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Posted 3 Years ago #1
Hi…I am looking for recommendations on a quality hi-gain distortion pedal to give me that modern type distortion. I read alot of threads am am still not sure whats what. I am currently playing in a cover band and need a distortion that will give me that modern fat chunky palm muted sound , hi gain but not thin sounding. I guess kinda like the Mesa dual rect sound. I have tried pedals over the years and always worked my way back to my Marshall or Boogie's amp gain.
Lately I have been using my Marshall a lot and want something to tilt it over the edge. The amps sound great doing Zeppelin, Cream and ZZ
Top, but doing the newer stuff I am covering now (Blink 182, SR71,
Avril Lavigne …well..you get the picture.. I know its pop crap, well most of it is, but its whats played out a lot down the shore here in
Jersey. SO..if anyone can recommend a distortion that may work for me, that has an eq to tone shape and doesn't sound like a tin can,
I'd appreciate it. There are a crap load of boutique pedals out there and I tried just one, the Fulltone Distortion pro…and it wasn't what I was looking for. I have a modded Keeley ts9 which is a great overdrive, but I think a distortion is more of what I should be looking for. I play thru a Marshall 800 2204 half stack, Mesa Boogie
DC 5 combo or a Marshall JCM 900 hi gain dual reverb combo. I lean towards the 900 cause its lighter than the others and I know it sounds thin compared to the 800 but its doing the job for the most part and its easier to gig with.
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Posted 3 Years ago #2
Yeah I tried the boogie thru my 4x12 cab and it sounds real good. I have a Boogie dc5 head too that I use with the cab. I ordered a 2x12
1936 Marhall cab but its taking forever to come in. I didnt care for the 6550's in my amp. Damn thing was way to loud. The headroom was to high for me, so I biased a set of Svetlanas el34s and never looked back. I have swapped out the g12t75's for g12h 30's and the bottom s tighter and the drive is a bit more cause of the less wattage speakers. My amps give me that great vintage R&R tone when I play them hard enough to really drive the tubes or with my ts9 in front but I feel they are still shy of that saturated gain sound of the stuff I need to now cover. Some of the new stuff on the radio sounds so mushy and undefinable its almost like they want it to sound bad. Thats not what I'm looking for, I am looking for that tight bottom thump and lots of gain, I guess its more of a pre amp kinda tone without getting fuzzy or sounding like a shaken can of razor blades. I guess I'm gonna try a Boogie V-Twin pedal next and see if I can get that dual rectifier sound from my Marshalls clean channel. Damn expensive though.
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