This pedal saved my ass 2 weeks ago, I went to play with a bigband orchestra and the place din't have enough mics to mic my amp up that I took with me, so this thing came in handy, I had it at the end of my pedal board, the normal line out went into my amp so that I could hear myself on stage, the speaker sim out went direct to the mixing deck and so the crowd could hear my guitar as well :) It sounded awsome, too with all my pedals running behind it, even my mutron envelope filter sounded good

Just an FYI, the MIXER OUT ( amp emulator) still works, say into PA, or acoustic amp, even when OD is OFF. So using the Bad Monkey, you will get a clean or OD tone when used into non-traditional electric guitar amps. This is a great pedal! DigiTech Screamin' Blues will do the same.

I bought mine simply because it was the cheapest in the shop, around 2006. Ive really grown to love it and take joy in its plucky underdog status. I currently carry it as a back up to my Helix and am delighted to hear how usable the sound is with the cab emulation

The Bad Monkey is my favourite pedal for a boost. Plus I like the funny name.

best review i've seen so far great guitar skills man :)

Brett I love your videos, they're always ironic and sound great! Nice pedal for the money, no doubts.

Excellent demo. I have this pedal and was never that impressed, but having watched this I think I now can see a way it can give me exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for posting.

Ok, I made the rehearsal last night, going direct to PA. We have a decent yamaha PA with good active speakers and at first it did not sound good, we play funk/smooth jazz and I realised during that one thing you have to watch is how you pan yourself in the mix especially if you are playing with other musos going direct (other guitar player/keys/vox etc). I set the EQ flat but with a bit of mids added from the mixer and it sounded very good, even took my TS8, fuzzface and wah well.

That's actually a surprisingly good speaker simulator for that price. Nice demo.

impressed by the tone of your strat. it's cool to hear this demo though, i honestly kind of scoffed at the monkey's mixer option or the thought of generaly using it as an "amp" but, that would make my portable gear even more so when i just want to practice while i'm out. Thanks for the solid demo.

I got one of these in the post today so looking forward to finishing work to try it out! Also, your playing rocks! So tight!

That's as good if not better than the cab sim line out on my Bassbreaker combo. Extraordinary. Why did they discontinue these little beauties!

Anybody wanting to do a pedal demo, us this guys video as a template, nice job uploader, specs info two completely different guitars, using a computer or mic, o , I'm sold btw, going on the search today

Not a stupid question since the terms are so frequently interchanged. For some reason a wall brick is called a DC adapter in some places and an AC adapter in others, and both produce 9VDC like a battery. But that's not the worst of it. Some bricks actually produce low voltage AC and others DC like a battery. If the device specifies AC, it needs alternating current to run but in most effect boxes that run off a battery a 9VDC battery elliminator is needed. It produces the same power as a battery

@SuperB00gs - "Tube Screamer" is a brand of pedal made by Ibanez(actually it was made by Maxon FOR Ibanez), and it's become one of the ICONS of overdrive pedals, being copied by nearly everyone. If you see an OD pedal and it's painted some shade of green, it's a Tube Screamer copy... and alot that aren't green too! The sound has become so well-known in guitar circles that 'tube screamer' has become an adjective, not just a proper noun.

nice demo, it shows how cold this pedal really is, i dont want to say icepick sound but near....i say that because i have one ! and IT DOESNT WORKS WITH A WARM TO CRISP DRIVED VALVE AMP LIKE A VOX to make an example. But a nice pedal if you like a tubescreamer like sound.

Thanks for posting this! It sounds pretty good-Im gonna have to pick one up for recording.

i have that effect and it's amazing for rock, blues,hard rock, country and rock n roll

That all depends on what you want. If you actually intend to use this speaker thing than the Bad Monkey is the only choice. I prefer the SD-1 to the Bad Monkey. Bad Monkey's are great, don't get me wrong, but the louder the mix gets or at a gig I've found that low end vanishes. While the SD-1 is bright it still can have the chugging low end that the Bad Monkey lacks when stuff gets turned up. I also trust Boss build quality more than Digitech. This is all my opinion though, you aught to try both

it's true!ahhah quando va veloce mi fa impazzire ahahha nice vid as always!!!i love the tone on the 00:42...very cool!

@tony93666 yeah and mostly used as a "boost" by us metalheads. I don't use mine if i don't have to honestly and i never use the gain knob. I have though and for the price you can get some solid tones out of it if you play around with it.

