What's your favorite way of getting Overdive/Distortion?

[johnny_be_goode]

My Fav : Guitar Amp + Channel Select Pedal

Pls Vote

 

[ShredCow]

Pedals because there's only 1 amp that has a distortion tone I really like, and thats only what I hear from CDs and Live recordings, haven't even got the chance to try one, so I still might not like it in the end!

 

[johnny_be_goode]

which amp is that

 

[Phil]

Until I move out of the lower wattage, solid-state region. I am for pedals.

 

[thor666]

I can't crank my amp without getting complaints... so guitar amp and booster for me.

 

[subversion]

amp's drive channel.

 

[guitarnub]

i love the chug from Peavey 5150s and Mesa mark IV, but those are way way wayyyyy outta my budget, i guess i'll have to settle for pedals for now

 

[subversion]

a straight-through plug in will manifest your guitar's personality/ your fretting-picking accents acutely.

 

[hydrogencynide]

wth... amps man... pure guitar tone being distorted

 

[fenderrules]

definetly effect pedals + a clean amp drive. im still a fan of marshall overdrives tho', so sometimes i would switch to the channel with a footswitch.

but i would love to do it like zakk wyldde does, using the overdrive/distortion as a booster to make the dirty amp drive a screaming wailing machine of death...hehe

 

[trianglebiscuit]

cant crank my amp too, so overdrive pedal into driven amp as a booster.

 

[Crawldaddy]

Hmm.

My amp isn;t that fantastic for cleans or dirt so...

Guitar (SG/tele) > booster (Boss OS-2) > OD (Daddy O) > EQ (Behringer BEQ700) > wah (95Q) > amp (clean channel)

Can get pretty decent sound. Setback is lack of 'thickness' due to amp's lack of 'thickness ability'.

FYI it's a Marshall MG 15CDR with all EQ knobs set at 3 o'clock, reverb on full, volume at 10 o'clock.

 

[jon__]

i gave up a marshall dsl 401 tube combo and a vintage fender twin for a bunch of pedals driving each other into a peavey envoy 110..but now i don't need to drag a heavy ass amp to gigs.

..tubes can't be beat for tone though

 

[tany]

amps cant carry around, pedals can!

 

[jon__]

+2345098569045

 

[PatheinRaindropMoe]

penknife the speaker!

 

[Guest]

What's preamp+poweramp mean? Cranking a tube amp at full tilt and using an attenuator? Or is it a trick answer?

 

[johnny_be_goode]

Combo = Preamp + Poweramp + Speaker
Head = Preamp + Poweramp

Now sure anyone play with preamp and poweramp
VHT, Mesa, Marshall, etc have preamp and poweramp.

Wonder how they sound?

 

[johnny_be_goode]

penknife the speaker!

Does speaker got anything to do with distortion/overdrive :?:

 

[PatheinRaindropMoe]

goggle round on how the early days of overdrive/fuzz came about without any effect pedals or hi gain amp. Oh and this dude call Link wray...