I agree Nick, The longer I play the more I find distortion pedals tone sucking fiends! I reckon a great sounding amp pushed by an overdrive really kicks ass and still sounds like you. A bit of 3D presence is always lost but it remains an organic sound not a saggy, farty dirty, bee in a box.
@NickMass35 It depends on what your doing. Some people like to run a crunchy sounding amp and then kick in a distortion pedal to add boost and sustain for leads without having to crank the amp too much.
@qousie I wasn't liking the fuzz either, but he didn't show any other tone or gain settings on it, and I liked the others so much I'll blame it on the player.
I think he has it backwards. The distortion would be for a clean amp. The overdrive would be for an overdriven amp. Don't we all know that? Why doesn't he.
Yes! A rule of thumb is to use an overdrive box on high gain amps to further saturate. Use a distortion box on clean amps or clean amp settings. Boost is applicable to both. It must be totally frustrating to manufactures and store owners with so much prevailing lousy product knowledge out there. This backwards demo is at NAMM! Go figure! It kills me to see clueless kids demo vintage amps and vintage guitar playing techiques. Rock and Roll my never die but those who play it right will. A shame!
it looks like he got the footswitches mixed up. he was using the boost when talking about the distortion. same thing with the overdrive.
I agree Nick, The longer I play the more I find distortion pedals tone sucking fiends! I reckon a great sounding amp pushed by an overdrive really kicks ass and still sounds like you. A bit of 3D presence is always lost but it remains an organic sound not a saggy, farty dirty, bee in a box.
@NickMass35 It depends on what your doing. Some people like to run a crunchy sounding amp and then kick in a distortion pedal to add boost and sustain for leads without having to crank the amp too much.
@qousie I wasn't liking the fuzz either, but he didn't show any other tone or gain settings on it, and I liked the others so much I'll blame it on the player.
I think he has it backwards. The distortion would be for a clean amp. The overdrive would be for an overdriven amp. Don't we all know that? Why doesn't he.
@yamahabmxer1 yeah
the distorted amp without the pedal is awesome
Yes! A rule of thumb is to use an overdrive box on high gain amps to further saturate. Use a distortion box on clean amps or clean amp settings. Boost is applicable to both. It must be totally frustrating to manufactures and store owners with so much prevailing lousy product knowledge out there. This backwards demo is at NAMM! Go figure! It kills me to see clueless kids demo vintage amps and vintage guitar playing techiques. Rock and Roll my never die but those who play it right will. A shame!
HOLY SHIT He's like 2.50 meters long:P
(...He's talking to pillows...ohs.....ohs....)
these pedals sound nothing special to me
These pedals don't sound this dark. This demo is fked up