Great Overdrive Pedal?

[Alpha579]

Im looking to build a warm, bluesy overdrive pedal that is very transparent, cleans up nicely from the volume pot, and doesnt suffer from intermodulation distortion. Any suggestions?

[Mobisimo]

I hear the Blue Magic fits that description pretty well.  Look it up at generalguitargadgets.com.  Let us know how it comes out, I am kind of interested in that build.  Good luck.

[gtrmac]

I have a Blue Magic on the workbench now but I haven't finshed it yet. hopefully over the weekend so I'll let everyone know how it turns out.

[Ge_Whiz]

Blue Magic, definitely. Peppermill (RunOffGroove) probably.

[brett]

BluesBreaker is great - probably better than a tubescreamer for what you want.  The Odie is kinda nice, too, but fairly high gain.

cheers

[Doug H]

Scroll down to my Highway 89 soundclip and see what you think:

http://dhammond_1.tripod.com/sounds.htm

If you like it, email me at dougbhammond@yahoo.com and I'll send you the schem.

Doug

[Stefan]

Hi,

I built the Blue Magic a few days ago. It is the best overdrive pedal I have ever heard!!! Well, I am not a real professional guitar player and I had not the chance to compare with a lot of pedals, but in comparison to my Ibanez ST-9 Tubescreamer it is definitely my/the choice. A friend of mine tried it and will build one as well. He tried several OD pedals before ........... It is very easy to build and to trim. I put the Blue Magic in front of my Peavey Classic 30. It works fine for bluesy and rockin tunes.....

Keep on rockin'

Stefan

[Ben N]

Another option is the TC Double Drive, although it looks like a bit of a harder build.  Pretty good flexibility in that one.

[RDV]

Stupid Box.

Regards

RDV

[Chris Goodson]

BluesBreaker is great - probably better than a tubescreamer for what you want.  The Odie is kinda nice, too, but fairly high gain.

cheers

I'll second the Blues Breaker, I built one this past weekend and it's my favorite that I'e built so far.  I think the tone could be called transparent, the terms people use to describe sounds with are always sort of subjective.  I still haven't quite figured out what a "brown sound" is. :?

[dubs]

Another option is the TC Double Drive, although it looks like a bit of a harder build.  Pretty good flexibility in that one.

I second that. Built one the other week from tomboys layout, and you can get an interesting variety of overdrives.

[Mobisimo]

Question about the blue magic build: did you use the recommended cap dielectrics, or whatever was handy?