Rectifier and Digitech Bad Monkey

[Dave G.]

Hey just wondering if anyone here has ever used a Digitech Bad Monkey overdrive witha rectifier as a boost. Im thinking of getting a boost for it and i know the Bad monkey gets great reviews and its far cheaper than a Ts-9. I have heard them with other amps and they sound awesome so was wondering if anyone here used them! Thanks again for any help!



Cheers,
D.G

 

[droptrd]

Absolutely. The BM is a great OD. Very tubescreamer ish. Might even be a TS FAIK. I used one for a while with a recto. It tightens and boosts all the smae ways an 808 does. Very cool especially for the price

 

[Dave G.]

Cool! Thanks for the reply! I think ill get one so!! Most ppl seem to find them great!

 

[Chris McKinley]

+1

The Bad Monkey also lets you dial back in some of the bass warmth if you desire. I modded mine to give it lower, less muddy bass, high-end wiring and caps, and also to give it a nice singing boost right square in the middle of the mids. With a couple of mods, it's one of those best kept secrets type of pedals.

 

[ElectricTurkey4369]

You cant go wrong with a Bad Monkey!
I use one to boost my Roadster and it gets the job done nicely

 

[Dave G.]

My bad monkey is on the way!

 

[FXR]

I use a Bad Monkey on my Express 5:25, but the gain is off. We are using the volume and tone. A bud that uses Mesa exclusively scolded me for injecting fake gain into a Meas and said just use the Bad Monkey to push the Mesa front end and let the Mesa gain prevail. YMMV.

For the price, I think the pedal is a steal. Where they are used to add gain to a clean channel rig they sound very good IMO.

 

[Dave G.]

Just got the pedal there today. Its a great little boost i think! It even sounds pretty good on the clean channel too. Im really liking the fact that you can balance the bass and treble controls individually. REALLY good feature imo!

 

[droptrd]

Congrats!

 

[Chris McKinley]

When I first started posting here, I posted a thread on using the Bad Monkey as an OD with the Clean channel Pushed to get a very good classic rock Marshally sound. I'll try and do a search of my posts to link it tomorrow.


Update.....here ya go:

http://www.forum.grailtone.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=5271