Best drive pedal for $100-$150

Guitar Freak · 03-25-2010, 02:30 PM

At this point in time, 300 of you have read my "carbon copy vs aqua puss" forum, but I also need a good drive pedal for the ones on my digitech rp155 just don't cut it (90% of the time anyways). anyways, I have about 150 dollars right now and want to know the best drive pedal for the cash. Some that I've considered: vox satchurator, pro co rat, keeley modded bd-2, keeley modded ds-1, and the ts-9. Please feel free to recommend me to anything in my price range.

thanks, And have a Freakin' Amazing Day!

AngryHatter · 03-25-2010, 02:35 PM

OD or distortion?
Bluesbreaker or OCD.

On the other side of the coin, I have a Satchurator and I really like it.

Guitar Freak · 03-25-2010, 02:36 PM

By "drive" I mean anything: fuzz, distortion, Overdrive, or any Gain-creating object in that matter.

JMV · 03-25-2010, 02:37 PM

You're about to get a lot of suggestions, so be prepared to be overwhelmed.

For me personally I have loved the Fulltone Fulldrive and GT-500. Both are very flexible and can suit a variety of setups well.

Just for clarification, what guitar, amp, and style of music would this pedal hopefully help you to achieve? Knowing that would help taylor the responses.

SludgeBurns · 03-25-2010, 02:37 PM

What amp do you use?

Guitar Freak · 03-25-2010, 02:45 PM

Oh snap! I'm sorry everyone! please for give me!

I play for the youth band at my church, and we do not have a drummer. I play with 2 other acoustic guitarists, 2 singers(one plays guitar) and a bassist. I usually play through a pa system, but I never get the sound I want through my rp155. don't get me wrong, The rp155 is a great pedal effect-wise, but the drive isn't the greatest, unfortunately. anyways, I i usually either have too ballsy of a tone, or a fuzzy one. At home I use a 10 watt marshal(solid state), and it just sounds great, but it the overdrive drives the rp155 crazy. THAT is why I need a drive. most preferably one that I can roll down the volume and smoothen it out and reduce gain. in other words, a dynamic one.

thank you everyone for your thoughts.

Guitar Freak · 03-25-2010, 02:47 PM

btw, I love the sound of fuzz w/ volume rolled off on a strat. sounds awesome.

JMV · 03-25-2010, 02:51 PM

Hmm... you may be better off saving your money and shooting for a better amp, but that's just my opinion. As far as pedal recommendations, I'd go with one of these two:

YouTube - Xotic AC Booster Strat

YouTube - Xotic AC Booster Les Paul

YouTube - Fulldrive 2 MOSFET - Part 1 Les Paul

YouTube - Fulldrive 2 MOSFET - Part 1 Les Paul

There's always the good ole' Tubescreamer, of which there are about 1000 varieties. The two pedals I've recommended have been on a lot of my friends' pedal boards that are worship band players.

And a shameless plug - I have an AC booster listed in the Classifieds and I'll cut you a good deal if you're interested.

Guitar Freak · 03-25-2010, 02:57 PM

cool, I'm interested. how much?

JMV · 03-25-2010, 03:00 PM

I'd sell it for $100 shipped. If you're interested, shoot me an email at jvasek @ crosspt dot org or get up to 50 posts real quick and we can PM through MLP.

Guitar Freak · 03-25-2010, 03:04 PM

wait, not to be stubborn, but how does it cut through the mix? and how does it sound w/ a pa?

Guitar Freak · 03-25-2010, 03:08 PM

and if I don't get more cash by the end of the week, then I'll check it out

JMV · 03-25-2010, 03:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Guitar Freak

wait, not to be stubborn, but how does it cut through the mix? and how does it sound w/ a pa?

No worries. If you're interested, cool. If not, it's no skin off my back. Take your time and figure out what you really want.

What I do like about this pedal is that it has independent treble and bass EQs. For rhythm stuff you can crank the bass a bit more and if you need it to really cut through the mix the treble will help. Think of it as a very flexible Tubescreamer with a bit more gain. That's pretty much the territory it covers.

Guitar Freak · 03-25-2010, 03:14 PM

now that's cool! that's what I need! how much output does it have? I usually have troubles being either too loud or too quiet.

JMV · 03-25-2010, 03:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Guitar Freak

now that's cool! that's what I need! how much output does it have? I usually have troubles being either too loud or too quiet.

According to the Xotic website,

Quote:

Output Impedance: 10k ohm

A large part of that could be your amp. It has a decent amount of boost and can cut the signal if you need it. Part of what's cool about this pedal is that it can be used as a clean boost. You probably won't need it for that, but if you ever get a nice tube amp it's a very cool feature to have.

