Overdrives (was Re: distortion, overdrive,fuzz,crunch,specialsauce, secret goo)

[Mech <mech@m3ch.net>]

At 8:33 AM -0800 12/20/08, William Walker wrote:
>  Me personally, I wasn't trying to make a value judgment of any 
>kind, just stating an aesthetic preference. I like overdrive more 
>than fuzz or distortion. 

Two nice overdrives, from my experience:  First, the Keeley-modified 
Blues Driver is just beautiful for this, IMNSHO.  'Nuff said, there.

Also, the Catalinbread Silver Kiss has a very nice OD circuit paired 
with an interesting 3-band EQ.  The controls all interact with each 
other (in a good way) so you've got to spend a while finding your 
particular tone.  But there's a lot to play with there.  Also, it 
cleans up nicely when backing off the volume knob on your guitar, 
much the same way a good tube amp would.  Oh, and you can swap out 
op-amps to experiment with different drive tones too.

        --m.
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