Re: Choice of amp?

dvaoa wrote:
On Nov 24, 9:09 pm, Rufus<n...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
There's plenty of
high dollar pedals out there that I wouldn't bother pulling out of a
dumpster if I found them there (a Sparkle Drive being one of them, now
that I've gotten to fool around with one...and a couple of the Carl
Martin ones).

Even the Plexi Drive? Me likey that one...a lot.

-d

I haven't tried that one...by itself. I've fooled around with a Carl Martin Quatro, and it was fun, but I recall only really liking the chorus on it - the echo didn't go long enough for my tastes, and the combination of compression and dual overdrives was a bit too much...like - unnecessary.

....I recently replaced a friend's Sparkle Drive with an OCD and he's seriously happier...and two more friends also went out and bought OCDs since and are lovin' theirs, too. They all have version 4 ones, having bought recently.

I have two OCDs - a version 3, and a version 4...I prefer the version 3 (higher output, more headroom with the drive knob), and if I ever come across another one I'll probably snap it up. What I like mostly about the OCD is that it doesn't seem to color the sound of my amp - I like the sound of my amp, and my OCDs just adds drive on top of that. And I can dial off the drive and just use it as a boost if I like.

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- Rufus
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