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In that regard, though, you often just need a pedal with a powerful eq to shape the sound around the amp to avoid crazy and genuinely horrible sounds. Or leave the bright switch alone. I just take out loads of treble on the pedal so I can have a nice bright clean.
With a valve front end there should be no problem but I have seen schematics where there is no grid stopper resistor on the first grid (usually about 68k) and I suspect such a stage could suffer "blocking distortion"?
Amps that use IC front ends SHOULD have high enough supply rails such that the output from a 9V supplied pedal would cause them little grief.
But then there is marketing bllx, the reviewers have got to find SOMETHING to say!
Dave.
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But I also agree that a lot of it is sales spiel or online forum nonsense, as well.
The clear, extended treble response of Fender-like amps emphasises the 'wrong' frequencies to produce good drive sounds with certain pedals.
Though why people portray this as some kind of magic synergy, I've no idea.
It could equally mean 'won't give the kind of cleans Richard Homer will like'....
Maybe people selling pedals should say 'sounds lousy through a Fender Twin'....
To clarify- I have nothing against pedals, pedals are great fun. I just am sort of mystified that a lot of pedal lovers seem to like pedals through amps which, to me, don't actually take pedals all that well. ) Maybe it is just preference...
Now, of course you can use pedals with them too to get different tones which the drive channels don't do... but yeah. It is kind of funny.
Funnily enough though my engl takes pedals really, really badly through the clean channel- really bright and tinny like the worst blackface fender-type thing (maybe even far worse!). ) Admittedly you can run them through the crunch channel to round off the harsh edges a bit. But yeah. I guess it just goes to show that there are always exceptions, too.
Luckily the amp sounds great with pretty much any distortion/drive pedal. So if you were selling a single channel amp, and you said "takes pedals well", that would probably stupidly draw me in :P
(plus pedals are easier to sneak in and out of the house rather than a big old amp, mu ha ha).
but yes the lil night train bless it, sounded like crud with the a slostortion, just not enough head room i guess?