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Hey dudes! I just got a Digitech Bad Monkey Overdrive for $30 Canadian! I don't pick it up for a couple days, and I bought it based strictly on the little that Iquot;ve heard from people around here. I hear that this pedal is great for tubescreamer type overdriven tones, but I'm really not sure. What do you guys think of this pedal, and what do you like/dislike about it?

i love mine....it replaced my modded TS9...
don't know if the Chinese made ones are the same as the USA made...
solid build...good design...great low gain tones....higher gain is ok...

Could you recommend some links where i can read more about this pedal?

I've heard they're a great tubescreamer clone that doesn't suck the low end off your signal.


Originally Posted by twoheadedboyCould you recommend some links where i can read more about this pedal?

Go to The Gear Page and do a search for quot;monkeyquot;.

Awesome pedal. It's got a great, solid tone and gives a nice boost of juice without coloring the tone of your amp. I bought one and returned it because I needed strings desperately (bought in bulk) and I'm sort of regretting it. They're only about $40 so getting another one isn't really a big deal, but yeah, if you get one hold onto it.

I've heard very nice things about it. Good tone, solid craftsmanship, etc.

wow a good product from digitech? I might have to grab one!

Does anyone know how this would compare to an SD-1 or TS for boosting an amp, but playing metal? Something like level almost full, tone nuetral, and drive at close to nothing; just to kick the amp in the nuts a little, saturate the tone a tad more, fix up some fizz.


Originally Posted by DeadSkinSlayer3Does anyone know how this would compare to an SD-1 or TS for boosting an amp, but playing metal? Something like level almost full, tone nuetral, and drive at close to nothing; just to kick the amp in the nuts a little, saturate the tone a tad more, fix up some fizz.

I'd like to know that one too, is it more of a quot;tube emulationquot; pedal, or just plain old OD?


Originally Posted by DeadSkinSlayer3Does anyone know how this would compare to an SD-1 or TS for boosting an amp, but playing metal? Something like level almost full, tone nuetral, and drive at close to nothing; just to kick the amp in the nuts a little, saturate the tone a tad more, fix up some fizz.Guitar World basically said it was similar in tone to that quot;other green pedalquot; (the TS-1, obviously) and while they didn't call it a clone I wouldn't be too forward in saying it's basically a TS-1 clone with a few quot;Bad Monkey particular tonesquot; that it doesn't share in common with the TS-1 due to construction, materials, or whatever.

So, it sort of is a clone and sort of isn't. The review also said, and I think I may have noted this in another Bad Monkey post, that there was an obvious quot;midrange humpquot; when kicking it on...which is good for soloing I guess...anyway, I think it's great for boosting an amp regardless of what genre you play. I'm way into quot;modernquot; bands like Incubus, Rage, and Jimmy Eat World (not quot;metalquot;, but at times fairly heavy music) and it works great for that style of music.

I digs the Monkey...

Picked one up on the same day I saw a TS9 Reissue for chump change.

The TS9 has stayed on the shelf and the Monkey has been my fave pick since.

It kills me....thirty bucks....for what I've paid on the two TubeScreamers I now own I could of bought one for every amp I own, keep one in the rehearsal space, a spare in my gigging case and still had enough change left over for a cup of coffee.

I've been considering checking one out. I'm not digging my TS808 reissue as much as I used to. Good luck with the pedal, twoheadedboy.