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Overdrive pedal capable of clean boost
- Thread starter valaka
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Great pedal, and I really like mine. But I wouldn’t call it transparent, and it never gets totally clean.
A Seymour Duncan 805 might do the trick— relatively transparent, capable of clean boost and high gain— might be slightly over budget.
In fact I am looking for something like MojoMojo, but with more dB of clean boost and better driven sounds.
Thank you guys for all your advices, I appreciate that.
I really won’t buy anything above 150
. Unfortunatelly, because there are some that could meet my needs.
Most interesting to me is sfx Beta mkII. Has both clean (preamp with convincing tubey sounds) and od mode. However, since I already have a tube pre, I would prefer something more transparent. OCD could be good for that tho.
EQD Plumes would be perfect, gosh, if it only had some sort of bass knob, it sucks too much low end... Do you guys know anything like that?
Maybe I will buy EQD Westwood, if I find it really cheap. But even in this case I am not sure - maybe it doesn’t boost enough.
I really won’t buy anything above 150
. Unfortunatelly, because there are some that could meet my needs.Most interesting to me is sfx Beta mkII. Has both clean (preamp with convincing tubey sounds) and od mode. However, since I already have a tube pre, I would prefer something more transparent. OCD could be good for that tho.
EQD Plumes would be perfect, gosh, if it only had some sort of bass knob, it sucks too much low end... Do you guys know anything like that?
Maybe I will buy EQD Westwood, if I find it really cheap. But even in this case I am not sure - maybe it doesn’t boost enough.
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Thank you guys for all your advices, I appreciate that.
I really won’t buy anything above 150
Most interesting to me is sfx Beta mkII. Has both clean (preamp with convincing tubey sounds) and od mode. However, since I already have a tube pre, I would prefer something more transparent. OCD could be good for that tho.
EQD Plumes would be perfect, gosh, if it only had some sort of bass knob, it sucks too much low end... Do you guys know anything like that?
Maybe I will buy EQD Westwood, if I find it really cheap. But even in this case I am not sure - maybe it doesn’t boost enough.
The 4 knob spark did this well for me. I just wanted something that could get a little more dirt on it.
I offered a place on Reverb $100 for a Westwood and it got accepted. As much as I hate Reverb, you can find some pretty good deals if you are patient.
I have a Mosky Golden Horse. It is exactly what you are describing. It’s a Klon Centaur clone that cost about $30 bucks on Amazon. If you’re looking for that “pushed” sound, it nails it. Running it with the gain low and the level up makes my amp sound like it’s turned up louder than it is.
also looking for the same sorta thing, but ideally with a separate boost/OD channels so i can select either/both during a set without having to adjust knobs between songs/song parts. ZVEX Box of Rock has that kinda configuration (and has that compact MXR/TC Electronics footprint), anyone use that with any success for bass? or a similarly small/versatile double-switch OD+boost pedal?
If you can find a used Grizzly Bass, it may be worth looking into. It has a Gain knob that can be used as a clean boost when the Overdrive and Distortion knobs are turned down.
The Source Audio Aftershock has a Clean boost engine as one of it's 49 distortion type engines. If you create a patch using that engine...you have a clean boost. It's also got an inbuilt LPF, HPF and 4 band EQ too. Plus it's stereo or 2 channel if you want to assign different engines to each channel.
