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Re: high gain delima

4/28/2000 6:02 AM
dale	Re: high gain delima a stompbox WILL do it. a ss stompbox set with the distortion all the way down and the volume all the way up, or anything that will boost the signal will give you tons of TUBE gain. it doesn't matter that it's solid state. it's simply sending a hotter signal than your guitar can put out to drive the preamp tubes into higher distortion. i use a boss e.q. pedal with the volume slider pegged and it works great. as long as the pedal isn't creating the distortion, but just making your tubes drive more, you get 100% pure tube drive without hampering the tube tone your amp makes. believe me, i wouldn't do it if this weren't the case---i'm a tube tone fanatic ! many people do it this way. and by the way, some distortion pedals won't do it as good cuz if you turn the distortion all the way down, even with the volume all the way up they won't put out any extra signal. you just gotta find one that does. rat pedals for example don't work good at all for this purpose. but pedals like the boss e.q. are great cuz they aren't distortion pedals in the 1st place, so no worry about some ss distortion getting in there. dale

4/28/2000 6:02 AM

dale

Re: high gain delima

a stompbox WILL do it. a ss stompbox set with the distortion all the way down and the volume all the way up, or anything that will boost the signal will give you tons of TUBE gain. it doesn't matter that it's solid state. it's simply sending a hotter signal than your guitar can put out to drive the preamp tubes into higher distortion. i use a boss e.q. pedal with the volume slider pegged and it works great. as long as the pedal isn't creating the distortion, but just making your tubes drive more, you get 100% pure tube drive without hampering the tube tone your amp makes. believe me, i wouldn't do it if this weren't the case---i'm a tube tone fanatic ! many people do it this way.

and by the way, some distortion pedals won't do it as good cuz if you turn the distortion all the way down, even with the volume all the way up they won't put out any extra signal. you just gotta find one that does. rat pedals for example don't work good at all for this purpose. but pedals like the boss e.q. are great cuz they aren't distortion pedals in the 1st place, so no worry about some ss distortion getting in there.

dale

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Jeff L Yeah, that's the same method I use.... -- 4/28/2000 12:57 PM