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product_id: 1417214
title: "DigiTech DBM Bad Monkey Tube-Overdrive Analog-Distortion Pedal"
brand: "digitech"
price: "RM1236"
currency: MYR
in_stock: true
reviews_count: 8
category: "Digi Tech"
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# Pure analog tube overdrive gain Dual outputs: Amp & direct recording Level, Low & High tone controls DigiTech DBM Bad Monkey Tube-Overdrive Analog-Distortion Pedal

**Brand:** digitech
**Price:** RM1236
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

## Summary

> 🐒 Unleash your tone’s wild side with the Bad Monkey boost!

## Quick Answers

- **What is this?** DigiTech DBM Bad Monkey Tube-Overdrive Analog-Distortion Pedal by digitech
- **How much does it cost?** RM1236 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
- **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.com.my](https://www.desertcart.com.my/products/1417214-digitech-dbm-bad-monkey-tube-overdrive-analog-distortion-pedal)

## Best For

- digitech enthusiasts

## Why This Product

- Trusted digitech brand quality
- Free international shipping included
- Worldwide delivery with tracking
- 15-day hassle-free returns

## Key Features

- • **Boost Your Solos:** Level control lets you push your signal for standout leads and dynamic performance moments.
- • **Compact Rugged Design:** Built tough and portable, this pedal is your reliable partner for gigs, rehearsals, and studio sessions.
- • **Versatile Dual Outputs:** Seamlessly connect to your amp or record directly with cabinet emulation for studio-quality tone capture.
- • **Authentic Analog Warmth:** Experience smooth, natural tube amp overdrive that preserves your guitar’s unique character without muddy distortion.
- • **Precision Tone Sculpting:** Fine-tune your bass and treble with dedicated Low and High controls for a signature sound that stands out in any mix.

## Overview

The DigiTech DBM Bad Monkey is a compact analog tube overdrive pedal designed to add smooth, natural gain and tonal flexibility to your guitar rig. Featuring dedicated Level, Low, High, and Gain controls, it allows precise shaping of your sound with warm tube amp character. Dual outputs enable direct amp connection or recording with cabinet emulation, making it ideal for both live and studio use. Perfect for players seeking a classic overdrive boost without heavy distortion, the Bad Monkey delivers professional-grade tone in a rugged, portable package.

## Description

Product Description Bad Monkey™ The Bad Monkey Tube Overdrive gives your guitar amp a boost just when you need it. This rugged pedal produces the smooth natural character of an overdriven tube amp while maintaining your guitar's distinct tone. Low and High tone controls give you the flexibility to boost or cut the bass and treble frequencies for just the right sound. Get a Bad Monkey and supercharge your amp’s tone From the Manufacturer The Bad Monkey Tube Overdrive gives your guitar amp a boost just when you need it. This rugged pedal produces the smooth natural character of an overdriven tube amp while maintaining your guitar's distinct tone. Low and High tone controls give you the flexibility to boost or cut the bass and treble frequencies for just the right sound. Get a Bad Monkey and supercharge your amp's tone. FeaturesLevel boosts the output level of your guitar signal.Low adjusts boost and cut of bass frequencies.High adjusts boost and cut of upper harmonics. Gain provides smooth tube amp distortion to your sound. Dual Outputs. The Amp output is for connecting directly to a guitar amplifier. The Mixer output features Cabinet Emulation circuitry for connecting directly to a mixing board or recording device.

