I've used many different ods, distortions, etc over years. From a blues driver, to a Carl Martin plexitone, but when I discovered the J. Rockett Steve Stevens Rockaway pedal I stopped searching! What an amazing pedal!
A really useful (and Studio friendly) way to think about it is in two parts: the Tone Shaping (via the pedals' EQ and Saturation Curves), and the overall Gain in dB's. For things like "stepping up" for a solo or "preconditioning" a rig for "Edge Of Breakup", the predominant utility is for level adjustment in dB's, whereas the Tone Shaping function is where the "colors" help provide distinct differences in the song's form without modifying the guitar's place in the mix. Because of this, a two pedal solution (or its equivalent in Modeler Gain Staging) may be all that's required for maximum versatility: Dry, Conditioned, or Toneful (Wet). I wish more pedal Gains or Level knobs were expressed in approximate dB's to allow easier transition in the Studio; although by using a better Volt/Ohm meter, it's possible to mark off those knobs for known amounts of change in dB's (3, 6, and 12 dB are very useful Perceptual Points - barely noticeable, moderately louder, and slightly more than twice as loud).
I would argue that with a decent amp, all you really need to get any tone you want is a compressor pedal going into an eq pedal then into a clean boost. getting used to a decent eq pedal and it's insane utility absolutely changed how I build tones.
I play through two Friedman amps, twin sister and small box. I've found after purchasing maybe 10 OD pedals, that I mainly just like using the buxom boost to push it much harder and modify the EQ a little. The overdrive pedals usually make it sound worse if I turn up the drive at all. The amp distortion just sounds better. The exceptions being a tube screamer because it just pushes the mids, or my favorite OD pedal the fulltone full drive 1, which just sounds like a thicker tube screamer. So I run just the fulldrive and the boost, and I rotate a 2nd OD/distortion pedal just because it's fun to try new pedals. I imagine at some point I should add just an EQ pedal before the boost.
Great overview, thanks! As you say there are lots of options out there so, here goes! Since the late '70s I have used Paul Crowther's Hot Cake for OD and switched to his Double Hot Cake when he released it for the 2 added colours of OD it added. I also hung onto my old MXR Distortion+ but only for one specific 'vintage Fripp' sound. All thru those years I was going into Fenders - mainly Twins, then a Blues Jnr. OR DI into a Neve Desk. I have recently added the Effectrode Blackbird with 3 Vacuum Tubes Preamp Pedal which is magic - it's an 'always on' pedal Dumblish 'halo' with Creamy & Classic OD switches there for lead breaks. For more jangly chordal stuff the Aclam Dr. Robert in front of the Victory Copper Pre-Amp Pedal is fun, esp. when you hit the 'Mach Schau' OD with your Casino or my 1957 Hofner Club 60 or Gretsch Solid Body - modern take on Fab goodness 😂 Final touch, not an OD pedal per se, but lots of overload on-board is the Neo Ventilator II 'Leslie' Pedal which is the closest to gently overloading a Leslie I have found over the years (think Clapton's bridge in Badge). I have the TCE Mojo Mojo on hand should I need it . . . more of a live gig standby.
Before I watch the vid, I wanna suggest you do more simple breakdowns like this, of common gear. What they do, and how they're used. You'd be surprised how many people are lost when it comes to the differences. There's no right or wrong way, just the BEST ways. Peace!
I have 20 pedals hooked up right now, 10 in front, 10 in the loop. The first board has eight different dirt pedals - Tube Screamer clone, Moskey Silver Horse (Klone), "crunch distortion," "Ultimate Drive," Rat clone, Holy War, Pure Sky (Timmy clone), Behringer Fuzz SF300. Second board has a Joyo American Sound, so it has drive as well. I tried to make it simple, had a board with only seven pedals, then pulled everything out and went wild.
My approach is to put my favorite overdrive (currently a BD-2, but frequently changing) last and then boost it with either a tube screamer, klon, or clean boost (whatever compliments the main OD).
