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devnulljp wrote:That's a no brainer. Timmy.

yeah, amp 11

Metalzone.

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.

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.

[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!

NoiseMaker Effects Dead Hipster allllll daaaaay... FTW

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.

Singing tree

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...

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.

Mudfuzz wrote:Singing tree

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

mathias wrote: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]

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

Bonus!

hclapp219 wrote:I would recommend the PaulC Timmy.

devnulljp wrote: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.

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