glip22
Well-known member
I know you are looking for an OD. Allot of these are tube screamer types and will add compression, a slight midhump, and cut some lows. I have used a few you have listed and so many more I cannot even remember them. The Himmelstrutz UO is a great pedal. I loved what it did but found it added too much hiss for me.I will not use noise gates. I hate them. I have owned a Koko. My favorite boost pedal which is different from any I tried is the Caroline Icarus boost. This pedal is so quiet you can use it with great results to open up your tone after and OD pedal used as a boost to tighten(gain low) The Icarus is not a traditional boost. It seems to be one of those hard to explain what it does pedals like the Badgerplex, although with the boost knob turned up it becomes more of a classic type boost. Not expensive either. Just a thought to try it with your existing OD. Another thought is a Klon type circuit. This circuit does not cut your lows or give the mid hump but will still do what you are looking for. The gain knob on the Klon circuit seems to add coloration in the mids. It seems to thicken them. It does not add high mids or give coloration that is not desirable. Allot of players love what it adds. Just keep the gain knob low at 25% or less and you will be good as it will not color the mids allot. I find the Klon circuit much more open than a TS circuit. I went through a quite a few of them and landed on the Monsterpiece Stud and second the new Illumintated OD version. The Stud comes in buffered and true bypass versions. What I really like about it is that the pedal allows you to add as much of the effect as you want, regardless if you have the gain knob low or off, without affecting the signal going to the amp. Allot of pedals will lower the signal going to your amp with the level and/or gain too low or off. If you have the pedal on and the level and gain all the way off, your signal still passes fully intact.
