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The best overdrive pedal under $100 has to go to the EQD Plumes. 13th December 2008 | Show parent #4. Let's start off with a classic, the Ibanez TS9 Tube Screamer. We recently had the KLON Centaur in the MI Audio workshop and after playing it for awhile, realised that it had a similar tone to the MOSFET setting on the Super Blues Pro. Some of them can be relatively expensive which means there's a big market for guitar pedal clones. By the way, I'm playing through a Super Champ X2 and a '65 DRRI. So different needs and tones. The pedal’s tube-like response is due to the level of distortion being proportional to the picking strength. Keeley’s “phat” mod added some low end to the mostly full-range Blues Driver and, despite the Boss pedal’s reputation as a “transparent” overdrive, the restored beef was deemed a welcome addition. 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Jun 6, 2016 #3 Cheers that's really helpful - I'll look into the east river drive. I really love the MI Audio pedals and have two in my sights - The Crossover, and this Super Blues Pro - they might both be pipped though by the Prince of Tones or Baby Blues - the latter of which goes for as little as £100 on Reverb.com. Its versatility combined with the low price tag and excellent distortion tones make it an awesome tube screamer style pedal. Ibanez Expands Mini Pedal Lineup to 10 with New Boost and Phaser editions, 4 Killer Pairs of Medium Enclosure Extended Range Fuzz Pedals, Boss GT-1000 CORE In-Depth Review and Long-term Impact Report, 2 Cool New Extended Range Fuzz Pedals - 3 Leaf Audio Doom 2 and EHX Nano Metal Muff. Best of Mini, Compact, Medium and Large Cranked / Top Boosted Vox Style Pedals Nov 10, 2018. So within my pedal chain I have 4 key low-to-mid-gain overdrives ranging from Klon Style, to Tube Screamer Style, to Dumble Style and onto Blues Driver type - the way I have it each gets progressively gainier, in fact I have a 5th medium gain overdrive - which used to be an OCD, but has now been displaced by the Hamstead Intergalactic Driver. Blues Driver Sound & Tone. However, they are simply too rare and far too expensive for most guitarists to even dream of buying. What does it bring to the table that they don't? if you really like it, you can choose between the 2w and a Timmy, and easily move your regular one for little to no loss. As mentioned, the Keeley mod is the fat switch - now part of Robert’s own Super Phat Mod pedal, while Brian Wampler’s and Mike Piera’s modifications were/are more in the component area - smoothing off the brittle top end and giving a more rounded and even-tempered overdrive - so horses for courses really, but I really like the core BD sound, and thus would prefer voicing options in addition rather than a core change in tone. The place for all things related to guitar pedals. On the flip side, the Angry Charlie has a more assertive voice, with a huge midrange bump and tube-like touch sensitivity in its medium-gain drive. In addition to these switchable functions, Mick remarked at the power of the pedal’s tone control knob. Reactions: 3 people.