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I know, I know, faux pas to say such things on a gear forum, but some EQ just prevented me from going down a high gain pedal rabbit hole that I know would have been costly and probably wouldn't have gotten me happier than I am right now.
I have that Friedman BE-OD Deluxe pedal I'm using for the rhythm/lead tones on my pedalboard, I've got no gripes about it, the 2nd channel gets used in combination with a Fuzz Face and I was stoked as hell I liked it as much as I do. But a chugging metal pedal it is not. It covers modded Marshall territory great, obviously and running it into my Plexi50 has given me everything I wanted for tones right up to Jerry Cantrell levels of distortion/heaviness. I really want to use my rig with the singer I'm working with and the rig as-is will work fine for most of the music I'm thinking we're going to do, but there's going to be some modern elements tossed in there that had me assuming I'd just use my FM9 rig and make it easier.
Since I have the VP4 in 4CM and before the Friedman, I wanted to try boosting the front end of it while putting an EQ in the loop to tighten everything up and it worked a LOT better than I thought it would. I've been saying for a while I think my ideal tone is somewhere in a modded Marshall tone, but not so much the modded Plexi circuit and maybe more like a modded JCM800 or even JVM. I'm pretty much there now-
I play with the boost/EQ off first. It's so much more noticable by the end of the video when I turn them off again. The balls don't quite translate in this vid, but flipppppin hell, man, even at living room volume my legs are getting the impacts every time I touch that low C string, whether chug-mode is activated or not.
I have that Friedman BE-OD Deluxe pedal I'm using for the rhythm/lead tones on my pedalboard, I've got no gripes about it, the 2nd channel gets used in combination with a Fuzz Face and I was stoked as hell I liked it as much as I do. But a chugging metal pedal it is not. It covers modded Marshall territory great, obviously and running it into my Plexi50 has given me everything I wanted for tones right up to Jerry Cantrell levels of distortion/heaviness. I really want to use my rig with the singer I'm working with and the rig as-is will work fine for most of the music I'm thinking we're going to do, but there's going to be some modern elements tossed in there that had me assuming I'd just use my FM9 rig and make it easier.
Since I have the VP4 in 4CM and before the Friedman, I wanted to try boosting the front end of it while putting an EQ in the loop to tighten everything up and it worked a LOT better than I thought it would. I've been saying for a while I think my ideal tone is somewhere in a modded Marshall tone, but not so much the modded Plexi circuit and maybe more like a modded JCM800 or even JVM. I'm pretty much there now-
I play with the boost/EQ off first. It's so much more noticable by the end of the video when I turn them off again. The balls don't quite translate in this vid, but flipppppin hell, man, even at living room volume my legs are getting the impacts every time I touch that low C string, whether chug-mode is activated or not.
It's possible it could come off the board if I start wanting the real estate and swap it for the regular one. Really surprised a dirt pedal sounds and feels that great in the front end of an amp and not into a Return.
