JohnK's Top Dirt

from http://www.talkbass.com/, these are some comments from John Kallas.

John, do you have a list of your top OD pedals that you've tried? I occasionally see you mention one as "one of your favorites" on your site's OD page, but I've never seen a list of your top pedals (to date). Do you have one?

I've built so many now that it's hard to keep track of them.
here's some favorites that come to mind:

Fairfield Circuitry Barbershop
Creation Audio labs Holy fire
runoffgroove Ginger
Cochrane Timmy
My Orange bass preamp
Okko Diablo (modded for bass)
Cornish SS-2 (modded for bass version)
Thobak Overdrive Boost
just about any BJFE/Bearfoot design
just about any Barber pedal
almost any Roger Mayer design
... and a bunch that i'm probably forgetting.........

as far a fuzzes go, the Yardbox, Univox Superfuzz, Baldwin-Burns Buzzaround, Shin Ei FY-2, various ToneBenders, Mosrite Fuzzrite and the Maestro FZ-1 are the first ones that come to mind for me.

really digging the Fairfield Barbershop, Catalinbread RAH, Cochrane Timmy, Barber LTD Silver, Dam Ezekiel that i built from vero's on this site. i built an OCD V1 yesyerday, and IMO, it's okay but it's quite a bit brighter than i expected it to be. i'd also like to build wampler's black '65 so if you get a chance and can post that one, i'd really appreciate it.