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Post 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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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.


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[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6rt1XaGmzs[/youtube]

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Post 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.

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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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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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Rob, the Blackstar is an HT5R, the Carvin an X100B, both with JJ valve upgrades.

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Post 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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start at 4:40
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnvQP0bJhqQ[/youtube]

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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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