On the clean channel of my 6505 I use UA 1176 to compress, into a Notalkon with little gain, into a Boss Fender '65 with gain nearly off volume up, essentally as a boost with tone shaping. Hall of Fame 2 or Dunlop Echoplex in FX loop. Allows me to get a huge amount of classic tones. Sometimes I'll throw a tone bender in front. Heavy OD/Distortion is a whole other thing. Different set up entirely.
I caught onto this a couple years ago and found that unless I need a distortion that does impossible things, a boost and/or od really makes the amp distorition nice. (Orange!). Although the Daredevil pedals Hype! Boost is out of production now, it's my favorite way to slam the amp.
I use a boss angry driver on the blue side for my clean always on tone then I stack a wampler triumph into the front of it for more drive. What’s great about the angry driver is if I need to solo I can switch it to the red side set that has more mids set with the volume higher as a dirty boost for solos
Always on Microamp to get natural amp breakup, and can dial it with my foot per song, over drive and distortion after set lower than normal to match the always on boost. That way when the overdrive is off, I go back to my base amp breakup sound. Plus can take it off if I want super clean. Good to have a transparent boost and a color fist and last! That’s given you like your amp breakup more than a colored always on OD.
I like the Wampler Equator for boost -- great tone shaping. For overdrive In front of that, I have a Barber LTD, JRockett Colt-45, and a Zen Drive clone (AionFx Azimuth kit). Great tones all around.
Both good choices. Mine was an '85 white face Rat. I was happy for years with just my guitar, my Rat and my amp. I still love that sound, but I've grown to appreciate many other sounds too. Do what works for you!
Rhett my guy. This is a GREAT video. I've had some of this knowledge half-cobbled in my brain here and there, but you presented it so well with the playing samples. I was a little surprised you don't keep a fuzz on the board. If you were to choose a fuzz for your style - would it be more of a Muff style or more modern? TKs
I have tube amps that already sound good to me; if I use a pedal in front of the amp, the only pedal I use is EQ; especially with single channel amps it gives me a different tone and optional clean boost for leads, like an extension of the sound of the amp which I already like. I have a few EQ pedals, I've been using a Source Audio EQ2 for last several years or since it was released.
The thing that reviewers don't really stress enough to ppl is that the overdrive, distortion, or boost pedal is only one component in whatever tone it is you're chasing. The pickups and the amp are the other two, primary components and they matter- just as much as the pedal. I see ppl posting all the time about how they heard this amazing drive pedal on someone's TH-cam show, but then they bought it and it sounded like crap- and then you find out they heard someone play a Les Paul through this pedal into a Mesa Boogie Rectifier and are now upset that their Strat and Katanna amp doesn't sound like that with the pedal. They have only 1/3rd of the ingredients but can't understand why their chili doesn't taste right. You got to have something at least similar- some higher output humbuckers and some kind of tube emulation might work- it doesn't have to be exactly what they had, but it needs to be in the ball park with it. I don't know how solid-state amps are today but back in my day, the 80s- peavey stuff- you didn't want to boost a solid-state amp- it wasn't pretty. If you got distortion it wasn't going to be good distortion. But they had distortion built into them so- you could just go that route. They sucked- I'll be honest, nowadays there are some great solid-state amps and stuff, but our Peaveys sounded like harsh crap compared to the stuff you get now. There were a few solid state amps- Roland Jazz amps, Fender had a Princeton that wasn't that bad, that sounded good. But most of them were bad, mine was. I had a Peavey Rage 80- sounded like angry bees in a box.
@RhettShull So...the question before me is: Helix Stomp or pedals. I have a love hate relationship with my Stomp. It's a rabbit hole. I long for my days in the 70s with a limited number of choices. OTOH, one can't deny the ease of use of the Stomp. Not including the OD presets, which just don't do it for me... Thoughts?
