Why I Like Boost More Than Overdrive
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- Overdrive or Boost, whats the difference and when should you use either one?
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+1 on the "less gain is more" approach. Also should noted that if the amp is well behind it's edge of breakup a clean boost can be used as a simplified volume pedal (for solos, etc.)
"Less gain than you think"
Rhett proceeds to play with tons of crunch and calls it "edge of breakup"
yep...
@@andrewbrowning6357 Perfect!
Also the meaning of "really clean" that he often uses is never the same as mine or most of jazz players.
2:15
@@erickpontes2564 yes he is taking us for deaf fools :)
Excellent content man! Great explanation and damn good riffing like always!
It's possible to set the Overdrive to work as a booster as well. I aways thought pedals as tweaks to complement your main sound and the amp as the most important part of your tone.
Try putting gain at zero and volum way up. It’s a truck some of us use to push the amp’s distortion.
Ha! I always felt that I liked the sounds provided directly from the amp much more than anything that I got from any pedal in front. So propably I'm also more the boost-guy than the overdrive-guy... 😊Problem is: when you go for the real sweet tones, it gets loud. Very, very loud. Even if the power amp sports comparably laughable wattage like, let's say 15 - 20W... 😅 cannot use that at home...
When I use TS/sd1 with the drive turned all the way down. Am I essentially doing the same as you are speaking of...love your channel, thx
The major issue with boost is the lack of ability to control volume (defeating the purpose of a boost) at a certain distortion level by the amp that it pushes. You can really only control the volume on the amp (if available) or with an attenuator. You can very much use any overdrive pedal as a boost just by fiddling with the volume a bit more. That said, the overdrive will likely impart its characteristics on the sound as the intended clipping is done at the drive before being limited by the vol on the pedal. It's hilarious when people buy mythical overdrive to get a specific sound, then they tell me "it's so transparent"... Like really? You bought a 5000 Klon so it can sound like a 200 morning Glory that can sound like a 100 dollar boost? The online guitar community is a unique bunch.
I love being a bass player.
EQ pedal is superior. Change my mind
Take a shot every time Rhett says “edge of breakup” in all his vids and you’re hammered
Rhett's basement is a dungeon of guitar pedals, alphabetically sorted and held back by 12 foot lengths of Mogami Overdrive Rugged cables...
Mmmm... Mogami.... *droolz*
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I'm sorry that you are providing an advert for Mason and vertex's goods. He behaved despicably. He had multiple opportunities to behave honourably, but instead doubled down on his fraudulent behaviour. Ask Landau and Bonamassa how they feel about him. Your fans deserve better than for you to be his company spokesman.
This is one reason I love the Wampler Pantheon. It is one of the few OD pedals that lets you switch between soft or hard clipping, as well as basically turning it into a boost pedal when you turn the gain down but the volume up. So versatile.
Sold!
I was at Sweetwater today staring at the Pantheon, wondering if I could do just that. Thanks!
I tend to think of “clipping” as a way to add harmonic content, changing the timbre va a boost which just changes the amplitude.
And through doing so the amp does more of the clipping.
You are making the amp ad harmonics and with a pedal it can add them. If you love your amp’s distortion (hopefully you do) then a straight boost is perfect.
If you don’t like your amp’s distortion, or just want a different type of distortion, then use an OD or distortion pedal. There’s no right or wrong, just tonnes of cool options to play with!
I have amps that I like the distortion of, so I tend to set them at the edge of breakup and just push them to varying degrees for more or less breakup.
I actually use OD pedals for this, sometimes with the gain rolled back and the volume rolled up, so that they act more like a boost. When close to amp breakup, the OD “colors” things less as well.
If I wanted to “emulate” many different guitar tones for an event band type show, I would go with a clean amp as a pedal platform, or better, a digital profiler that can sound like many different amps.
A well done, non-overly technical explanation of two different audio events. And bravo for addressing the "you don't need as much distortion as you think" issue. Some of my favorite "heavy" tones are from the 80's era Judas Priest albums. And of course, Malcom Young used tones just this side of country clean and got a huge tone in the context of AC/DC.
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Great answer Ken. totally agree.
I think a lot of people want that compressed singing tone, but try to get it with loads of distortion or overdrive instead of pushing amp volume. A boost pedal can help, maybe a little compression in front of the amp.
