Distortion pedal help

[alamsemu]

I suppose it varies from time to time, depending on the amps he uses and what is required. Settings ain't a fixed thing, especially if you're out performing often at different venues with different equipment.

Whatever you say then.

 

[NewGuy]

Haha... I got my sd-1... it is smooth... but the ds-1 rocks too... yipee....

 

[penguin]

Newbie did u encounter any feedback or noise issue?
hmm wow 3 dist..i feel ur dist tone is kinda expensive

 

[NewGuy]

haha...he should cos I tried without the gt 2 ... means the sd-1 and ds-1 together with a strat... got a bit of noise issue... but using them alternately got no noise issue...
and with humbucker guitar like some rg definitely no such noise...

but the noise issue is the occational single coil noise and feed back occur when u max out everything... haha...

 

[ShredCow]

You can chain 3 dist/od pedals together with minimal noise. It how you manage your settings.

If you set everything to max then you WILL get noise.

Go easy on the gain, you really don't need THAT much gain IMO. And if you do need that much, just use a heavy distortion pedal like the GT2 or Boss MT2.

 

[penguin]

i wonder wats the point...to chain 3 pedals..
there are ppl that does that but not for me..

 

[ShredCow]

i wonder wats the point...to chain 3 pedals..
there are ppl that does that but not for me..

Well you get more variety.

I don't chain 3 pedals coz I have a Tech21 Tri AC, that gives me 3 basic sounds (1 clean, 1 od, 1 dist) to work on. My booster pedal is a modded TS9DX thats set to give me a slightly crunchy tone thats just a little louder but thick.

So my 3 basic sounds are clean, british crunch and a very saturated and middy lead channel.

With that, I can add in my TS9DX to get, bluesy overdrive, heavy rock/metal rhythm or shredding lead.

In essence, that's what 3 dist/od pedals can give you.

 

[penguin]

i rather use the 5 way switch...

 

[ShredCow]

i rather use the 5 way switch...

Well, good for you. I use it too! Extremely versatile stuff that thing, imagine if you had a couple of swtiches and pushpulls. Heh...

 

[Newbie]

Lol cause im crazy. haha nah..


Hmm noise, definitely a little, depends on how u arrange the pedals to minimize it. lol im intending to get 1 or 2 more pedals to boost the lead or rythm LOL.











yeap im a crazy dumbass

 

[penguin]

wah u serious??? u shld get a preamp then...

 

[sanXp]

I find that there's nothing wrong with multiple gain stages. Tube amps have multiple preamp sections too, if you bothered to look up the schematics. Having an overdrive pedal going into a distortion pedal roughly mimics the schematic and the sound of a marshall tube preamp, as marshall amps use 2 diodes for hard clipping after the preamp gain stages for the crunch channel, ala distortion, and inside the preamp gain stages, you have 12AX7s being pushed into slight saturation, ala overdrive. In short, having an overdrive pedal going into a distortion pedal mimics the signal going thru overdriven tubes into clipping diodes.