is there a better overdrive than the BB?

[crwnedblasphemy]

Thanks guys....just seeing if anything else out there has that warm character. I have been happy with the BB. More so than the others I have owned over the last 5 years

Bad Monkey, Franklin modded od-1, Keeley TS9+, Maxon OD808, Maxon OD9, Crispy Cream.

 

[bobbtoz]

Here's a few of the OD pedals I currently own:

Keeley SD-1
Keeley Rat
Keeley Baked TS9
Keeley DS-1
Keeley Time Machine boost
OCD (1)
Crunch Box
Tube Zone
Barber Direct Drive (my second favorite OD!)
Barber EQ (works great as a boost!)
Power Screamer w/ fat boost
RC Booster
BB Preamp
Lovepedal Eternity
Freakshow Brown Rabbit (also one of my favorites)
ZVEX Box of Rocks
Catalinabread SCOD


My favorite is the Jetter Gainstage Gold. Check it out for yourself and you'll see what I mean.

 

[jkdsteve]

I like my HBE Power Screamer w/ Fat Boost a lot...it's different to the Xotic BB...I like 'em both for different things

 

[halford]

Greazygeo modded SD-1

Whats with this?!

Did he mod it for you?

 

[mentoneman]

IMO..I still think my old grey DOD overdrive 250 wins. Its got no compression and feels really spongy/bubbly , lots of juice, completely transparent..but on the bad side, noisy as hell. The BB is on my pedal board though as well and i love it too. And of course an old TS808 is great for really cutting through a band mix.

A

i had the 80's yellow version, and it was still as you describe almost to a T.
the newer reissues and the yngwie signature is not even on the same planet IMO.

but i LOVE my BB with the egnater, and it has recently gone back on my board to replace my maxon od820 for a meaner dirty crunch sound.

 

[crwnedblasphemy]

Here's a few of the OD pedals I currently own:

Keeley SD-1
Keeley Rat
Keeley Baked TS9
Keeley DS-1
Keeley Time Machine boost
OCD (1)
Crunch Box
Tube Zone
Barber Direct Drive (my second favorite OD!)
Barber EQ (works great as a boost!)
Power Screamer w/ fat boost
RC Booster
BB Preamp
Lovepedal Eternity
Freakshow Brown Rabbit (also one of my favorites)
ZVEX Box of Rocks
Catalinabread SCOD


My favorite is the Jetter Gainstage Gold. Check it out for yourself and you'll see what I mean.

That is one nice colllection of stuff man!!! I will check ou the Jetter

 

[70strathead]

IMO..I still think my old grey DOD overdrive 250 wins. Its got no compression and feels really spongy/bubbly , lots of juice, completely transparent..but on the bad side, noisy as hell. The BB is on my pedal board though as well and i love it too. And of course an old TS808 is great for really cutting through a band mix.

A

i had the 80's yellow version, and it was still as you describe almost to a T.
the newer reissues and the yngwie signature is not even on the same planet IMO.

but i LOVE my BB with the egnater, and it has recently gone back on my board to replace my maxon od820 for a meaner dirty crunch sound.

I have 3 mid 80's yellow versions and one early 80's gray version. There were some changes to the yellow versions adding bass. I don’t like the change, so I modded one of mine to the original yellow (it is just changing one cap). The yellow DOD was my favorite preamp pedal, but the BB sounds better to me.

Interesting. I have the original yellow version as well and i can totally hear a difference from my 78' gray one. My gray one has a tighter bass response and not as flubby as the yellow. The yellow has more gain, but there is more than enough juice on the Gray that i need. I love the way HS-3's sound on it because the notes are still clean sounding and not distorted because of the low output factor. The BB is a great pedal, but for leads espeically in the neck position, i prefer the DOD.

 

[crwnedblasphemy]

My favorite is the Jetter Gainstage Gold. Check it out for yourself and you'll see what I mean.

That guy seems to put out a new color every week. I tried his first one, the Blue and was not impressed. Maybe the Red, Black, Purple and Gold are better.

hahaha! I am interested in the Red, but it says a lot of his pedals only are good at stage volumes? Don't really get that? But oh well...

 

[White_Van]

My favorite is the Jetter Gainstage Gold. Check it out for yourself and you'll see what I mean.

That guy seems to put out a new color every week. I tried his first one, the Blue and was not impressed. Maybe the Red, Black, Purple and Gold are better.

hahaha! I am interested in the Red, but it says a lot of his pedals only are good at stage volumes? Don't really get that? But oh well...

I can't even begin to comprehend how that could possibly make sense. Unless it is a boost pedal that specializes in boosting cranked amps then I don't see how that could work.

 

[mentoneman]

IMO..I still think my old grey DOD overdrive 250 wins. Its got no compression and feels really spongy/bubbly , lots of juice, completely transparent..but on the bad side, noisy as hell. The BB is on my pedal board though as well and i love it too. And of course an old TS808 is great for really cutting through a band mix.

A

i had the 80's yellow version, and it was still as you describe almost to a T.the newer reissues and the yngwie signature is not even on the same planet IMO.

but i LOVE my BB with the egnater, and it has recently gone back on my board to replace my maxon od820 for a meaner dirty crunch sound.

I have 3 mid 80's yellow versions and one early 80's gray version. There were some changes to the yellow versions adding bass. I don’t like the change, so I modded one of mine to the original yellow (it is just changing one cap). The yellow DOD was my favorite preamp pedal, but the BB sounds better to me.

cool info!
the bb sounds more refined and less noisy, and both can take a clean amp and make it dance, but the bb can also hit a dirty channel and make it scream and zing more, like it does on my eggie tol 100. similarly, rob marcello used one with his suhr OD-100 se, which is on the darker side of the hotrod marshall family like eggies. andy timmons makes sweet tones with his through boogies, which again have the darker tone. it's almost like adding a tunable presence circuit to your high gainer.


here's an old 3 minute clip running the bb fairly wide open, being hit by a barber tone press hard, and going into a gforce for verb/delay, then into my mojave coyote set pushed clean, into gh30 speak:

at the end of the clip i kick off the bb, and kick on an arion chorus pedal to show how clean the amp is.

this next clip is rob marcello with his OD100 se/bb preamp tone:

you definitely hear the added whomp of the 100 watt head, and the 4x12 factor...

 

[crwnedblasphemy]

Killer! That OD100 is fucking awesome!