Bad Monkey Demo Song

Intro is a clean setting on the amp and then the Bad Monkey is stomped. Kind of sounds like it turns up the amp's volume which I think is the intent of the design, but it is just the stomp. From there the DigiTech Bad Monkey is panned left on my home setup. But for a reference point, the slide guitar you hear, which is the Seymour Duncan TB-4 Bad Monkeyfied, is panned to the clean channel, I do the same riff with the Bad Monkey off, which should be the right side. The opposite side of that channel is the Monkeyfied rhythm channel.

The Bad Monkey does not compare to the liveliness and sparkle of something like a Fulltone OCD, but it is a cool little pedal for a subtle overdrive that retains your guitar's particular tone. Hopefully the video demonstrates that.

Don't forget, if you pick up a DigiTech Whammy, JamMan, HarmonyMan or TimeBender before August 31, 2009, for ten bucks shipping they will send you your choice of a Bad Monkey, Death Metal, Grunge, Hot Head or the Screamin' Blues. It only took about 2 weeks to get it after sending the relevant stuff to the DigiTech folks. Just got mine yesterday.

Guitar: G&L S-500 (split SH2n with SVR-1n middle)
Amp: Genz Benz Black Pearl 30 (8 watt setting)
Amp mic: Shure KSM27
Bass: Ibanez SR506
Bass processor: AdrenaLinn III
Drums: Cakewalk Beat Fetish
and of course a little Rapture synth.
Recorded in Sonar

Since the Bad Monkey is Digitech's approach to replicating the Ibanez TS-808 digitally, check out Analogman's overview of Tube Screamers.

http://www.analogman.com/tshist.htm

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[lowregister]

I agree. I am worn of pedal reviews with a guy taking up half of the time with ums and "this is the volume knob, that y'know, changes the volume."

Many thanks!

[DoggBisket]

These guys should be giving you this shit to review. I think you're on to something.

[phinocaster]

The Digitech Bad Monkey is an analog pedal...

[YouAreTodays]

@YouAreTodays Ah I didn't read the descripton -.-

[YouAreTodays]

Wow great recording. What were you using and what post production did you do?

[Ilovemyfender2]

Just looking in the info section...and you described that the Bad Monkey is digital. Are you sure? I'm not sure a digital dirt box would go off for so cheap, digital dirt is far more expensive to program and manufacture than analog.