Popular Post desertrose Posted January 22, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted January 22, 2019 https://www.premierguitar.com/articles/28440-dunlop-unveils-the-dookie-drive?fbclid=IwAR0rg2uYdnrqz21Wdqca1LrJn17yPR1eKYSQsZ_ihxOgdCdNPf3JlV_w5Ss https://www.jimdunlop.com/ Benicia, CA (January 21, 2019) -- Billie Joe Armstrong’s guitar tone on Green Day’s groundbreaking album Dookie sounded dirty and punchy with the perfect amount of articulation to express the musicality of his fast, melodic riffs. He got that sound by running his signal through two heavily modified amplifiers—one scooped with a ton of gain and the other with a well-defined midrange. When it came time to mix the record, the band blended the two signals together in different ratios to match the vibe of each track. To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Dookie, we’re releasing the MXR Dookie Drive. It captures the sound of both of Billie Joe’s amps in a single pedal so that you can dial in your own variations of that famous Dookie sound. We borrowed the amps themselves so that the MXR team could carefully analyze all the sonic qualities that make them sound so darn good. After much analysis and A/B testing, our engineers rebuilt the amps from scratch in pedal circuit form and fit them into a single housing. The High Gain and Clean Gain sections each have their own controls, while the Blend control allows you to mix them together just like Green Day did in the studio. If you want some extra scoop in the midrange of the overall output signal, just hit the Scoop switch. The Dookie Drive isn’t just for Green Day fans—this totally unique pedal provides a full harmonic range of overdriven tones for a playing experience that is full of depth and dimension. $189 street 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maddie86 Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 I really want this, especially since I might have to sell my Marshall amp soon, but this is gunna be out of my price range for a while. Maybe I'll pick one up used in a couple years 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maryjanewhatsername Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 GETTING ONE FOR MY GUITARIST BOYFRIEND BRB 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todd Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 Fuck, it's expensive. But I'm sure it sounds wayyyyy better than the $30 pedal I got off Amazon. Only 11 more months until Christmas, hopefully it's still available by then! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarcasm Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 pricetag made me laugh out loud for the first time in like 10 days 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MillenniumFan Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 Soooo getting this... Well, once I've found the money lol Still, I haven't played Green Day's songs on guitar for that long for nothing haha 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerjeezus Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 The price If it sounds as good as it looks it might be worth it though. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MillenniumFan Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 Glad you mentioned the looks, because I have to say, if nothing else, it looks absolutely cracking! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papa Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 lol there's literally thousands of pedals that are more expensive than this. if you want to sound good you have to spend some money, kiddos. mxr said in the press release that they spent time with the original amps dissecting them to get the right tone. so no, it's not going to be a $40 distortion pedal, ya dinks. ...also that's not even that expensive for something like this. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerjeezus Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 11 minutes ago, papa said: lol there's literally thousands of pedals that are more expensive than this. if you want to sound good you have to spend some money, kiddos. mxr said in the press release that they spent time with the original amps dissecting them to get the right tone. so no, it's not going to be a $40 distortion pedal, ya dinks. ...also that's not even that expensive for something like this. blah blah tell us when the album comes 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe. Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 189 dollars? Hahahahahhaha Id hold off buying for now, price will come down in a couple months Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rumpelstiltskin2000 Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 Short piece from Rock Sound about the Dookie pedal: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xKidHuayra Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 Not gonna lie, from the title, I thought Dunlop (the tire company) made a tire called the 'Dookie Drive' and I was already arranging the money to put them on my car. A tad disappointed, so to say 😂 I wouldn't mind owning a pedal like that, though! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maddie86 Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 2 hours ago, papa said: lol there's literally thousands of pedals that are more expensive than this. if you want to sound good you have to spend some money, kiddos. mxr said in the press release that they spent time with the original amps dissecting them to get the right tone. so no, it's not going to be a $40 distortion pedal, ya dinks. ...also that's not even that expensive for something like this. Trust me, I know that you gotta spend money of you wanna sound good, I'm just saying that personally it's not worth it for me, at least right now anyways. I've never really been a pedal person, I always tried to get the best sound possible straight out of my amp. You can make a cheap guitar sound good, but cheap amps will ruin your tone, and I assume it's the same with pedals Also, from the sounds of these articles, it seems like they're going after billie's post-dookie tone. They talk about blending 2 amps and he didn't get his super distorted amp until they started recording insomniac, I think on dookie he just used the one amp 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe. Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 32 minutes ago, Maddie86 said: Trust me, I know that you gotta spend money of you wanna sound good, I'm just saying that personally it's not worth it for me, at least right now anyways. I've never really been a pedal person, I always tried to get the best sound possible straight out of my amp. You can make a cheap guitar sound good, but cheap amps will ruin your tone, and I assume it's the same with pedals Also, from the sounds of these articles, it seems like they're going after billie's post-dookie tone. They talk about blending 2 amps and he didn't get his super distorted amp until they started recording insomniac, I think on dookie he just used the one amp It’s not worth it at that price. There are better, more versatile overdrives for less. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jet Taman Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 What date is this available? And where? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MillenniumFan Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 19 minutes ago, Joe. said: It’s not worth it at that price. There are better, more versatile overdrives for less. Well, we haven’t heard it yet, so we can’t say for sure, but yeah, that’s probaly the case, as with most or at least many brand / signature products... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
papa Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 32 minutes ago, Joe. said: It’s not worth it at that price. There are better, more versatile overdrives for less. how can you say something is not worth the price when you haven't heard or tried it yet? just curious... also, not to be super nitpicky, but this isn't an overdrive pedal, it's a distortion pedal. there's a difference. 1 hour ago, Maddie86 said: Trust me, I know that you gotta spend money of you wanna sound good, I'm just saying that personally it's not worth it for me, at least right now anyways. I've never really been a pedal person, I always tried to get the best sound possible straight out of my amp. You can make a cheap guitar sound good, but cheap amps will ruin your tone, and I assume it's the same with pedals Also, from the sounds of these articles, it seems like they're going after billie's post-dookie tone. They talk about blending 2 amps and he didn't get his super distorted amp until they started recording insomniac, I think on dookie he just used the one amp one amp - um, did you not read the press release? "He got that sound by running his signal through two heavily modified amplifiers—one scooped with a ton of gain and the other with a well-defined midrange. When it came time to mix the record, the band blended the two signals together in different ratios to match the vibe of each track." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe. Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 2 hours ago, papa said: how can you say something is not worth the price when you haven't heard or tried it yet? just curious... also, not to be super nitpicky, but this isn't an overdrive pedal, it's a distortion pedal. there's a difference. Because I know what the Dookie guitar sound is. Ive heard the album. In my experience pedals trying to replicate a certain tone almost never sound anything like they're supposed to. This is a pedal aiming to replicate one specific sound, whilst there are others out there for less money whilst still being high quality (mudhoney and PDF-2 😍) so I can say almost certainly this won't be as good value for money as either of those. HOWEVER: When the price goes down in 6 months or so I will without a doubt consider buying one and may well pull the trigger but at the minute that money can be better spent. (Also yeah I'm aware there's a difference between overdrive and distortion, you're being super nitpicky ) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pacejunkie punk Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 One obvious point is you’re always paying more for a product with a band image or art on it that had had to be licensed. They have to charge more to cover that cost so of course a pedal with Dookie art on it will cost more than a plain looking one. Depends on how much that matters to you as to whether you’re willing to pay more. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eastbayweirdo Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 I assume people complaining about price don’t understand a pedal’s potential or they use pedals that cost less than $100.. but regardless I’d like to try this bad boy out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe. Posted January 22, 2019 Share Posted January 22, 2019 1 hour ago, eastbayweirdo said: I assume people complaining about price don’t understand a pedal’s potential or they use pedals that cost less than $100.. but regardless I’d like to try this bad boy out. Meh I’ve got pedals worth more than $100 and I’ve got ones worth less. All I’m saying is that it’s a high price for something that isn’t that difficult a guitar tone to replicate anyway and in my experience “amps in a box” almost always sound bad. That being said when the price goes down I’d consider picking one up to try out but I just don’t see the viability of it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh100_3 Posted January 23, 2019 Share Posted January 23, 2019 Don’t give a fuck about price. I’m buying this pedal. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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