JAP09
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So I've spent the last year or so buying, selling, and trading overdrive pedals like crazy. I've played through drive pedals like a Timmy, bjfe honey bee, original nobels odr-1, jhv3 ghost drive, swell g-tod, fulltone OCD, gas pedals dumbbell, jetter re-shift, keeley ts-9, keeley sparkle drive, etc... I'm sure I'm leaving some out. After a year of my search for a worship music style low gain sound, and what my girlfriend has deemed an addiction in need of treatment (she could be right lol), I still thought my tone was no better than it was at the beginning.
I have been in search of a solution to my dilemma and this is my conclusion. A good class A tube amp is designed to do one type of sound well (maybe two two if there are two channels). In my case I'm playing through a princeton reverb with a tele and have realized it is pointless to try to achieve a sound that your amp is not designed for (i.e. a blackface fender circuit has the mids scooped out so it has occurred to me that using a tubescreamer with a mid-hump is really counter intuitive). Because of this revelation, I'm am now running only clean boosts in front of my amp to get different gain levels/stages of the same basic sound and I'm loving my tone. Obviously this won't work for everyone, but at this point I tend to think if you don't like your sound don't go buy a new drive pedal, go buy a differently voiced amp.
Do you guys think I'm on track with this new found logic or will this be another futile attempt to discover the perfect sound? (please don't say I need a klon lol)
I have been in search of a solution to my dilemma and this is my conclusion. A good class A tube amp is designed to do one type of sound well (maybe two two if there are two channels). In my case I'm playing through a princeton reverb with a tele and have realized it is pointless to try to achieve a sound that your amp is not designed for (i.e. a blackface fender circuit has the mids scooped out so it has occurred to me that using a tubescreamer with a mid-hump is really counter intuitive). Because of this revelation, I'm am now running only clean boosts in front of my amp to get different gain levels/stages of the same basic sound and I'm loving my tone. Obviously this won't work for everyone, but at this point I tend to think if you don't like your sound don't go buy a new drive pedal, go buy a differently voiced amp.
Do you guys think I'm on track with this new found logic or will this be another futile attempt to discover the perfect sound? (please don't say I need a klon lol)