2 Overdrive pedals?

[blister179]

Hi! I was looking at the thread with people posting their own pedal boards and i noticed a few people having 2 overdrive pedals. eg. boss overdrive and bass big muff. (Im a beginner and building up my own pedal board) and curious as to why? Is it for selecting between an overdrive and a distortion sound or personal preference or just for the joy of owning the pedals?

Haha thanks for any advice given!

[vegas532]

Overdrive, Distortion, and Fuzz are three distinctly different types of gain structure with three distinctly different sounds.

[xray]

Some of us just can't get enough O-V-E-R-D-R-I-V-E. I have 3 on my board, soon to have 6 when Devi returns to action! Rock-On. It's a joyous thing.

[Matt Dean]

Different flavors... one colors my signal with Ampeg and the other is more transparent and overdrives the original tone of my amp; and like xray says... just can't get enough!

[cheapbasslovin]

There's a FAQ at the top of the effects forum page. Lots o' goodies there to learn. The short version of your answer is that overdrives (or fuzzes or distortions for that matter) don't all sound the same. Different songs call for different tones. Also staging one dirt pedal into another can yield startling results. YMMV.

[bongomania]

Originally Posted by vegas532

Overdrive, Distortion, and Fuzz are three distinctly different types of gain structure with three distinctly different sounds.

+1
Also, even when the pedals in question aren't so easy to categorize, there are enough variety of "flavors" of dirt out there that it is perfectly reasonable to want one fuzz for one type of song, and a different fuzz for another type of song, and a "light overdrive" for generally tubey/vintage tone, and a somewhat heavier OD/distortion for harder rocking breakdowns, and a squealing feedback distortion for grandiose outros.

[dannybuoy]

I've got overdrive, distortion and fuzz on my board. Why? For the same reason I have ham, bacon and pork chops in my fridge.

[liquid-dream-ex]

different sounds. also... both engaged at the same time can sound very nice.

[blister179]

Originally Posted by dannybuoy

I've got overdrive, distortion and fuzz on my board. Why? For the same reason I have ham, bacon and pork chops in my fridge.

This says it all! Thanks to all for the advice!

[theunknowndude]

please note,... run far far away whilst you can...


there are some that are filter junkies, some that are delay junkies etc... I didn't mean to or try to but somehow, I became a dirt junkie....

I unintentionally now have 9 dirt pedals... some sounds are just so awesome that you just have to own them,... only to find they don't sit in the mix or they sounded different through somone elses bass or through clips on the net,... other times you love them and wish you could have 100 to populate your pedal boards and give to all your friends... right now tho, im just trying to be use what I have,... the funniest thing of all is that I go back to the ibanez PD7 as my main pedal despite the many more expensive options... end of the day, effects are for making people happy and it does it for me