What kind of country do you listen to, AC/DC is definitely crunch not clean
@@AdamManley7 I said "this side of country clean"...which with today's country isn't exactly pristine. I was implying that there was some grit to the tone, in contrast to a raging JCM900. The best example I can give you is Malcom's tone on the "Black Ice" album, especially the track "Rock-N-Roll Train". You can hear the pick attack and each note in the chords. That was what I was trying to get at.
Am I right in thinking Young basically avoided pedals?
Wonderful video Rhett, I love doing stuff like this. By the way, I have a Quad Cortex coming on Friday, thanks to you. I have always been an old school tube amp guy, I dipped my toe into the digital world with the HX Stomp, also thanks to you. Now moving onto the Quad Cortex. I was inspired by the video you made putting your board together for some of your recent gigs with the QC at the core of the board. Looking forward to it and thank you! Your videos are great an inspired me to start a RUclips channel. Just getting into it and learning a ton from you.
I’m preferring boosts over drive I have an EP Boost, been tinkering with a tube screamer as a clean boost but I think it’s gonna get pulled off the board, I also like the pre amp on my tremolo pedal the Fender tre-verb as a boost it adds sparkle to the sound really subtle.
That being said the Origin Effects revival drive compact pedals are really good.
If I could only use one pedal for the rest of my life, it would be the zvex SHO boost. It was one of my first pedals that really made me LOVE pedals. Keep up the great work Rhett! :)
@ John Sawyer - Been eyeing the SHO for years, , , just haven't pulled trigger yet. How is the noise floor?
@@9277707 - I’ve never had an issue with the noise floor, especially in a live context. Run, don’t walk, to get one (it’s also great as half of the zvex Box of Rock, by the way!)! 🤘😊👍
@@johnsawyer6145 Thank you, maybe I've waited long enough -)
SHO is my absolute fav
The fine line is boosting for the desired clipping but staying within a useable volume level for your playing situation.
The Kingsley Page boost is awesome! Boost with some light clipping if desired. There’s new versions with more gain i think which are all pretty cool! Kingsley and Simon Jarrett are great!
200 dollars!! Eff that.
ALL of these Gain "Rules" get thrown out the window the moment you ditch the 12AX7 . . .
My search began with chasing Trey Anastasio's tones . . he runs a massive pedalboard. Then I saw his V1 preamp tube - a NOS 12AU7 by Telefunken. So I rebiased and went 12AU7, even built a 12AU7 preamp just to buffer between pedals and whatever PWR amp I want to use.
12AX7 has 5x the Voltage Gain . . however, 12AU7 has 2x-3x the current gain. Current = that liquid type sound that you hear with say Angus Young or Trey or Billy Gibbons. That liquid type comes mostly from pushing the PWR tubes to their end
HOWEVER!
You can get that same sound by pushing a 12AU7 with an already clipped signal.
In essence, IF you are running a pedalboard, you are using a solidstate preamp > tube preamp. You are running a hybrid preamp. So that - Pedalboard = Modular Preamp
I now think of my pedals + preamp tubes - all together as ONE Preamp. Mix m Match PWR Amps + speaker cabs.
IF you love the sound of ur guitar + preamp . .
I went with a Class D PWR Amp + very flat keyboard speaker for one rig . . and I gotta say - it seems to cover more variety of sonic territory than anything else
How can I push the new Dgt prs 15 watt amp into the Katana territory. How you can strum a power cord and you have sustain for days. I can’t see buying tons of pedals to make a $1800 amp sound better. But I guess that’s what our forefathers did. Why can’t we get a boutique amp with reverb and delay and chorus built in. I’m starting to think solid state might not be so bad!
This is interesting with the tube amp. I'm now wanting a comparison to digital amp.
Less distortion (noise) means more of the note...Jimmy Page / Angus Young.....sound huge cause not so much distortion (noise).....more signal....then of course doubling in studio helps...I like hearing more of the note, less of the fizz. My favorite in your video is the booster and amp alone...plenty enough sustain, and lots of the note preserved...ie the melody. Know what I mean? Hard to put these kind of things in words...nice discussion, thanks
Thanks for the shout out Rhett! Great video!
You can also put an EQ pedal in front of an overdrive to tweak how it reacts to your guitar. If your overdrive sounds a little too muddy, notching out some low mids can make a big difference.
But personally, I just don't care for the "edge of breakup" amp tone. My gain settings tend to be very "all or nothing" because I like having access to that buttery smooth super clean tone you get from amps with very high headroom, maybe with a hint of tremolo or vibrato on top.
Or get an OD pedal with built in EQ like the Marshall Jackhammer or the Guv’nor.
