September 8th, 2010 | 
Author: I have a vox amp a VERY clean sounded amp. Its the Vox AC (something) lol. I know the cleaner the amp the BETTER it is for a high gained distortion pedal
(Because the amp doesn’t have that much gain to begin with obviously)
So i was wondering what is the BEST distortion (or high gained) pedal for a tube amp.
For tube amps only (No solid state digital stuff)
Thank you =]
Okay, you obviously don’t know much.
The reason your amp sounds so clean is because it’s so high power (wattage), you’d have to crank it up to ear-bleed levels to get some half-decent overdrive from it.
Secondly: all pedals work on all amps. There’s no such thing as a pedal for solid-state amps etc.
Third: ‘gain’ just means ‘amplification’ or ‘volume’. Just because your amp doesn’t break up by itself does not mean you need a Boss Metalzone.
Now: I would recommend a Tubescreamer if you could get any natural overdrive from your amp, but since you can’t, you might want to look at something like a Boss DS-1 or a ProCo Rat, depending on what tone you’re after. Also seriously consider getting some sort of boost or compressor pedal.
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Okay, you obviously don’t know much.
The reason your amp sounds so clean is because it’s so high power (wattage), you’d have to crank it up to ear-bleed levels to get some half-decent overdrive from it.
Secondly: all pedals work on all amps. There’s no such thing as a pedal for solid-state amps etc.
Third: ‘gain’ just means ‘amplification’ or ‘volume’. Just because your amp doesn’t break up by itself does not mean you need a Boss Metalzone.
Now: I would recommend a Tubescreamer if you could get any natural overdrive from your amp, but since you can’t, you might want to look at something like a Boss DS-1 or a ProCo Rat, depending on what tone you’re after. Also seriously consider getting some sort of boost or compressor pedal.
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