Green Day...good distortion pedal...

[charlestheguitarist]

Hi guys....what would be a good distortion pedal for lots of high gain stuff like Green Day when they play "live"...if u see their live performance..there is a second guitarist...who is Jason White...i prefer distortion that sounds like a Mesa..without spending too much...would a MT-2 do the job?...

BTW: Since my microcube is dead..i might be getting a smarvo..using pedals for distortion..

 

[GuitarNoob]

to me, MT-2 sounds shitty live. You can try the Ibanez smashbox, its cheaper too, maybe can look arnd luther classifieds for it

 

[Mew]

A sansamp GT2 should get u close to the Mesa sound.
Im not a fan of a MT-2 though.

 

[BlackMoo]

a plain mt-2 sucks. Should get it modded to remove the buzziness and fuzziness. Thats when it owns.

 

[NewGuy]

I don't know much about distortion pedal but I know that I can get quite nice tones with a sd-1 running thru my marshall cdr15... the trick is to use the right settings...

First off I run my marshall on a slight over drive that I am comfortable with, then I use my pedal and adjust it to the tone I want... definitely can't get the heavy nice sound I want if run clean...

 

[charlestheguitarist]

how bout a sansamp tri ac or a Pod 2.0/XT?

 

[Mr_X]

DS-1. I'm not sure if u'll like the mesa on the tri-ac.

 

[gjkung]

Podxt/live get's pretty close.

 

[charlestheguitarist]

i mainly play the Vox AC30 model on my microcube...the sansamp tri ac lsounds quite fine as well..

btw..have any of you tried smarvo amps before? is the overdrive reasonable...but i like the clean..

 

[mikemann]

Smarvo amps are great at clean channel.

For overdrive channel, seems like its modeled after less popular brit design. So the tone is not so easy to dial to a common distortion sound. But if you explore, there could be some interesting drive sound possible.

So use what ever effect pedals and multi-efxs on the clean channel, you should not be dissapointed.

 

[charlestheguitarist]

okay...can an acoustic be used with this amp..and what smarvo do you recommend...i want something that is not too loud yet can be used outdoors...and would you choose a Pod 2.0 / Pod XT / Behringer V-amp2 for amp emulations..

 

[mikemann]

An acoustic can be used with any electric guitar amp, but the sound will be middy. That's why they created acoustic amp.

A good choice would be the 4012R, which is 12" speaker with 40watts power & reverb. This is priced cheaper than the microcube.

 

[charlestheguitarist]

how bout kustm amps? are they as resonable as smarvo?