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I have only recently discovered that people put drive into drive into drive, and to be honest it blew my mind.
I've always assumed you used one drive pedal, and depending how much drive you wanted to either ramped it up or got a heavier one. I have an overdrive, and a fuzz which are switched on and off accordingly.
Running both at the same time has opened up new sounds, but none I really like!
Having pedals for pickups is another new one on me, but fair play if it works for you!
My 63 Ac30 Top Boost's vibrato channel was changed to an overdrive channel somehow by Alan Pyne a million years ago, incredible natural O/D sound, but like all AC30s too bloody loud.
In my madder/genius days, I'd use two delays stacked up as well - one running directly into the other, set at different times.
The following will give me anything from Tom Petty, Stones, SRV to classic rock and big singing AOR 80s lead tones. The Fulldrive 1 is very new but given it has nicer mids and is more versatile than the 808, it might be knocking it off my board, but they all still work well together and I have a Keeley Compressor first in the chain which is always on:-
(LOW) Keeley TS-808 > Fulltone Fulldrive 1 (new) > Xotic EP Boost > Fulltone OCD (MED-HIGH)
The Guitarist in my Friend's band uses two delays sometimes, there is one song where each chord is strummed once and left to sustain, he keeps one delay on but switches on the second after the initial attack of the note, it sounds pretty cool.
I stack.
My main rhythm sound is an OCD clone I built. I also have a Tubescreamer(ish) pedal that I built. Both of those are set relatively low gain to give me two different flavours of overdrive. I can stack them together to get more gain and increase the mids from the OCD clone. I also have a Microamp clone in front of both of them to push either/both harder.
The icing on the cake is a Thorpy Fallout Cloud that I use mainly for lead tones. If I really want to make that cut through, I can push it with the TS type.
The precision drive has a gate and he also has a separate standalone gate and it still has this horrible hi pitched feedback thing going on.
Im more of a get it right at source guy and get 99% of my needs from a multi-channel valve amp and then maybe throw a TS model in front for the odd occasion I want to tighten up the low end (quite rare since my amp has excellent low end already).
SP-> ODR1 standard sound
SP-> RC -> ODR1 a bit more
SP-> RC side 2 -> lead
SP clean
SP-> EP clean lead
BB -> ODR1 rock sound
Zendrive -> ODR1 bluesy lead
SP or RC -> BB -> more rock
Zendrive -> BB -> ODR-1 rock lead
SP-> RC -> Zendrive -> BB -> ODR1 big lead
I don’t have the gain very high on any of the pedals.
i know it sounds like a lot but it makes sense to me and for gigs where I need a lot of flavours I always have another stage to add if I feel I need it
Zoom UltraFuzz into ValveSporker into Liquid Sunshine.
All on at the same time was excellent.