Review: A Solid Choice - I had a Digitech Grunge pedal for a while when I first started playing, and swore anything Digitech off my effects loop afterwards. 3 years of playing later, I was looking for a nice warm sounding overdrive and ended up reading some reviews of this pedal. Not wanting to spend much money on a boutique pedal, I decided to give this baby a try. I was very surprised. This pedal is pure analog, and gives you a nice warm tone. I like to play it with the neck pickup to get a very Stevie-Ray Vaughn sound. When I play on amps with no overdrive channel, I run this with a mxr distortion pedal (light distortion) to get a good distorted overdrive tone, good for hard rock or metal riffs and solos. The Bad Monkey won't give you rock and roll gain, rather it boosts your tone quite a bit. If you're running clean and hit it, you will get a good tube amp sound, driving those tubes nicely. If you're playing with some decent gain and hit this, you'll get a boosted tone with a rise in gain, but your sound won't break up. As always, this pedal sounds better according to how nice your amp is. It WILL work fine with a solid state amp too though. In fact, that's what I'm running mine into at home. Let me say though, if you play this thing into a nice tube amp with the volume cranked, your guitar will sing. The bass response is pretty damn fine on the Bad Monkey. There is always a nice low-end presence even while playing on the high frets. If you're looking for a pedal to start out with though, this probably isn't a good choice, unless you know you want this sound. This pedal isn't extremely versatile, but does what it does very well. It handles a nice Texas blues/SRV type of sound to some pop rock like blink-182, green day, ect. Make sure this is what you're looking for before you buy it though. As long as you aren't expecting a pedal capable of creating high gain or distortion, you will more than likely be very pleased with your choice.
Review: Its not distortion, but if you know what overdrive is, it could be your best simian friend... - I had never even heard of this pedal before trying it on another guitarist's pedal board. Afterwards, I had it stuck in my head. I mean, a pedal named "bad monkey"? How awesome does that sound namewise? The guitarist that I had tried it on had his running right after a TS9, so I set it up the same way on my board. I use only single coil guitars (strat, tele, and a prs with p90's) and I run my board as follows (fender tu10 tuner, crybaby original wah, ts9, bad monkey, cs9). My amp is a Peavey Transtube Bandit 112 (80W solid state). So, after all the techno-babble, how does the Bad Monkey sound? If you're looking for a distortion pedal, this is obviously not it. It is similar to the TS9 in how it works, but its nice to have the high and the low frequency boosts. It definitely helps sculpt the tone a little more. And having two tube overdrive pedals side by side is helpful if you're really looking for a natural sounding gain/grit/distorted tone. For me, I use the TS9 for more of a grittier rougher distortion/drive and the monkey for the lighter grit, and an extra boost when I'm taking solos. The Bad Monkey pedal is great on its own too, and when you're using tube overdrive pedals like these, it puts the "distortion" knob on your guitar when you set them right. If you want a grittier sound? Just turn up your guitar's volume control. I love the versitility of sounds that I can dial in, and it keeps my tone cleaner as a whole, rather than any sort of super muddy distortion, like my amp's second channel. Again, if you're expecting distortion, this isn't your pedal, but if you want a good gain and controllable grit? This is exactly what you want to go for. Its not a tube screamer, it won't ever be one, but next to one, it could be your new best friend.

## Features

- Controls: Level, Low, High, Gain
- Dual Outputs for amp and direct recording

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN | B0002F4VBM |
| Batteries | 1 9V batteries required. (included) |
| Best Sellers Rank | #184,629 in Musical Instruments ( See Top 100 in Musical Instruments ) #1,457 in Guitar Distortion & Overdrive Effects #47,543 in Guitar & Bass Accessories |
| Color Name | Green |
| Connector Type | 1/4-inch audio jack |
| Customer Reviews | 3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars (200) |
| Date First Available | August 7, 2005 |
| Hardware Interface | 1/4-inch Audio |
| Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
| Item Weight | 1.72 pounds |
| Item model number | DBM Bad Monkey Pedal |
| Product Dimensions | 5.88 x 2.5 x 3.63 inches |
| Signal Format | Analog |
| Voltage | 9 Volts |

## Product Details

- **Brand:** DigiTech
- **Color:** Green
- **Item Weight:** 1.7 Pounds
- **Style:** Bass,Distortion,Overdrive
- **Voltage:** 9 Volts

## Images

![DigiTech DBM Bad Monkey Tube-Overdrive Analog-Distortion Pedal - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71HN74gx0RL.jpg)
![DigiTech DBM Bad Monkey Tube-Overdrive Analog-Distortion Pedal - Image 2](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71Jv944l-TL.jpg)

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Solid Choice
*by L***E on January 5, 2010*

