Just curious on which are the big Overdrive/Distortion/Fuzz pedals that sparked a sea of clones. I always seem to see consistent ones such as RAT, Tube Screamer, Big Muff, Klon and a few others that escape me.
Then there’s the Mosfet, Germanium talks. So, to those with the insight. Which are some of the originals, and what famous clones are there?
JHS pedals on YouTube goes into this extensively in his videos. He will do entire episodes on a selection of clones and their history.
He’s a great channel to follow.
Gonna need to check that out. Thanks!
It’s not just distortion either. There’s classics for all effects that have sprouted innumerable clones (Boss OC-2, EHX Clone Theory, MXR Dynacomp, etc)
If any body has heard of a Rat clone for bass, I would like to hear about it.
Oh, No doubt. Seen plenty of references to pedals like Leslie chorus and others. At this point, anything thats put out will get a clone (looking at you Behringer… 
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Source Audio has a “Bass El Raton” engine in their drive pedals. Not sure how it compares.
Here’s a video of the Source Audio Aftershock (With the RAT engine) compared to the MXR M85.
Man, the Aftershock is such an awesome pedal for the price. So many options.
Source Audio pedals aren’t cheap but you get a lot of value out of them. I got the C4 and I found a bunch of clone presets based on originals (Moog, OC-2, Bitcrusher, etc.). That Aftershock sounds killer and can do some amazing fuzz too.
The new Ultrawave can also do distortion/drive stuff and I’m sure the community will add presets that are based on originals.
Yeah I liked this episode where he was comparing Behringer with Boss pedals.
I love the fact that a blend knob turns more or less any pedal into a bass pedal.
@Noisembryo has some RAT pedals on his board as you can see in this thread.
Curious how he plays the original RAT. I actually got the Rattler on my board that @sfadams linked. That one won’t go off my board for a long time. The Aftershock was a really close call when deciding on a dirt pedal. With the Aftershock you also get a fuzz included similar like the Chase Bliss Brothers.
https://www.chaseblissaudio.com/shop-pedals/brothers
You can also combine two pedals to get the job done. For example when you combine a B3k with a rat tail/king pedal for a more dirty sound. I’ve seen on other forums lots of combination suggestions. I guess an EQ pedal before OD can achieve something similar?
At the moment I’m intrigued by blend pedals or actually 2 channel pedals with a clean channel and dirty.
If I still had a board I would probably eventually have bought a Tyler.
I love the owl and moon detail. 
Blend, low/high pass filter sounds good too, yeah that is a really nice pedal.
Yeah you could just throw all your dirt and modulation in the high pass loop and just compress the low end and end up with Darkglass Everything.
love that channel. even though he is pretty allergic to basses.
one of the coolest things about the hx stomp is the ability to blend your dry signal into any pedal. so i can have a bass klon. daveT also has a standalone pedal that does the same thing,
This is one of my favorite videos when it comes to history, progression, variants. Josh seems to cover a wider range of topics now, but some of the older videos could be the basis for a pedal PhD.
