Members stratotastic Posted April 9, 2008 Members Share Posted April 9, 2008 This thread should just be renamed "what is your favorite overdrive pedal?". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members T Stre Posted April 9, 2008 Members Share Posted April 9, 2008 #1 for Crunch Box & Box of Rock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members zachary vex Posted April 9, 2008 Members Share Posted April 9, 2008 This is a much tougher thing to accomplish than one might hope. Fenders have such a different texture and quality to their tone, from the preamp to the power amp and especially the speakers, they just present a very difficult starting point for making a Marshall-like tone come out of them. It's analogous to cupping your hands around your mouth and attempting to sound like Barry White. Very difficult to do, no matter how much you manipulate your mouth and vocal cords. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members T Stre Posted April 9, 2008 Members Share Posted April 9, 2008 This thread should just be renamed "what is your favorite overdrive pedal?". Screw Driver Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bowlingshirt Posted April 9, 2008 Members Share Posted April 9, 2008 It's analogous to cupping your hands around your mouth and attempting to sound like Barry White. This is true, as I usually end up sounding like James Earl Jones instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Belt Posted April 9, 2008 Members Share Posted April 9, 2008 I love my shredmaster through my clean amp. It's the same scenario that you have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members veil Posted April 9, 2008 Members Share Posted April 9, 2008 This thread should just be renamed "what is your favorite overdrive pedal?". Seriously. I feel like everytime someone makes a thread detailing what they need out of a dirt pedal, everyone just comes in and says whatever flavor of the month they love the most. :poke: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sunsetcarcrash Posted April 9, 2008 Members Share Posted April 9, 2008 ^^^^^^^Thats exactly what i do... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Uma Floresta Posted April 9, 2008 Members Share Posted April 9, 2008 OLCircuits Thor and 18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members weakflesh Posted April 9, 2008 Members Share Posted April 9, 2008 definitely not with a fender. I had an OCD for a week or two and just traded it because It sounded small and not very good to my ear. I'm getting a blackstone mosfet overdrive pedal in the mail hopefully today or tomorrow so I'll let you know how that works out. It should be great. I like rats through my twin also though... A blackstone will not make your amp sound like something else, just more of what you have... alot more in some cases. It is one of 3 things I will never sell the others are my amp and the KOB. I use that and an old Menatone KOB, works for me, but, they are very very very different from batch to batch, mine is great. so here is a list: Crunch Box Zvex BoR OLCircuits Thor and 18 Menatone KOB Plexitortion Toadworks John Bull Tonebone Hot British Barber DD are all pedals I have messed with that do sound like a marshall. by the way saying "sounds like a marshall" covers a lot of territory. by the way, Blackstones are amazing pedals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Old Fart Rocker Posted April 9, 2008 Members Share Posted April 9, 2008 Keeley modded DS-1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members TomCTC Posted April 9, 2008 Members Share Posted April 9, 2008 Seriously. I feel like everytime someone makes a thread detailing what they need out of a dirt pedal, everyone just comes in and says whatever flavor of the month they love the most. :poke: haha true. But it gives the OP alot of options to work with. I would say the Lovepedal Church of Tone 50 or the Hao Rust Driver are two good ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members arcadesonfire Posted April 10, 2008 Author Members Share Posted April 10, 2008 This is a much tougher thing to accomplish than one might hope. Fenders have such a different texture and quality to their tone, from the preamp to the power amp and especially the speakers, they just present a very difficult starting point for making a Marshall-like tone come out of them. It's analogous to cupping your hands around your mouth and attempting to sound like Barry White. Very difficult to do, no matter how much you manipulate your mouth and vocal cords. Exactly... i'm pretty much just looking for something that can cover the function of a slightly boosted/dirtied marshall plexi, and i knew there were some pedals with filters in the right freq ranges to get the fender amp (and that itself is a vague term) into the territory where a marshall would usually function better. My rat, for example, doesn't get me near that ballpark (imho); it's just too much fuzz, and i usually set the gain real low! It doesn't really do anything to counteract or shape the eq curve of my fender into a more british sound... So, thank you all for the suggestions; i'll hopefully go try some of those out this weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Drumas funk Posted April 10, 2008 Members Share Posted April 10, 2008 Tonebone Hot British. No its not my favorite, but it does very well for this particular task. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members R Corso Posted April 10, 2008 Members Share Posted April 10, 2008 I was really, really impressed with the Blackstone into high headroom clean amps, I used it into a Twin, and then a modded Fender PA100 head into a Marshall 4x12, and it was rawk. I traded it to RinkRat for use with his Twin, since I now have EL34 amps. I'm hoping the OCD I traded for will be a better fit for my Vox AC50. The Blackstone is the ideal Marshall box for amps like Twins, Dual Showman, etc, that have ZERO breakup of their own. The OD has to happen all in the box for it to sound right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members papa taco Posted April 10, 2008 Members Share Posted April 10, 2008 I was really, really impressed with the Blackstone into high headroom clean amps, I used it into a Twin, and then a modded Fender PA100 head into a Marshall 4x12, and it was rawk. I traded it to RinkRat for use with his Twin, since I now have EL34 amps. I'm hoping the OCD I traded for will be a better fit for my Vox AC50. The Blackstone is the ideal Marshall box for amps like Twins, Dual Showman, etc, that have ZERO breakup of their own. The OD has to happen all in the box for it to sound right. AC50? Cool. You still have the Dr Z KT45? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members R Corso Posted April 10, 2008 Members Share Posted April 10, 2008 Yep! Hi! Still got that Tokai LP you dangled in front of me like Charlie Brown's football? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Hawkeye17 Posted April 13, 2008 Members Share Posted April 13, 2008 Jetter Gain Stage Purple will do what you seek in spades. It was built specifically to make a Fender Twin sound like a hot rodded Plexi. It's very usable for other applications too and sound great with my Marshall for leads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members g400man Posted April 13, 2008 Members Share Posted April 13, 2008 what says it better than Radial Tonebone PLEXITUBE or whatever its called, its litterally got Plexi written all over it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Whipper Posted April 13, 2008 Members Share Posted April 13, 2008 Hyde side of a VisualSound Jekyll and Hyde - it's a Marshall Jackhammer clone Hmmm...I've been using a Jekyll and Hyde for 5 years (first the grey, then the red), and I can't say I would call that a particularly Marsahlly sound. It's definitely a good, scooped mid, high-saturation sound, but it doesn't have that British mid-rangey skronk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members fuzzface71 Posted April 13, 2008 Members Share Posted April 13, 2008 IMO, any one of these would do the job on any amp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 3 Chord Rock Posted April 17, 2008 Members Share Posted April 17, 2008 So I just got my Tonebone Plexitube (same sound as Hot British) and have to say it does the trick. Playing it through a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe, and while I've had plenty of other dirt that sounds great in front of it, this is the closest it's ever sounded to a Marshall. The range of tone adjustment is so wide it could be dialed in to most any amp. Does it sound EXACTLY like a Marshall? I'd say I don't know Marshall well enough to tell unless I did an A/ B test. But I did find myself finding settings that had me spending the whole evening playing 70s classic rock to 80s hair metal (an beyond) riffs and it sounded RIGHT, not just good but like what I've heard. I kept turning dials and switching guitars and saying "wow, I just nailed (insert name of Marshall players) sound" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members jbford1 Posted April 17, 2008 Members Share Posted April 17, 2008 Cmatmods Brownie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pbone Posted April 17, 2008 Members Share Posted April 17, 2008 Um... blackstone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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