New pedals

[gwEm]

Theres a Thundertomate Taxi Driver, a Boss OC-3 and a Behringer micro-mixer.

The Thundertomate is a Boss OD-1 quad opamp clone. I have one of their treble boosters and this is also superb. Entirely pleased with it at the moment. It sounds like a better version of the SD-1 I modded to OD-1 specs. A lot less noisy, more resolution, a little less gain, similar frequency response. A really good overdrive circuit.

The OC-3 has been much discussed on another thread. This one is just as good/bad as the one I borrowed.

The Micromixer is so I can merge signals from a few different sources on my pedalboard. I've not really experimented with it yet, so I won't say too much. Observations so far are are that it's very quiet, runs on 9v (though it asks for 12) but the opposite polarity to Boss and other pedals.

I'll play about some more this weekend with all these.

[Lew]

Alot of buying of pedals going on around here lately!   8)


Congratz!

[Plenum n Heather]

Man, I love Thundertomate!
Congrats, I  am sure that pedal slays!

[Telerocker]

Nice trio you got there. I don't know the Thundertomate, but I understand it's an OD1 without the flaws.

[gwEm]

Nice trio you got there. I don't know the Thundertomate, but I understand it's an OD1 without the flaws.

:)

The OD-1 is a weird pedal anyway.. the point of it is that it is somehow flawed. The OD-1 cuts out a lot of low end from your tone, but the gain/distortion sound is nicer than a tube screamer or SD-1. Its the opposite of transparent, but thats whats nice about it. Sounds great for 80s metal and thrash into a JCM800.

Anyway, having a version a pedal you really like but with less noise, more detailed sound, better bypass and a bit nicer sounding gain is obviously a good thing yes!!

But I think if you took all the flaws out of the OD-1 then maybe it would just be a boring pedal - like any other boutique tubescreamer type pedal.

(You probably already know the SD-1 is a copy of the tubescreamer which is a copy of the OD-1. And then there are many versions of the OD-1 itself).

[blue]

I recently got a Taxi Driver as well, it's a great little overdrive.  It's one of the few ODs I actually like on the clean channel, just a bit of drive for a just pushed bluesy lead sound.  Thunder Tomate's stuff really is very good, I have several now, and the Fat TB treble booster remains my all time favourite

[dave_mc]

nice :D

[Telerocker]

Nice trio you got there. I don't know the Thundertomate, but I understand it's an OD1 without the flaws.

:)

The OD-1 is a weird pedal anyway.. the point of it is that it is somehow flawed. The OD-1 cuts out a lot of low end from your tone, but the gain/distortion sound is nicer than a tube screamer or SD-1. Its the opposite of transparent, but thats whats nice about it. Sounds great for 80s metal and thrash into a JCM800.

Anyway, having a version a pedal you really like but with less noise, more detailed sound, better bypass and a bit nicer sounding gain is obviously a good thing yes!!

But I think if you took all the flaws out of the OD-1 then maybe it would just be a boring pedal - like any other boutique tubescreamer type pedal.

(You probably already know the SD-1 is a copy of the tubescreamer which is a copy of the OD-1. And then there are many versions of the OD-1 itself).

Good explanation. I never had a OD-1, so no reference.

[gwEm]

A note on the Behringer micromixer:

It is a low noise mixer and sounds decent. The main limitation is the headroom is not particularly high, even less when powering it from 9v. Nevertheless, it does have sufficient headroom for my purposes.

At less than £25quid, I would call this a bargain if you need a mixer for your board. You do need a polarity switching lead, but it works well with one of these, and doesn't give any strange grounding effects as I've sometimes noticed with these leads.

[bucketshred]

What is it exactly that you're doing with it, gwEm? Really intrigued.

[gwEm]

What is it exactly that you're doing with it, gwEm? Really intrigued.

The Boss OC-3 has a splitter option on the output, so I am processing my direct (normal guitar) signal in my usual way with some Sansamp gear and a reverb pedal.. then into one channel of the mixer

The octave output of the OC-3 is at the moment going through a compressor pedal and into the mixer. i may later put it through some sort of bass distortion effect like a bass muff or something.

The output of the mixer goes into the PA. So I then have separate control over the bass produced by the octave pedal and my normal guitar tone. Both parts are processed separately and then merged by the micromixer. That avoids putting the octave effect through my normal guitar distortion where it would lose all the lovely low end. Keeps the two parts as two distinct tones

With the two spare mixer channels I might eventually use them for some sort of synths.



guitar -> OC3 -+-> tuner -> sansamp -> reverb -> micromixer -> PA
               \-> compressor ---(bass fuzz)--->
                               /-> (synth) ---->
            (MIDI footpedals) -+-> (sampler) -->

[Plenum n Heather]

That is actually a very elegant way to approach it. Colour me impressed! :)