GAS for new OD pedals !!

[MichaelD83]

So I got it pretty bad right now. Total first world problems as I have no real “need” other than gift card burning a hole in my pocket.

Really Jones-in for new overdrive. Don’t really need it as I have an Analogman modded bd2 & sd1 and a Fulltone ocd and fulldrive 1. Both pairings do basically the same thing - edge of breakup w flat eq/ clean boost and the Tubescreamer thing. Through 2 small fender amps, a tele and a strat-these cover all the bases a man could want for blues, classic & southern rock.

Really had my eye on the mxr Timmy and Duke of tone. Haven’t played either but love the demos. Please tell me this will change my life or it’s just the next flavor of the day!!

 

[Brent Hutto]

Really had my eye on the mxr Timmy and Duke of tone. Haven’t played either but love the demos. Please tell me this will change my life or it’s just the next flavor of the day!!

My first drive/boost/overdrive/dirt/whatever pedal was MXR Timmy back around Christmas. I have mixed feelings about it. I do think it's "transparent" in that I can carefully tweak the four knobs and find a setting that has no discernible effect on my tone or EQ whatsoever and then work from there to take away some bass, add some treble, make some grit. boost the volume, etc. But those are kind of discrete changes to my guitar/amp sound rather than a real reshaping of the tone. And the three positions of the toggle work as advertised, nothing but headroom in the middle position and then two sizes (I'd call then "small" and "medium") of grit in the other two positions.

But it probably wasn't the most useful of pedals for someone playing into the clean channel of a Katana and having no other dirt pedals. I can put a little subtle breakup in with the left or right toggle switches but by the time I dial them up enough to be really breaking up I don't particularly like the type of distortion they produce. It's OK but doesn't quite convince me to want it in my sound.

My biggest complaint and why it may not end up a long-term keeper is the range of its Volume pot. I want to be able to get overall near unity gain no matter what I set the Gain knob to and with Timmy anything above about 2 on the Volume dial is higher than unity gain. So it's this tiny, dinky little knob that I have to try to nudge about 1-2 degrees left or right and it'll make a big change in the overall gain of the pedal.

I'd rather have a pedal that unity somewhere between 10:00 and 2:00 with plenty room to go higher or lower.

 

[Killing Floor]

Yep. I think my next one will be the BSRI Bluebird. I’m have OD GAS constantly.

 

[smoothrecluse]

It looks like you’re wanting to buy a pedal instead of building one, but I made a couple of Timmy clones a while back for me and my friend, and they’re pretty great. Pedalpcb Tommy III. It’s a Tommy with a more gain toggle switch, and it has a slider switch inside on the board to choose between symmetrical and asymmetrical clipping.

https://www.pedalpcb.com/product/tommy/


Or… if you want to test the Timmy waters without dropping all the cash, you can get a Caline Pure Sky on that Big South American River website for 30 bucks.

 

[NiceTele]

I had a blank canvas for purchasing a mild overdrive and ended up recently with a TRex Moller 2 which wasn't on my original shopping list. Not the most expensive but seems to really suit my Tele and Strat and the selling point was the mix control so I can mix the original and overdrive signal. I keep it on all the time for a nice grainy clean and hit the boost switch for solos. I do have an OCD Ge on the board for a more dirty fat overdrive, but I dont do much heavy sounding stuff at the moment.

 

[loudboy]

I'd check out a Nobels or Wampler Belle, youve got the other flavors covered, and that one is very different.

 

[user name]

I had an original surf green Timmy on my board for a few years. Great pedal and all, but certainly not life changing. I've been buying a few cheap Mooer and Caline type pedals most recently to satisfy curiosity and cure GAS.

 

[justusberlin]

have you looked into the Cornerstone Gladio?

 

[Guitarteach]

Get a 2204 JMP/early JCM800 Marshall circuit amp..

The pedals are just trying to emulate the real thing.

Or get a modeller / multifix with far more options and cool amp IRs.

 

[MichaelD83]

Get a 2204 JMP/early JCM800 Marshall circuit amp..

The pedals are just trying to emulate the real thing.

Or get a modeller / multifix with far more options and cool amp IRs.

To big ! I like small fender amp and pedals.

Not a fan of the digital stuff

 

[MichaelD83]

I'd check out a Nobels or Wampler Belle, youve got the other flavors covered, and that one is very different.

I’ve been curious as to these. Is the nobles like a cranked tweed bassman thing ?

 

[MichaelD83]

It looks like you’re wanting to buy a pedal instead of building one, but I made a couple of Timmy clones a while back for me and my friend, and they’re pretty great. Pedalpcb Tommy III. It’s a Tommy with a more gain toggle switch, and it has a slider switch inside on the board to choose between symmetrical and asymmetrical clipping.

https://www.pedalpcb.com/product/tommy/


Or… if you want to test the Timmy waters without dropping all the cash, you can get a Caline Pure Sky on that Big South American River website for 30 bucks.

I wish I could build but I can’t even soldier an output jack ! Sad, my grandfather soldiered electronics for the lunar module and didn’t even teach me - ironic.

 

[E5RSY]

Revv Tilt

 

[Frank Tricerotops]

Get something from Smiletone Audio, either the Governors Blues, which to my way of thinking is the better version of the Analog Man King of Tone, or the new Kepler Duo Drive, which looks to be a combination Nobels ODR and Marshall Guv'nor.

I've got two of the Governors Blues (V1 and V2) and they're fantastic. So good, in fact, that I sold my genuine, wait-for-two-years King of Tone and kept the Governors Blues.

 

[loudboy]

I’ve been curious as to these. Is the nobles like a cranked tweed bassman thing ?

It's clear, defined and ballsy. A lot of low end. Better for rhythm, it doesn't do the singing single note thing like a Rat or OCD will.

I got the mini and the Wampler, kept the Wampler.

 

[E5RSY]

p.s. Your BOSS collection is missing the most important member: the OD-3. I would correct that oversight before buying any other overdrive pedal.

 

[MichaelD83]

Longtime owner, user, and lover of sd1 bd2 and sd2. Finally broke down and bought an od3 even though I didn’t need it.

It was meh….just ok lots and lots of bass. Low gain was grainy and shrill and high was mushy and woofy. Sent to analog man for the mod and I swear I liked it even less. I have an OCD and while they’re kinda similar imo, the Fulltone is more versatile w my fender amps.

Traded modded od3 + $100 for this shoreline gold thinline. Much happier w this than the OD3.

People swear this was the best boss pedal made but I just don’t get it and that’s ok!!

 

[MichaelD83]

Get something from Smiletone Audio, either the Governors Blues, which to my way of thinking is the better version of the Analog Man King of Tone, or the new Kepler Duo Drive, which looks to be a combination Nobels ODR and Marshall Guv'nor.

I've got two of the Governors Blues (V1 and V2) and they're fantastic. So good, in fact, that I sold my genuine, wait-for-two-years King of Tone and kept the Governors Blues.

It’s up to 6 years and I have 5 to go….that’s if there are still parts left to make mine !

 

[E5RSY]

If you don't like the OD-3, well...

I'd say try a DOD OD-250, then (it's actually the parent circuit of the OCD). A true classic, especially with single coils.

 

[E5RSY]

It’s up to 6 years and I have 5 to go….that’s if there are still parts left to make mine !

Why wait? Mike said something surprising (and probably unintentionally) in MXR's video on the Duke of Tone: Just buy two Dukes of Tone, or two Princes of Tone, instead.