Pedal Madness
Ok Guys most of us are guitar players. So with that in mind, What is Your Favorite Overdrive and Do you have any Secret Settings?
Enlighten us with your Trick of the trade so to Speak.
Are you a TubeScreamer person or do you run a Bigmuff, What ever it might be please let us know!!
Peace,
Waddell
Enlighten us with your Trick of the trade so to Speak.
Are you a TubeScreamer person or do you run a Bigmuff, What ever it might be please let us know!!
Peace,
Waddell
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Permalink Reply by Leon and the Reckless Allstars on -
Ill be fair and start things off. Kind of Boring though but o well here goes, I run a Boss super overdrive proceeded by a tuberscreamer for Boost on the Solo's. Settings are pretty basic just enough dirt to break things up but the Highs are cranked .
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Permalink Reply by Matt Marshall on -
Heck, I've just got an old 30 watt Peavey tube amp. My overdrive "pedal" is just cranking that gain until the tubes can't handle it and overdrive away!
I like to live simply though, lol. I only just hooked in a looper to my "setup", and that's about all I've got.
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Permalink Reply by Chad Nordhoff on -
I own a DOD "Hard Rock Distortion" pedal with a slapback delay built in. Think; Skynyrd's "Saturday Night Special".
However, when I started playing at a lot of blues jams I stopped using pedals for the most part. I used the amp overdrive sometimes but I found that using clean tone made the solo stand out more. No one else was trying it.
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Permalink Reply by Richard Lee Wilson on -
me I run a line 6 x3 live pedal board, my main settings are a couple tones 1st amp is a Gary Moore type sound real straight high gain push on a 64 blackface amp with a touch of delay and a touch of tube screamer, the 2nd amp is modelled after john petrucci on a california amp with a bit of delay not much and a purple x modulator very lite on it. I also use a straight 64 blackface setting for the SRV sound with a tube screamer and a marshall plexi full gain on it for the heavier sound it sounds better than the tube screamer and I can controll everything so much better sound wise with the line 6, don't have to kill folks to get that sound. you will pay some cash for the line 6 but it is so worth it everything you could ever want in any tone setting setup wise just very sweet and easy to use
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Permalink Reply by Chris Truman on -
I was lucky enough to find a Mesa V1 Bottle Rocket in my local guitar shop (Oasis, Ringwood) a couple of years ago. It sits very nicely in front of my Mesa Nomad 45 amp, all those tubes working together produces a very organic tone and highly controlable.
My most recent aquisition is a Carl Martin Classic Opto-compressor which has lifted my rig to another level. If you're looking for a compressor give one of these a try, excellent bang for your hard earned buck.
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Permalink Reply by Leon and the Reckless Allstars on
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I had heard that the floor pedals with the tubes were not that reliable because of the heat and all the bumpin around on the floor, guess I was wrong- bet that thing sounds SWEET!!
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Permalink Reply by Chris Truman on
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This thing is a Mesa, man, it's built like a tank and unreliability just isn't an issue. Like any pedal, it can sound crap, but when you get it dialled in just right it's sweet as honey.
I've got a couple of tube driven Electro Harmonix pedals too - a Wiggler, which is a tremelo/vibrato unit; and a Tube Zipper, which is a kind of envelope filter/auto-wah/ distortion madness box. Although they're just toys for mucking about with, they've never given me any trouble.
I guess, right or wrong, I'm just a tube loving nut.
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Permalink Reply by Steinar Gregertsen on -
I finally found 'my' overdrives a couple years ago when I stumbled across the Cmatmods pedals. Great handmade pedals at a reasonable price, very dynamic and musical response, I have total control over the drive with the volume control on my guitar. I use the "SignaDrive" for 'dirt' and the "Brownie" for a more aggressive overdrive. Here's my small pedalboard, I use a blank Tele control plate as a bridge between the two, allowing me to hit both at once and turn one off and the other on:
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Permalink Reply by Chad Nordhoff on
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In my experience in the Mississippi delta (circa 2010), ya find a 1/4 inch input jack and plug your guitar cord into that. Whatever comes out the other end had better be the blues.
I can walk out the front door at work and hear 4 wailing blues guitars from 4 different clubs simultaneously. That's just at the door, there's more if I walk down the street. The whole notion of blues lead guitar is making me quite insane.
Props to the LBW folks who seem to understand that the point of guitar tone is to express yourself and not to sound just like Jimi Ray Clapton.
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Permalink Reply by Steinar Gregertsen on
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Yeah, I agree, anything beyond Diddley-Bows are a sell out! ;-)
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Permalink Reply by Richard Lee Wilson on
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hate to disagree but you answered your own question "the point of guitar tone is to express yourself"
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Permalink Reply by Richard Lee Wilson on
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I guess I differ on the whole concept of "tone" I learned to play on a straight strat through a peavey backstage amp over 30 yrs of learning, love the tone I got turn the master all the way up and the volume down very nice heavy sound, but that's all you have no texture and no real color or depth, I look at music as painting a picture a soundscape if you will those textures come from the tools I use and learning how to use them correctly. even the most pure of pureist as Johnny Winter is he does use certain pedals, jimi invented pedals to use with jim dunlop, SRV relied on them and Robin Trower became famous because of them. Gary Moore one of the all time great blues players of our time uses them. the pedals are not there to cover your talent they are there to enhance your talent they can not make any of us sound like Eric or Jimi or SRV but they can enhance the listening pleasure of the people out there if we learn there uses correctly. Imagine if you will being a painter with a pallet of brown or gray how well could you express yourself ? my views on it love to hear what anyone else thinks
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