@@myoriginalname I'm certainly not gonna bad mouth either of those pedals, because they are fantastic. (a friend of mine used to Rock a Jackhammer and *chef's kiss*)
But the built in EQ on on the pedals is usually to sculpt the tone after it's been clipped. Whereas cutting some low mids before the OD reduces the amount that those frequencies are clipped in the first place.
That's why so many guitarists use tube screamers as their boost pedal, because the screamer pushes the upper mids, ensuring they clip first and more prominently that the rest of the frequency range. (it's also why tube screamers can sound nasal if your tone doesn't actually have any low end problems)
But hey, tone is a balancing act. There's no wrong options, just undesirable results.
@Pinned Commentyeah that's it, all the jazz, country & rock players that make up the majority of rhetts viewers should just play a 7 seven string & that's your advice for great tone
@@myoriginalnameparametric EQ in a drive circuit is a completely different animal compared with an actual graphic EQ before or after the drive.... 👍
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Awesome tutorial!
I knew the difference between the two going in, but learned a lot about making them work together
Hell, it’s hard for me to hear the difference on most comparisons. I think I’m going to start a new RUclips channel, Tone Deaf!
Bro send me some distortion pedal 😂 you have plenty there. Send it here in the Philippines haha jk
The old Seymour Duncan pickup booster is like my favorite pedal ever…..
Prefer a clean boost. Bought a vertex and it broke down pretty quick ( used it 4 times live )…. Could be a one off problem …and get that…. but found the Twin stomp far better been buying up as many as I can …. TwinStomp have great after service too … in all fairness to vertex they said send a video of how pedal is broken but think I ll return it and buy a spare twin stomp …. Admittedly the buffering is great but I ll get pre and post buffers for my rig ..but you are so right that clean boost is essential to ‘my’ or ‘the’ sound you want
Great vid Rhett! I own all these but the ZIO! Couldn't agree more with the findings!
i agree with rhett in terms of the tone he gets from a boost instead of an overdrive. but for live situations using a boost pedal also adds alot of volume to your amp, which is not desirable if you want a level volume between your clean sound and your overdriven sound. I would take his advice and use a boost instead of an overdrive if I didnt run into this issue but I tend to use my boost ontop of my overdrive for leads only.
Good point. Boost can change the volume drasticly in relation to the clean tone. I’m using a precision drive with a little bit of distortion and volume at unity, into a really moderated distorted amp, just a bit after the breakpoint. Sounds good, and I can get nice clean tones just playing softly.
I was using a Vertex Boost for a few years I liked the fact that I could easily run a volume pedal after my drive but still in the right side of my board but it began to malfunction I don't know if it's the boost or the Dunlop volume pedal I'm using for volume control but im getting extremely loud distortion unpredictably and intermittently I also have a vertex clean drive that is completely non-functional. Plastic pots and Jacks soldered directly to the circuit board with shotty solder joints I'm done with the Vertex brand
Contact Jack Orman. That’s who Mason copied for that circuit.
I’d bet it’s vertex. Bought the dynamic distortion and it literally fell apart sonically. His stuff is garbage and I’m not sure why Rhett trusts a conman. Well 2nd chances? That was my 2nd chance with him. Mike Landau and Robben Ford got fooled by him as well. So Mason as some don’t know took a BBE Wah gooped it and put his name on it. Tripled the price and got caught. Many forgave him and many didn’t forgive him and he continues to lie. He destroyed Joe Bonamassa’s pedalboard it cost $2,0000. Dave Friedman fixed it for I believe $4-500. Hmm. He doesn’t know what he’s doing. Dr Mason. I’ll give him one thing he doesn’t go away. Rhett uses him. Many have questioned him as to why. He said because he understands the situation and I guess he trusts him. Check back on the board’s Mason makes. None work correctly after a short time and are taken to someone with a real EE degree. Mason says he has one but the college he went to doesn’t offer an EE degree. Compulsive lying is hard to stop if that’s your thing. I believe in honesty. He cost me money and it is the last time. Good luck Mason the wah wasn’t copied though. It literally was a BBE Wah.
I play drums but always try to learn about other instruments to meet the best sound a band can get. I really appreciate things you explain for that purpose
Me who use an overdrive as a boost: 👁👄👁
I use the Voodoo Labs Sparkle Drive which is a clean boost that mixes in a TS 808 style overdrive to the signal. Extremely versatile and tremendously underrated pedal. One time after years of heavy use the footswitch broke and I mailed it in to them and they fixed it free. Really a tough pedal not to love.
