To be perfectly honest, trying to get what you're describing with a pedal isn't the best way to go about it it. What you're really looking for is thicker sounding pickups and/or the girth and creamy grit of a tube amp. Maybe you should fill out your profile so we can see what you're using.
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Small girthy overdrive?
- Thread starter paradigm_shift
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Mesa 400+, Warwick infinity 5. Ampeg 810e . I've currently got a green russian muff. I know it can do a sound in the vain I want it to but its more fuzzy than Im wanting. I've tried the sublime with the gain all the way down. Thus why I gave those as examples as the vein of sound I'm looking for.I know its a sound achievable in a pedal format- I just haven't heard that pedal yet. How I'm wanting to use the pedal I've described is in a clean blend. Using this setup in stoner /doom / psychedalic /metal type contexts.
bongomania
Commercial User
Given that description, I definitely think you'd like the Gemini Drive. It works great in those genres, but has more bite and articulation than a fuzz, and it has a clean blend built in already.
Geminidrive. It's my pretty much always on pedal. I still want to get a second one so that I can have the gemini switch always on on one pedal, and off on the other.
A cheap, effective way to get it would be a TS-9 and mod it. A Digitech Bad Monkey is pretty nice stock.
The only ways I've gotten a full/fat sounding OD is with my Bassman and SVT... Split your signal and go one side clean to one channel and one side dirty to the other. Clean channel maintains the full sound/lows & the dirty sides gives you the OD tone. I used a Big Muff for a long time but it gets real muddy real quick when you play fast. I've also tried the ODB3 and hated it, the ProCo Rat and thought it was OK, and finally the MXR Distortion+ which was the best of the smallish disto pedals I've tried. Honestly, the best distortion I've gotten is through my old Peavey Max100 but it's huge.
Silent Fly
Commercial User
I would suggest the Way Huge Electronics Swollen Pickle. It's a fuzz pedal but it's got great articulation and the it can get in OD territory by turning the gain down.
Great bass and plenty of girth.
Great bass and plenty of girth.
Did you ever look into any outboard preamps as opposed to just OD pedals? Example: My Aguilar Tone Hammer adds a nice bit of "juice" to my Jazz bass. It's gain staging can be really effective IMO to adding a nice bit of girth to my signal.
i say dredgetone bass angler. goes from fatboost-ish to light fuzz-ish. lots of good reviews here on TB, and john's currently building them again.
Both of these would be good options.
Have a look at the Crowther Hotcake as well
I happened across this thread and have been watching it for a few days now...
I've had my eye on the SFT and Holy Fire for a while, and now the Gemini Drive. Are the Electronix Gemini Drive and Zeibek version the same thing? I wish I could find more info, but all I've found is their website and the Bassfuzz.com Youtube video. I didn't know I wanted the Gemini until I heard the clips. lol
I've never been the hugest overdrive fan, but now I kind of want to do a shootout with these three. lol
5sg.
I've had my eye on the SFT and Holy Fire for a while, and now the Gemini Drive. Are the Electronix Gemini Drive and Zeibek version the same thing? I wish I could find more info, but all I've found is their website and the Bassfuzz.com Youtube video. I didn't know I wanted the Gemini until I heard the clips. lol
I've never been the hugest overdrive fan, but now I kind of want to do a shootout with these three. lol
5sg.
+1
A modded Bad Monkey did it for me, but I've already got a smooth, girthy rig with Aggie DB750 and 15" cabs
Some of the better quality OD's such as Xotic BB will be too transparently "cutting" or edgy.. not warm and creamy.
Oh, and if you really want creamy girth, try using.. flatwounds.
I had a Rust Ride for a while and definitely wouldn't classify it as a light overdrive. It didn't sound bad, but it was quite a bit more crunchy than I wanted (and what it sounds like the original poster is looking for). I also didn't like that it was TOO simple, it doesn't have separate volume and gain controls... turning up the knob turns up the overdrive and the volume at the same time.
Just not my thing I guess... Sold it before it even hit my pedalboard.
5sg.
