A less muddy sounding version of the Crowther Hotcake?

[goroth]

Goose it with a TS. TS>Hotcake is one of my favourite distortion sounds.

[frigid midget]

Goose it with a TS. TS>Hotcake is one of my favourite distortion sounds.

I've got a decent self build TS808 laying around, it's one of the only peds I didn't try with the hotcake. Thanks for the tip. I should have someone build me a ts+hotcake combo pedal though

[spacelordmother]

I've got a decent self build TS808 laying around, it's one of the only peds I didn't try with the hotcake.

Please report back.

I should have someone build me a ts+hotcake combo pedal though

Please report back.

[goroth]

Go nuts on the town control too - max volume, max tone and minimal drive on the TS. 600km from my board atm but I think that’s how I set it up.

[Pete]

I am curious to hear the reports on the hotcake/TS combo

[MechaGodzilla]

Go nuts on the town control too - max volume, max tone and minimal drive on the TS. 600km from my board atm but I think that’s how I set it up.

That's the only way they sound good imo but it's a bloody good sound

[goroth]

Yeah, you know it MG!

[taco satori]

I vaguely remembered reading somewhere that the Xotic RC Boost is similar to a Tubescreamer, with a major exception being the RC having less in the way of clipping diodes. Plowing an RC, set for a significant bass cut and treble boost, into a Hotcake sounded pretty decent!

[goroth]

Hotcake doesn't have any clipping diodes, it is a straight op-amp overdrive.

[Christophe]

To my ears, my RC booster doesn’t sound like a tubescreamer at all... They differ a lot to me.
But what would your less-muddy-hotcake-when-cranked sound like? Hard to imagine... maybe a Marshall type of pedal? The xotic sl drive could do the trick...

[goroth]

The Hotcake doesn't cut very much bass going into the opamp. On lower gain settings you get a nice crumbly breakup, but on higher gain settings it woofs out. Put a treble booster, or a TS or anything that cuts bass in front of it and it will clean it up. It's better IMO to goose it with a pedal because you get the big round overdrive sound with the bass in tact, then when you want more gain you get more definition as well. Win-win.

[MechaGodzilla]

The Hotcake doesn't cut very much bass going into the opamp. On lower gain settings you get a nice crumbly breakup, but on higher gain settings it woofs out. Put a treble booster, or a TS or anything that cuts bass in front of it and it will clean it up. It's better IMO to goose it with a pedal because you get the big round overdrive sound with the bass in tact, then when you want more gain you get more definition as well. Win-win.

gonna have to try that with my overdrive/power boost clones