Guitar Freak · 03-25-2010, 03:22 PM

sweet, the cool thing is, that I've been looking at these exotic effect boosts for a while now. BTW I have no amp now, other than a little marshal I occasionally steal the pre-amp from on stage.

(it has a line out) I am listening to the pro guitar shop demo as we speak, and it is pretty cool I must admit.

JMV · 03-25-2010, 03:23 PM

You have to be careful about watching Pro Guitar Shop demos. They're good, but they'll suck you in to getting gear just because it's cool!

Guitar Freak · 03-25-2010, 03:31 PM

lol, I Know. as with any store selling products, they WANT you to Buy it. wait, No, they want you to buy 10. lol

Guitar Freak · 03-25-2010, 04:06 PM

hey, JMV, what condition is the AC booster in (scratches, marks, stickers

, etc.)?

cryptozoo · 03-25-2010, 04:08 PM

How about a TIM or TIMMY? I've got the TIMMY and it's great through a Marshall Plexi.

JMV · 03-25-2010, 04:08 PM

Great shape. No scratches or chips but has Velcro on the back for mounting to a pedal board.

Guitar Freak · 03-25-2010, 04:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JM Vasek

Great shape. No scratches or chips but has Velcro on the back for mounting to a pedal board.

K, I can live with that. I might just pick up a board w/ the left over cash I get from your deal.

Guitar Freak · 03-25-2010, 04:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cryptozoo

How about a TIM or TIMMY? I've got the TIMMY and it's great through a Marshall Plexi.

how much? can you beat JMV's price?

Guitar Freak · 03-25-2010, 04:50 PM

whoops, I thought you were selling it lol

I'm so dumb

Gibsonblues · 03-25-2010, 05:31 PM

Okay, I use the Fulltone OCD quite a bit. Version "4" I think

I can also recommend the CMATMOD Brownie. Another surprise for me was the Boss SD1. I haven't used it in awhile but when I got the Tele, I tried it back out and wow

a nice little combo with the Tele. Sounds good through most of my amps. I like the CMATMOD Signa Drive but I don't have one anymore. You may want to check that one out too! I second the opinion on the other Fulltone pedals mentioned above...

Guitar Freak · 03-25-2010, 08:27 PM

Thanks Gibsonblues, you always come through for me

Anyways, yes I Like both the sd-1 and the ds-1, I like having one of these so that I can get one of the delays in the other forum. and by second, do you mean disagree?

Guitar Freak · 03-25-2010, 08:29 PM

man this is hard..... choosing is hard....... I hate how many pedals are on the market these days...... too...many....... choices!!!!!

Guitar Freak · 03-25-2010, 08:44 PM

JM V, Im interested.

Guitar Freak · 03-25-2010, 08:51 PM

I feel as if my other posts on the analog delays went to waste, but I'll pick one up once I have a job, lol. BTW Everyone, I am 15! just want you to know that.

Gibsonblues · 03-25-2010, 09:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Guitar Freak

Thanks Gibsonblues, you always come through for me

Anyways, yes I Like both the sd-1 and the ds-1, I like having one of these so that I can get one of the delays in the other forum. and by second, do you mean disagree?

That sounds like a plan to me

later ...

03-25-2010, 02:30 PM	#1 (permalink)
Guitar Freak Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: United States Posts: 1,542 Thanks: 130 Thanked 4 Times in 2 Posts	Best drive pedal for $100-$150 At this point in time, 300 of you have read my "carbon copy vs aqua puss" forum, but I also need a good drive pedal for the ones on my digitech rp155 just don't cut it (90% of the time anyways). anyways, I have about 150 dollars right now and want to know the best drive pedal for the cash. Some that I've considered: vox satchurator, pro co rat, keeley modded bd-2, keeley modded ds-1, and the ts-9. Please feel free to recommend me to anything in my price range. thanks, And have a Freakin' Amazing Day!

03-25-2010, 02:35 PM	#2 (permalink)
AngryHatter Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 12,951 Thanks: 35 Thanked 106 Times in 43 Posts	Re: Best drive pedal for $100-$150 OD or distortion? Bluesbreaker or OCD. On the other side of the coin, I have a Satchurator and I really like it.

03-25-2010, 02:36 PM	#3 (permalink)
Guitar Freak Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: United States Posts: 1,542 Thanks: 130 Thanked 4 Times in 2 Posts	Re: Best drive pedal for $100-$150 By "drive" I mean anything: fuzz, distortion, Overdrive, or any Gain-creating object in that matter.

03-25-2010, 02:37 PM	#4 (permalink)
JMV Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Texas Posts: 13,782 Thanks: 238 Thanked 162 Times in 33 Posts	Re: Best drive pedal for $100-$150 You're about to get a lot of suggestions, so be prepared to be overwhelmed. For me personally I have loved the Fulltone Fulldrive and GT-500. Both are very flexible and can suit a variety of setups well. Just for clarification, what guitar, amp, and style of music would this pedal hopefully help you to achieve? Knowing that would help taylor the responses. __________________ Guitars Gibson SG Standard \| Gibson Les Paul Classic \| Tele Partscaster \| Strat Partscaster \| Squier Jaguar \| Taylor 714ce \| G&L L-2000 Amps Cygnus-7 \| Cygnus-30 \| Armstrong P51 \| Weber 5e3 Clone \| Fender Greta

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03-25-2010, 02:45 PM	#6 (permalink)
Guitar Freak Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: United States Posts: 1,542 Thanks: 130 Thanked 4 Times in 2 Posts	Re: Best drive pedal for $100-$150 Oh snap! I'm sorry everyone! please for give me! I play for the youth band at my church, and we do not have a drummer. I play with 2 other acoustic guitarists, 2 singers(one plays guitar) and a bassist. I usually play through a pa system, but I never get the sound I want through my rp155. don't get me wrong, The rp155 is a great pedal effect-wise, but the drive isn't the greatest, unfortunately. anyways, I i usually either have too ballsy of a tone, or a fuzzy one. At home I use a 10 watt marshal(solid state), and it just sounds great, but it the overdrive drives the rp155 crazy. THAT is why I need a drive. most preferably one that I can roll down the volume and smoothen it out and reduce gain. in other words, a dynamic one. thank you everyone for your thoughts.

03-25-2010, 02:47 PM	#7 (permalink)
Guitar Freak Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: United States Posts: 1,542 Thanks: 130 Thanked 4 Times in 2 Posts	Re: Best drive pedal for $100-$150 btw, I love the sound of fuzz w/ volume rolled off on a strat. sounds awesome.

03-25-2010, 02:57 PM	#9 (permalink)
Guitar Freak Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: United States Posts: 1,542 Thanks: 130 Thanked 4 Times in 2 Posts	Re: Best drive pedal for $100-$150 cool, I'm interested. how much?

03-25-2010, 03:00 PM	#10 (permalink)
JMV Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Texas Posts: 13,782 Thanks: 238 Thanked 162 Times in 33 Posts	Re: Best drive pedal for $100-$150 I'd sell it for $100 shipped. If you're interested, shoot me an email at jvasek @ crosspt dot org or get up to 50 posts real quick and we can PM through MLP. __________________ Guitars Gibson SG Standard \| Gibson Les Paul Classic \| Tele Partscaster \| Strat Partscaster \| Squier Jaguar \| Taylor 714ce \| G&L L-2000 Amps Cygnus-7 \| Cygnus-30 \| Armstrong P51 \| Weber 5e3 Clone \| Fender Greta

03-25-2010, 03:04 PM	#11 (permalink)
Guitar Freak Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: United States Posts: 1,542 Thanks: 130 Thanked 4 Times in 2 Posts	Re: Best drive pedal for $100-$150 wait, not to be stubborn, but how does it cut through the mix? and how does it sound w/ a pa?

03-25-2010, 03:08 PM	#12 (permalink)
Guitar Freak Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: United States Posts: 1,542 Thanks: 130 Thanked 4 Times in 2 Posts	Re: Best drive pedal for $100-$150 and if I don't get more cash by the end of the week, then I'll check it out

03-25-2010, 03:14 PM	#14 (permalink)
Guitar Freak Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: United States Posts: 1,542 Thanks: 130 Thanked 4 Times in 2 Posts	Re: Best drive pedal for $100-$150 now that's cool! that's what I need! how much output does it have? I usually have troubles being either too loud or too quiet.

03-25-2010, 03:22 PM	#16 (permalink)
Guitar Freak Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: United States Posts: 1,542 Thanks: 130 Thanked 4 Times in 2 Posts	Re: Best drive pedal for $100-$150 sweet, the cool thing is, that I've been looking at these exotic effect boosts for a while now. BTW I have no amp now, other than a little marshal I occasionally steal the pre-amp from on stage. (it has a line out) I am listening to the pro guitar shop demo as we speak, and it is pretty cool I must admit.

