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| Author: | greg [ Thu Sep 15, 2016 8:23 am ] |
| Post subject: | Best distortion sounds on The Stick |
Hi all, I'm curious what you find to be the best examples of distortion on The Stick. I tend to go from super nasty to only somewhat nasty. And I really like Giancarlo's sound on this video: Also really like Alex Nahas's sounds... |
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| Author: | Scronk [ Thu Sep 15, 2016 8:27 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Best distortion sounds on The Stick |
What a great subject. I'd like to hear opinions of the Moog MF Drive! To my ears, many Stick tracks with distortion don't sound nearly subtle enough. I want a nice smooth blues crunch but that seems to evade the Stick? Would love to hear opinions and advice on this. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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| Author: | WerkSpace [ Thu Sep 15, 2016 10:15 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Best distortion sounds on The Stick |
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6rt1XaGmzs[/youtube] |
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| Author: | Kris [ Thu Sep 15, 2016 11:33 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Best distortion sounds on The Stick |
From personal experience, I went through a lot of amps and pedals trying to find "that tone" when I had my ACTV2 Stick. In my case, and I tend to like a smooth overdrive a la Bonamassa, I really liked the Fulltone Plimsoul pedal. It has two stages, sort of simulating a preamp tube OD on one stage and a power valve distortion on the other, and you can blend them to taste. Still nothing sounded quite as good as the real valves on my Backstair and Carvin combos. Kris |
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| Author: | Robstafarian [ Thu Sep 15, 2016 12:35 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Best distortion sounds on The Stick |
Kris wrote: Still nothing sounded quite as good as the real valves on my Backstair and Carvin combos. If that was a Blackstar HT series combo, then the preamp distortion came from a built-in distortion pedal—not a valve. If your Carvin was one of their Vintage combos, then its preamp distortion was created via diode clipping—not a valve. |
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| Author: | Jayesskerr [ Thu Sep 15, 2016 2:57 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Best distortion sounds on The Stick |
Greg is literally the only guy I know who can make Metalzone sound good; Stick or otherwise. I like Steve's (Adelson) distorted tone quite a bit, but I think that in both his and Greg's articulate playing is what makes it sound awesome... |
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| Author: | Kris [ Thu Sep 15, 2016 3:55 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Best distortion sounds on The Stick |
Rob, the Blackstar is an HT5R, the Carvin an X100B, both with JJ valve upgrades. Kris |
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| Author: | earthgene [ Thu Sep 15, 2016 4:29 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Best distortion sounds on The Stick |
Josh has tried out a bunch of crunch pedals with the Stick, he might have some good insight. |
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| Author: | WerkSpace [ Thu Sep 15, 2016 5:21 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Best distortion sounds on The Stick |
start at 4:40 [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnvQP0bJhqQ[/youtube] |
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| Author: | Robstafarian [ Thu Sep 15, 2016 7:13 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Best distortion sounds on The Stick |
Kris wrote: Rob, the Blackstar is an HT5R, the Carvin an X100B, both with JJ valve upgrades. The Carvin was proper valve distortion, then. |
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