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Re: What's Your Single (1) Most Favorite "Dirt" Pedal You Own

Fulltone Fulldrive 2.  It's been "my OD sound" for a long time now... I think I first played one in 2003, fell in love, bought one of my own, and it hasn't left my pedalboard since.

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Re: What's Your Single (1) Most Favorite "Dirt" Pedal You Own

I tend to like the OD from my amps more than pedals but I do have a Carl martin Hot drive and boost. The drive part seems to be very tube screamer like, but the boost is amazing clean boost and is independant of the drive section. I like the fulldrive 2 as well just wish you could use the boost without the drive part.

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Re: What's Your Single (1) Most Favorite "Dirt" Pedal You Own

Xotic AC Booster, a real keeper for me.

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the analogman King of Tone is my current fave.  smile

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using a TS9DX and the Fulltone OCD on the board at the moment with
Trex Mudhoney, Fulldrive 2 and the JB FF in reserve

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Re: What's Your Single (1) Most Favorite "Dirt" Pedal You Own

Earthquaker Devices 'Chrysalis' overdrive....not a partcularly well-known brand but they make excellent boutique pedals  at good prices too....from Ohio, US....Chrysalis is a really smooth, open overdrive smile

The only O/D i've ever been completely happy with...and I've been through a few! big_smile

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Re: What's Your Single (1) Most Favorite "Dirt" Pedal You Own

blackstar HT drive - all tube overdrive .. had for 2 years and hasn't let me down once

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Re: What's Your Single (1) Most Favorite "Dirt" Pedal You Own

Having worked in the guitar business for the past 20 years or so, I've seen/heard most of them and own at least a dozen dirt boxes. I consider them tone flavors, some like clean amps, some like dirty amps, every one I own has it's own great sound. I usually bring more dirt boxes just to have different dirty sound (so I won't get bored..) 
My go to dirt box is my Hermida Zendrive, aka Dumble in a box. Awesome tone, plenty gain when needed, super musical and touch sensitve. It likes both clean and dirty amps so it doesn't really matter what I plug into.

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Re: What's Your Single (1) Most Favorite "Dirt" Pedal You Own

Right now I'm particularly sweet on my Swart Atomic Boost

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Rothwell Heartbreaker for the moment. Nice. cool

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Re: What's Your Single (1) Most Favorite "Dirt" Pedal You Own

The only dirt pedal I have is the JB Fuzz Face- I use my Marshall's  for dirt- JCM 2555 Black and AFD100. The FF just colours the tone occasionally.

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Re: What's Your Single (1) Most Favorite "Dirt" Pedal You Own

I have 4:

1-Taurus Blues Overdrive: in the TS style, it is a genius true overdrive.

2-Virgo Rock Overdrive: total OCD killer, and my go to pedal for drive tones when gigs are back lined, and i use it all the time for recording.

3-Aquarius Fuzz: no words to really describe shortly, this is my secret weapon.

4-Scorpio Super Boost: stays on 100% of the time; it makes everything better.

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Re: What's Your Single (1) Most Favorite "Dirt" Pedal You Own

I get my dirt mostly from turning up my Marshall 1987X. I use an Alex Attenuator and/or a PPMIV to control volume. But for something different I just bought a JB Fuzz Face. Really like it. I'm interested in trying the Way Huge Pork Loin. I like the tone Joe gets from it.

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I just rebuilt an Old Russian Big Muff that has been siting in my closet for years. Its a killer pedal I don't remember it sounding this good, it can go from Dirty Fuzz to Over the top Distortion, and it sounds killer for slide work!, I and if I run the Carl Martin into it first I get ridiulous amounts of Feed back. Its a fun pedal for sure!

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Re: What's Your Single (1) Most Favorite "Dirt" Pedal You Own

For clean amps the Fulldrive-2 with a TS9 (set fairly clean) for extra boost.

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For overdriven amps the guitar's volume knob.

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Fulltone Full Drive 2 for me.  I bought it when visiting Guitar Centre LA four years ago for a song (exchange rate told me I couldn't walk out the shop without buying it) and it's not left my pedalboard since.  I love the versatility of it and I use it in conjuction with the amp OD channel to have a kind of three stage gain boost depending on the song.

Other than the above, I have to say I am loving the variability of the JBFF - yep, it cleans up so nicely with my LP and Blues Deville when using the guitar to control volume.

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Re: What's Your Single (1) Most Favorite "Dirt" Pedal You Own

I've yet to find that perfect pedal.  Every time I try one I like it for a while but then loose interest in it.  It seems like for some reason my amp doesn't feel like it sounds as FAT sounding when I use pedals and to me that fat sound is more important then how much gain I use.  Most people use too much anyway.  My last pedal that I just sold was an MXR Custom badass 78' that sounded great in a bedroom but like I said you crank it up with a band and the thing made that fat amp sound thin and small.

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