The Steel Guitar Forum

Lap and Console players. What overdrives are you using. If no pedal, what overdriven amp do you like?

Earth drive, 70's Rat, OCD, and CMatMod Butah with Twin or Nahville 400

First choice: A 5E3 Tweed Deluxe cranked way up.

2nd choice: Earth Drive

3rd choice: TC Elec MojoMojo or Seymour Duncan Twin Tube

4th choice: Zoom MultiStomp

I'm a big fan of the Boss pedals, either the Blues Driver or the OD series.

The classic tone to me, though, is the Ibanez Tube Screamer.

I play through a 58 champ with a pair of jensen alnico 10" speakers. With volume set at about 7, it's very pick-attack sensitive, from sorta clean to nicely crunchy. If that's not enough, there's a boss overdrive and a ross distortion available on the floor.

I'm partial to David Lindley's lapsteel sound so I've got a Ceriatone OTS Dumble clone that does that... otherwise a Zendrive will produce a reasonable facsimile.

My favorite is the Little Walter 22. Here's a clip with a pedal steel, but it sounds quite similar with a lap: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97P9sKUE7Uk

For a pedal, if you like the sound of your amp and guitar, but want it 'drivier' there's nothing better than the Earth Drive.

I'm using a very soft overdrive made by a friend, based on an MXR distortion + with a different tone stack. But I used a Wampler Euphoria a couple of days ago, very impressed and very Dumble-ish. I just look for a bit of hair on the tone.

An old Rat. Back off on the Tone control.

I really like my Keeley Fuzzhead. I've also used an MJM britbender. There are literally hundreds of options these days.

Zen Drive....with an Origin Effects Slide Rig compressor...

Dan Tyack wrote:My favorite is the Little Walter 22

That Little Walter did sound great Friday night, Dan.

Brad Bechtel wrote:I'm a big fan of the Boss pedals, either the Blues Driver or the OD series.

Brad,

I have a Blues Driver BD-2 and a Bass Overdrive ODB-3, among others, and I've never been able to find the sweet spot on any of them. Can you share your settings, and the instruments and amps you are using?

I seem to get the best results just by cranking a Pro Junior, but sometimes that's just too loud.

Any insight on your preferred Boss pedal settings would be appreciated.

Jack

I'm using a Fulldrive 2 into a Fender Blues Junior, but also started using my new Fender Super Sonic Twin (burn channel, no overdrive pedal needed) for in-town stuff.

Also, I'm LOVING the Duncan Antiquity pickups I just had put in my Asher Hawaiian Junior too. When am I gonna learn how BIG a difference that pickups make?


David Spires

59 tweed deluxe