kpsion Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 Hi all A question i have following my experimentation , how do you set disto or overdrive before amp ? i' ve tend to think and i was wrong ifeel, that you put it at high level to boost amp but in a pod it result in what i call the plastic thing , a grrrrrrr sound in mid , very ugly Trying to optimize my setting i've lowered stomp volume and even set volume so low that it decrease input volume , and pushing drive higher , this seems to give more natural sounding. what's your experience ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramosv Posted December 13, 2016 Share Posted December 13, 2016 Hello. I usually set the drive to 15%-20% and kick the output to 90%-100% The remaining tone adjustments I base on the amp model and the sound I want to produce. :) Hope I was able to help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Palico Posted December 13, 2016 Share Posted December 13, 2016 Hello. I usually set the drive to 15%-20% and kick the output to 90%-100% The remaining tone adjustments I base on the amp model and the sound I want to produce. :) Hope I was able to help. +1. Yep do the same. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillBee Posted December 13, 2016 Share Posted December 13, 2016 For me it depends on the amp I use (and I hope we are talking sims here not the real deal). If I use a clean amp I might want to use the tone characteristics of the pedal. Like a cranked Rat into a Fender sim. But if its an amp that I want to shine with its characteristics I usually go to a Tubescreamer and crank the vol while having the drive at or near 0%. Like Nico pointed out: Try not to get in the habit of cranking everything to 10 as gain/distortion can lead to diminishing returns. What is nice at bedroom volumes will have its EQ skewed by the time your amplification choice has it at gig volume. There are a couple really good threads here which can help take out the excessive lows and highs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spaceatl Posted December 14, 2016 Share Posted December 14, 2016 +1 on the clean boost (tube screamer) approaches... One of my favorite pedals for this is a stock Boss DS-1....clip out two resistors and the distortion potential drops by nearly 10x and the clean level potential jumps about +12db or so....you can also take a cap out and make the tone control less effective turning it into a treble booster... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kpsion Posted December 19, 2016 Author Share Posted December 19, 2016 and for those pushing pod hd disto stomp realy high don't you notice an artificial low mid texture , it hard to explain in phonetic this souns like a nasal grrrrrrrrr plastic sound I had this with Treadplate brit j800 , this disappear when lowering output volume on stomp Nowadays i ends up using classic dist at 40% drive or a bit more and 30% volume, in fact i try to set the volume to a point it doesn't change volume level when on offed and add some dirt with drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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