Personally, there is no better overdrive, distortion than the amplifier that I am playing. Even if I’m running an overdrive, I am running it like a boost. It’s all personal in the end.
That supro is tasteful..... One of the biggest tone problems I see people do is cutting mids. You can't scoop mids out like is 1987 thrash time and get good tones. Guitars are based on full range speakers....which operates heavily in the low to high mids. Vocal ranges are also in these areas. If you cut that out you make everything thin. So don't kill your mids people.
Yep, after years of differnt drives, from Boss OD 1 (88) - Marshall Guv II, Tech 21 (the original one) (90's), Catalinbread DLS, Walrus Iron Horse, 2x EQD Plumes, J Rocket Archer. Finally settled on the JHS morning Glory with the Red Remoate in the front and a CAE Boost/Line driver for the effects loop. I think I'm done. Though the Browne Carbon X is tempting.
Hey Rhett! Love your content! There’s a question I’ve been dying to ask you, so if you see this, hopefully you’ll have time throughout your busy day to respond. My question: If you were forced to sell every single amplifier that you own except for one, which one would you choose to keep and why?
I will never forget 30 years ago , I headed to band practice with a new never played beautiful orange boss ds1 pedal , and plugged it into my clean fender combo amp , yuck awful . Damm what I’ve learned since then .
Out of curiosity, do you notice a significant volume drop when using the Wannabee in series? It seems if I run them in series I get a drastic volume drop when both are on regardless of settings. Parallel works as expected with a slight volume increase but overall maintains level very well. Just curious if that is normal or if maybe it is a defect haha.
I'm a newer player who just dropped the rent on an OD setup. Im curious what the take is here. Post watch edit: thx, I appreciated the thoughts on how to use a boost especially
per your definitions your boost is a boost/overdrive because it offers coloration options, also the diff between overdrive and distortion is that an overdrive blends back in some unclipped signal, what you stated was vague and incomplete. but still wish you the best
@@davedraws76 This is only true if you allow it. I have a few (too many) boosts and ODs If I had to pick just 2 I'd take the Compadre and the Riverside and with simple midi control I can have whatever is required.
Hater is a stronger word than I would use but I agree with Rhett about the TS. I bought and sold 2 tube screamers before I bought a TS-9DX which I still have. I've had it for close to 20 years and always struggled to integrate it into my sound. It only made it to my board recently because I want as many options as possible before I resort to navigating through menus.
@onlyusernameleft2 I used it in a humorous way, don‘t worry. I just think if Rhett doesn't care for it, he could just, you know, not use it lol there are tons of effects I don't like. It's normal.
@@mrcoatsworth429 yeah, sometimes when the ADHD meds kick in you accidentally write an essay. Rhett's an influential guy and I'm sure there are a couple of people out there who write off the TS but would like it if they gave it a fair shake.
Crunchy amp, always on boost at the end of the pedal chain to push signal and tweak the eq how I like it where it can interact best with the front end of the amp. Together they form a solid platform that allows the guitar volume pot to give me cleans thru dynamic raunch. Ahead of that is an OD for some added clipping and more signal feeding the boosted amp when I want searing leads. Blah blah blah. No one cares. Commenting to feed the algorithm.
Clean boost should be understood. A boost should be clean, or it's not a boost; it's an overdrive. I've tried three boosts. One was surgically clean. The other two had a gain knob that added dirt if turned past 9 o'clock - so they weren't boosts, were they?
Respectfully, you wouldn't look at a rack of different overdrive pedals and expect them all to do the exact same thing and sound exactly the same, would you? It's about the nuances, really. There are a ton of different boost pedals and many of them do different things. Clean boosts, dirty boosts, treble boosts, etc... I use a boost that is clean, but also has boost/cut type tone controls because I wanted to use it to contour my Strat's tone just a bit. Lotsa options in Boosts, Overdrives, Distortions and Fuzzes. It's seriously easy to get lost in the world of drive pedals, but can be great fun too!.