I had a Digitech Grunge pedal for a while when I first started playing, and swore anything Digitech off my effects loop afterwards. 3 years of playing later, I was looking for a nice warm sounding overdrive and ended up reading some reviews of this pedal. Not wanting to spend much money on a boutique pedal, I decided to give this baby a try. I was very surprised. This pedal is pure analog, and gives you a nice warm tone. I like to play it with the neck pickup to get a very Stevie-Ray Vaughn sound. When I play on amps with no overdrive channel, I run this with a mxr distortion pedal (light distortion) to get a good distorted overdrive tone, good for hard rock or metal riffs and solos. The Bad Monkey won't give you rock and roll gain, rather it boosts your tone quite a bit. If you're running clean and hit it, you will get a good tube amp sound, driving those tubes nicely. If you're playing with some decent gain and hit this, you'll get a boosted tone with a rise in gain, but your sound won't break up. As always, this pedal sounds better according to how nice your amp is. It WILL work fine with a solid state amp too though. In fact, that's what I'm running mine into at home. Let me say though, if you play this thing into a nice tube amp with the volume cranked, your guitar will sing. The bass response is pretty damn fine on the Bad Monkey. There is always a nice low-end presence even while playing on the high frets. If you're looking for a pedal to start out with though, this probably isn't a good choice, unless you know you want this sound. This pedal isn't extremely versatile, but does what it does very well. It handles a nice Texas blues/SRV type of sound to some pop rock like blink-182, green day, ect. Make sure this is what you're looking for before you buy it though. As long as you aren't expecting a pedal capable of creating high gain or distortion, you will more than likely be very pleased with your choice.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Its not distortion, but if you know what overdrive is, it could be your best simian friend...
*by J***S on August 31, 2014*

I had never even heard of this pedal before trying it on another guitarist's pedal board. Afterwards, I had it stuck in my head. I mean, a pedal named "bad monkey"? How awesome does that sound namewise? The guitarist that I had tried it on had his running right after a TS9, so I set it up the same way on my board. I use only single coil guitars (strat, tele, and a prs with p90's) and I run my board as follows (fender tu10 tuner, crybaby original wah, ts9, bad monkey, cs9). My amp is a Peavey Transtube Bandit 112 (80W solid state). So, after all the techno-babble, how does the Bad Monkey sound? If you're looking for a distortion pedal, this is obviously not it. It is similar to the TS9 in how it works, but its nice to have the high and the low frequency boosts. It definitely helps sculpt the tone a little more. And having two tube overdrive pedals side by side is helpful if you're really looking for a natural sounding gain/grit/distorted tone. For me, I use the TS9 for more of a grittier rougher distortion/drive and the monkey for the lighter grit, and an extra boost when I'm taking solos. The Bad Monkey pedal is great on its own too, and when you're using tube overdrive pedals like these, it puts the "distortion" knob on your guitar when you set them right. If you want a grittier sound? Just turn up your guitar's volume control. I love the versitility of sounds that I can dial in, and it keeps my tone cleaner as a whole, rather than any sort of super muddy distortion, like my amp's second channel. Again, if you're expecting distortion, this isn't your pedal, but if you want a good gain and controllable grit? This is exactly what you want to go for. Its not a tube screamer, it won't ever be one, but next to one, it could be your new best friend.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Sounds nice but it doesn't come with a power adaptor (Revised)
*by S***S on October 26, 2010*

I am new to playing the Guitar so I am not going to be able to say wonderful things about the sound. I can tell the difference with the Bad Monkey on and I like the way it sounds but beyond that I am not able to comment. The book for setting the BadMonkey illustrates 4 settings to use. The 4 are Punchy Drive, Warm Rhythm, Lead Boost, and Texas Tone. The pedal is well built and comes with a 9 volt batter. However, it does not come with a power adaptor. The adaptor will probably cost you around $20 once shipping and handling is figured in. This is something you need to figure in when comparing with the BOSS DS-1 Distortion Pedal . That pedal comes with an adaptor. Were I to do it again, I would buy the BOSS DS-1 and that is probably what I would recommend to any beginning guitar player looking for a distortion pedal. The BOSS DS-1 has been around for ages and many musicians have started with it. Pros -Well Made -Sounds Good Cons -Missing the power adaptor which will cost you ~$20 After I wrote this review I contacted the seller advertising the DS-1 with an adaptor. Their description was incorrect. However, both the Bad Monkey and DS-1 have gone up to the point that if you are looking for a distortion pedal I would recommend the Boss Mega Distortion as you can get it for only $10 more.

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