Anyone use the BONEshaker? Some time ago there was a clearance and I got mine for $30. I think it's a great dirt pedal probably my favorite I've used on bass. I've been able to blend in the mix pretty well and use it in different genres.
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DOD Boneshaker
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It's a good dirt pedal with some interesting tone shaping you don't find often.
These days I use it mostly for Baritone Guitar, or down tuned guitar, which it's really good at too.
I use either the Boneshaker or the Carcosa as my main bass dirt.
The EQ is between gain stages. Turn up the band you want more dirt from and it'll help increase the gain, allowing you to turn down the gain knob below 3 o'clock, which is where the noise resides.
The EQ is between gain stages. Turn up the band you want more dirt from and it'll help increase the gain, allowing you to turn down the gain knob below 3 o'clock, which is where the noise resides.
I always use a noise gate with mine. I find it can get a little fizzy on the top end but if you are playing in tha mix I find it blends in between the cymbals and an overdriven guitar.
I really like the unique sound and EQ of the Boneshaker especially for getting the sound of my long ago stolen rare Systech Overdrive. The Systech Overdrive had a band pass filter that boosting the mids and sweeping the mid control comes very close to replicating, much better than any other pedal I've ever had. Short of having @johnk_10 build a replica (I wish I could afford to) .
I've never had issue with noise and it does seem to play well with my broad mix of pedals. It is currently on my jam board.
I've never had issue with noise and it does seem to play well with my broad mix of pedals. It is currently on my jam board.
Kind of a dumb question but, is the switch loud? I had a Carcosa for awhile and the switch was really loud.
I love the sound and feature set, but it really bugs me they choose a graphic of a Penny Farthing for a pedal named Boneshaker. Did they think we wouldn’t notice?
I don't notice it being any louder than other pedals with a similar type switch.
I had it. Incredibly powerful and versatile pedal for the money. But with the massive tonal shipping options available by using the sweepable eq’s I found it too hard to dial in a usable sound. I just kept turning knobs endlessly. To say it another way, it had too many different options for me. Sometimes I need to have some limits on the range of sounds i can create otherwise I just kind of lose myself.
I like it.
By chance right after I bought it I found a Hotwheels car that happens to have a similar paint scheme and the same name. Weird.
By chance right after I bought it I found a Hotwheels car that happens to have a similar paint scheme and the same name. Weird.
I, too, find the Boneshaker has almost too many options - mostly because once I get it set it gets changed again by the next time I use it. I need to work with the Caracosa some more.
If Velocipede is the Family, Boneshaker would be the Genus, Penny Farthing, the Species.
I have a Boneshaker. Very good, pretty flexible, high-gain dirt pedal. I got it for basically $20 as part of the Meatbox + Boneshaker $120 bundle (the “meat and bones” deal), which was cool since the Meatbox alone was $99. No question the best $20 pedal of all time.
However, as much as I like it, it just got kicked off my main board by a (notably more expensive) Damnation Audio MBD-2. The MBD-2 is even more savage, and I find it easier to dial in. But I’m definitely keeping the Boneshaker because I do still like it and there are contexts where I’ll still use it. For example, still my go-to for things like “Should I Stay or Should I Go.”
However, as much as I like it, it just got kicked off my main board by a (notably more expensive) Damnation Audio MBD-2. The MBD-2 is even more savage, and I find it easier to dial in. But I’m definitely keeping the Boneshaker because I do still like it and there are contexts where I’ll still use it. For example, still my go-to for things like “Should I Stay or Should I Go.”
These were a FOTM at one point around here, I think one of the designers or CS reps was active in an official thread while it was still in R&D. Apparently there was a screwup in the manufacturing process, something along the lines of a decimal place being wrong when ordering parts, resulting in an overstock. So they ended up getting blown out at ridiculous prices (like $20) to burn up the unsold inventory. Seemed like people stopped raving about it around the time of the second or third blowout.
Could've been a coincidence, or just the typical boom and bust pedal lifecycle, but part of me did wonder if it fell out of favor purely due to the price and subsequent ubiquity kind of staining the early adopters' cachet.
Could've been a coincidence, or just the typical boom and bust pedal lifecycle, but part of me did wonder if it fell out of favor purely due to the price and subsequent ubiquity kind of staining the early adopters' cachet.
I got annoyed cos I bought mine for full price and then they stayed flogging them for low prices…
I sold mine cos I didn’t like the multitude of options / noise I got out of it and the depth control didn’t do hardly anything on my 5 string and the reply got back was that it was working as intended
(I believe johnk modded it to work better but I didn’t have the skills to mess with it.
I sold mine cos I didn’t like the multitude of options / noise I got out of it and the depth control didn’t do hardly anything on my 5 string and the reply got back was that it was working as intended
(I believe johnk modded it to work better but I didn’t have the skills to mess with it.
I bought most of the DOD pedals including the Boneshaker when Harman was almost giving them away during the holidays.
The boneshaker was one of the pedals that came and quickly went from that holiday DOD splurge. I think it simply came down to already having a distortion pedal configuration that I liked and the Boneshaker would've been an unnecessary addition.
The boneshaker was one of the pedals that came and quickly went from that holiday DOD splurge. I think it simply came down to already having a distortion pedal configuration that I liked and the Boneshaker would've been an unnecessary addition.