@@ScottfromBaltimore Usually, it's not the boost doing the clipping, it's the boost "driving" the front end of your amp into clipping, especially if its a tube amp.
A video clearly targeted at beginners but starting with the very first pedal, boost, we're entering ``'cork sniffery`` territory. It would be good to show options that are at the reach of an average John
According to the analytics... 60% of the time, it works every time.
I feel like this video topic can be redone and regurgitated over and over and over again, and it will never ever ever be less valuable
The boosted supro (first pedal) just sounds fantastic!!!
I’ve never found a boost that works for me, but that Zio sounded fantastic!
Awesome video as always!
I’ve been using the Zio for about a year and it’s great. Really flys under the radar!
love that audio slave riff. NAIL IN MY HAND
I had an SG junior in the early 70s. Loved it. It was so playable.
I've used many different ods, distortions, etc over years. From a blues driver, to a Carl Martin plexitone, but when I discovered the J. Rockett Steve Stevens Rockaway pedal I stopped searching! What an amazing pedal!
A really useful (and Studio friendly) way to think about it is in two parts: the Tone Shaping (via the pedals' EQ and Saturation Curves), and the overall Gain in dB's. For things like "stepping up" for a solo or "preconditioning" a rig for "Edge Of Breakup", the predominant utility is for level adjustment in dB's, whereas the Tone Shaping function is where the "colors" help provide distinct differences in the song's form without modifying the guitar's place in the mix.
Because of this, a two pedal solution (or its equivalent in Modeler Gain Staging) may be all that's required for maximum versatility: Dry, Conditioned, or Toneful (Wet).
I wish more pedal Gains or Level knobs were expressed in approximate dB's to allow easier transition in the Studio; although by using a better Volt/Ohm meter, it's possible to mark off those knobs for known amounts of change in dB's (3, 6, and 12 dB are very useful Perceptual Points - barely noticeable, moderately louder, and slightly more than twice as loud).
I would argue that with a decent amp, all you really need to get any tone you want is a compressor pedal going into an eq pedal then into a clean boost. getting used to a decent eq pedal and it's insane utility absolutely changed how I build tones.
I play through two Friedman amps, twin sister and small box. I've found after purchasing maybe 10 OD pedals, that I mainly just like using the buxom boost to push it much harder and modify the EQ a little. The overdrive pedals usually make it sound worse if I turn up the drive at all. The amp distortion just sounds better. The exceptions being a tube screamer because it just pushes the mids, or my favorite OD pedal the fulltone full drive 1, which just sounds like a thicker tube screamer. So I run just the fulldrive and the boost, and I rotate a 2nd OD/distortion pedal just because it's fun to try new pedals. I imagine at some point I should add just an EQ pedal before the boost.
Been loving your album after listen to it since launch! 👌
Great overview, thanks! As you say there are lots of options out there so, here goes! Since the late '70s I have used Paul Crowther's Hot Cake for OD and switched to his Double Hot Cake when he released it for the 2 added colours of OD it added. I also hung onto my old MXR Distortion+ but only for one specific 'vintage Fripp' sound. All thru those years I was going into Fenders - mainly Twins, then a Blues Jnr. OR DI into a Neve Desk. I have recently added the Effectrode Blackbird with 3 Vacuum Tubes Preamp Pedal which is magic - it's an 'always on' pedal Dumblish 'halo' with Creamy & Classic OD switches there for lead breaks. For more jangly chordal stuff the Aclam Dr. Robert in front of the Victory Copper Pre-Amp Pedal is fun, esp. when you hit the 'Mach Schau' OD with your Casino or my 1957 Hofner Club 60 or Gretsch Solid Body - modern take on Fab goodness 😂 Final touch, not an OD pedal per se, but lots of overload on-board is the Neo Ventilator II 'Leslie' Pedal which is the closest to gently overloading a Leslie I have found over the years (think Clapton's bridge in Badge). I have the TCE Mojo Mojo on hand should I need it . . . more of a live gig standby.