An excellent pedal.
Those BBE boosts sound fucking hot
The people that don’t know Vertex and Mason’s past won’t get it. I got it. And I also lost money on his garbage pedals that break down. His pedalboards that are put together with band aides and bubble gum. There are so many that don’t know what he’s all about because they’re literally following Rhett’s word.
I always prefer to keep my dynamics as much as possible, without sounding harsh or too up front . The most important factor for whether I like a drive is the compression characteristics
Drybell’s Unit 67 is also a great boost worth checking out! It’s a clean boost, with a 2 band EQ, an optional dedicated range master style boost knob, and a blend knob for a 1176 style compressor. Very versatile!
I've just added one to my board - still working through it and have it currently first in chain. Any advice? Thanks -
@@johnhowlett9829 great! I use it first too as a solo boost mostly! Volume past noon, range at 1 o’clock, lows at 11 o’clock, highs at noon, and the sustain at 9 o’clock just to add subtle compression, High input for single coils, low for humbuckers. But honestly, there is no bad sound in it, in front of a dirty amp, cranking the range master is awesome!
@@pascal006 Pete Thorn sold me on this pedal - he now has one on his board. I'm anywhere from noon - 2 o'clock on the Vboost, range at 12, EQ about the same but Sustain around 1-2 o'clock. I'm using a late 90's 212 Deville, Tele and Strat. Today I'm going to pop it after my OD just to hear the diff. Thanks for the reply too.
AC/DC always got their guitar sounds from "boosts." Whenever I hear someone try to copy them they always use way-too-much distortion. Nope! Boost that amp!!
I wonder how many people are going to run out and buy a boost pedal now. Even though, in many cases, you can just turn the gain down and the volume up on an overdrive pedal you already own and use it as a very good boost.
A boost IS a gain stage.
I can't believe that on this topic it took until 5.45 mins in for Rhett to say "edge of break-up." He's either slacking or this whole video is a coded message that he's being held against his will and we need to send help...
What's this long section of video about stacking the clean boost on top of the distortion pedal ?
Your distortion pedal has a master volume knob you left at 12 o'clock, just turn it up and ditch the clean boost.
I totally agree on the boost pedal - my 'secret weapon' pedal is my Echplex Pre-amp pedal which is what people like Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck used back in the 70's (they used an echoplex delay which had the preamp built in) and my lord, what it did to my tone was amazing its now an 'always on' pedal and i just use my volume/dynamics to control gain - I use a Marshall Silver Jubilee and the combination is amazing! Boost pedals all the way...
the « less drive is more » thing is absolutely true, but sometimes, pushing an amp that is already at full gain and full volume a bit further (a lot) will make you discover territories of tones that you would have never heard before. A boost at full volume in front of a tweed deluxe which is already at full volume will make it sound like it’s falling apart in the best way possible (think « Hey Hey My My (Into the Black) » by Neil Young, absolutely killer tone) :)
Is there a slap back delay on your guitar, or is that a weird recording quirk? Anyway, great video giving insight into your approach!
Cool little known fact.. Rhett was born in the main studio during the making of Steely Dan's album Aja. Some say he is the walking embodiment of the Band and that Album to this day..
Just Kidding Rhett, I love your channel and videos Always!
4:58 So glad you used Ten Years Gone as an example! Use that riff all the time when testing a swap to boost or overdrive.
nice.. that's why I usually use my overdrives more as boost..to shape the eq more towards mids and the "tone" of the "cut through". I love to ad a clean boost to the mix also.. like the mxr micro amp or something like that.
I’m a mainly metal guitarist and I totally agree, I’ll put a boost (or an overdrive with very little gain) in front of my amp and it really tightens up the sound; it’s great.
MicroAmp, Zvex SHO, and 250 derrivitives like the JHS Pre , or the ( more ODish 250 based) EQD White Light are all you need( though I've always also had a Ge Treble Booster)
I want real clipping, I'll take a Fuzz circuit everytime.
I have Mosky deluxe preamp , 2in1 Timmy and Boost. Bought it because of Timmy overdrive, use it as a boost more often ...
I perfer overdrives because it gives you the freedom to have several diferent tones and voices on one board
Me too. Boost imo you can get up and turn up your amp’s volume. Definitely would avoid vertex.
I think one of the reasons people use too much gain is because it makes playing easier. Kind of like the days when I'd turn the delay pedal up to cover my inefficiencies. The tone is very liquid with a high gain setting but I have found the best tones come from backing off the gain and it also forces me to be a better player.
