NPD NoBels ODR-mini 2

[the swede]

Received this today. What a sweet little thing!
I had to kick a drive of the board… so instead of doing the right thing and buy a bigger board… i thought why not change a drive pedal to another drive pedal that’s smaller. It’s stupid. I know that ok… more is more and all that… forgive me.

First time with a ODR. I always wanted to try the mini but the lack of the controls the first version had compared to the bigger box withheld me from that. Now that the mini-2 has the goodie knobs, its cool.

I like it a lot! There’s transparent low gain drive to be had, that blends very well with guitar without sounding like an obvious pedal being applied. There’s a lot of different tones there, even mid humpy stuff if that’s what one wants. Cool pedal.

 

[metropolis_4]

ODR is probably my favorite overdrive pedal! Very responsive and natural, and they stack very well too

 

[mbenigni]

Nopels is when you send it back.

 

[the swede]

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Nopels is when you send it back.

 

[SillyOctpuss]

I do love the ODR1 circuit, super useful to have the bass pot rather than the bass cut switch.

 

[the swede]

I do love the ODR1 circuit, super useful to have the bass pot rather than the bass cut switch.

Seems like on the mini-2 the bass knob adds bass ccw and cuts cw. Sounds “neutral” 12 o’clock compared to bypass tone. It has a quite hefty amount of bass and it’s increasing the clipping. Not in the same way for example the Honey Bee I had which added compression and sag (amp like), but it def thumps when turns ccw.

The spectrum is strange, not a tone, something else. I found it increased gain/volume a lot when turned cw, as well as the EQ change. It has an indent at 12 o’clock.

I found my settings drive and level at 12, spectrum and bass cut at 1 o’clock.

Very happy with this pedal.