Aside from a smaller form factor like the MBD2 and CD2, I like the idea of a mid-forward MBD with some germanium flavour and a hi/lo switch.
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I got mine a couple of weeks ago and that was my reaction too. It has a place on my board.
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I'm busy with a pink/purple pedalboard and I didn't want to kick the MBD-2 off, so I changed the knobs. I like the results
I dig this!! Where'd you find the knobs?
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For those who have gone from an MBD1 to a 2, what settings have you had to change to get the same tone as before? Knobs don't seem to be 1:1.
Thanks.
Thanks.
For me, pretty much all except the tone control.
I've A/B'ed the 1 & 2 a bit, and it's certainly not a 1:1 with the knobs.
But, at the end of the day, I still get my tone, so I'm happy.
Thanks. Do you remember how you had to change each to get the same tone as before?
Without seeing them right now, I know I had to raise both the clean and volume, along with the gain.
I'd have to A/B them again to show exact settings.
Thanks. That's a good lead. Fortunately I have both here to A/B.
Got an MBD2 the other day and wow is this thing awesome. It's just covering that kind of Geddy grind for me in front of an SLO but it just slams at every gain setting. If you could only have one, this one sure feels like it.
Sorry Ken,
I spoke too soon.
I forgot I took pics of when I last A/B'ed them.
These are roughly the "same"
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Additionally, my MBD-1 is an early '17, so it's pre boost-trim, so the gain range of my 1, is different than that of my 2.
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I feel the same.
I have a number of solid dirt pedals, but the MBD just has "it"
Thanks! Funny, so far I've found the 2's settings for Gain and Depth needed to be higher than the 1's. But mine is later, though I didn't touch any internal stuff.
No depth was used on either, but yes,
100% agreed.
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Sascha Erni
Making things go whoomp, whoomp since 1994
Short question regarding the MBD2's noise floor: Don't know whether I just had a bad day last night, but at practice I found the MBD2 to be quite noisy, even at lower gain settings – and very noisy with the +20 dB switch engaged.
Now, I know what people consider "acceptable noise" or even "no noise", or "too noisy", is highly subjective. So my question is rather binary and going to extremes:
Do you find your MBD2 to be practically noiseless, or is there at least some easily discernible noise for you?
Now, I know what people consider "acceptable noise" or even "no noise", or "too noisy", is highly subjective. So my question is rather binary and going to extremes:
Do you find your MBD2 to be practically noiseless, or is there at least some easily discernible noise for you?
My MBD2 is only noisey when I use my preferred 'bucker equipped basses in single-coil mode, which is most of the time.
Whenever I switch those basses to parallel or series mode, it gets astonishingly quiet.
Whenever I switch those basses to parallel or series mode, it gets astonishingly quiet.
Never thought I’d find “It” after about 5 or 6 straight years of OD shopping. I tried a lot and love many. I ended up using a modded pork loin for a while. Then went to the Dunwich ODB. Then I got the MBD. And yeah, echoing the same experience as many here, I have rarely even considered swapping it out as my main OD tone. It’s what I’ve heard in my head for years and couldn’t find in any other pedal. After I tried it at its first and maybe second practice, got it dialed in, that was it. GAS has just about been non existent in the OD realm since.
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It had been the only constant on my pedalboard for the last 1-2 years.