A Boss SD1 straight into a Fender Hotrod Deluxe 3 with a Eminence Wizard is my go to rig
Before I watch the vid, I wanna suggest you do more simple breakdowns like this, of common gear. What they do, and how they're used. You'd be surprised how many people are lost when it comes to the differences. There's no right or wrong way, just the BEST ways. Peace!
I have 20 pedals hooked up right now, 10 in front, 10 in the loop. The first board has eight different dirt pedals - Tube Screamer clone, Moskey Silver Horse (Klone), "crunch distortion," "Ultimate Drive," Rat clone, Holy War, Pure Sky (Timmy clone), Behringer Fuzz SF300. Second board has a Joyo American Sound, so it has drive as well. I tried to make it simple, had a board with only seven pedals, then pulled everything out and went wild.
Another informative and well done video sir! Zio rules
My approach is to put my favorite overdrive (currently a BD-2, but frequently changing) last and then boost it with either a tube screamer, klon, or clean boost (whatever compliments the main OD).
REVV G3 pedal for the distortion win!
On the clean channel of my 6505 I use UA 1176 to compress, into a Notalkon with little gain, into a Boss Fender '65 with gain nearly off volume up, essentally as a boost with tone shaping. Hall of Fame 2 or Dunlop Echoplex in FX loop. Allows me to get a huge amount of classic tones. Sometimes I'll throw a tone bender in front.
Heavy OD/Distortion is a whole other thing. Different set up entirely.
I caught onto this a couple years ago and found that unless I need a distortion that does impossible things, a boost and/or od really makes the amp distorition nice. (Orange!).
Although the Daredevil pedals Hype! Boost is out of production now, it's my favorite way to slam the amp.
I use a boss angry driver on the blue side for my clean always on tone then I stack a wampler triumph into the front of it for more drive. What’s great about the angry driver is if I need to solo I can switch it to the red side set that has more mids set with the volume higher as a dirty boost for solos
Always on Microamp to get natural amp breakup, and can dial it with my foot per song, over drive and distortion after set lower than normal to match the always on boost.
That way when the overdrive is off, I go back to my base amp breakup sound. Plus can take it off if I want super clean. Good to have a transparent boost and a color fist and last! That’s given you like your amp breakup more than a colored always on OD.
I like the Wampler Equator for boost -- great tone shaping. For overdrive In front of that, I have a Barber LTD, JRockett Colt-45, and a Zen Drive clone (AionFx Azimuth kit). Great tones all around.
Great job!
My first ever overdrive/distortion was a fulltone OCD v2, I still have it to this day.
Mine was boss sd1
Both good choices. Mine was an '85 white face Rat. I was happy for years with just my guitar, my Rat and my amp. I still love that sound, but I've grown to appreciate many other sounds too. Do what works for you!
Can't wait to watch!
Great tones ! Sabbath tones my favorite. But all very good. P90 helps for classic sound
Omg now your going to have me shopping for new pedals 😂
Great info ! Thank you sir
Rhett my guy. This is a GREAT video. I've had some of this knowledge half-cobbled in my brain here and there, but you presented it so well with the playing samples. I was a little surprised you don't keep a fuzz on the board. If you were to choose a fuzz for your style - would it be more of a Muff style or more modern? TKs
I have tube amps that already sound good to me; if I use a pedal in front of the amp, the only pedal I use is EQ; especially with single channel amps it gives me a different tone and optional clean boost for leads, like an extension of the sound of the amp which I already like.
I have a few EQ pedals, I've been using a Source Audio EQ2 for last several years or since it was released.
Then there’s fuzz and fuzz/distortions like the hm2 that can be used as boosts
I gain stage a lot. Compressor into Ts9 or sd1 into hm2w into mt2w
JHS colorbox is the universal solution. A bit expensive, but it will follow you all your life.
