Have you ever used a preamp pedal this way?
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2012 2:07 am
I have recently been loving the way I use my Tech 21 Blonde pedal with my OR15.
Since the OR15 is a single channel amp I was always trying to boost the amp into distortion with my other pedals. But what I really wanted was the pure tone from the amp without much coloration. I was able to do that by going from clean to mild crunch and from light overdrive to distortion by using conservative settings on my pedals, but I really wanted to go from clean to all out distortion. So I had a brain storm. I set my amp to the distortion level that I wanted and set the Tech 21 Blonde clean with the volume low (but close to unity), gain around 9 o'clock and the character just before noon. It is a fender simulator so it does cut some of the mid range (which can be compensated a little with its mid control) and makes it sparkle a little more than the normal amp clean. But then when I kick it off I get the screaming distortion I wanted. I really like the clean sound of the amp by it self but this is a compromise for now. Its using the pedal the reverse of how most people use them but it seems to work just as well.
I was just curious as to how many other people have used their preamp pedals in this way for a single channel amp and if you liked it? (sometimes mid strum I'm looking to kick it over so using the volume knob is very hard to do)?
Since the OR15 is a single channel amp I was always trying to boost the amp into distortion with my other pedals. But what I really wanted was the pure tone from the amp without much coloration. I was able to do that by going from clean to mild crunch and from light overdrive to distortion by using conservative settings on my pedals, but I really wanted to go from clean to all out distortion. So I had a brain storm. I set my amp to the distortion level that I wanted and set the Tech 21 Blonde clean with the volume low (but close to unity), gain around 9 o'clock and the character just before noon. It is a fender simulator so it does cut some of the mid range (which can be compensated a little with its mid control) and makes it sparkle a little more than the normal amp clean. But then when I kick it off I get the screaming distortion I wanted. I really like the clean sound of the amp by it self but this is a compromise for now. Its using the pedal the reverse of how most people use them but it seems to work just as well.
I was just curious as to how many other people have used their preamp pedals in this way for a single channel amp and if you liked it? (sometimes mid strum I'm looking to kick it over so using the volume knob is very hard to do)?
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