hmm after some tinkering outside my usual tone, I found that the Boutique OD has a pretty kickass metal tone, except that it's lacking gain.

tempted to buy a cheap behringer OD pedal to boost the gain to turn it into uber goodness.

I thought the Dumble amp has a great blues rock tone.

Yeah, the Behringer Blues OD is a good pedal for boosting.

in reviews, they said the behringer blues OD performed just as good as its boss counterpart if not slightly better

however, the others didnt really manage to perform as well.... =/

a bluesey OD was not what I had in mind I was thinking a gain booster like an SD-1

I did an A/B with the SD-1 and Blues Driver and I much prefer the Blues Drive... not sure how it fares as a booster lar, but the sound's definitely warmer and packs more gain (To my ears).

hmm. maybe I should try a SD-1 and then try and find a blues driver and compare the tone.. who knows I could force a metal tone out of the blues driver.

Haha... anyway since you have started listening to stuff like Floyd and Straits... you know damned well you're about to leave the metalhead group...

Anyway I think I have a clip of somebody boosting his amp with a Behringer pedal... and it sounded pretty good. Have to dig that clip first tho.

EDIT : Found... UGPM nerd.

This post has been edited by led_zep_freak: Jun 9 2006, 05:55 PM

narh.. not leaving metalheads anytime soon. i've been listening to 'em for quite some time already, just that not so often.

yeah thanks for the clip. but that's not the behringer blues driver copy right? and he's using BKPs..

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SD-1 has a pre-eq'd sound
made to be more trebly

=/

so it could cut through in a mix...
at least thats what i read

That's the OD/DS clip heh... quite impressive for the bloody cheapo pedal, not sure if it has anything to do with the pups, but your SDs are pretty good too.

no one cares bout this thread anymore ??

btw we;ve been always talking bout the amp models, the effects are not that shabby as well....
or may i just havent heard good effects yet.

The effects are far cry from sounding decent... though I kinda like the reverb and delay, both are pretty usable effects imo. Chorus, tremolo and rotary are alright I guess, but I still prefer to use the ones on Magicstomp... overall they're just the icing on the cake imo, the main attraction of the AD is the tube-like tone it could produce heh.

One thing tho, the amp would sound pretty muddy when the strings go black. And I sweat a lot, so much that I doubt anything can prevent that...
I'm not sure if the same could be said with other modeller amps.

really? i dont think its only subject to this amp, cause when strings go black, generally our tone will lose abit of brightness and clarity. but if u play a tele, i'm getting bright sharp stuff all the way.

yeah..change strings la... expensive..i know...

I don't know... I just don't notice the effect on my old SS amp lol... Then again, it shows that the Vox is transparent... maybe...

Change strings? I just changed mine! And just after few hours of playing it turned black!!! Anyway, I notice that the Ernie Ball strings turn black faster than D'Addario, so I think I'm gonna stick to that... it's so hard to get gauge 11 strings.

This post has been edited by led_zep_freak: Jun 18 2006, 11:01 AM

d'addario lasts longer. i even spent abit more money to try out DR strings who claims to last longer and is 'specialy handmade' from the US. going bck to d'addarios but cant find those super heavy gauge ones

my ernie ball lasted nearly 7 months [6+]
just changed bout 2 weeks ago.... i fingers sweat alot too
but i really took care of it this time
wiping it dry and scrubbing grime off it

and yes, i immedietely heard the extra brightness of the new strings thru the amp
especially the clean!
haha

call me dr scrooge or what, but i use olympia strings. the 10 bucks per pack at guitar collection. and they come with extra 1st and 2nd strings. how nice.

Yeah... but I have an impression that Ernie Ball sounds brighter and clearer... could be my mind doing the trick.

Yeah... it's pretty uncommon to get gauge 11 onwards strings over here.

my strings are already as black as the night sky. using d'addarios.