Originally Posted by: LordathestringsIf your amp has an effects loop, I can recommend the DOD Bad Monkey for distortion. I don't usually like DOD stuff, but the Bad Monkey has a wide range of tones in it, and when its on, it sounds really good.

The reason I returned mine, is that it doesn't have true-bypass switching. When you turn it off, the signal still goes through part of the circuit, and it sucks all the tone out of your axe. An effects loop would get around this problem though, so I can happily recommend it for use with an effects loop or some other A/B switching system that will bypass the pedal when its not being used.

Isn't the Bad Monkey made by DigiTech? If we're talking about the same pedal, I've heard a lot of great things about it for the price. Also... a distortion/overdrive pedal in the effects loop :confused: I've never tried that, nor even thought about it. I guess I'm just too used to using my overdrive/distortion pedals to compliment and boost my amps preamp.

Funny story... Just yesterday, I was seriously thinking about buying a Carl Martin Plexi Tone distortion pedal, because there's a certain Marshallness it has that I haven't been able to get, but when I got home, I pluged in my Yamaha instead of my PRS, adjusted my EQ pedal slightly, and adjusted the EQ on the Rockmaster slightly, and BAM, I had the tone I had been looking for! Saved myself about $200 :eek: I'm still very tempted to get it to use with my 5150 live though :rolleyes: