humfree Posted June 17, 2015 Posted June 17, 2015 Paul Trombetta Design Custom - I requested the little skeleton guy Right to left as the signal path flows - The Roto Bone - Kush - Betta Boost The Roto is a unique fuzz hidden amongst an array of gain options. The top switch (far right) toggles between OD and Fuzz. The OD sounds more like a gain channel than overdrive. You can push the OD to where fuzz begins, where the spitting starts becoming more pronounced. I'm trying to keep this short, but there are awesome incremental tones here. Once you engage the fuzz, it gets big, and is ready to octave. The little knob on top controls the 'Mood', and the two knobs beneath interact to produce bigness and it starts to octave. Octaves can be random, but you're not after those. Once it begins to octave, you back off on the mood until the pedal is on the edge of octaving, and the juicy fuzz with a wall of awesomeness begins. It is HUGE. It is monsterous. You can't help but smile. Very touch sensitive and expressive with light picking, and downright nasty and rude when you dig in. And it spits as though the notes are coming from some subsonic otherworld into a new reality. Pretty deep, eh? It's a fucking deep pedal. Here's a vid of the Mini-Bone, essentially a Roto with sweeping bone. The Kush is your basic Marshall style overdrive, volume, tone, gain, while the Betta Boost is an OUTSTANDING boost that should be called 'HEADROOM'. It is headroom, it's awesome. The Betta Boost makes everything it touches sound better, and takes even the Roto, with no problem. Without knowing Paul I never would have lusted after these tones. Buying from a small builder with a long wait time is not an attractive scenario for me, but once I played them, I had to have them. Never been happier with my board. When I sell a Hamer to buy PTD, you know it's a serious thing. Sorry to be so wordy, I could write a book on these. Here's Paul's YouTube page if you'd like to hear more: http://www.paultrombettadesign.com/youtube.html
Montelovesco Posted June 18, 2015 Posted June 18, 2015 Rockett Blue Note..Perfect OD. Very subtle, but once you got it on the board you don't want to turn it off.Got it from here. Still thankfull.
velorush Posted June 18, 2015 Posted June 18, 2015 Menatone Fish Factory - one pedal combining the Red Snapper and Workingman's blues ODs. Replaced my Fulltone II and has resisted all challengers for the past 5 years. I half that emotion! My Red Snapper has taken all challengers (thanks in part to the liberal return policy of PGS). I've had quite a few overdrives through since I found this one (eBay? HFC? can't remember) and I seriously can't find anything I like better. Mine isn't even the TGP-approved original version. It's the run-of-the-mill small box, four knob version. Love it!
Jakeboy Posted June 18, 2015 Posted June 18, 2015 For someone who has never been a pedal guy, I have been buying a bunch over the last year or so....Teese Real McCoy Wheels of Fire wah....been my only wah since 2007....used at every gigStrymon Flint reverb and trem.....for all my amps without.....perfect at what it doesDiaz Texas Ranger Treble Booster....just picked this one up. 70s Classic Rock tones through my tweeds. Love it.Boss Tu2....had one forever and it does what it does just fine...tough tooStartouch ABY pedal to swap channels and jumper my NMV amps. Bulletproof and well-madeEHX Soul Food Klone...$53 and it sounds incredible....I will hold off on anymore as I have a fuzz and a Klone inbound from Monsterpiece
santellavision Posted June 18, 2015 Author Posted June 18, 2015 Two more of mine to add to the "Must check out" list: Bogner Burnley Distortion. There's just something about Bogner's idea of tone that I really dig. I have his Atma lunchbox 18 watt amp and it talks to me. This pedal has the same magic. Huge tone with lots of detail, must be the Rupert Neve design inside. Definitely not cheap, but worth it.Emerson EM-Drive. A really great Overdrive, not too heavy, just right. Very early Plexi sounding, but not bloated and over-the-top. Huge bottom end which many pedals lack, this just sounds 'bigger' than any OD I have (In a great way, not mushy) I use it for all my medium gain tunes.
bubs_42 Posted June 19, 2015 Posted June 19, 2015 I've thought about this and I've been through all kinds of pedals. No matter what is on the board or how big the board is the Visual Sound Buffer is a must.
TheDan Posted June 19, 2015 Posted June 19, 2015 Boss HM-2 Black label. All controls to the right of course
KofSeattle Posted June 19, 2015 Posted June 19, 2015 Tim overdrive pedal for me. My favorite of all the distortion/ overdrive pedals I've tried. Just sounds great.Tim Pearce is awesome. I didn't know he had his own line of pedals. Cool!
Grandturk Posted June 19, 2015 Posted June 19, 2015 TS-9 Tubescreamer I bought in the early 90's when they first reissued them. Tried the rest. This one has stayed with me.
RobB Posted June 19, 2015 Posted June 19, 2015 Teese Wizard wah and Joe Walsh sig. Both equally awesome. Geoffrey knows how to make wahs, period.(orig) MXR flangerBoss DD-3 (Analogman mod). I always come back to this one.Red Witch Moon Phasor. Tons of sounds, all great. Phase/Tremelo and combos of the two. A real sleeper.ADA flanger. Dat shit can gits funkaDELIC, muhfukkahs!
