Anyone into these overdrive stompboxes?

[The BurgerMeister]

i've been considering one of those Flip boxes for a while... glad to hear someone's got some firsthand knowledge.

 

[bongomania]

Yeah, me too. I have owned the Flip tremolo and compressor pedals, and they had a lot of great sounds and tweakability, so I would expect the same from their distortion.

 

[babagau]

Very nice... and lollollol (yeah, we should ban Templar ;-)
excellent photo. And we sure do not need Viagra, bassagra is fine! When I searched "Ezekiel" it threw some Ancient Egyptian stuff!!! lololol. At last ok, found it. Thread has expanded into other brands too, cool, Tonefactor, D*A*M, Tec21, it sounded too modern for me I think... I run into Frantone too, but I guess it's sounds are too fat for me... the desighs are lovely!!! I think I lean towards Lovetone Cheese Source, I liked markjazzbassist's review. It is expensive but it's 2 in 1. The Guyatone has been indeed discontinued. This week I'm gonna search at the local shops here in Birmingham.

 

[Toasted]

It wont get you that light overdrive sound. It'll do almost any other distortion/fuzz, but not that light grit.

 

[Phyrexian]

That Guyatone tube drive pedals looks cool. Too bad they're that rare...

 

[babagau]

Thanks for the advice Toasted I’ll keep it in mind for the Lovetone, 2 days ago I tried the maybe most usual pedal, the Boss-ODB3 or so and it sounded far better than my Korg AX10B multifx, which I wanna get rid of. But still, I haven’t tried any analog/tube/germanium/semiconductor/whatever to understand better how they sound. I think most will be too raw for me. There are TOO many choices, and it’s confusing. Some guitar o/d pedals have a low end suitable for bass guitar and vice versa. Many samples of bass overdrive pedals are recorded with a guitar! This way I can’t figure out much. I guess I just have to try in stores whatever I can and see by myself. A month ago I tried for fun the Boss MT-2 metal zone from a pozer guitarist here, and it was strange but surely not what I have in mind! I attach the file. It’s Ibanez SR-300 custom fretless  Boss MT-2 metal zone  a GUITAR marshall amp around 30-50W I don’t remember (didn’t care)  Beyerdynamic M201TG mic  Hercules FW 1612 audio inteface at 16bit/96khz. I will also listen to many old stuff I have and pay more attention to overdriven basses. Yeah, that should be cool. After all, whatever I buy, I can sell it later.

 

[babagau]

I forgot!
The distortion at the sample was with a setting near the softest. The amp had all tre at 0, I don't remember mids & bass.
Also, the OBD-1 is analog, I thought it was digital, so I HAVE played with an analog bass pedal!!!lol

 

[babagau]

Finally I ordered today the Guyatone BB-X from http://www.godlyke.com/
Although it is discontinued, there are still some left...
But e-mail them cause they don't list them on the website... I'll post review/samples when I am at ease with it.

 

[Iridescentone]

Finally I ordered today the Guyatone BB-X from http://www.godlyke.com/
Although it is discontinued, there are still some left...
But e-mail them cause they don't list them on the website... I'll post review/samples when I am at ease with it.

Interesting, I wonder if they have any purple Flip bass comps left over.

Oh I forgot to mention that the BB-X may need a tube swap, depending on what 12AX7 comes in it. I got mine from TB'er Sunbeast, and he had a good tube in it already. Just sayin'....

 

[bongomania]

Interesting, I wonder if they have any purple Flip bass comps left over.

There's one on Ebay right now.