Author Topic: gainist pedals (Read 8559 times)

Skybone · « **Reply #15 on:** January 13, 2006, 11:08:28 AM »

Surely the best thing for getting the best tone out of your valve amp is an attenuator, not a pedal. The best distortion on a valve amp is that from the power amp, which means cranking the volume.

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I have a tube amp, but the dist at the highest level is just not enough

I assume you're meaning cranking the gain up. By doing this your tone will become mushy & ill defined, keep the gain low to retain string definition, and crank the volume instead with an attenuator.

A TS-9/808 won't meet the "high gain" requirements, I tried a few a while back and didn't think they were all that gain-y, great for blues/rock though. Willo's mention of a booster pedal is a good suggestion for a valve amp, but whether this will give you the gain you're after I'm not sure. Saying all that, the ProCo RAT's have inordinate amounts of filth on tap. ;)

Cattivo Ragazzo · « **Reply #16 on:** January 13, 2006, 12:21:01 PM »

My tone doesn't become mushy or ill defined, it couldn't be any more opposite. The gain is at 10. Playing the amp loud doesn't make much difference.

Neemo · « **Reply #17 on:** January 13, 2006, 01:25:27 PM »

I'm almost strictly all about amp drive, although one pedal caught my attention when I needed more gain with my Marshall TSL100 was the Visual Sound Jekyll&Hyde, which is a TS808(jekyll)/distortion(hyde) in one package, about as versatile as you can get but I mostly enjoyed the jekyll side with drive 0 and volume 5 boosting the marshall's lead chan. Excellent pedal.

Skybone · « **Reply #18 on:** January 13, 2006, 04:06:18 PM »

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My tone doesn't become mushy or ill defined, it couldn't be any more opposite. The gain is at 10.

I must be doing something wrong then... Whenever I've tried that, all I have ever got was a wall of wool. :?

tewboss · « **Reply #19 on:** January 13, 2006, 04:44:27 PM »

Quote from: Steve-Mr Pig 2U

The Highest gain pedal Ive used is the AMT Rammstein pedal, its insane amounts of distortion.

It's now called AMT Du Hast (me thinks they were threatened with court action). How about Keeley's Metalzone modification (rather than the standard Boss version)?

I know that Corey from Trivium uses a tubescreamer for a boost into his amp (think its a dual rectifier), and I've heard others say it sounds good too.