#1 · Nov 27, 2014 03:30 UTC
I've recently tried several overdrive pedals out, looking for a good red dirt tone. One was a Fulltone GT500, and it was harsh. Even borrowed a Line6 PODxt Live pedal (which I could not find one decent tone on...not one. I've never heard so many bad tones out of one product in my life). It was the worst of everything I tried. By far. Tried a few others...nothing rich or full sounding.
I finally stumbled across a rather cheap little pedal, and thought I would give it a try because it has a 'low' EQ knob (amongst other knobs). That has always been my beef with 'Screamers and the like....the bottom end drops out when you engage them. I'm looking for something with a full sound for red dirt rythms (with my amp's clean channel), and using my lead channel on my amp (set at very low gain) for the leads. Pretty much the same way my singer uses his Marshall Guvner pedal for rythms, and hits the lead channel on his Blues Deluxe for solos.
What I found was...LOL...a Bad Monkey pedal. $49 new.
I do have a rather different setup. My RP500 now runs through the effects loop. Since that takes it more to the back of the 'chain', I use it primarily for delay and EQ. It works very, very nicely there for those. And as I said before, due to the input/output knobs of the effects loop on the amp, it also acts as a power soak. When using the rythm channel of the amp (which is my primary for rock-to-heavy sounds), it rips it up at bedroom volume.
But back to the Monkey. It is in front, and just sounds awesome with the clean channel (with the EQ coming on the backside from the RP). That low EQ knob alone is worth every penny I spent on that pedal. Plus it has more gain on tap than I need from it.
I spent a bit tonight matching tones with one of my Fav Red Dirt bands, Cross Canadian Ragweed. The link is the song I matched. The only difference is, I used the second position on my gitter switch to get some 'quack' involved. God knows I wish I could record my rig right now.
Link to song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esX4ESbdYgc
I finally stumbled across a rather cheap little pedal, and thought I would give it a try because it has a 'low' EQ knob (amongst other knobs). That has always been my beef with 'Screamers and the like....the bottom end drops out when you engage them. I'm looking for something with a full sound for red dirt rythms (with my amp's clean channel), and using my lead channel on my amp (set at very low gain) for the leads. Pretty much the same way my singer uses his Marshall Guvner pedal for rythms, and hits the lead channel on his Blues Deluxe for solos.
What I found was...LOL...a Bad Monkey pedal. $49 new.
I do have a rather different setup. My RP500 now runs through the effects loop. Since that takes it more to the back of the 'chain', I use it primarily for delay and EQ. It works very, very nicely there for those. And as I said before, due to the input/output knobs of the effects loop on the amp, it also acts as a power soak. When using the rythm channel of the amp (which is my primary for rock-to-heavy sounds), it rips it up at bedroom volume.
But back to the Monkey. It is in front, and just sounds awesome with the clean channel (with the EQ coming on the backside from the RP). That low EQ knob alone is worth every penny I spent on that pedal. Plus it has more gain on tap than I need from it.
I spent a bit tonight matching tones with one of my Fav Red Dirt bands, Cross Canadian Ragweed. The link is the song I matched. The only difference is, I used the second position on my gitter switch to get some 'quack' involved. God knows I wish I could record my rig right now.
Link to song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esX4ESbdYgc
