DigiTech DBM Bad Monkey Overdrive Guitar Effects Pedal  

Love the seperate tone controls

Strange way to house battery but works fine!

Best for the money by far

VERY quiet. I can set it so my tone remains completely undesturbed.

I bought this because i liked how it sounded on the frettedamericana videos that PhilX does.

I have a TS909 tube screamer, a 78 custom badass and an OCD pedal, but I really had to try this one, because for the low price seemed too good to pass up.

I must say, if I could only have one of these 4 pedals, I can't see any reason why not to keep the bad monkey. it's rich, full and sounds like it has a tube in it.

If you are watching your pennies and need some gain, I highly recommend this pedal. Also, thanks to Phil X, you probably will never find another pedal with so much online footage to listen to.

I bought this pedal to use as a gain/boost for my bass rig. I use a deluxe Jazz bass into a Boss TU-3, into the Bad Monkey, into an Acoustic B100. This pedal provides just the right amount of boost, and with a slight tweak, some great overdrive/distortion sounds that accentuate some of my band's songs quite well. Most people who ask about my sound are surprised to see that 'cheap' green guitar pedal at my feet. But, for the past year, I've been afraid to perform without it. Just make sure you purchase the power supply. After buying batteries 2 or 3 times, you've already paid for the adapter. Overall, a great alternative to some of the pricier bass booster pedals, and so far, I've been extremely happy and surprised!

Has both treble AND bass controls, a level knob and a drive knob, and, very unusual for a dirt box, a choice of mixer OR amp outputs. Than means you can play it through a regular guitar amp or you can run direct through a PA. Sure you can run your guitar direct through any OD pedal into a PA but most of the time it sounds awful. The mixer output on the Bad Monkey turns your high-impedance guitar signal into a low-impedance output that will match most PA setups. This is also known as 'balanced output'. That shoots the features right up to 10.

Dirtbox and DI box rolled into one for this price? Incredible value.

Seems to be very reilable so far. I'm gonna buy a second one as backup though because anything could happen. I'm very happy with the Bad Monkey, definitely one of the most exciting gear discoveries I've made this year.

I originally picked this up as a cheap DI solution for my Dad. Since he plays a Blueridge acoustic with a cheap Maverick soundhole pickup, perfoming gospel at nursing homes, let me open my review by saying it worked. So you can deduce from this that the Bad Monkey is capable of being very, very subtle if you need it to. If a decent DI was all that this pedal was about, it would be a pretty good value. But if you needed further prompting, the BM (heh) shows its plumage in green to suggest a kinship with the coveted Ibanez Tube Screamer. It isn't that, the Monkey has too much its own personality for that, but it does deliver a good, solid Classic Rock vibe. I use mine at the front of my chain, to goose my Scrambler and Tycobrahe clones with a bit more juice. Are there better, badder, hotter sounding overdrives out there? Yes. But not for this price. And if this is all the money you have to spend on a pedal in the whole wide world, Digitech will deliver your money's worth and some more.

And it's an analog circuit, too--or so I have read.

Sounds good, but there are better out there.