cabo wrote:yup, I use my SHOD all the time. I actually prefer it over the HoneyBee as its a little bit tighter. Definately a great stacker,,I like to use either the DRD or SYOD going into it. Currently prefering the SYOD>SHOD stack,,,gain on SYOD about maxed, SHOD gain around 11, vol and tone set to taste.
and I agree that it goes well with a variety of amp/tubes,,pretty much everything Ive tried it with. I absolutely love this pedal
+1 on that. The SHOD and SYOD work very well together, and in either stacking direction. I mentioned this in another thread about these and the HBOD:
I have a SYOD, SHOD, and a Deluxe HBOD, and they all sound different. Taking the BPB side from the Honey Bee out of the equation, there are distinct differences.
The HBOD has that wonderfully dynamic bark, that doesn't sag to me so much as it "takes it time" attack-wise without being slow, yet that attack still stays focused. The Nature knob either fattens or trims the overdrive in a very natural amp-like way that a passive tone control coudn't hope to achieve.
To me the grind sounds perfectly "caramelized" like the color of the pedal...it's drive can be tweedy or bluesy, or straight up rock and roll with a healthy dose of grease thrown in...the HBOD Deluxe is a perfect pedal IMO, and BJ should get an award for it.
The SYOD is a completely different animal, more immediate, and maybe more " American rock and roll sounding", but with the right amount of attitude and to my ears, is neither Marshall or Fender overdrive in character. It also seems to have the right amount of sparkle without sounding too bright, and a very well voiced tone control giving you many tonal options. Incredibly complimentary to the Honey Bee.
The SHOD you can say is closer to the SYOD in that it also is more immediate sounding than the HB, but it is set-up differently and thus sounds different. It has less overall gain than the SYOD, and is less forgiving, which really equates to less sustain(and I'm talking about run into a clean amp with plenty of headroom).
Its drive quality is more glassy, than sparkly.
Additionally, the Focus knob is like a combination tone control, and a focus control that determines what frequency the overdrive occurs, and like many tone controls on old PTP 50's 1x12 combos, the more you dime the tone control the more drive you get, and vice versa.
To that end of it, I miss a little gain from the pedal overall but it really has a great AC/DC medium drive quality to the sound, but without sounding too "Marshall-like", but to me, here's the kicker...I had a DAM Sonic Titan, and just didn't bond with it, and certainly no disrespect to Dave and Linzi...they make great stuff and Dave has been very helpful to me in the past and a great guy to deal with, but the upside was that it made me hear the SHOD as more of a POWER-amp overdrive pedal, and really to that end, it excels.
I'm not the biggest stacking fan, and when combining of course anything goes, but using the SYOD and the HB as pre-drives, and the SHOD as a power drive are two tickets to BIG AMP DRIVE bliss.
Posted: Fri Feb 12, 2010 3:43 pm