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: In sac.music Elias Jootball <Anonymous-Remailer@see.comment.header> 

:> Consider buying a Danalectro T-Bone... cheap enough at $40 and 
:> will provide you with enough distortion for almost any heavy 
:> dirt tone. 

: Hmm.  I took your suggestion and looked around.  The T-Bone is a distortion
: unit, not an overdrive, which is what I needed. 

Depending on what you expect, many times they are the same. In the 
consumer guitar music pedal business, most over drive pedals are 
actually distortion pedal or similar circuits.  

Actual Amplifier over drive preamps are considered and often labeled as 
just preamps or overdrive preamps.  Depends on how much hype you want to 
throw at pedal to try and sell it to a crowd. 

:  I checked around on the
: net and the Danelectro "Pastrami" is their overdrive.  
: It's not very well regarded, unfortunately, 

By whom and for what application...  I just suggested checking out the 
T-Bone.

: either in terms of its sound or (especially) its
: durability.  That plastic case is a problem.  Knowing me, I'd break it 
: in a matter of hours and probably lose a toe in the process.

Danelectro along with everyone else make higher end pedals... you get what 
you pay for with the plastic stuff. I've already broken the knob shaft off 
my T-Bone, but it still seems to work.  When it dies, I can buy another 
and still be under the price of a single higher end pedal. 

I like and use the sound of the T-Bone, the Pastrami pedal is a whole 
different animal.  I couldn't talk about it much as I haven't heard one in 
some years now. 

: I was checking around, and used stuff is going more than the same gear new
: (thank you, EBay!), so I just bit the bullet and did some price-matching
: homework and got a Boss SD-1 at GC for $42.  Couldn't find a decent used
: one for that.

Sure you could... I bought an original TS-9 for $50 from a local store...  
Yeah, ebay can be both heaven and hell price wise.  

: Among serious gearheads, the SD-1 seems pretty generally regarded as the
: best  overdrive in the sub-$100-MSRP class.  The Tubescreamer TS-7 has all
: the history and mojo, but people who have both tend to find the SD-1 a
: little better sounding, particularly in the midrange.

Boss pedals seem to sound kind of dry to me... I'm not much for them. But 
to each his own.  I have lots of high end and low end pedals to play with. 
I thought to throw out the T-Bone as just something to try... If you go 
for hype, follow the Tone Screamer Crowd.  If your smart, you'll follow 
your ears first.  If the SD-1 does what you need, then that's all that 
matters. 

: Being a pedal-hater, this is the first one I've bought in decades, and I
: was surprised to find how well-made and well-designed it is.  I've been too
: lazy to try it out with the specific amp for which I bought it, but I'm
: fairly pleased already.

Funny how I read that... here we are talking pedals back and forth and I 
also hate and avoid using them most all the time. 

I just picked up a Fender HR 40 Deluxe amplifier which seems to have 
enough overdrive in the dirt channel that all my pedals are sitting idle 
for the moment. 
 
cheers
skipp 

skipp@pilot.NOSPAMPLEASE.ucdavis.edu