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dionys
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Greetings
I'm looking for another overdrive to stack with my Blues driver to get more saturated sound and more versatility. Now i actually consider bying ts808 or bluesbreaker-style pedal and placing it before bd
Do you have any ideas about stacking pedals with bd 2, and what's your experience having multiple gain stages by stacking overdrives
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natmiss
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I've had a lot of luck with two Blues Drivers
RJS11
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The EHX Rams head RI sounds great into a blues driver
onwingsoflead
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On my board right now I've got the V2 Route 66, BD2, and Bogner Blue (big box). All of them sound great together. I've also had great luck with the Westminster Puritan and a KOT Clone. Honestly the BD2 stacks pretty well with most drive pedals.
monkeybrains
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Big muff.
I run the bd2 before it.
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What sound are you looking for? Do you want the Blues Driver first or second?
I think it goes pretty well with most pedals because it doesn’t have any particularly overpowering characteristics, so it’s up to you about the sound you want.
Boss SD-1 (or TS mid-humpy pedals)
Fulltone OCD
Bluesbreaker clones (Snouse!)
Klon clones
If you want a Marshally sound, the JHS Angry Charlie is thought to pair well enough with a Blues Driver that Boss and JHS produced a single pedal with both inside, the Angry Charlie.
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dionys
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Slow Graffiti said:
What sound are you looking for? Do you want the Blues Driver first or second?
I think it goes pretty well with most pedals because it doesn’t have any particularly overpowering characteristics, so it’s up to you about the sound you want.
Boss SD-1 (or TS mid-humpy pedals)
Fulltone OCD
Bluesbreaker clones (Snouse!)
Klon clonesIf you want a Marshally sound, the JHS Angry Charlie is thought to pair well enough with a Blues Driver that Boss and JHS produced a single pedal with both inside, the Angry Charlie.
I think I want to place bd as a second stage overdrive. I want to have more saturated overdrive sound and more push when I need it. I actually have a clean booster placed before bd and it works nice when I need more gain and volume on bd-2 but I want more complex sound
Actually, this question was born when I havent found any sound samples of bd+bluesbreaker combo and I have no idea how well these two combine upon each other. So I love blues driver sound as well as bluesbreaker alone, but I had no opportunity to combine them
So what can you say about stacking pedals youve suggested? Do you have any experience using them with bd?
atk1
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I paired a Sarno Earth Drive with mine. I think it's a perfect combo.
nastynate
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A Tube Screamer and a BD-2 is a winning combo in my book; they stack well together and can get a very saturated tone. My board has a Way Huge Green Rhino mkIV and a Keeley Super Phat Mod as my main drive pedals.
onwingsoflead
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dionys said:
I think I want to place bd as a second stage overdrive. I want to have more saturated overdrive sound and more push when I need it. I actually have a clean booster placed before bd and it works nice when I need more gain and volume on bd-2 but I want more complex sound
Actually, this question was born when I havent found any sound samples of bd+bluesbreaker combo and I have no idea how well these two combine upon each other. So I love blues driver sound as well as bluesbreaker alone, but I had no opportunity to combine them
So what can you say about stacking pedals youve suggested? Do you have any experience using them with bd?
Bluesdriver variants work just fine with the BD2. Neither of them have a ton of mid push, so you just get more saturation, with a light amount of compression.
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dionys
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nastynate said:
A Tube Screamer and a BD-2 is a winning combo in my book; they stack well together and can get a very saturated tone. My board has a Way Huge Green Rhino mkIV and a Keeley Super Phat Mod as my main drive pedals.
Which order do you have? Ts into bd?
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Brutus
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A DS-1 or an SD-1 will do what you want, and they’re cheap and built like tanks.
Kbhr
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Ds1 or a rat with the blues driver.Crushing tones.
aaronblues
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atk1 said:
I paired a Sarno Earth Drive with mine. I think it's a perfect combo.
Damn, now I want to repurchase another Earth Drive. Liked my last one a lot, purchased a Keeley Super Phat (BD) after selling it off...
mcm4to
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Super Hard On into a BD sounds amazing. On the flip side I have also run a BD into a bluesbreaker circuit Which sounds great. Klone into BD also sounds good but I don’t like it as much as the SHO.
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I've used this pedal in combinations through the years and love it.
It's not a scooped sound, but the BD is not a mid focus, so I've found pleasure in TS9 or an EQ to add mid to it.
Also it gets forced into exaggerated clipping if driven so you can push to that threshold for some compressed sounds that are nice.
nastynate
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dionys said:
Which order do you have? Ts into bd?
I run the TS into the BD. The TS is my primary overdrive, with the BD mostly being used for extra gain while stacking. I used to use a pair of TS based pedals, but I like the different frequency responses of the TS/BD combo.
modernp
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I use a Friedman pearl drive first, then the bd followed by a mxr bad ass. Great stacking tone.
monty
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The BJ takes boosts like a champ- so many things work great onto it. Make sure you try a Klone into one as well as some of the others suggested.
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Soundhog73 said:
Ds1 or a rat with the blues driver.Crushing tones.
I’d love to know more about how you set this up; for whatever reason I’ve never run those two together but I sure do love crushing tones.
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