help me find a good low gain overdrive, please

[htsamurai]

That's a no brainer. Timmy.

yeah, amp 11

[Fuzzy Picklez]

Metalzone.

[MEC]

Black Arts Pharaoh is awesome for this with the fuzz all the way counterclockwise and the gain switched to the low side. It's an added bonus that it also does a lot more.

[jrmy]

I think you can get some pretty nice low-gain sounds with the McSpunckle And Aardvarks! with the gain down. Plus, with the switch on "no distorting the lows," you get a ridiculously full tone.

[bdunlap]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ep001Ok8b1I[/youtube]

Might be a little higher gain that what you want, but I can actually say that this OD sounds better than any other one I've tried

And it's $99!

[sonidero]

NoiseMaker Effects Dead Hipster allllll daaaaay... FTW

[mathias]

I'm having trouble finding a low gain OD too. Too many Tubscreamer clones, and the Timmy and Klon circuits don't sound that interesting to me either.* I like my clean boost, but it doesn't have a tone control. Not sure if I even need one, but I'd like to check out the same circuit (MOSFET boost in the BYOC Triboost) with some sort of tone control on it. Looking for a tiny bit of compression, the ability to set the tone light/dark, and minimal soft clipping with a volume boost to push tube amp over the edge. The ability to dial it up into country twang territory would be great. Preserving playing dynamics is good

* higher gain ODs, like the Devi Ever LP/KP, Dead Hipster, and further up the chain to distortions like the OCD, sound interesting to me, but they are not what I'm after right now. I'll find a decent distortion after the OD is nailed down. And it'll probaby be an OCD, because I loved the Dano Cool Cat Drive v1 when I had it, and now I want the real thing.

[Mudfuzz]

Singing tree

[sonidero]

From Noisemakers site... The Dead Hipster is a low-gain, jangly overdrive.

It doesn't even start to get over drivey till it's at about 90% on the gain... Underrated pedal on ILF for sure...

[mathias]

Maybe I should go back and re-watch the video, I thought the demo basically showed it acting as a distortion. I could be wrong.

Definitely looking for something with the ability to do a dark tone. I've got a modded Sparkle Drive (JRC4558's and other fun stuff from the ToneJam guy, back in the day) which is lower gain and sparkly/bright. Not really liking that tone anymore, for whatever reason.

[mathias]

Singing tree

Singing Tree is definitely a clipping OD even when the threshold is all the way up.

[sylnau]

I'm having trouble finding a low gain OD too. Too many Tubscreamer clones, and the Timmy and Klon circuits don't sound that interesting to me either.* I like my clean boost, but it doesn't have a tone control. Not sure if I even need one, but I'd like to check out the same circuit (MOSFET boost in the BYOC Triboost) with some sort of tone control on it. Looking for a tiny bit of compression, the ability to set the tone light/dark, and minimal soft clipping with a volume boost to push tube amp over the edge. The ability to dial it up into country twang territory would be great. Preserving playing dynamics is good

* higher gain ODs, like the Devi Ever LP/KP, Dead Hipster, and further up the chain to distortions like the OCD, sound interesting to me, but they are not what I'm after right now. I'll find a decent distortion after the OD is nailed down. And it'll probaby be an OCD, because I loved the Dano Cool Cat Drive v1 when I had it, and now I want the real thing.

Probably not exactly what you are looking for... but I like my Liquid Gain Hydra a lot:
-Hi drive
-Lo drive
-Tone
-Volume
-Fat switch

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJEmsHsv5Hs[/youtube]

[Wes Mantooth]

Dwarfcraft Internet, nice low gain overdrive and it can get pretty fuzzy too!

Bonus!

[modernage]

I would recommend the PaulC Timmy.

That's a no brainer. Timmy.

I also looooove the Mad Professor SHOD! One of my all-time favorite low gain od's of all-time, ever! And the Distortion + and Rat at low gain levels (I own 1 D+ and 2 Rats). Great for pushing your amp.

[deadbeatriot]

i'm actually using a rat right now to fill that gap at the moment.

i was looking at the cb shod, and it does sound fuckin sweet...


either way, there's a shit ton of stuff to look at now. thanks folks