SHOW OFF YOUR PEDALBOARD!

Almost done. Waiting on Phaser and a few wires.
Always wanted to do an all-Boss board.

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Picked up a used and pretty cheap Catalinbread DLS MK3 as a birthday present for a close friend today (we have a tradition of gifting each other one pedal per year).

Needless to say, I had to give it a try when I got home. In Super Bass mode and on 18V, of course.

This thing is really cool as a preamp!

If it weren't for my Model T style pre, I'd probably have to get another for myself just as well.

Takes pedals like a real amp would, gets LOUD and "feels open" and "amp-like". Also, no noise issues at all.

Damn!

I can only recommend.
 
Don’t wanna start a thread and as this thread definitely isn’t like the one in T.O.P I guess we could fill out… with filler… stuff… nonsense.

Aaaaaanyhow… testing out my old OD-3 and SD-2. Haven’t used since pre HX Stomp, and probably longer.

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Hard to choose between them.

OD-3: sounds great, pretty flat, there’s a low and high cut, it emphasizes the mids in my tele, but I’d consider it pretty “transparent” and flat compared to TS like pedals. Very smooth and creamy breakup and clipping structure when gain turned up. The clipping also fades/decays very evenly and gradually. I think it has good “harmonic” qualities.

SD-2: Crunch mode is even more flat, boosts everything kinda, gain is not as smooth, kinda more rough around the edges and there’s a fast decay between clipping to clean, kinda glassy.
Lead mode: distortion…. A good distortion I think. It chugs away on the bridge pickup easily. I think it’s quite flat sounding, def not like a ds-1.

There can only be one on the board. I’m leaning towards OD-3 here because it feels just right and the humble mid push seems to fit my setup. Could be used as an always on thing also.

Guess I could hit 2 birds with SD-2, def like the lead mode, but I doubt I’d use the crunch mode often because it basically only adds its weird clipping.

But I have time… going to give it a few days or a week, A/B them.
 
dronerstone said:
Picked up a used and pretty cheap Catalinbread DLS MK3 as a birthday present for a close friend today (we have a tradition of gifting each other one pedal per year).

Needless to say, I had to give it a try when I got home. In Super Bass mode and on 18V, of course.

This thing is really cool as a preamp!

If it weren't for my Model T style pre, I'd probably have to get another for myself just as well.

Takes pedals like a real amp would, gets LOUD and "feels open" and "amp-like". Also, no noise issues at all.

Damn!

I can only recommend.
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Totally! Superbass mode at 18V and then with a Fuzz in front is godly! :love

That pedal shits all over something like the Friedman offerings. So versatile. :beer
 
I need to make up some new patch cables and tidy the cabling underneath. I'm also shooting out the two Sun face clones at rehearsal tomorrow night to see which one's going to stay on the board, the losers spot will be filled by a Zonk machine or Mk1 Tone Bender.

Signal flow will be

Budda Wah - Polytune - Sun face - Zonk - EP Booster - Jan Ray

Then into a A/B box with one side going to the Klone and the other to the HX Stomp. Both of these buffer the signal and don't play particularly well with a Zonk or Tone Bender Mk1, this way I can get them out of the signal flow.

Finally into a Deep Blue Delay clone and into my JVM.


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slow progress here. I took my time with the old boss overdrives and while they’re good, I just don’t love them enough. My old 250 is back on. I used both the Carcosa and 250 when I had the Stomp and it’s a pair. Just as before i like the 250 as a subtle tone enhancer/preamp thing. It does a growly OD also but I like it like this, just barely breaking up on its own.
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I turned in those boss OD’s for a used Wet v5. It just begged me to take it home, 3 knobs and mono! Doesn’t get more simple. I always wanted to try the Wet having only heard it on YouTube and stuff. It’s sweet. Really like it. It “sits” very well behind playing and can do subtle as well as wild. There’s something in it, a kind of subtle movement or modulation that makes it unique I think. I understand the love for it now.
 
the swede said:
slow progress here. I took my time with the old boss overdrives and while they’re good, I just don’t love them enough. My old 250 is back on. I used both the Carcosa and 250 when I had the Stomp and it’s a pair. Just as before i like the 250 as a subtle tone enhancer/preamp thing. It does a growly OD also but I like it like this, just barely breaking up on its own.
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I turned in those boss OD’s for a used Wet v5. It just begged me to take it home, 3 knobs and mono! Doesn’t get more simple. I always wanted to try the Wet having only heard it on YouTube and stuff. It’s sweet. Really like it. It “sits” very well behind playing and can do subtle as well as wild. There’s something in it, a kind of subtle movement or modulation that makes it unique I think. I understand the love for it now.
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Nice board!
Did you get rid of the OD-3? :cry:
 
the swede said:
slow progress here. I took my time with the old boss overdrives and while they’re good, I just don’t love them enough. My old 250 is back on. I used both the Carcosa and 250 when I had the Stomp and it’s a pair. Just as before i like the 250 as a subtle tone enhancer/preamp thing. It does a growly OD also but I like it like this, just barely breaking up on its own.
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I turned in those boss OD’s for a used Wet v5. It just begged me to take it home, 3 knobs and mono! Doesn’t get more simple. I always wanted to try the Wet having only heard it on YouTube and stuff. It’s sweet. Really like it. It “sits” very well behind playing and can do subtle as well as wild. There’s something in it, a kind of subtle movement or modulation that makes it unique I think. I understand the love for it now.
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Carcosa and 250 look just awesome next to each other.
 
FuzzyAce said:
Nice board!
Did you get rid of the OD-3? :cry:
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Yes, a little sad about it because it’s an awesome OD, and the only “mid hump” OD I’ve tried that I like, because of the subtle hump. But it’s a space issue, i need something else… some kind of mini pedal that adds grit/dirt without being an amp overdrive. I refuse to go bigger board.
dronerstone said:
Carcosa and 250 look just awesome next to each other.
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It’s definitely a pairing. Carcosa can get pretty mad when letting loose the 250 into it :satan
 
Spaced Out Ace said:
Of course The Swede prefers the DOD 250. :LOL:

Fucking Swedes. Nothing ever changes. Fucking DOD 250 preamps.
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of course! and we're cheap motherfuckers to :knit you know, people spend idiotic money on hyped glorified "preamp" overdrives for subtleties very similar to the simple and cheap 250. Id say it's really not perfect or even that great. A pre bass cut, active mid and post treble eq would make it perfect.... but then... it's not the simple and cheap 250 anymore.
 
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