Bogner Blue Pedal is amazing... Anything else as good? Soldano?

[Tito83]

The Blue became a core pedal live for me. It sounds great, but the big one for me is that it feels great the way it reacts. Very amp like IMO. Is there anything else you've tried that feels and sounds just as good but with a different tone? Could be this Plexi-ish, higher gain, maybe Dumblesque - again, anything really. I thought about the Soldano Overdrive pedal. I tried the Origin Effects Revival HotRod and it didn't really do it for me. Any recommendations?

 

[crispsandwich]

That particular pedal (the Blue) is the only AIAB pedal I have ever used that actually sounds and responds like an amp. There is no other pedal out there that does what it does, at least not that I have tried. I can’t see me ever getting rid of mine.

The SLO pedal is decent, but I could never really make it sound like any legendary SLO tones I have heard. It’s just a good distortion box that does the high gain Marshall thing pretty well.

 

[la szum]

Feel free to go spend a grand trying to prove me wrong, though.



The issue with dirt pedals is they are pedals. Literally! I like overdrives and they are useful for slamming an
amp, pushing the front-end a bit more, and juicing what is already clipping or driven. Not so much into
dirt/amp in the box pedals, though. Other than the Blue.

Fuzz doesn't apply in the same way, though They are meant to sound naughty and nasty like transistors
and shit.

 

[PBGas]

I have the Soldano plus pedal on my board for rehearsals with my VP4 and run it into an IR pedal to my monitor and direct to FOH. It sounds absolutely fantastic! It is the first time I have been really happy running a pedal for my gain for more than a year now.

I have the SLO-100R or my X88-IR for my gigs depending upon where we are playing but I would have no issue running the SLO dual pedal as it is my backup for those at gigs.

 

[ChordInversion]

I lke the blue, the red, and the La Grange, which is why I keep them all among an absurd array of pedals.

 

[Classic07]

The Bogner Blue mini is one pedal I regret selling. I bought an Origin Revivaldrive Compact, which is great, but miss the flexibility and some of the sounds from the Bogner Blue. I keep looking for another.

 

[DrewJD82]

The Friedman BE-OD is great. I was trying to find the right combo of pedals to stack that would get me into modded Marshall territory and wasn’t having much luck then I tried this pedal at GC and bought one the same day. Then I found out the BE-OD Deluxe has 2 channels and a Mid knob and bought that, too.

Running it into a 50-watt Plexi circuit just feels like a continuation of the amp, rather than forcing a totally different sound into it.