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Post subject: blues deluxe reissue distortin effect into clean channel?
Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 11:03 am
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Hi all,

First let me say i love my blues deluxe reissue. It's the first tube amp I've had in a long time. I've been gigging with it for over a year now and so far it's flawless. I was wondering if someone could tell me if you are supposed to use the clean channel on a tube amp and get your overdrive from a pedal through the clean channel. Will this still drive the tubes? I always wonder if this cancels out the reason for having a tube amp in the first place. Should you maybe use drive channel on low drive and use pedal? I guess in short I'm asking if a pedal drives the tubes even if it's on the clean channel. Please straighten me out on this. Thanks.


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Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 12:33 pm
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I would use pedals on the clean channel. The drive control is not in the clean circuit. You will not drive the preamp into distortion from the clean side. You might overdrive the output tubes into slight distortion but only at high volumes.

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Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2008 4:29 pm
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I currently use my clean channel with my overdrive pedal. I am just wondering if this drives the tube amp or if it is the same as basically going through a solid state amp clean channel and using the pedal distortion. It currently sounds good through the clean channel on my amp but I was curios if this is the way to go.


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Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2008 9:34 am
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actually yes.. it does continue to drive the tubes. i do the same. I play on the clean channel alone to overdrive the tubes but i also use a overdrive pedal that I've had for awhile to slightly drive it more. its like addition. Amp overdriving + pedal overdrive = more distortion. you may get a hum but not its not bad for the tubes. The tubes, i promise you, are made to be worked pretty hard. and any or almost all of your natural distortion will come from the preamp tubes. very little distortion will actually come from your bigger power amp tubes.
Another good way to really drive the tubes for a cool sound is to set everything up like normal but put a volume pedal alone in the effects loop. this way, you can set you amp to the highest volume you want and get what ever sound that is but at what ever volume your pedal is set at. It is completely safe for your amp. I wouldn't however do this for hours at a time.

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Thank you, my man.


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