The Dreaded Overdrive Question! |
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The Dreaded Overdrive Question! |
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Aug 23 2009, 01:03 PM |
Sense? Not really!
Just kidding I would say get a Tubescreamer-like od pedal for tightening things up and boosting and a full blown distortion pedal to create that marshall-esque high gain tone. That will give you the widest range of sounds possible! The OD pedal is there to spice up your fender tone without altering it and the Distortion pedal goes over the clean channel to give you your desired high gain tone. I don't know too much about good distortion pedals as I prefer amps with good onboard distortion but I will do my best to help you: http://www.thomann.de/gb/ibanez_tk999_ht_tubeking_ht.htm I hear a lot of people saying on good things about this pedal. A tube driven Distortion for a superb sound with a range from classic Marshall to high gain thanks to a lot of tweaking options! http://www.thomann.de/gb/blackstar_ht_distx.htm Blackstar tube powered distortion. Ex Marshall engineers. You had a blackstar. This thing will deliver everything from marshall to modern high gain while sounding better than most amps on their own! -------------------- Gear: - Jackson USA Select KV2 King V with EMG 81/85 - Gibson Les Paul Custom Arctic White with EMG 81/85 - Ibanez Rg 8527 J Custom 7-String with DiMarzio Evolution and Air Norton - Peavey 6505+ head with Marshall 1960AV 4x12 cab - Peavey Vypyr 30 Practice Amp - Dunlop Crybaby From Hell, Maxon OD808, Boss TU-2, MXR CarbonCopy, ISP Decimator, MXR Custom Audio Electronics Booster |
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Aug 23 2009, 01:05 PM |
Yeah, didnt really think of the HT pedlas, they would make a lot of sense.Cheers mate, Ill be checking both these out!
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Aug 23 2009, 01:36 PM |
The Blackstar (and you should get the Dual imho) you could plug into the return jack of the amp to use as preamp.
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Aug 23 2009, 04:26 PM |
... Sted, how bouts, you give me the blues amp, I send you my distortion pedal. Deal?
Just kididng, how u like it?! -------------------- Don't just play it. Feel it!
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Aug 23 2009, 04:43 PM |
Marshall Guv'nor can produce quite a fat distorted tone!
-------------------- I'd rather have a full Bottle in front of me than a full Frontal Lobotomy!!
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Aug 23 2009, 06:15 PM |
I own a Boss DD-20 which is a programmable distorsion/OD unit with four user memories, i compared it to an old TS in order to get that overdriven blues sound, and i cant tell no difference. If u wanna beef up the amp and maintain its tone I would go for the Timmy-box, but I purchased a Danelectro Transparent Overdrive instead, which is about 1/3 of the price for the Timmy... It doesn't change the tone of either my Fender or Marshall a bit, just adding overdrive.
Good Luck and happy searching Sted! //Staffay -------------------- Guitars: Ibanez AM-200, Ibanez GB-10, Fender Stratocaster Classic Player, Warmouth Custom Built, Suhr Classic Strat, Gibson Les Paul Standard 2003, Ibanez steel-string Amps: Fender Hot Rod Deluxe, Marshall JMP 2103, AER 60 Effects: BOSS DD-20, Danelectro Trans. Overdrive, TC-Electronics G-Major, Dunlop Wah-wah, Original SansAmp, BOSS DD-2 Music by Staffy can be found at: Staffay at MySpace |
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Aug 23 2009, 06:30 PM |
Has anyone tried the Seymour Duncan Powergrid for that matter?
I use an old Boss Turbo Overdrive pedal with my Fender 75 tube amp. It works well especially if you have high output pickups and boost the amp itself rather heavily. It doesn't transform your Fender into a modern high-gain amp though. What I also do is play through a Pandora PX5D with hi-gain amp + 4x12 cab sound modeling plugged in the Fender amp. Distortion is massive and brutal yet smooth - incredible really. But not that suited for gig situations. |
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Aug 23 2009, 07:43 PM |
As we talked on the chat, but still worth mentioning:
I got OCD stomp recently and it is awesome. It brings out the best of the tube amp. Very musical, rich and dynamic stompbox. Arguably the best distortion pedal I have ever used. It is "only" for use with tube amps tho, on solid state amps it sounds fuzzy and uninteresting. It has a Lo and Hi modes which is a pretty cool option and can run from 9-18V of power, 18V providing more headroom than 9V operation. I suggest experimenting with it ofc. This post has been edited by Ivan Milenkovic: Aug 23 2009, 07:45 PM -------------------- - Ivan's Video Chat Lesson Notes HERE
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Aug 23 2009, 11:13 PM |
Sorry this is a bit off-topic but is that how you youse a preamp on an amp head? Just plugging it into the return of the amp? If I wanted to use a Mesa Triaxis something like that with my Marshall Jvm, I just put the preamp into the return of the loop? Yes you got it! The amps preamp doesn't get any signal and the path into the poweramp is through the return jack which goes directly in there. -------------------- My bands homepage
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Aug 24 2009, 02:13 PM |
Micke is right, in order to bypass the preamp on a Marshall (or any other amp), go directly to power amp (FX Loop return).
On some amps (like Fenders), the return is actually named "Poweramp In", and send is called "Preamp Out". It means the same thing basically.. -------------------- - Ivan's Video Chat Lesson Notes HERE
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Aug 25 2009, 09:41 PM |
If you are using only the clean channel of the Marshall then this is good way to go.
However if you use distortion from Marshall and the FX loop is series one, then put chorus and delay in the loop. -------------------- - Ivan's Video Chat Lesson Notes HERE
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