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I'm not sure what cleaning up badly would be ... maybe thin and fizzy?
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"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
A powerful pedal that cleans up well (think Paul Trombetta Design, AM white nkt 275), does add a certain ‘feel’ to your playing dynaimcs
Kidding aside, it means that by using the guitars volume pots, many levels of noise can be produced.
And if you go back to Hendrix his clean tone was ( I believe) primarily with a fuzz face on and the strat volume rolled back. Yet at full chat that's anything but clean.
That's what happens when a pedal *doesn't* clean up nicely, surely?
IMO the epitome of "cleans up nicely" when it comes to effects pedals is the Fuzz Face- you can have full-out fuzz meltdown with the guitar volume on 10, then slightly hairy clean with the volume at 8 or 9. A Big Muff won't do that.
But for many of the amps and pedals that people describe as "cleaning up nicely" you can achieve something similar just by varying picking dynamics- with the right equipment you can have enough compression so that the overall volume doesn't vary much between very light and very heavy picking, but the amount of distortion does.
Works best when you don't want a massive difference between clean and dirty levels of gain- you can't really go from 80s metal gain sounds to Nile Rodgers clean sounds just with picking dynamics.
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Timmy is a prime example.
There are exceptions though - you can get cool sounds out of a ballsy rat by dialing the volume back.
I know its a different phenomenon to what the OP is asking about but I do wonder just how much money has been wasted (myself included) by people seeking "loud, cranked amp" tones at "baby sleeping next door" volumes.
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