new toy

[rightonthemark]

went to sweetwater today and picked up a new toy.
i only live about an hour and a half away but had never been there.
i liked that with my marshall mg i didn’t use any external fx except a wah. but the amp didn’t have enough drive for the brian may red special. so i went on the search for a ts808 style overdrive for an affordable price. this little pedal was just the ticket.

rock and roll ain't pretty; that's why they picked us to play it.

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[Byron]

I have never liked built in effects myself; always found their quality to be substandard.

Cool OD pedal. You should demo it for us!

I’m glad I don’t live anywhere near Sweetwater or my wife would never see me.

[rightonthemark]

my wife came with me. we made a day of it. stopped and ate at a local barbecue joint afterward called shig’s in pit. good food.

i never had built in fx until i got the marshall mg. and truth is i don’t use much. nothing crazy.
i have the four channels set up like this…
1 – clean with reverb and chorus (the chorus is barely there)
2 – light crunch with reverb
3 – full overdrive with reverb
4 – full overdrive with reverb and delay and a slight volume boost from the other three channels as it is my lead channel.
note that all the reverb settings are very mild. just enough so it doesn’t sound dead and dry.
for the amp overdrive i just use od1. there is an od2 but not a fan of it and it’s noisy.
the amp sounds great with my heritage. but the brian may is so clean with the burns single coils that with the current settings it doesn’t give me enough drive.
the od pedal i bought has a subtle, smooth and natural breakup just like a tube screamer at a better price.
i haven’t tried it with my gear yet but it should work quite well. in the store i used a standard strat thru and fender champ and it had a really nice smooth sound with a natural overdrive.
at some point i will get a band room recording using the new pedal.

rock and roll ain't pretty; that's why they picked us to play it.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 9 months ago by rightonthemark.
• This reply was modified 4 years, 9 months ago by rightonthemark.

[Anonymous]

I think everyone should have a TS style od in their pedal arsenal. I use the Fulldrive II MOSFET, and would have suggested it if you hadn’t already got the East River. I like it. THE EHX is a very good pedal. It will also help add some mids to those single coils. I will forewarn you about any TS style drive with the following: You need a little dirt going on already for them to sound “right”. On a completely clean signal, much more than 11:00-noon will result in you hearing a dirty signal and a clean signal simultaneously. Now, if you even have a little speaker breakup, it will blend beautifully and give you a nice in between tone.

[rightonthemark]

after listening to a bunch of reviews it came down to the east river drive and the mojo mojo from tc electronics. sweetwater happened to be out of the mojo mojo for me to try out. so the east river drive it was. and i’m pretty happy with it.
and yeah i tried it on the clean channel and it did have that weird clean and dirty simultaneous sound. but i didn’t buy it for that. just wanted to see what it sounded like by itself. i use it primarily on my crunch channel just for a little extra push. it also works good with my lead channel.

rock and roll ain't pretty; that's why they picked us to play it.

[Anonymous]

The TS style od just seems to tighten things up in a way that nothing else does. I even like them with very little drive into my lead channel of my Peavey just to give it “something more”. Not necessarily more distortion, just something else.

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