Some excellent sounds can be created by pushing one drive pedal with another. I was just wondering if any of you do this and what combination of pedals have you used to good effect.
I think that's the path to the "Howie" Sound (as unrecordable that it may be ;D ).
Guitar > Metal Zone > Metal Zone > Metal Zone > Amp. ;) :D
Yep, been trying a little of this lately myself, and that's a first, never experimented with multiple drive pedals chained together before. Kinda surprised, sounds better than I was expecting. I was trying to keep a very specific tone/setting on the new Jetter pedal while also hitting the amp with more juice. Enter the BB Preamp. Works great for retaining the the voicing of the Jetter but also giving me more saturation/playability. Can't say I'd always use them this way, both pedals do their specific duties better alone, but yeah, it's nice to know now that the guitar > BB Preamp > Jetter Red Shift > Dr Z setup also sounds great.
I don't mean just adding lots of gain, but you can coax some great sounds by have a slightly driven pedal going into another slightly driven pedal...give nice textures.
Oh I understand, exactly my point above - the Jetter pedal is set for a very light overdrive, just a dash of breakup. When set there, it has this warm, woody thing going on. Very touch sensitive. Luv it. But that exact voicing starts slipping away some when anything on it gets cranked up beyond a point. However, with the bb pedal in front of it (set for a clean boost), that voicing I'm liking stays put, but now there is more overall balls. Basically it's like clean boosting a pedal rather than an amp. The Red Shift pedal is really amp-like. It's not a good clean boosting type pedal, the BB is superior in that regard, but for overdrive, the Jetter slays the BB. Used together lightly, they're pretty killer. I can see why stacking pedals is popular. I wish I woulda kept my old OD808, woulda been fun to slip in there with either of the two I have now.
I like doing that with fuzz pedals. Tube Screamer with gain off (but volume up) into a Big Muff Pi=awesome!
Kabala — Mar 06, 2012
Oh I understand, exactly my point above - the Jetter pedal is set for a very light overdrive, just a dash of breakup. When set there, it has this warm, woody thing going on. Very touch sensitive. Luv it. But that exact voicing starts slipping away some when anything on it gets cranked up beyond a point. However, with the bb pedal in front of it (set for a clean boost), that voicing I'm liking stays put, but now there is more overall balls. Basically it's like clean boosting a pedal rather than an amp. The Red Shift pedal is really amp-like. It's not a good clean boosting type pedal, the BB is superior in that regard, but for overdrive, the Jetter slays the BB. Used together lightly, they're pretty killer. I can see why stacking pedals is popular. I wish I woulda kept my old OD808, woulda been fun to slip in there with either of the two I have now.
It's almost like pushing a power amp with a preamp really only at much lower volumes. When you get the combination right you can get some really nice juicy sounds going on.
Back in the days when I was using real amps, I liked to stack the Fulldrive and the BB preamp. Not too much OD/distortion, only that fat sound that I like ! ;)
On vacation (Gatlinburg) but yeah, I do this. A find a great solo style pedal (TS style, zfuzz or other) and put it in front of a great rhythm sound pedal (OCD is mt standard, many others work) and you can get great tones, on top of which you can have a clean-plus-solo, and a dirty-plus-solo setup with a single channel amp.
Stacking a boost or do with an OD or distortion pedal, can work very well.
yeah I do this a lot, when I use pedals. really fills out the sound. usually, one pedal sounds too much like that pedal (surprise!) - adding something else makes it sound a bit more unique. anything -> RC booster works great for me but fuzz feeding into a fulldrive is cool too.
I've got to snag an RC Booster one of these days, always hear great things about them and they actually show up at the local GC used now and then.
I use a COMPRESSOR in front of a Big Muff. Sounds crazy but it helps to boost the RIGHT things and cut the shit I don't want.
I run a fulldrive II infront of the OCD. Both things are subtle but do great things to sound.