The answer depends on what type of guitar you’re playing, for what purpose you’re playing, the genre of music, and the other equipment you might be using. Acoustic Steel String? Nylon? Electric? Mic’ed amp or DI? Type of pickups? Size of the amps and type of speakers? Playing live or recording? You get the point. I think clean is likely more versatile for both acoustic and electric - even without pedals, the right clean amp can still deliver a variety of tones. Paired with pedals, you’re off to the races. Does a dirty amp really clean up as precisely and have the same versatility? Might depend on the amp, but probably not. It’s never going to clean up to the same degree, not even with the help of an EQ or backing the volume down. Maybe you should test this out to get a more definitive answer. Everyone should do this! I’ll happily accept any gear you no longer want after deciding it’s inferior at the conclusion of your experimentation! 😉😂
65 DRRI with pedals all day for me. more versatile and works well at low volumes. I use an always on diamond compressor to give more of a cranked feel to it and it works great with the KoT, Lightspeed, ODR-1 etc! yeah I dig uncle larry!
Bern playing since 1985. As much as I want (and in the past have tried) to start clean, I find I have better control over dynamics starting dirty out the gate and using the volume/tone/pickup selector to back it off if needed to get cleaner. I don't use pedals lol.
We love to do this when we have the right gig/gear. Sometimes we get thrown in unknown scenarios for gigs and that’s when the clean platform steps in more.
The answer depends on what type of guitar you’re playing, for what purpose you’re playing, the genre of music, and the other equipment you might be using. Acoustic Steel String? Nylon? Electric? Mic’ed amp or DI? Type of pickups? Size of the amps and type of speakers? Playing live or recording? You get the point.
I think clean is likely more versatile for both acoustic and electric - even without pedals, the right clean amp can still deliver a variety of tones. Paired with pedals, you’re off to the races. Does a dirty amp really clean up as precisely and have the same versatility? Might depend on the amp, but probably not. It’s never going to clean up to the same degree, not even with the help of an EQ or backing the volume down.
Maybe you should test this out to get a more definitive answer. Everyone should do this! I’ll happily accept any gear you no longer want after deciding it’s inferior at the conclusion of your experimentation! 😉😂
65 DRRI with pedals all day for me. more versatile and works well at low volumes. I use an always on diamond compressor to give more of a cranked feel to it and it works great with the KoT, Lightspeed, ODR-1 etc! yeah I dig uncle larry!
We love the 65 DRRI here as well. At the right gig you can use this as a clean platform or a dirty starting point too.
Uncle Larry is one of the best!
Bern playing since 1985. As much as I want (and in the past have tried) to start clean, I find I have better control over dynamics starting dirty out the gate and using the volume/tone/pickup selector to back it off if needed to get cleaner. I don't use pedals lol.
We love to do this when we have the right gig/gear. Sometimes we get thrown in unknown scenarios for gigs and that’s when the clean platform steps in more.