Looking for a pedal that goes from a good od to full on distortion. I have a bad monkey and like it, but I would like to try something new. I believe something with a blend feature would be good for me. Also don't want to loose any of the lows. I've read about almost everything on tb but still undecided. I would get the darkglass b3k but its out of my range. Any other suggestions?
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mild to wild od distortion
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Rusty Box
I made a thread with soundclips of various styles, and progressively increasing gain settings with clean reference clips for comparison a while back for the Rusty Box. Search for threads started by me to find it. I'm on my phone otherwise I'd link you to it.
I made a thread with soundclips of various styles, and progressively increasing gain settings with clean reference clips for comparison a while back for the Rusty Box. Search for threads started by me to find it. I'm on my phone otherwise I'd link you to it.
I have used numerous ODs including the Bad Monkey. Recently I decided to try an actual fuzz and at last, I found the tone I'd been looking for. I got the Brown Dog, which can get wonderfully wild and has a really flexible gate. But if I turn down the gate, put the drive on the less aggressive side and blend in just a bit of the fuzz with the clean, it gives a really nice fur. So I'll recommend you try a Brown Dog or other gated fuzz that has blendable fuzz/clean. The IE Oxide sure looks appealing and everyone's samples sound great.
P.S., I'd give samples, but Ed Friedland's video review covers it all really well and he's a much better player than I am!
P.S., I'd give samples, but Ed Friedland's video review covers it all really well and he's a much better player than I am!
My Aguilar Agro does that - almost clean boost all the way up to raging distortion. Some folks say they think it loses lows, but I don't agree (if you set it 'right').
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rockstarbassist
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If you like the TS style stuff, the Xotic Bass BB preamp is a great pedal. I use that for my light/mild stuff and then a properly done 
D) Boss ODB-3 for the heavier stuff. With both I can cover everything we do, no problem.
D) Boss ODB-3 for the heavier stuff. With both I can cover everything we do, no problem.
I've always touted the Tech 21 Leeds as an excellent overdrive, that can do mild to wild:
Mild:
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I sold it though, and got an Oxford and think i like it even better.
There's barely any Tech 21 Oxford clips on bass on the internet, and none with a Ric - specifically with crappy playing by yours truly(excuse my piece of crap MAudio drivers too):
Orange Ox by Infant Molecule on SoundCloud - Create, record and share your sounds for free
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I sold it though, and got an Oxford and think i like it even better.
There's barely any Tech 21 Oxford clips on bass on the internet, and none with a Ric - specifically with crappy playing by yours truly(excuse my piece of crap MAudio drivers too):
Orange Ox by Infant Molecule on SoundCloud - Create, record and share your sounds for free
bongomania
Commercial User
The Exar Bass Distortion is very, very versatile that way. There is some discussion of it here in a thread titled "Exar Tourbox". Disclaimer--I'm the vendor. 
Thanks for the clips! Sounds good. I never really thought about the tech 21 guitar pedals. I have been interested in the vt and para driver.
Yeah - there's not many times I feel like digging in hard enough to rip the strings off my instrument.
The Oxford definitely has an angry overdriven grind that I totally didn't expect.
FaithNoMan said:
Maybe that's why Geddy have 2 AD200Mk3.
What do you think about the Oxford tone regarding the low/mid/high knob position? It seems like the lows position have to be set quite beyond 15:00 to achieve nice lows, while the mids are a bit boomy, so usually no more than 12:00-13:00.
Yeah, I totally forgot about Geddy using Orange now. I was expecting a duller, blanket over the treble type thing. Something darker than the Leeds. This was a pleasant surprise, and a good match for my 4003.
I usually tend to have the mids and bass near each other and the treble just a notch above them - I'll probably experiment with bass a "little" higher, but I noticed no problems with bass output on this thing.
This was my first time using it, and it took me a LOT less fuss to get an aggressive sound than the Leeds. The bass level is very dependent on the character knob position on this pedal(b/c of Orange's "Frequency Analyzing Control"). Somewhere at or below the middle seems to be a good sweet spot for bass output and harmonic content. Below 9:00 or 10:00 the bass drops off considerably, but everything you need is past there anyway.
This was the settings I used:
Mail me your bass, and I'll make a few soundbites
I'll try to get a fingerstyle clip up at some point.
