the first day I'd played live with any OD pedal. I liked the BM enough that I don't plan to experiment with anything else. I REALLY liked the sound of it at home in private, but I felt the same way about the Peavey Windsor until I played live. The BD sounds just as good live thru a BJr mic'd. As long as this combination holds up and is reliable, I'm sticking with it.

ETA: One thing of note. With the BM and a BJr, my Boss CS-3 has been completely removed from the equation. I tried all 3 pedals I use in different orders and a compressor just didn't seem to add anything of value to the BM thru the BJr. It didn't sound bad or not do it's job, just wasn't necessary. On a song or two I did use delay though.

Been using the BM/BJr combo for the past several months, I just can't get this kind of tone from anything else. And everything is all stock, no mods.
I run my BJr clean and then use the BM for varying amounts of dirt. Run my Master Vol. about 5 or 6 and run the regular Vol. about 4 or 5. Don't know if you've noticed, but the more you push the amp, the better the reverb sounds! If you want a real edgy kind of tone, run both Volumes at the same setting. I'm amazed the more I just sit around and tweak my BJr amp, there's nothing (short of Metal) that you can't get out of this little 15 watt amp! YMMV

And FWIW, I've never used a compressor in my effects chain on a regular basis. I've tried a few, even in processors, but never liked the results. So, that's not something I even think about, or miss. Just me, I guess...

[DickensCPA]

Since I've had my BJr, I went ahead and bought the loaner BTW, I have run these settings - V7, T4, B9, M5, MV5 and R5. That's for an auditorium of about 2-300 people with maybe 16' ceiling.

I run the four knobs on the BM from left to right at just short of 12:00, 11:00, 1:00 and 1:00. This setting doesn't give me much "volume" boost when I punch it, just a different crunchy sound. Which is what I wanted. When it's time for a solo I up the guitar vol a tad and switch PUPS.

They are mic'ing my amp with a shureSM58 and I've read on here that the 57 is the preferred shure. Is that mic difference hurting me much?

[Vince a]

Originally Posted by photoweborama

Here is a fun thing to try...

Bad Monkey with bass turned up about 2/3. Treble about the same. Gain up about 2/3 also. Put a compressor with light compression in front of it, and one after it with light compression also. That is how I get that liquid sound out of my BM. The TS won't do it at all...(can't get there from here:))

Ditto +1 . . . the bass knob is the key knob to get the good sound!