The Tube Screamer is the industry standard overdrive pedal. It's clearly possible - as many builders make it so - and it seems odd to me that builders would choose otherwise. As a result, the Sugar Drive is perhaps closer to the KTR, and it certainly delivers the trademark Klon transparent drive sound. Specifically comparing it to the Soul Food the higher gain tones of the Sugar Drive are infinitely better. Price: $119.99 ... Not since the late Seventies, when the Ibanez Tube Screamer and Boss OD-1 made their respective debuts, has a mass-produced overdrive pedal won over the great unwashed and cork-sniffing tone snobs alike. Age: 62 Messages: 28,298. To me it just sounds like a Tube Screamer with an even more honky/nasal/extreme mid-hump. The most expensive one I've tried was the MXR Sugar Drive, which was as bad as the Soul Food. Using a similar circuit to an 808 Tube Screamer, the Sparkle Drive gives you that midrange-y grit everyone seems to like. Seth puts 4 of our favorite Klon-inspired overdrive head to head in this weeks shootout. I tried the Overrated Special. I was so baffled I asked the shop if I could see the manual. MXR is also starting to roll-out more mini pedals following something of an hiatus after its well-received Phase 95 pedal. Like many overdrive pedals, the MXR Sugar Drive comes with Volume, Tone, and Drive. Let’s use a TS-9 tube screamer and the Plexi Drive (JTM-45 style overdrive) as examples. I just bought an MXR Sugar Drive and a Wampler Plexi drive mini. MXR Sugar Drive is yet another clone of the mythical Klon Centaur but at a quarter of the size. Reply. Fwiw, I got the Tumnus and the MXR Sugar Drive at the same time to compare and ended up sending the Sugar Drive back. Even remotely. This is often cloned, imitated and ripped off, but there’s nothing quite like the original Ibanez TS9 Tubescreamer.It’s super easy to operate and adds a beautifully lush overdrive to your valve amplifier. Pushing a dirty amp, it doesn’t have the pure volume punch of a Tube Screamer or Timmy-style drive, but it’s enough of a kick to get some decent saturation. It was exceedingly bright, severely lacking in dynamics, and sounded nothing like a Klon type circuit. The Sugar Drive stands out from the other Centaur clones, with a bit more presence in … If you run the TS before the Plexi Drive, whatever signal is leaving the TS is going to use the Plexi as a “gateway” of sorts. And lacked all the dynamics. Any tips on stacking them. It didn't sound or feel like my OTS Mini. Plus the MXR Sugar drive is right after my wah in buffer mode so those two should be enough in my drive section to buffer the chain along with the Boss pedals at the end of the chain. The Sugar Drive, IMHO, is my favorite to date. MXR Sugar Drive. The-Kid, Nov 6, 2019 #15. fezz parka fezz parka. By including a Clean knob, you … Why this preference is a bone of contention I … The Sugar Drive works very well from low to high gain pushing the Marshall into full blown drive territory. Pure confectionary hard rock and blues in a mini-chassis pedal. Joined: Last edited: Nov 7, 2019. I have messed with a few TS variants, an EHX Soul Food, and a few MIAB pedals. If you want to know what an overdrive pedal sounds like, start here. The latter was a bit better at clean boost/very low gain, but as I turned the gain knobs up, the Tumnus — for me — became the clear winner. I'm not having a dig at this pedal or at MXR in isolation and maybe it's unfair of me to choose this pedal to bring it up, but there you go. Of course Mooer and OneControl have the biggest selection of mini drives and distortions, while F-Pedals has an interesting compact range, and there are some individual gems from the likes of EWS, Keeley, KHDK and Xvive. But, of the many I've tried, my favorites are the Caline Medusa, Tone City Bad Horse, and the Chinese no name Centaur.
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