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(formerly miserneil)
Took all my drive pedals off the board when i got this amp, just don't need them
You'll find most higher gain guitarists get the majority of their gain sound from the amp, and only tend to use a pedal to boost or shape the crunch of the amp (e.g. cutting bass on the way in to make for a tighter sound)
I do believe there is a clarity to valve amp dirt on full chords that basically turn to mush with diode clipping pedals but some styles of music don't need those full chords
The way I see it, if I've paid hundreds or thousands of pounds for a top of the range amp, there's no point in getting a major part of my tone from a cheap pedal. It would just be a very expensive way of amplifying a signal generated from a few cheap transistors.
Might sound a bit elitist but that's my story and I'm sticking to it!
Current amp is a mini jubilee, I stay on the lead channel set to my main heavy rhythm sound and roll off the guitar volume for dirty cleans. I do use a tubescreamer for lead boosts though.
I've said it before but transistors slamming the front end of a valve amp into sweet sustain predates amp pre-amp gain by many years and is where a lot of the early classic guitar tones come from (I.e fuzz into Marshall).
Amp gain for the meat of the sound, a TS type pedal pushing that for tightness and saturation.
Rift Amplification
Brackley, Northamptonshire
www.riftamps.co.uk
Im using a Dark Matter set clean and the low end trimmed back, but I've been thinking about a TS.
spot on.