03-25-2010, 03:23 PM	#17 (permalink)
JMV Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Texas Posts: 13,782 Thanks: 238 Thanked 162 Times in 33 Posts	Re: Best drive pedal for $100-$150 You have to be careful about watching Pro Guitar Shop demos. They're good, but they'll suck you in to getting gear just because it's cool! __________________ Guitars Gibson SG Standard \| Gibson Les Paul Classic \| Tele Partscaster \| Strat Partscaster \| Squier Jaguar \| Taylor 714ce \| G&L L-2000 Amps Cygnus-7 \| Cygnus-30 \| Armstrong P51 \| Weber 5e3 Clone \| Fender Greta

03-25-2010, 03:31 PM	#18 (permalink)
Guitar Freak Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: United States Posts: 1,542 Thanks: 130 Thanked 4 Times in 2 Posts	Re: Best drive pedal for $100-$150 lol, I Know. as with any store selling products, they WANT you to Buy it. wait, No, they want you to buy 10. lol

03-25-2010, 04:06 PM	#19 (permalink)
Guitar Freak Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: United States Posts: 1,542 Thanks: 130 Thanked 4 Times in 2 Posts	Re: Best drive pedal for $100-$150 hey, JMV, what condition is the AC booster in (scratches, marks, stickers, etc.)?

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cryptozoo Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: In the shadow of Dollywood Posts: 1,308 Thanks: 3 Thanked 8 Times in 3 Posts	Re: Best drive pedal for $100-$150 How about a TIM or TIMMY? I've got the TIMMY and it's great through a Marshall Plexi. __________________ BOLT ELECTRIC Pickups -- Google it!

03-25-2010, 04:08 PM	#21 (permalink)
JMV Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Texas Posts: 13,782 Thanks: 238 Thanked 162 Times in 33 Posts	Re: Best drive pedal for $100-$150 Great shape. No scratches or chips but has Velcro on the back for mounting to a pedal board. __________________ Guitars Gibson SG Standard \| Gibson Les Paul Classic \| Tele Partscaster \| Strat Partscaster \| Squier Jaguar \| Taylor 714ce \| G&L L-2000 Amps Cygnus-7 \| Cygnus-30 \| Armstrong P51 \| Weber 5e3 Clone \| Fender Greta

03-25-2010, 04:50 PM	#24 (permalink)
Guitar Freak Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: United States Posts: 1,542 Thanks: 130 Thanked 4 Times in 2 Posts	Re: Best drive pedal for $100-$150 whoops, I thought you were selling it lol I'm so dumb

03-25-2010, 05:31 PM	#25 (permalink)
Gibsonblues Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Austin, Texas Posts: 818 Thanks: 1 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Best drive pedal for $100-$150 Okay, I use the Fulltone OCD quite a bit. Version "4" I think I can also recommend the CMATMOD Brownie. Another surprise for me was the Boss SD1. I haven't used it in awhile but when I got the Tele, I tried it back out and wow a nice little combo with the Tele. Sounds good through most of my amps. I like the CMATMOD Signa Drive but I don't have one anymore. You may want to check that one out too! I second the opinion on the other Fulltone pedals mentioned above... __________________ Play them blues boy.... Amps used: Swart, Fender, Gibson Guitars used: Gibson, Fender, G&L, Gallagher, Alvarez Yaire Pedals: Fulltone, Vintage Boss, Lovepedal, Way Huge, MXR, Electro Harmonix, Hardwire, CMATMODS, Vintage Ibanez, ModTone, Nobels Recording: ZoomR24, PC/Reaper, Shure, AKG, Audio Technica, M-Audio

03-25-2010, 08:27 PM	#26 (permalink)
Guitar Freak Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: United States Posts: 1,542 Thanks: 130 Thanked 4 Times in 2 Posts	Re: Best drive pedal for $100-$150 Thanks Gibsonblues, you always come through for me Anyways, yes I Like both the sd-1 and the ds-1, I like having one of these so that I can get one of the delays in the other forum. and by second, do you mean disagree?

03-25-2010, 08:29 PM	#27 (permalink)
Guitar Freak Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: United States Posts: 1,542 Thanks: 130 Thanked 4 Times in 2 Posts	Re: Best drive pedal for $100-$150 man this is hard..... choosing is hard....... I hate how many pedals are on the market these days...... too...many....... choices!!!!!

03-25-2010, 08:44 PM	#28 (permalink)
Guitar Freak Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: United States Posts: 1,542 Thanks: 130 Thanked 4 Times in 2 Posts	Re: Best drive pedal for $100-$150 JM V, Im interested.

03-25-2010, 08:51 PM	#29 (permalink)
Guitar Freak Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: United States Posts: 1,542 Thanks: 130 Thanked 4 Times in 2 Posts	Re: Best drive pedal for $100-$150 I feel as if my other posts on the analog delays went to waste, but I'll pick one up once I have a job, lol. BTW Everyone, I am 15! just want you to know that.

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