For me it's the opposite: When I'm playing with a "huge" sound with delay and gain the mistakes I make become more noticable too. With a lot of gain everything becomes more amplified and you have to pay more attention to unwanted string noise and muting and the larger amount of sustain can sound odd depending on the song/phrase
@@t.r.backenbaum7325 I agree, more distortion means more problems. I think the fact that mades “play better” is compression, not distortion. Compression helps to make our picking sounds more consistent, so we feel more confidently.
If anyone is interested in trying some boosts and is willing to install the circuit boards (pots included) into an enclosure, I’ve got loads of boost-type circuits stacked up in my ever-growing stock of effects pedal builds. I’ve built all kinds of boosts, from treble to full range, jfet, mosfet, IC and so on, as preamp, straight boost, and all things in between. Most, if not all, get the job more than done and add lots of snap to your signal. If needed I can throw them into an enclosure for you, but I know I’ll be less inclined to open the flood gates if it means I must drill the enclosures to house a million circuits. What Rhett says is true when it comes to boosts, and since I can’t possibly use all the circuits I’ve built, I figured I’d give the generosity route a go. Otherwise, I just have to put them on heavy rotation and/or use them as boosts in multi-effect pedals in the future. Aloha, D 🤙
That is very generous of you. I am interested in building them as well, I just dont have the time, nor do I have a tube amp; I play at church directly into the sound system. What type of amp are you using?
@@danielmiller2886 Aloha, Daniel. I mainly use my Princeton to test my circuits. Sometimes my Champ, or non-tube amps like a Katana, various old Guyatone solid states, etc. But I typically go for the tubes. The good news is that there are a lot of good quality boosts available for relatively cheap. If you are really looking to tinker but lack the time, you might consider using a breadboard to build prototypes directly from schematic. It takes very little time, once you get the hang of it, and parts/components are fairly inexpensive. Hopefully you can get around to it eventually. It is good fun (though not without its frustrations) and opens up a world of new circuits. If you do get into it and want some recommendations, feel free to hit me up. I’ll try to help. ✌️🙏🤙
its hard to tell on the video how your volume is affecting the tone. Can you use the boost to do this even at low volumes or does it need with volume to create the clipping?
I have never had any luck with OD pedals..can never make them sound right for me so I started with a Xotic boost pedal and have a few more 20 db boost pedals and find for me they do everything needed + actually boost the volume..now I do use a Boss Ge-7 7 band eq pedal with my boost pedal(s) and it makes everything sound so much better.
Should folks with solid state amps try boost pedals?
I just started running a Hudson Electronics Broadcast into an old stereo solid state Carvin power amp with a Benson Geranium Boost and Wampler Tumnus Deluxe in front of all that. Using a Gigrig Humdinger to split the signal, the wet effects come after the Broadcast, just going into one side of the power amp and the other side dry. Cab has an Eminence Cannabis Rex and a Vintage 30. It works very well.
I was originally just going to use this rig for practice and writing and save the tubes for recording (as they are a bit difficult to come by right now), but it sounds great and I have been recording with it as it is.
Very cool sound imo
Look at getting my first boost pedal, I can not think what you get. My rig is single coil and humbucker guitars through a peavey 20w classic.
My picks so far
Jhs prestige
Katana min
Vertex effect mk2 boost??????
As shown in this example the boost does sound better than an overdrive. But what's best is relative to what amp, pedals, pickups you have and how much gain you are aiming for.
Some amps really start to get a flubby low end when being pushed at max gain. In this case an overdrive might work to tighten up the low end or a boost with some extra controls.
When going into a really clean amp a boost might just increase the volume without adding much breakup, in this case an od will probably work better.
Your a god! thank you!
He may have smoked quite a bit last night
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Hey Rhett. At the end May I ordered what a believed was a Slide course in the Key of E. You offered it at half price.
On June 1st you charged my credit card $14.50. I have never received anything. You said to go to some cloud based format which I did (I don't cloud) nothing. Seached you, nothing. Hope we can rectify this. I don't use my true name on You tube. Do you have a customer service email address or how can I access what I paid for? Thanks
I achieved the Vox Brit Booster. Waiting It to arrive home and try how It sounds with the Big Muff Pi Deluxe and/or de Metal Muff in a Jet City 333 amp. Felt in love with the Xotic booster anyway 🤤🤤🤤
I’ve fallen in love with treble booster. I’ve build it myself and it adds a ton of noise, but it does sound so good in a slightly overdriven amp.