BadgerDave Posted June 19, 2015 Posted June 19, 2015 Menatone Fish Factory - one pedal combining the Red Snapper and Workingman's blues ODs. Replaced my Fulltone II and has resisted all challengers for the past 5 years. I half that emotion! My Red Snapper has taken all challengers (thanks in part to the liberal return policy of PGS). I've had quite a few overdrives through since I found this one (eBay? HFC? can't remember) and I seriously can't find anything I like better. Mine isn't even the TGP-approved original version. It's the run-of-the-mill small box, four knob version. Love it! That's interesting. I immediately bonded with the Workingman's Blue side of the Fish Factory. Couldn't find a bad tone in it. The Red Snapper side forced me to work with it until I found the sweet spot. Once I did, I was hooked, but I may not have put in the effort had I not liked the blue side so much.
MCChris Posted June 19, 2015 Posted June 19, 2015 At least I have one thing in common with Paul Gilbert (and it ain't talent).
Ethan Posted June 20, 2015 Posted June 20, 2015 Usually I won't play without a....-Dunlop Volume (X) pedal-Boss TU3-Aguilar Tone Hammer (bass)Other stuff I like a lot, for both bass and guitar....-Z Vex Box of Rock-EH Small Stone-some kind of delay, either Tech 21 Boost DLA, TC Nova Repeater, or Boss DD5-EH Holy Grail-Fuzzrocious Rat Tail
lang Posted June 20, 2015 Posted June 20, 2015 Favorite pedal? Retro-sonic chorus. Just has a gorgeous sound to it.... Love it.
RobB Posted June 21, 2015 Posted June 21, 2015 Favorite pedal? Retro-sonic chorus. Just has a gorgeous sound to it.... Love it.Ooh, good one. Their phaser is great, too. Kind of a souped-up Phase90, more aggressive/cutting but has the cool MIX control.
Teh Posted June 21, 2015 Posted June 21, 2015 Another thumbs up for the OCD. I love the way you get the dirt you want but the character of the guitar still comes through clearly.
Jeff R Posted June 23, 2015 Posted June 23, 2015 Considering I've had the same TC Electronic Flashback delay sitting atop my amp, on at all times, and knobs rarely if ever tweaked, for over four years now, I'd say that's a nice endorsement. It was originally a bang-for-buck delay solution but it has worked so well for me, I can't justify shopping for a "better" substitute anytime soon.The only other pedal that's a mainstay for me lately is the Xotic BB Preamp. I got it earlier this year to add some "color" to what my amp already does quite well, and I cannot believe I went as long as I did without this little box - I'd swear this pedal was made with my hands and ears in mind.
cmatthes Posted June 23, 2015 Posted June 23, 2015 I don't use a ton of pedals, but the ones that I do like the best are: * TU-2 (except for playing outdoors...) * Tech21 BassDriver DI - always in there when playing bass * MXR MicroAmp - great boost/"secret weapon" * BBE SoulVibe - thickens things up dialed all the way down, gets a decent phase to rotary sound too. Don't play any Strat/Strat-style guitar without it! I don't use it very often, but my all-time favorite Flanger is this one: Too damned cool.
MCChris Posted June 23, 2015 Posted June 23, 2015 * MXR MicroAmp - great boost/"secret weapon"* BBE SoulVibe - thickens things up dialed all the way down, gets a decent phase to rotary sound tooBoth great pedals.
sonic1974 Posted June 23, 2015 Posted June 23, 2015 Tim overdrive pedal for me. My favorite of all the distortion/ overdrive pedals I've tried.Just sounds great.Tim Pearce is awesome. I didn't know he had his own line of pedals. Cool! Sonic is talking about the Tim pedal made by Paul Cochrane. It has nothing to do with Tim Pearce. Tim Pearce has his own pedal from Rockett called the Tim Pearce OD. Two completely different boxes.Yep , that's the one I meant. Not familiar with Tim Pearce.
LordsoftheJungle Posted June 23, 2015 Posted June 23, 2015 Strymon El Capistan - plugged it in and there it was the slapback I was looking for. For outboard reverb Van Amps Soul-Mate - easier than a Fender unit and almost as good. Drives. Had a Klon until I had a clone made by a local builder that was indistinguishable. Have a Soul Food that is pretty good too but you loose some low end. Have a Landgraff LDO that IMO is the perfect Tube Screamer type, but there are so many out there who knows. Other than that, Keeley Compressor and Turbo tuner will never come off my board. Which Klon clone? I've been thinking of trying one but the "clone" part always makes me cynical...
django49 Posted June 23, 2015 Posted June 23, 2015 ^^^^There is probably a quip in there for "What would you do do do, for a Klon dyke, Bart?"Goofing aside, these are pretty good.....But must add that I have not actually played a "real" Klon.http://www.effectsdatabase.com/model/rimrock/mythicaloverdrive
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