Custom Badass M78 Distortion & M77 Modified Overdrive

[Steve Mavronis]

I think the new MXR Modified Overdrive sounds awesome. Well, it's Badass! Check out this cool video demo showing how the M78 Distortion and M77 Overdrive work together:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9uDzZUKnnI[/youtube]

Dunlop presents two members of the MXR Custom Badass line together, the M78 Distortion and the M77 Modified Overdrive. Our engineers took their inspiration from some vintage pedal circuitry and then modified and hot-rodded it to their custom specifications resulting in these stomp boxes which provide overdriven and distorted tones that are rich and amp-like along with huge amounts of gain without all the "vintage noise." These pedals also boast various EQ-tweaking parameters to give the player a wide array of tonal options. For 100% analog, true bypass boutique tone that won't break the bank, give the Custom Badass pedals a test drive.

This one is cool too showing how each knob setting works:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwOtEPU2GOE[/youtube]

M77 CUSTOM BADASS MODIFIED OVERDRIVE: FEATURES AND CONTROLS
- True Hardwire Bypass
- Hot-Rodded classic overdrive circuit with added versatility
- Gain, Output, Tone, and 100Hz cut or boost control knobs
- Bump Button adds alternate EQ voicing with boosted lows and mids

[MrBeasty]

I picked-up a '78 last week and tried it through my rig. It has a nice thick tone and fairly natural sounding. That said, it does not behave like tube, even if it sounds like them.
It is fairly inexpensive and might be perfect for someone who plays through a clean amp and wants a really heavy, tube amp sound, out of a pedal.
In the end it wasn't for me but it is an impressive pedal through a clean amp.

[AJW]

I have both. The 78 is a distortion pedal so it's really not trying too hard to be tube like. It has a lot of tonal control. It sounds good, but I just don't like distortion pedals that much.

The M77 overdrive is very nice. I use that for the more metal tones I'm looking for, but that is because I use something else for more of a classic rock tone. I normally use an xotic custom ACbooster plus an EP booster (series in that order), but that is a pretty fat tone. The MXR cuts just a little more bass which makes it tighter for those metal rythms. It's got a lot of range though, and it can sound a lot like the AC booster if set right. I think it's a great value.

I recently started using OD pedals because I built a 45/100 that sounds awesome, and I think I'd be crazy to mod it. I run it jumpered with the treble channel at 7-8 and the normal channel around 4. I'm getting good natural OD from the amp so the gain is set pretty low on the pedals.

[vanhalen5150]

Who makes those cords?

[HARLEYIII]

I wanna try the Custom Badass Modified OD. The Custom Badass distortion didnt jive well with me. Sounded more like a sputtery fuzz than a distortion. I coulda had a dud though.