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Re: Overdrive pedals

1/10/2001 10:31 PM
KB	Re: Overdrive pedals When you go to choose a tube amp make sure you listen to them good and don't just take someones advise or suggestion. For instanst a Fender amp has great tone but by the time you get it to distort your ears are going to be hurting bad and the same goes with some Marshalls. Thats why they make attenuators to get the killer distortion at bedroom levels. As Liam can tell you when you get to low it starts to take away the tone as your speakers can't express themselves like when cranked and it won't record as well either because of lack of air pushing the diaphrams of the mic. IMHO a multi cascaded gain stage tube pre will give you smooth distortion and the sustain you need without all the buzzing and noise. Gain and noise are proportional and the more gain you have the noisier it gets, thats just life. When you start pushing the volume loud enough where the output tubes start to distort then you can crank the preamp back and still have nice distortion. Sending the preamp out to a clean amp is also a nice way to generate killer tube distortion with an attenuated nice tone, KB

1/10/2001 10:31 PM

Re: Overdrive pedals

When you go to choose a tube amp make sure you listen to them good and don't just take someones advise or suggestion. For instanst a Fender amp has great tone but by the time you get it to distort your ears are going to be hurting bad and the same goes with some Marshalls. Thats why they make attenuators to get the killer distortion at bedroom levels. As Liam can tell you when you get to low it starts to take away the tone as your speakers can't express themselves like when cranked and it won't record as well either because of lack of air pushing the diaphrams of the mic. IMHO a multi cascaded gain stage tube pre will give you smooth distortion and the sustain you need without all the buzzing and noise. Gain and noise are proportional and the more gain you have the noisier it gets, thats just life. When you start pushing the volume loud enough where the output tubes start to distort then you can crank the preamp back and still have nice distortion. Sending the preamp out to a clean amp is also a nice way to generate killer tube distortion with an attenuated nice tone, KB

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