jgalvan8804 wrote:Maybe I am getting old... I am 27 the last time I checked. In response to Ruger9....
I dont turn my amps up to the point that they overdrive because that is mindboggingly loud. I have never needed that kind of volume and thus never turned them up that loud.
The Fulltone fulldrive starts getting really muddy with a les paul if you play it into a Vox cranked amp, or a fender for that matter. However when you keep it clean it sound nice and crisp.
Again this is completely a to each his own conversation so we are both right, its a matter of taste and opinion and what kind of music you are playing.
I've always run my delays in front of the amps and it has worked great. If possible I like Joes idea of having a wet amp and a dry amp. I've done that with my Twin and Vox and it works great.
LOL!
You're not getting old man, you just come from one side of the 'amp set-up fence.' You are in the corner with John Mayer and would you believe Joe Satriani in that both those (awesome players) get the basics of their tone from the clean setting on their amps, (Peavey and Two Rock). This then gives them the platform of picking their overdrive tone from pedals. In a way this is a good idea as it gives choices and, as you say gets you good tone at a lower 'house' volume.
Then in the other corner are guys like JB, Warren Haynes, Eddie Van Halen etc, who's overdrive is mostly from the amp and more importantly the Power Amp section of the amp. This is such a different type of overdrive to pre amp distortion and can only be gotten from pushing the vol on the amp to natural breakup, where the tubes run hot and the speakers are pushing real hard. An attenuator is a good idea here!
If you set up your AC30 in this way you would experience the same problems as we are talking about here because the Power amp would be making most of the overdrive and that is AFTER the delay pedal, so the delay repeats are distorted.
I had an AC30 once and was playing in a ZZ Top cover band and went a half hour early to practice one day just to crank my amp when no one was there. Les Paul, straight in to a CC2X.... I wept. The tone was one of the best I'd ever experienced. Mad the musical feedback was to die for. You should try it man, ditch the OD pedal, if only for a day and grab your ear plugs!!!
Guitars: 95 Les Paul Standard, Relic Strat,
Amps: 1973 Marshall JMP 50 head and Vintage Modern Cab. I use no effects other than a Cry Baby on occasions.
