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Mike Bowles
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Princeton, West Virginia, USA
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Posted 11 Jan 2015 1:59 pm |
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which for tele and twin a sparkle drive or bad monkey?
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Mark van Allen
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Watkinsville, Ga. USA
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Posted 11 Jan 2015 10:07 pm
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HI, Mike, it depends a lot on what you're looking for. Having owned both, the Sparkle Drive is more adjustable, in a way, as it's designed to allow (via knob) you to blend in some unaffected or "clean" signal with the drive or distorted signal. That can be really cool if you want to set a grind sound and then clean it back up a bit, or retain some of the initial attack and transients of your clean sound with overdrive on top.
On the other hand, if you want a down and dirty, switch and go overdrive, the bad monkey is a great inexpensive alternative. Pretty good tube screamer type sound, solid and dependable at like $29 on ebay. Hard to pass it up even for experimenting.
Some people look at distortion/ overdrive as a throw-away, unimportant sound. I'm one of those who sees it as a nuanced, organic thing that can change from song to song. I'm still looking for the perfect box for a variety of tunes. One of the trials is that almost all overdrives are designed for 6 sting guitar into a "guitar" amp, both of which are out of the mix electronically when dealing with steel guitar. So what kills on "regular" guitar may be lame for steel, and vice versa.
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Mark van Allen
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Posted 11 Jan 2015 10:11 pm
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Oops, I missed the tele and twin thing, always expecting Steel questions here. For that rig, without a doubt, Sparkle Drive, unless you just want crunch. Again, hard to prescribe without more specific references to tonal/ stylistic desires. There are nearly infinite tastes of overdrive/ distortion available now.
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Tony Prior
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Charlotte NC
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Posted 12 Jan 2015 2:14 am
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The Sparkle Drive has become my go to stomp over the last 5 years for any amp, including my Twin ! It takes a few moments to dial it in, especially the Drive vs Clean knobs but it's well worth the time spent...
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John Booth
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Columbus Ohio, USA
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Posted 12 Jan 2015 2:52 am
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Voodoo Sparkle.
I've used both
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Mike Bowles
From:
Princeton, West Virginia, USA
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Posted 12 Jan 2015 3:38 pm sparkle drive
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thanks guys leaning toward the sparkle drive only for tele i like clean for steel i use holy grail nano and amp really just started using that now i dont need any delay. makes my nv 1000 even sound better oh i use a bb too.
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