The thing that reviewers don't really stress enough to ppl is that the overdrive, distortion, or boost pedal is only one component in whatever tone it is you're chasing. The pickups and the amp are the other two, primary components and they matter- just as much as the pedal. I see ppl posting all the time about how they heard this amazing drive pedal on someone's TH-cam show, but then they bought it and it sounded like crap- and then you find out they heard someone play a Les Paul through this pedal into a Mesa Boogie Rectifier and are now upset that their Strat and Katanna amp doesn't sound like that with the pedal. They have only 1/3rd of the ingredients but can't understand why their chili doesn't taste right. You got to have something at least similar- some higher output humbuckers and some kind of tube emulation might work- it doesn't have to be exactly what they had, but it needs to be in the ball park with it. I don't know how solid-state amps are today but back in my day, the 80s- peavey stuff- you didn't want to boost a solid-state amp- it wasn't pretty. If you got distortion it wasn't going to be good distortion. But they had distortion built into them so- you could just go that route. They sucked- I'll be honest, nowadays there are some great solid-state amps and stuff, but our Peaveys sounded like harsh crap compared to the stuff you get now. There were a few solid state amps- Roland Jazz amps, Fender had a Princeton that wasn't that bad, that sounded good. But most of them were bad, mine was. I had a Peavey Rage 80- sounded like angry bees in a box.
@RhettShull So...the question before me is: Helix Stomp or pedals. I have a love hate relationship with my Stomp. It's a rabbit hole. I long for my days in the 70s with a limited number of choices. OTOH, one can't deny the ease of use of the Stomp. Not including the OD presets, which just don't do it for me... Thoughts?
GOOD one Rhett keep up the good work
Personally, there is no better overdrive, distortion than the amplifier that I am playing. Even if I’m running an overdrive, I am running it like a boost. It’s all personal in the end.
Enlightening. You just rendered 38 years of guitar playing pointless through name dropping and analytics.
EVH 5150 overdrive - job done
Show Me How to Live sounded great with the Hard Drive!
Boost>OD>Boost
or just Boost and OD within a re-orderable loop matrix, 90% of the job done......and Fuzz.
This video is awesome
That supro is tasteful.....
One of the biggest tone problems I see people do is cutting mids. You can't scoop mids out like is 1987 thrash time and get good tones. Guitars are based on full range speakers....which operates heavily in the low to high mids.
Vocal ranges are also in these areas. If you cut that out you make everything thin.
So don't kill your mids people.
I use a Hudson Broadcast to boost my Octa Psi, absolutely brutal
Yep, after years of differnt drives, from Boss OD 1 (88) - Marshall Guv II, Tech 21 (the original one) (90's), Catalinbread DLS, Walrus Iron Horse, 2x EQD Plumes, J Rocket Archer. Finally settled on the JHS morning Glory with the Red Remoate in the front and a CAE Boost/Line driver for the effects loop. I think I'm done. Though the Browne Carbon X is tempting.
The Guy V1 is pretty great too
Hey Rhett! Love your content!
There’s a question I’ve been dying to ask you, so if you see this, hopefully you’ll have time throughout your busy day to respond.
My question: If you were forced to sell every single amplifier that you own except for one, which one would you choose to keep and why?
I will never forget 30 years ago , I headed to band practice with a new never played beautiful orange boss ds1 pedal , and plugged it into my clean fender combo amp , yuck awful . Damm what I’ve learned since then .
Check out a Stacks FX Zenor OD. I think you'd like it.
That is a really nice guitar
My boost: hm2
My distortion: hm2
My overdrive: hm2
Just some recommendations
Have you tried one as a reverb yet? Marvelous sound!
Hey Rhett, you ever try the Trey Anastasio setup with dual Ross Compressors? Shit sounds WILD
Out of curiosity, do you notice a significant volume drop when using the Wannabee in series? It seems if I run them in series I get a drastic volume drop when both are on regardless of settings. Parallel works as expected with a slight volume increase but overall maintains level very well. Just curious if that is normal or if maybe it is a defect haha.
I'm a newer player who just dropped the rent on an OD setup. Im curious what the take is here. Post watch edit: thx, I appreciated the thoughts on how to use a boost especially
per your definitions your boost is a boost/overdrive because it offers coloration options, also the diff between overdrive and distortion is that an overdrive blends back in some unclipped signal, what you stated was vague and incomplete. but still wish you the best
Not all Overdrives blend in clean signal. Also, there are a few Overdrives that utilize hard clipping. Clear as mud, ain't it?
Ceriatone Centura FTW
Write songs, write lyrics, make music. Stop watching so many TH-cam videos and fiddling with pedals
Then buy a Kernom Ridge and get all the sounds.
Nope. Decision fatigue with so many OD tone options. I prefer to choose one pedal. It’s just overdrive. I don’t need a library.
@@davedraws76 This is only true if you allow it.
I have a few (too many) boosts and ODs
If I had to pick just 2 I'd take the Compadre and the Riverside and with simple midi control I can have whatever is required.
Distortion comes from my amp, a cranked Orange OR15. Overdrive is neck pickup. Boost is my TC Electronic Spark mini. Keep it simple.
I have a Bogner Helios. I know not what any of this means. ;)
Of course it would be cool, but I do my own thing.
How did you know I was building my first board
Not bad logic for a guitarist, but this model may need some tweaking, to work for a bassist 🤔
I swear, if this is another ts hater video...😂
Hater is a stronger word than I would use but I agree with Rhett about the TS. I bought and sold 2 tube screamers before I bought a TS-9DX which I still have. I've had it for close to 20 years and always struggled to integrate it into my sound. It only made it to my board recently because I want as many options as possible before I resort to navigating through menus.
@onlyusernameleft2 I used it in a humorous way, don‘t worry. I just think if Rhett doesn't care for it, he could just, you know, not use it lol there are tons of effects I don't like. It's normal.
@@mrcoatsworth429 yeah, sometimes when the ADHD meds kick in you accidentally write an essay. Rhett's an influential guy and I'm sure there are a couple of people out there who write off the TS but would like it if they gave it a fair shake.
And what's fuzz?
what the fuzz dude?!
@onewiththings dafuzz bro
Crunchy amp, always on boost at the end of the pedal chain to push signal and tweak the eq how I like it where it can interact best with the front end of the amp. Together they form a solid platform that allows the guitar volume pot to give me cleans thru dynamic raunch. Ahead of that is an OD for some added clipping and more signal feeding the boosted amp when I want searing leads. Blah blah blah. No one cares. Commenting to feed the algorithm.
Clean boost should be understood. A boost should be clean, or it's not a boost; it's an overdrive.
I've tried three boosts. One was surgically clean. The other two had a gain knob that added dirt if turned past 9 o'clock - so they weren't boosts, were they?
Respectfully, you wouldn't look at a rack of different overdrive pedals and expect them all to do the exact same thing and sound exactly the same, would you? It's about the nuances, really. There are a ton of different boost pedals and many of them do different things. Clean boosts, dirty boosts, treble boosts, etc... I use a boost that is clean, but also has boost/cut type tone controls because I wanted to use it to contour my Strat's tone just a bit. Lotsa options in Boosts, Overdrives, Distortions and Fuzzes. It's seriously easy to get lost in the world of drive pedals, but can be great fun too!.
bout 'dem O's baby!
@@madmick78 I'm trying to say that if it clips, it's not a boost, but at least some boats I've tried definitely clip, do what do I know?
@@ScottfromBaltimore Usually, it's not the boost doing the clipping, it's the boost "driving" the front end of your amp into clipping, especially if its a tube amp.
I wish you knew how to make money without recording the same tired videos over and over.
A video clearly targeted at beginners but starting with the very first pedal, boost, we're entering ``'cork sniffery`` territory. It would be good to show options that are at the reach of an average John
Boosts are about as far from cork sniffery that I can imagine.
I think you need to try some.