It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
Subscribe to our Patreon, and get image uploads with no ads on the site!
Base theme by DesignModo & ported to Powered by Vanilla by Chris Ireland, modified by the "theFB" team.
Comments
You can play jazz chords with the da2 and it won't sound that bad.
Other than the fact it's a jazz chord. But tonally I mean. Amazing pedal.
Having said that, I do use a TS 808 clone, but more as a tone shaping device and boost than a drive.
Drive on min
Vol on max
tone about 12'oclock
Now i'm just recording and rehearsing with friends, i much prefer the amp drive side of things. It does help that now i have the Mesa Stiletto Ace, i have one of the best drive tones i've ever heard. I did try going back to pedal gain after i sold my first stiletto, but couldn't find anything that replicated the sound or the way the Mesa feels. The closest was probably the Bogner LaGrange, but the finish on that pedal was so awful i couldn't live with it.
I get the loss of flexibility with just using your amp drive, but personally I only have use for clean, mid-gain/crunch, and hi-gain. I find most of the voicings you can get from pedals are much of a muchness. I can do everything I need with my amp, pickup selection and the volume knob (and I play metal! Get that!).
Fuzz is a different story, of course!
In truth it is so specific to circumstances and thus dependent on your guitar, style of playing and whether you're playing live or recording. I mean cheese knives are great for taking a slice of cheese off the cheese board, but would be useless at boning a joint. Use what's in your drawer!
To expand on that my main "me" dirty sound for about 90% of my bands current set is the crunch channel of a Blackstar Series 1, about 5% is OD1, and the other 5% is a Joyo Vintage Overdrive. Horses for courses, most of the time my amp's the right tool for my job but if a pedal works better for a particular song or in a particular context then I'm not going to get all snobby about it...
It's a very personal thing and one way isn't better than another.
When I got my Orange Rocker head, it seemed ridiculous not to use amp dirt, so amp dirt it was. I do still keep a fuzz on my board together with a Barber Gain Changer for some different flavours. My Koko boost is what I usually use to give the amp a kick in the nuts.
Having recently acquired an AX8, most of my gain tones are got from amp models alone without any modelled dirt pedals so my approach in modelling world also seems to be amp dirt.
I think pedal dirt into a clean amp gives the most flexibility but my goodness, that Orange sounds good.....
But agree with the principle it's whatever works for you, if I was into more gain, then I'd almost certainly use amp drive.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein