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It's just that pedals that are coloured orange normally sound more juicy :P

BYOC Shredder.... build it....BUILD IT!!!!

For real, though. The Shredder has a great marshally type of thing going on. It excels at both lead and heavy rhytm sounds, and when you back off on the guitar volume knob, it takes on a gritty OD kind of sound. It's a really cool feeling to go from playing light, mildly distorted arpeggiated chords (or even hybrid picked fingerstyle kinds of parts) to balls to the wall metal in the swipe of a volume knob.

I run an EHX LPB-1 (also REALLY cheap) after it for an extra kick in the pants.

As far as amps go, I like simple tube amps with bitchin clean sounds. I agree with Mr. Mariachi; if your clean sound kicks ass, the rest is easy. There are more than enough high gain pedals to give you the sound you're looking for. I've heard a lot of great tones coming from Peavey Classic 30's. The prices on those aren't bad.

I get decent cleans already. I guess I just need a decent high gain pedal. None have grabbed me all that much yet. I wish there were decent quality demos of the Solo

Roseweave wrote:I get decent cleans already. I guess I just need a decent high gain pedal.

if you just add decent to decent, i'm not sure you're going to have something worth getting excited about. i love the clean sounds on my ac15... i could play for hours just on that amp with no pedals at all. i love it that much. adding pedals is a joy because of that.

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you should really, if you haven't already, get into DIY. my favorite hi gain overdrive tone is the runoffgroove mayqueen. not only is it super saturated (and i mean super) it really focuses your guitar into only guitar frequencies. no excess low end or ice pick highs - just mids mids mids mids mids. really makes you stand out in a band. and HIGH gain, too. sustain for weeks and harmonics just fly off the fretboard.

I can't solder and my hand is pretty unsteady really.

Guys, I actually heard the sound I wanted today in a guitar shop. A guy was demoing a Peavy Vyper and it had this fantastic sound to it. It as most likely a Peavy model it had on it from the Van Halen-ish sound, it was very thick and "juicy". I'm not much of a VH head but I do like that kind of tone and what I can do it to it shoving in some effects.

I might sell my AD30VT and get a Vypyr but I'm not sure. I'd prefer to get that sound in pedal format but I don't see it happening. I want to get a Lunchbox for gigging/practice so it would be good to have that sound in a box.


I'm wondering if that kind of sound is normally just gotten cranking a Tubescreamer though? Maybe I just need something like a Boss SD-1. Josh Homme's tone sounds pretty "saturated" on the more mid heavy tracks, and he uses one into a bass amp.

I guess I'm after a Peavy-ish sound more than an Orange one.