Distortion- from the amp or pedals?

[EOengineer]

I prefer to get my distortion at the eardrum stage.

 

[FuzzyAce]

I prefer to get my distortion at the eardrum stage.

 

[Frodebro]

Did you just step into your 40s??

I think it is a requirement that at a certain point you become
the middle-aged man with the Fender and a pedalboard. If
not you end up putting your guitarist's license at risk of being
revoked.

In all honesty, there's really no other way to use a Muff, or a
Fuzzface, or stack drives and unstack drives, or boost a Fuzz.

I'll always have a board into a clean-ish amp setup. It's fun and
it works and gets me places I can go far easier than other setups.

Not something I would do when I want the chugs, though. I bet
I have been through every high-gain pedal offering hoping to land
on the thing---and none of them felt or sounded "right," to me.

I have a rig that follows a similar principle, a Studio JTM combo with a traditional pedalboard (that is in a perpetual state of change).

 

[paisleywookiee]

Sometimes I consider getting something like the Suhr Bella or Port City Pearl, and then running a board into it. Depends on the gain pedal. The KoT is amazing, but damn near unobtainium. I need to try the Wampler Pantheon Deluxe.

 

[Sascha Franck]

The KoT is amazing, but damn near unobtainium.

There's tons of clones sounding pretty much (if not 1:1) the same.

 

[paisleywookiee]

There's tons of clones sounding pretty much (if not 1:1) the same.

That’s supposedly what the Pantheon Deluxe is.

 

[Sascha Franck]

That’s supposedly what the Pantheon Deluxe is.

OIC.
I've got a cheap Kings Of Kings from Joyo - which is ok but not the greatest clone ever. Hardware quality certainly isn't (nothing broken yet, but you can tell by the feel), so yeah, the Wampler thing possibly is worth the cost.

 

[paisleywookiee]

OIC.
I've got a cheap Kings Of Kings from Joyo - which is ok but not the greatest clone ever. Hardware quality certainly isn't (nothing broken yet, but you can tell by the feel), so yeah, the Wampler thing possibly is worth the cost.

 

[Sascha Franck]

Hm, I think it sounds rather generic here. Just as Quayle always sounds - which isn't meant negatively by any means, I just wouldn't spend much money for that sound.
I remember Chris Buck showing his new live board a while ago (including some actual live snippets), IIRC he's also using a KOT (maybe even an original) and his tone was gorgeous.

 

[Frodebro]

Sometimes I consider getting something like the Suhr Bella or Port City Pearl, and then running a board into it. Depends on the gain pedal. The KoT is amazing, but damn near unobtainium. I need to try the Wampler Pantheon Deluxe.

Just find a used Digitech Grunge pedal, you damn pedal snob.

 

[paisleywookiee]

Just find a used Digitech Grunge pedal, you damn pedal snob.

Dear god no.

 

[Frodebro]

Dear god no.

That’s The Other Place festering in your brain. More deprogramming is in order.

 

[LeftyLoungeLizard]

I prefer to get my distortion at the eardrum stage.

Go see an Yngwie concert.

 

[gearJunkie]

When using my JVM 410H & Mark VII, I stick with amp distortion. The Badlander may get a boost, but the distortion is from the amp.

My Two Rock CRS, King Kong 50, Fillmore 50, and OR15H get the full amp based & pedalboard (fuzz, OD, boost, and distortion pedal) experience. Same when using the Helix & AxeFX III, only virtual.

 

[newpedals]

Sometimes I consider getting something like the Suhr Bella or Port City Pearl, and then running a board into it. Depends on the gain pedal. The KoT is amazing, but damn near unobtainium. I need to try the Wampler Pantheon Deluxe.

One of my friends who is into mini pedals has a mooer clone of that. I don't know the name, but he told me he bought it because he liked to see how it would sound with his amp. His amp is a Laney, 1x12 I think. I liked the combined sound.

 

[la szum]

I have a rig that follows a similar principle, a Studio JTM combo with a traditional pedalboard (that is in a perpetual state of change).

Cool! Is that the 1x 10 combo?? I've been sneaking a peak here and there at those Studio Marshalls.

 

[Blix]

Cool! Is that the 1x 10 combo?? I've been sneaking a peak here and there at those Studio Marshalls.

The JTM combo has a 12" thankfully, they came to their senses.
1x10" in the JV and SC combos was a moronic choice.

 

[la szum]

No way! Oh man. I just assumed they were all 1 x 10.

 

[Diary Of An Axeman]

Historically, I've always been more of a pedal for gain type of player. Besides having a few channel switcher amps, my main live amps were mostly something very clean like a Twin or a lower watt Traynor that would get a bit more hair when cranked. I did use a Carvin Legacy for some years which has a nice drive channel akin to a modded 800, but it always sounded better boosted with a TS9 -- and more times than not I only used its big clean channel as a pedal platform. The music I play or have played was never really metal or chug-centric, I flirted with it here and there so a pedal would suffice most of the time. I like more of the hairy bottom drives like a Fuzz Face or BK tube driver.

Those Legacy Series amps have a modded Carvin X-100 B / Soldano SLO 100/ JCM 800 / 900 / Jose Arredondo mod versatile tonal variations to them.
The X-100 B did a great Marshall 800 / Mesa Boogie Mark 2C versatility .

 

[FuzzyAce]

Those Legacy Series amps have a modded Carvin X-100 B / Soldano SLO 100/ JCM 800 / 900 / Jose Arredondo mod versatile tonal variations to them.
The X-100 B did a great Marshall 800 / Mesa Boogie Mark 2C versatility .

I have the first gen version, never tried the later ones. It's a solid amp, and due for some general maintenance. The filter caps are going on 25 yrs old now. Probably ok, but I need to go through it and might even do a few tweaks.