Nicely done! I like the way you helped us explore ALL the options. Thought-provoking and it always makes me head straight to my rig to try this stuff out. Thanks, Rhett!
This is all good info...IF, you are a strictly rock guitarist. Not enough guitar youtube channels talk about setting up rigs for different genres/ live scenarios.
Great demos! Very interesting stuff. Are all the tone and volume knobs on your guitar at maximium?
Dude, something totally different: i love that shelf in the background with all your amps on it! It looks rather sable compared to stuff that i find on google. Where does that come from? :D
I think this is why there are so many great overdrive and boost combo pedals. Really useful to have both at your feet depending on how you set your amp.
Because you're a hipster. Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.
I've started to do the same, driving the front of my amp with a boost pedal. Sounds so much better in a live mix.
Good info
Killer video. to me the overdrive into boost sounded great. In terms of how it feels I'd like the more openness of it
I recently switched my drive pedal out for a boost pedal. The boost sounds exactly like my amp but more better.
Maybe it’s a dum question but how do you do it to use boost this way and don’t get fired
I mean you get a better and more natural and transparent sound from the amp, but you also increase the volume way above your original clean tone
Cool video, Rhett. Overdrive vs Boost vs Fuzz video next please 👍🏽
Is it better to stack overdrive or boost+ overdrive? Im starting to build a pedalboard and I'm not sure if I should get Klon+tubescreamer or Klon+Spark boost mini
Turn the gain completely off on the BB. You left it on just to prove your point. Turn the gain completely off and its just clean boost.
2 low gain cascaded overdrives... haven't play anything better 'til now.
Same. Boosted break up is so smooth.
i think we're comparing apples to oranges here
booster makes the sound louder and "distorts" in a very different way.
i think the fact the overdrive pedal is more compressed makes the sound more behaved than the loose boost. it's a more defined distortion and that's positive.
someone needs to make a compilation of every time Rhett says "Edge of Breakup"
I don't think Les Pauls and Humbuckers are your thing
Excellent, and super helpful demonstration and EXPLANATION.
Quick and CLEAR and easy to understand.
Very well done.
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Give me a fuzz, a boost, and an EQ pedal into a duel reverb pedal or reverb/delay pedal and I’m set for life
Your using humbuckers cause those RC boosters are noisy with singles...
hey rett, isn't the bb preamp a clean boost pedal actually? like if you put gain at zero it shouldn't really affect the tone of your amp at all.. that's how I use it at least, gain at zero, volume at where I feel it starts to break up the clean channel a little bit, and as far as EQ I try to get it as transparent as possible, maybe with a little bit of treble
If you're using overdrive pedals instead of overdriven tubes to get your distortion it raises the question of why use a tube amp at all instead of a more orthopedically friendly solution. This may be why fuzzy heavy metal bands mostly use amp modelers.
What is the connection he made here, does someone know? He's hearing this great sound in his headphones? It doesn't sound digitalized.
Im using a boost because im running an eq and using amp distortion the level allows me to find the exact signal level i want
I want to use boost and I also want to use overdrive
is this possible
if possible, in which order should I put the boost?
whether before or after overdrive
Great video! But does your preference for boost pedals only depend on how you like to set up your amp or also whether you use a tube amp or a transistor amp?
Is it better to use an external booster to boost the signal at the input of the Helix Line6, or a setting that increases the level in the helix (in the input block or additional block), or is it completely all one thing?
The way he is talking about using a boost doesn't really work with a solid state amp though does it? Only a tube amp
Love this idea of boost vs overdrive vs amp. That Supro sounds soooo good!!
nice Ten Years Gone! Such a perfect way to illustrate the effects
I generally prefer to have an amp that I like the drive of, and then push it to get MORE of that sound.
Of course one needs multiple amps for different situations to do that. I do mostly low volume electric lead for acoustic singer songwriters at coffee house levels. So I use very low wattage amps for that. I often don’t even need a boost.
If I ended up with a higher wattage amp that is too loud to get toob distortion without endangering the front few rows, I will go with an OD.
Understanding gain staging and room acoustics really helps one to deal with most situations. Coffee shop gig with a borrowed TR, pedal into a clean amp. Low wattage amp at a jam with an enthusiastic drummer? Ad a mic, etc..
Watching this as a person who uses fuzz for any tone that isn’t squeaky clean and uses a solid state amp for cleans lol