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Title: Great Overdrive Pedal?
Post by: Alpha579 on March 18, 2004, 09:35:48 PM

Im looking to build a warm, bluesy overdrive pedal that is very transparent, cleans up nicely from the volume pot, and doesnt suffer from intermodulation distortion. Any suggestions?

Title: Great Overdrive Pedal?
Post by: Mobisimo on March 18, 2004, 09:42:42 PM

I hear the Blue Magic fits that description pretty well. Look it up at generalguitargadgets.com. Let us know how it comes out, I am kind of interested in that build. Good luck.

Title: Great Overdrive Pedal?
Post by: gtrmac on March 19, 2004, 02:16:41 AM

I have a Blue Magic on the workbench now but I haven't finshed it yet. hopefully over the weekend so I'll let everyone know how it turns out.

Title: Great Overdrive Pedal?
Post by: Ge_Whiz on March 19, 2004, 05:26:42 AM

Blue Magic, definitely. Peppermill (RunOffGroove) probably.

Title: Great Overdrive Pedal?
Post by: brett on March 19, 2004, 05:35:25 AM

BluesBreaker is great - probably better than a tubescreamer for what you want. The Odie is kinda nice, too, but fairly high gain.

cheers

Title: Great Overdrive Pedal?
Post by: Doug H on March 19, 2004, 07:04:47 AM

Scroll down to my Highway 89 soundclip and see what you think:

http://dhammond_1.tripod.com/sounds.htm

If you like it, email me at dougbhammond@yahoo.com and I'll send you the schem.

Doug

Title: Great Overdrive Pedal?
Post by: Stefan on March 29, 2004, 09:04:18 AM

Hi,

I built the Blue Magic a few days ago. It is the best overdrive pedal I have ever heard!!! Well, I am not a real professional guitar player and I had not the chance to compare with a lot of pedals, but in comparison to my Ibanez ST-9 Tubescreamer it is definitely my/the choice. A friend of mine tried it and will build one as well. He tried several OD pedals before ........... It is very easy to build and to trim. I put the Blue Magic in front of my Peavey Classic 30. It works fine for bluesy and rockin tunes.....

Keep on rockin'

Stefan

Title: Great Overdrive Pedal?
Post by: Ben N on March 30, 2004, 04:38:09 PM

Another option is the TC Double Drive, although it looks like a bit of a harder build. Pretty good flexibility in that one.

Title: Great Overdrive Pedal?
Post by: RDV on March 30, 2004, 05:16:59 PM

Stupid Box.

Regards

RDV

Title: Great Overdrive Pedal?
Post by: Chris Goodson on March 30, 2004, 11:32:24 PM

Quote from: brettBluesBreaker is great - probably better than a tubescreamer for what you want. The Odie is kinda nice, too, but fairly high gain.

cheers

I'll second the Blues Breaker, I built one this past weekend and it's my favorite that I'e built so far. I think the tone could be called transparent, the terms people use to describe sounds with are always sort of subjective. I still haven't quite figured out what a "brown sound" is. :?

Title: Great Overdrive Pedal?
Post by: dubs on March 31, 2004, 06:35:32 PM

Quote from: Ben NAnother option is the TC Double Drive, although it looks like a bit of a harder build. Pretty good flexibility in that one.

I second that. Built one the other week from tomboys layout, and you can get an interesting variety of overdrives.

Title: Great Overdrive Pedal?
Post by: Mobisimo on March 31, 2004, 09:11:20 PM

Question about the blue magic build: did you use the recommended cap dielectrics, or whatever was handy?

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