Best OD for a Dual Rectifier?

311splawndude

311splawndude

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Dual Rec dudes, what is your favorite boost?

I have now been through a Digitech Bad Monkey, various TS's, Boss SD1, MXR Pre, MXR Disti '78, MXR Zakk Wilde, Suhr Koko Boost OG, Pepers Dirty Tree.

The best of these so far is my trusty Bad Monkey. It is fairly transparent :dunno: More transparent than a TS.

The Koko and Pepers were just WAY over the top. May be better with lower gain amp? Everyone has been saying the Dirty Tree is the best OD for a Rectifier but I'm just not feeling it.


What's yours, and how is it set?



Edit:
should have mentioned:

Mahogany Schecter C1+ w/ Duncan Custom Custom TB11

Drop C chugga chug

Red channel / silicon / bold
 
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I was going to suggest the Screamer ... but he mentioned trying a bunch of TS variants .... I honestly have only played a few Rec's in my time ..... I learned early on it wasn't a boost I was looking for .... it was a Mark series ... with that said I've heard some glorious boosted rec tones ....
usually you want something that has that " mid hump " .... to combat the flubba dubb in the bass on the rec ....

Friedman's Buxom boost is another I'd try .... it has the EQ you can take in and out of the circuit ...

anything you can use to dump some mids into the front end of the rec ....

maybe the up and coming Griffin Analog " Rabbit Hole Drive "
 
My favorite is a Klon as it also is with other amps. I also really like my MXR Yngwie and ‘80’s Boss FA-1 with Recto’s. The Fortin modded TS808 is great too
 
griff10672 said:
maybe the up and coming Griffin Analog " Rabbit Hole Drive "
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yeah maybe :love:


TheGreatGreen said:
The Dirty Tree has knobs. It can be set to a flat EQ curve. It’s only too aggressive if you make it too aggressive.

To set for flat EQ, set Bass to 3:00 and Treble to 9:00.
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I have EQ and level set low and still don't care for what it is doing to the mids, and the lows are not necessarily tighter - which is what I'm going for obviously.


japetus said:
Waynes 808 screamer, you can try mine out if you want.
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yeah, that could be a thing. You can borrow the Koko or the Pepers before I sell them :dunno:
 
The amp actually sounds better without a boost (to tighten). Something I never thought I'd say since I'm a 'boost on all the time' kind of guy :lol:

I recently had the "Pre 500" mod done to go from "G" to "C" and gat damn it is so much tighter and clearer now :yes:
 
311splawndude said:
I have EQ and level set low and still don't care for what it is doing to the mids, and the lows are not necessarily tighter - which is what I'm going for obviously.
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The pedal doesn’t really do anything to the mids. The EQ knobs are basically tilt EQ controls that start in the mids and work outward, so they don’t really impact the mids. As for the EQ controls, the influence of the Bass knob stops where the treble knob starts and vice versa. The pedal has the least influence over the mids and the most influence over the far high and low frequencies.

And if you lower the Bass knob, meaning if you set it lower than like 3:00, then it will absolutely make the amp tighter because it lowers the bass going into the preamp. That’s pretty much entirely what tightness is. I mean if you goose the Level control, the overall amount of low frequencies will still exceed what they would have with the pedal bypassed even with the Bass knob dialed low. In that case sure it might not tighten up the signal overall, but like I said, you gotta dial it in right.


edit: damn that's a lot of word about a pedal. If you don't like it, great! hope you find something else that works for you. Just want to drive into the ground what the pedal actually does and doesn't do before it's dismissed, mostly because I've personally had such a great experience with it.
 
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I actually did a revision of the 808 Screamer ...... added some gain .... beefed it up a little

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