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Paul Cochrane Timmy Transparent Overdrive

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Wayne Sermon

In this photo of Wayne Sermon's pedal board, source from the Rig Rundown of Imagine Dragons, a Timmy overdrive pedal sits on the top-left corner.
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Robert Poss

Robert Poss December 13, 2015 pedals for 12-13-15 Heroes of Toolik performance at Bowery Electric — with Tom Cram, Heroes of Toolik and Paul Cochrane. Tags: Fulltone Effects, Fulltone Pedals, DigiTech, Proco Rat and MI Audio
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Richard On

In this photo, the Timmy overdrive can be seen.
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Audley Freed

Nashville legend Audley Freed (Black Crowes, Sheryl Crow, Cry of Love) shows us his pedalboard at a recent event honoring Joe Walsh at the Experience Music Project in Seattle
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Dusty Redmon

"My signal path looks like this right now (but will probably be different in 2 days...you know how that goes...ha): Boss TU-3, Paul Cochrane Timmy Overdrive, T. Rex Mudhoney Distortion, Diamond Cornerstone Distortion, Morgan Shadow Fuzz, JHS Pulp N' Peel Compressor, Ernie Ball VP Jr, MXR Carbon Copy, T. Rex Tremster Tremolo, Boss DD-20 Delay, Strymon BlueSky Reverberator, JHS Little Black Buffer."
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Steven Page

Steve showcases his rig in this Instagram photo dated June 17, 2016, just before a performance at Jackson Triggs Niagara Estate, Ontario.
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Jesse Garcia

One of many overdrives. He likes to use both the Tim and the Timmy.
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Kyle Schonewill

Look on the JHS Morning Glory Pic. There Are Like.. 7 More pedals.. Why can't I use the same URL? ugh.. But yeah. Check out that pic and you'll see everything cleary..
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Todd Beene

In this image , 2 Paul Cochrane Timmy Transparent Overdrive can be seen.
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Greg Barnett

Concert Photo from the Worcester Palladium.
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John Dyer Baizley

"This Week in Pedalboards: THE PAUL COCHRANE “Timmy Pedal”. I am a MASSIVE fan of transparent, low-gain drives. They are indispensable for me to slightly color my amps, and more often than not, to feed into fuzzes and higher gain devices. I like to think of them as preamps for my pedal circuit. The Timmy’s been in my rig for a few years, and when I’m recording, its much easier as a smooth guitar EQ than so many of the outboard hardware devices that fill up studios or the actual knobs on many amps. The range of gain is, as i said, fairly low, and that makes it a great “fine-tuning” tone shaper, as well as a great box for playing rhythm parts which would suffer from being either too clean or too distorted. It has a great deal of output gain comparatively, and allows you to really accentuate highs or lows (sorry mids, you’re not part of this one.) You can really drive a tube amp hard with it. This isn’t a drive pedal to use across the board; it’s very specific, and i use it surgically; but thats not to say i dont use it frequently. Think of it as something in the “Klon universe” of sounds (that doesn’t quite do it justice, but it’s a reference point.) Highly recommended."
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Josh Weaver

According to Royal Thunder's interview with Guitar World, Josh uses a Paul Cochrane Timmy Transparent Overdrive.
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Andy Othling

In the description for this ambient song, Andy has listed the pedal that he has used as follows: Diamond Compressor EHX Micro Pog Timmy Overdrive Goodrich L-120 Volume EHX Deluxe Memory Man w/ Tap Tempo Strymon El Capistan Line 6 Echo Park Boss RV-5 Strymon Blue Sky Boomerang III Looper
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Daughter (official)

Used by igor Seen on photo
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Igor Haefeli

At 22:06 minute mark, Haefeli's Timmy Overdrive can be seen next to Boss BD-2 blues driver pedal.
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James Duke

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Brian Wooten

"I hit a buffer at the front of the pedalboard into a Paul Cochrane Timmy [distortion], which is always on…"
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Kenny Greenberg

Klon Centaur and Timmy overdrive pedals are 2 most common overdrive pedals Greenberg currently uses. It also works really good. It is usually ran at the same time as Klon Centaur or his RC Booster.
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Jason Whitehorn

Jason uses a Timmy transparent OD on his electric pedalboard
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Nick Fotinakes

Nick uses this for light drive
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Marcos Pintor

nice clean transparent gain pedal everyone should try
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Joab Eastley

just next to the bit commander
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Hunter Walls

Vox bedroom set up
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Peter Honoré

"3 of the best. Now I just need a kind soul to donate a @jhspedals Angry Charlie and my Christmas would be the best ever."
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pony_gracian

131

A Transparent Overdrive

This is the holy grail of overdrive, you can use it from a Clean Boost or TS9 and beyond amazing blues, rock sounds, even nice Metal sound when you push an Tube Amp, Highly recommend

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thedreadpirateknoberts

172

Overdrive to Compliment

Summary: A great overdrive that can compliment many rigs and amps. It also stands up on it's own well as a primary overdrive.

Tone: The word "transparent" is getting a lot of hype lately. I love the sound of my guitar and I don't want to put and OD in place that just masks that so I get it. However, I'm not an expert to argue the validity of "transparency" so I'll skip that. The fact is, this pedal sounds like my guitar running my amp into breakup and not like a pedal. I noticed the 'Transparency' the most when I upgraded from a PRS SE Custom 24 to a PRS S2 Standard 24. This pedal took a huge leap in tone quality versus others OD/Distortions as my new guitar sounded much better.

Gain: Gain can really go up on this little guy and it can be very fun. I know a lot of guys use it as a clean boost and I do as well at times but I mainly keep the gain around 11. The pedal itself is very responsive so you can clean up the tone based on your picking power. There is also a 3 way gain clipping switch which allows you to dial in the right type of gain you have set. I've found this to make some major differences in the overall tone I'm going for.

Treble / Bass: The two knobs are actually cut knobs. Thus, as you move the knob clockwise, you are decreasing that tonal property. IE: If I turn the the bass knob clockwise, it decreases the amount of bass coming through. Same thing for the treble. Paul C states that it reduces clipping. I'm no electrical engineer but I can attest to that the changes in the EQ are very smooth and make all the difference in the tone you're going for.

Needless to say, I'm a huge fan of the Timmy.

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over 2 years ago
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jimmarchi1 Moderator

comprehensive review!

over 2 years ago

nicksollecito

116

Dirt

I mostly use this on bass for when I play with a pick. I use it to add just a touch of dirt. Sounds really awesome on guitar.

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over 1 year ago
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instagvl

132

Versatile, affordable, simple

It hits all the right marks when it comes to a transparent overdrive.

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over 2 years ago
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renatocarrico

130

The best overdrive I ever used

So clean, so pure, you can hear all the notes. I'm never letting this guy go out of my set.

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almost 4 years ago
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franklyandrade

153

Great!!

The most transparent overdrive! I love mine.

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about 2 years ago
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distinctgrey

115

Best. Overdrive.Ever

Hands down, this really is the best overdrive pedal I've ever heard. Mine's a clone, called Tommy.

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almost 2 years ago
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ilovegibson20

117

Great Transparent Drive.

Great transparent drive. The bass and treble controls really allow for dialing in your tone.

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12 months ago
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