JeffB

Out of the pedals I tried the Friedman had the low end "thunk" and tightness that was part of what I was looking for. It lacks some of the fluid gain characteristics as well as some of the mid frequencies that I liked in other pedals I tried. Running it into an amp that was already breaking up either through amp preamp gain or a pedal seemed to add the fluid nature and mids I was looking for as well as retaining the tight low end thunk. A pedal I thought was pretty great with my gear was the Marshall JCM800 pedal. I will probably keep it as well. I wasnt expecting much from it tbh, but when it arrived and I plugged it in it ticked off so much of what I was looking for. I also heard things I liked I didnt know I was looking for. Also, I discovered that the Boss MS3 has a Guv'nor in its OD/distortion settings. With the use of EQ, compression and noise gate settings in the MS3 I could dial in some really great sounds that also felt right under the fingers. I bought the MS-3 after I stopped playing thinking it might be a cool thing to spark some creativity. I never explored it beyond turning it on and playing with delays etc. Its still like a new unexplored toy to me after 8yrs of owning it.

I tried a quite few distortion pedals. At the end of it all - I think it was just an idea that turned into an obsession. Now the obsession ran its course I have a bunch of spare distortion pedals to sell. I settled on the Friedman BE-OD. I run it with gain set on the lower side into the MXR Timmy with low gain. The MXR DoT also goes into the switched on Timmy. The Boss MS-3 is modulation and delay. I use its like its 4 different pedals rather than as presets. I found a dual delay in series setting in the MS3. Means I can lose 2 delay pedals. Not the order and not on a board yet. Just what's going on so far. Five(six) drive pedals would've seemed like overkill at any other stage of my life. Seems about right at this stage of my life. Not one tubescreamer among them!

Post pick of them or tell me about the ones you have. I've been looking on Reverb etc and there aren't a lot out there. Im kinda curious. Cheers

Memory might be failing me now, it was a long time ago, but I think a Bill Lawrence pickup and passive are the only ones I have heard about.

Sorry, I cant help. That all looks really great. I want stuff like that. The thought that I had while I was reading your post was - if I had that sort of question, I would ask mars_hall.

I dont normally watch this sort of stuff but I watched this the other night when it came up as a suggestion. The twist at the end was really funny.

Im looking for a distortion pedal. Ive never really used distortion except for a couple of Mesas and an Egnator amp.IVe alway been more about OD than Distortion So far Ive read about Marshall Guv'nor, JHS Angry Charlie, Wampler Pinnacle, MXR EVH, s/h MI Audio Crunch Box. I think any of them might be okay, have enough gain. Sort of JCM 800 + in a pedal levels of gain rather than JTM levels of overdrive which I seem to have well and truly covered. I have a RAT. It isnt doing it for me. Any other suggestions?

Dirty Lemon Burst looks great!

Some great sounds in there!

Yeah, that is a weapon.

Because Im going to be a shredder <laughs out loud and startles the cat> Ive been looking at high gain od/dist pedals even though in a post somewhere else I dont really like high gain. I found some snug fitting spandex pants. I feel like the whole shred idea thing is moving along nicely.

I remember you posting this. The wake pattern in the grain is what I remember the most but I also remember hb sized p90.

Ive been looking for Stats and Parson Street models for the last month or so. Parson Street model never shows up anywhere! That one is really nice.

All great looking guitars. The grain on the first one!!! That last one, is it a Stat Deluxe hard tail or Parson Street hard tail?

There are pedals on both of these boards I would like to spend time with. So much cool stuff.