I suppose I would be mostly "medium gain". I like good amount of dirt in the signal most of the time, but I really want to hear my original tone and dynamics coming through. I will go all over the map though. I love having a tiny bit of dirt and really hitting my reverb pedal hard. I also love a good high gain fuzz, usually my Great Wall, for contrast and big thick sustaining fuzz.
sonidero wrote:What are some favorite High or Low Gain 2 Pedal Combos???
Algal Bloom and Arc Flash, whichever order you like, set either or both of them low or high as you please and stack away.
I run my amp just a tiny bit dirty but clean enough to keep my delay/verb clear. I keep the second channel around a hard od/lower distortion. Then I have a light overdrive and a nasty awful fuzz that I'll hopefully replace with a fuck soon ! But I usually run kind of clean and as things build, I add more gain. All the way up to comp>fuzz>verb>amp od which equals exploding fuzzy awesomeness. So I'm kinda from some clean John Frusciante tones to some fuzzed out In Utero SWAG
i think you also have to add into the equation how dirty it is, as well as the gain level
if i had to settle on one sound it would be a medium gain sound that plays cleanish with a light touch but grungy break up with hitting harder and bigger/richer chords
but keeping definition
at the moment the mini is pretty great at this
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it really depends on what music and instrument i'm playing... with my band i typically have my sparkle motion on the whole time which is acting like a slightly dirty boost with some tone shaping so that's the low gain part - then i typically use a fuck set to med gain-ish for some of the heavier parts - then i use a TAFM set to stun for big fuzzy parts and weird seagull washes.
I actually like a combination of a few of these. I have my B7K generally set on lower gain settings, my Dual Elements will be on high gain for one, low for the other side. So I don't know what would be considered medium gain? I don't think I own a pedal that I use like that. It's either high or low or combined for ultra high!
It does depend though. Sometimes I'm just digging the clean, slightly overdrive sound. Other times I want balls to the wall. Fuck straight clean though.
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i never play straight clean unless i'm too lazy to set up the board. i LIVE on reverb.
Doctor X wrote:if i had to settle on one sound it would be a medium gain sound that plays cleanish with a light touch but grungy break up with hitting harder and bigger/richer chords
not being a smartass, but that's what i like from my amp. my favorite amp i ever used regularly was an over-biased Princeton Reverb which teetered on the edge of Neil Young breakup depending on how hard i hit the guitar, and my favorite amp i ever played through was a tweed Gibson that was instant Disraeli Gears.
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who needs dynamics when you have a walllllllll of FUZZZZZZ?!! That is how I thought for a long while but I started backing off the gain and stacking low-gain fuzzes when I really want my notes to shine through if I am playing some dissonant crooked sparkling melody - never clean though, yuck. A minimum requirement is a more than light od. To be real, I am not really that confident in my skills to play so naked. I feel like adding some dirt blurs the line between notes and the noisy chords I play. a nice haze. For most of my playing and musical projects though a thick layer of foggy fuzz is required to add to the underlining sense of dread.
I like amp OD the most. It always just sounds bigger to me. Right now I have a Rockerverb, Mesa Markk III(Black dot) and Mesa Lonestar Classic. All have their own character that I like.
Ideally I like a 2 channel amp with a cleanish channel and medium/highish gain channel. Then an OD or Fuzz or something with the gain set real low to stack in mostly to change the voicing of either channel but not choke up the sound like I feel pedals tend to do a lot when relied on purely for gain. Playing dynamics, volume knob/pedal, pickup switching/coil tapping, etc. are all heavily relied on too.
I use clean, medium gain, and high gain fairly evenly. I like my cleans squeeky clean so i can use pedals to colour it as I see fit, and I use an OCD for my medium grit tones, and an elements set balls the walls all out for my high gain tones. Sometimes I even stack the OCD into the Elements for uber gain infinite sustain tones, works nicely with massively drop tuned guitars.
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! But I usually run kind of clean and as things build, I add more gain. All the way up to comp>fuzz>verb>amp od which equals exploding fuzzy awesomeness. So I'm kinda from some clean John Frusciante tones to some fuzzed out In Utero SWAG