Well if anything else, this vid just convinced me that I need a strat. :)

great demo

hey you can use this to boost your metal pedal during the solos as well!

If you need a good speaker sim for a few bucks then this is the one. I have one the speaker sim is on even if you bypass the pedal :-) That way you could put other good pedals before it and plug it into your computer or pa and get good sound. Alot better than the speaker sim in the Digitech GNX series!

excellent drive !!!!

Ha, not a bit of tube tone! No surprise there....but for $40 what can you expect. And I would bet it sounds the same played into a great early 100 watt Marshall set to 2 on the Vol. too.

@AceOfHeart2012 I don't put the whammy bar on either of my Strats, and the springs are cranked up as much as possible, stays in tune better, and yes they still ARE Strats, just sayin'.

Dude man ! ! That is way better someone than my tube screamer TS-9 ! way better ! I can't believe I spent all that money on the tube screamer when this bad money is so so good !

great value for money :) very nice demo! (is this a clapton strat??)

your good at guitar...I really want this pedal

@FatKidCookie I guess so! Its just an affordable version of the tube screamer.

@prkl6 No.. great OD pedal.... like it much better then any of the boss OD pedals I played.

@Caboose2320 The twang bar? I can do hair metal style dive bombs with mine and mine always comes right back into tune. Like I always say: "Not everybody can play a Stratocaster."

@Raxmole you can!

sounds really good,i wanna get one myself but i read somthing that you can only use it with a amp what hase got tubes in it? srry for my bad english,im dutch:)

Oh and btw, I had the pedal turned OFF all the time, just used the speaker sim out to go direct to PA

That's a great overdrive pedal, but is it True Bypass? Thank you.

i dont know if i should get this or the MXR M-66 Classic Overdrive help me please

@Burgerman666 what's a speaker sim? you mean if you connect a stomp box to a computer you can use the computer like an amp?

Good demo but why did you demo this using only the mixer output and not the amp output ?

great playin' man

Sweet Home a la Bad Monkey. Wow. That pretty much nailed the tone (without doing an A/B with the recording).

i agree with you.

I envy your tone very much sir.

@jfhdylvr an AC/DC tone from Bonn's era...I have tried it

maybe stupid question do you need an ac or dc adapter

hwy how does it sound in front of an distortion pedal?? please respond!

Can I plug It direct on Pc? To use with some plugins? Thank you! Regards from Brazil! 🇧🇷

@AceOfHeart2012 I never use mine. It messes up the tuning.

@AceOfHeart2012 You might have a different setup then me because dive bombs literally bomb my tuning

by tube screamer you mean overdrive?

Does the speaker sim work with the pedal turned off?

@brianwurst1234 yeah man ! i would really like to have a guitar with bunch of knobs and switches built in! i like playin with switches and knobs!! Just imagine the possibilities !!!!

so will this work good with a solid state?

i think you might be able to pull off an AC/DC tone

I honestly thought this would sound like shit, but it's not so bad! A decent speaker sim for a $50 pedal!

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What kind of guitar is your seconed one is it still a strat?

More midnight rambler!

Man, you get some mean sounds out of that thing, especially with the strat

did you plug the speaker sim into a computer or camera

Nice.Can I plug the BM from mixer out into input interface recorder? Thank you.

? I dont get your point. I said that I agree with Tony9366 because he is totally right. But i just wanted to have his opinion about the use of terms "tube screamer". Thats it. Good luck for 2010

damn cool bedal for less than half of a TS

Off topic: What is that awesome t-shirt you're wearing? \m/

@Burgerman666 its a great pedal, why spend money on stuff just for reviewing?

Whats the song at :54 ?

is the speaker sim on also on bypass mode?

wow nice playin

holi fok! this guitar sounds awesome,i guess is easy to play too

@Burgerman666 I meant no offense.

imagine if you could have one built in, in your guitar !!!

0:21 It has rainbow eyes!

Where's the twang bar? It ain't a Strat w/o the twang bar. Just sayin'...

White Jimi Hendrix? I think so

@Burgerman666 I'm just an anal retentive purist. I'm one of those guys who can actually hear tonal differences between patch cords. Sad, as a 'tone whore' I have no life, Actually I believe the BM is going to be my next crunch pedal.

@ototokun1 I hope you're not serious... Sweet home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd

Sweet Home Alabama

Bad Monkey>>>>>>> Tube Screamer