i'm playing on an epiphone dot(naturally dark, warm sounding pickups) and just started getting some pedals. I currently am just running Dot>Sparkle Drive>Bad Monkey>DD-20>Marshall Valvestate. i feel like sometimes the darkness of the Dot's pickups(while I love that tone on certain occasions), when mixed with ODs it makes it sound muddy and i lose some highs. theres times when i stack the two(treat the sparkle drive as a boost) and it makes a thick sound which i kinda like, but i think it may be an ugly tone(probably the amp as well). My plan was to get a low, mid, and high gain OD(or maybe a distortion if the thickness isn't there). i got the sparkle drive as a low gain so i can sorta leave it on all the time to get some mids and highs back, the bad monkey as a medium level(?????) and am looking for something high gain(you would think things that have "-screamer" would be high gain...). bad monkey to add some grit and thickness. maybe this is all solvable if i get a brighter pickup? i'm looking into a GFS mean 90 for the neck and leave the humbucker stock in the bridge.
btw, an acoustic into a 30 watt(?) fender acoustasonic is blowing the pants off of me if i have to drives on, if i try to crank i'm told i'm too loud)
to summarize(for those that didn't wanna read):
-do i have the gain levels correct(sparkle drive=low gain, bad monkey=medium gain)?
-stack the pedals for additional gain or get a higher gain pedal?
-get a new pickup and it'll all work itself out?
-suggestion for a good higher gain OD that won't break my bank?
-by the way, church musician, hillsong stuff.
probably left a lot of holes, please feel free to ask questions. thanks in advance.
btw, an acoustic into a 30 watt(?) fender acoustasonic is blowing the pants off of me if i have to drives on, if i try to crank i'm told i'm too loud)
to summarize(for those that didn't wanna read):
-do i have the gain levels correct(sparkle drive=low gain, bad monkey=medium gain)?
-stack the pedals for additional gain or get a higher gain pedal?
-get a new pickup and it'll all work itself out?
-suggestion for a good higher gain OD that won't break my bank?
-by the way, church musician, hillsong stuff.
probably left a lot of holes, please feel free to ask questions. thanks in advance.