White Light vs Monarch

[echobaseone]

Pretty different birds, I think. According to Jamie, the Monarch should be considered a Bass Booster and a Treble Booster in addition to the overdrive. The White Light is loosely based on the Distortion + with more functionality...
I just bought a Monarch ten minutes ago, but I've got no White Light to compare it to...though there is a pretty decent WL demo on youtube with a Jazzmaster that's got me questioning my OD choice!

[earthdevice]

The white light is a more "classic OD" sound, hard clipping with diodes. It's a more well rounded, every day type of OD with crunch. The Monarch is more bulbous, good for thick chords with a lot of low end retention and sounds more like a gained up (vintage tube) with all the fuzzy corners and natural decay. Both pretty different from each other I think.

[echobaseone]

Don't know about the White Light, but I got my Monarch last night. Wow. I mean, really. Wow.
It's unlike any other overdrive I've used. The controls are all very reliant on each other. The amount of volume available is almost silly. But it IS a factor as well. I keep it around 8/9 o'clock for unity. The treble/bass are boosted instead of being subtracted. My toddler went to bed before I really got to spend any sort of time with the pedal, but here's the thing...
I use the headphone jack on my Boss DD-20 AND IT STILL SOUNDED GREAT! I mean, like a proper amp's overdrive. And there's no nasty compression. I was hitting chords with venom and it all sounded amazing...THROUGH HEADPHONES!!!
I was kind nervous about buying this, as I saw a few of them over at the Gear Page classified already...turns out, those guys are dipshits. Well, ok, maybe they are happy with their TS-9 Mod blah blah blah Timmy blah blah. But believe me, they are missing out in a major way. Awesome job EQD!

[vindrewski]

I saw a few of them over at the Gear Page classified already...turns out, those guys are dipshits. Well, ok, maybe they are happy with their TS-9 Mod blah blah blah Timmy blah blah. But believe me, they are missing out in a major way. Awesome job EQD!

Ha! Noice.

[Nychthemeron]

No idea about how the White Light is, but I just learned that the guys in The Mercury Program are rocking the EQD Monarch.

[Companda]

Since starting a new thread is a huge responsibility that I just don't want at this time in my life, I will bump this one with questions.

1. What is the "Mids" situation on the Monarch? Is there any boosting or scooping? I like my mids.

2. How is the Monarch on bass? If it is decent on bass, there is no way I am not getting one.

3. That's it.

[earthdevice]

The mids are pretty flat, no scooping. Here is a video of the Matt Bailey of EYE using the Monarch on bass:

[Companda]

Yes.

Yes, this pleases me. Expect a +1 in sales, Mr. Devices.

[mauerkraut]

That Monarch sounds awesome

[MaxMaps]

Since starting a new thread is a huge responsibility that I just don't want at this time in my life, I will bump this one with questions.

1. What is the "Mids" situation on the Monarch? Is there any boosting or scooping? I like my mids.

2. How is the Monarch on bass? If it is decent on bass, there is no way I am not getting one.

3. That's it.

I have the monarch and as a bass player it is balls heavy, very responsive towards the volume control on your instrument. No low end loss at all, I run it into my Dwarfcraft ECT and it DESTROYS.

When I am able to have decent recording on my computer I will do a vid.

Imagine Geezer Butlers bass tone on Paranoid but with a thicker more distorted crunch.

That is how the monarch sound to me.

oh and Mids are fine, don't fuck around with them much but I like it.