After several weeks dialing in the BE OD all my other overdrives kind of seem lame.

[Racerxrated]

Don't most here use an OD just to tighten the low end and not so much for more gain?

Yes…I always dial the gain back on the amp a bit; even if you use the pedal ‘level up, gain down’ it still adds some gain. But I like the upper mids the boost adds best.

 

[braintheory]

Don't most here use an OD just to tighten the low end and not so much for more gain?

Yes, most use it for the tightness, more immediate feel and added saturation and mids. The BE OD doesn’t imo really give that affect like a tube screamer because it’s really more of a distortion type pedal in nature. Shouldn’t be call OD imo

 

[TheRealDonnie]

‘level up, gain down’

I only recently read about the classic metal 10-5-0 tube screamer setting for tightening up hi-gain.

When did that first come about? Did one player make it popular or was it the genre on a whole?
I have an OD box in the Quad Cortex set like this now.

 

[retrorack]

BE-OD sounds more like a distortion to me than a boost of any type. I can't see how it beat out some of the others on your list but hey, we all hear things differently.

Yeah the BE-OD is definitely a distortion pedal and not an overdrive in the typical sense. But it’s a great sounding one to my ears. I could see using it in the Lo input of a JMP to take the amp from mostly clean to high gain.

 

[Racerxrated]

I only recently read about the classic metal 10-5-0 tube screamer setting for tightening up hi-gain.

When did that first come about? Did one player make it popular or was it the genre on a whole?
I have an OD box in the Quad Cortex set like this now.

Honestly, I’m not sure when…although a friend of mine, who went out to LA in the late 80s to shop a demo, suggested 20 years ago to me to grab a tube screamer and put it in front of my rig. He’s been playing out since the late 70s. Level up, gain down.

 

[braintheory]

Some really witty replies in this thread, loving it. I too was wondering about the towel pedalboard but also why anyone would own a filthy cat? Zing!

BE-OD sounds more like a distortion to me than a boost of any type. I can't see how it beat out some of the others on your list but hey, we all hear things differently. Some of us have really good ears, others have terrible ears

Agreed. Kinda apples vs oranges with those other pedals, but maybe it the BE just somehow works better for the context he’s using it in. There are honestly quite a few others pedals I would choose over the BE if I wanted something for it’s purposes, but a decent pedal overall imo

 

[braintheory]

I only recently read about the classic metal 10-5-0 tube screamer setting for tightening up hi-gain.

When did that first come about? Did one player make it popular or was it the genre on a whole?
I have an OD box in the Quad Cortex set like this now.

I think guys figured out very shortly after those pedals came out to set them like that for boosting amps, but just not sure when it started to really catch on for boosting high gain amps. I think Yngwie used to boost with his DOD and so I think that would’ve been early ‘80’s

 

[TheRealDonnie]

One I like as equally as the BE as a pre-amp is the Bogner Red pedal.
It's also not an OD.
Killer box.

 

[Samhain]

Some really witty replies in this thread, loving it. I too was wondering about the towel pedalboard but also why anyone would own a filthy cat? Zing!

BE-OD sounds more like a distortion to me than a boost of any type. I can't see how it beat out some of the others on your list but hey, we all hear things differently. Some of us have really good ears, others have terrible ears

Id say its more like a preamp but very cool with tone sculpting.

 

[Samhain]

Why use a distortion pedal into a modded JMP...??
How much gain do you need...?

 

[Samhain]

Yeah the BE-OD is definitely a distortion pedal and not an overdrive in the typical sense. But it’s a great sounding one to my ears. I could see using it in the Lo input of a JMP to take the amp from mostly clean to high gain.

I wouldn't say "beat out. My modified RAT is in the same category as the BE pedal. I like lots of flavors of gain.
All my pedals get use.