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Post subject: Best stomp boxes with a Fender Blues Deville 4x10
Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 6:49 am
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Hi, I have searched and did not find a similar topic.

My question is are there any grit stomp boxes well known to work particularly well with a Fender Blues Deville (Mexican - all stock) and single coils (Fender US Deluxe Strat and A Fender Tele US Standard)?

I am using an OKKO Diablo + as a very light and light O/d which I love. I also have an OCD for standard o/d levels and a RAT for distortion. My problem is that I can only get a decent sound off the RAT and OCD when using input 2 (the -6db input). However I love the OKKO on the main input 1.

What are other Blues Deville owners using for O/D and Distortion?


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Post subject: Re: Best stomp boxes with a Fender Blues Deville 4x10
Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 7:16 am
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I own a naturally stale amp, an Epiphone Valve Junior. Pretty tame and jazz-ish at lower volumes, standard tight, clean tone.

I use an MXR Custom Badass '78 distortion, and it's crazy colorful and diverse. I highly recommend it for anyone who wants everything from overdrive to ultra high gain stuff.

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Post subject: Re: Best stomp boxes with a Fender Blues Deville 4x10
Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 7:53 am
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As far as I know (although I must confess I never really did any serious research on this), he lower gain inputs (so #2) are preferable if your guitar has hot pickups or if you run any gain pedals in front of the amp. So you shouldn't take it as a con that some of your pedals sound better at low-gain input.
Now you could also get the high-gain input to operate the same as low-gain, theoretically. To do it, you'd need to roll off your volume pot on the guitar a bit (that way, the signal gain is lower, thus simulating the 6 dB drop of the 2nd input, and you lose some of the high frequencies which otherwise get partially grounded while using input #2). If your guitar has a circuit in which the volume knob does not affect the tone (achieved by having a high-pass frequency filter), you'll have to roll off the tone knob a bit as well.

As far as the pedals themselves go.. With the amount of guitar and amp combinations (not to mention the fact people mod them often) and other stuff that influences the sound (other pedals, cables, etc.) and mostly the vast range of sound preferences different people have, it is almost unlikely someone can tell you the absolute best pedal for you and your gear.

Go to a shop and try as many pedals as you can, see which pedal you like and then do some research on how reliable it is, etc.

I personally like the T-Rex Alberta II, you can get tube-screamer-ish sound or a nice, warm overdrive. Actually, you can get both at the same time as it has 2 overdrives (supposedly identical, but there are some minor differences which are just the result of the pedal's circuit layout and can't be avoided, but they try to sell them as features), so you can set overdrive #1 as an overdrive on the range of a distortion already and then the overdrive #2 as a tube-screamer-ish sound or something like that. It's got 2 stomp switches, to either engage, switch between or disengage the effect (you have to press the switch of the effect that is engaged to disengage it, if you press the other switch it switches it to the other effect).

I also love the EHX Deluxe Big Muff Pi, my most recent purchase. Great singing tone, easily cuts through the mix with the middle boost engaged, etc. Well, you probably know the sound of the Muff so no need to go in details :)

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Post subject: Re: Best stomp boxes with a Fender Blues Deville 4x10
Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2014 8:17 am
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I should be able to try those two locally. Thanks for the replies guys!


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Post subject: Re: Best stomp boxes with a Fender Blues Deville 4x10
Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2014 5:29 am
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A simple, basic, plain ol' TS9 Tube Screamer is excellent.

I also looooove the old Danelectro Daddy-O overdrive (the large cream/yellow one). Really great sounding pedal.

If you're looking more for distortion (rather than overdrive), the MXR Prime Distortion is really rich and beefy-sounding, and at a good price, too.

As you can tell, I'm not really into boutique pedals, lol.

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Post subject: Re: Best stomp boxes with a Fender Blues Deville 4x10
Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2014 6:30 am
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I agree with the Armadillo on this one. The MXR Prime Distortion is the sweetest pedal I've found. I use one with my Dlx Reverb and it lends a rich mild distortion to the sound. You might try one of these. It sounds great with the Tele or a Strat. :) :)

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Post subject: Re: Best stomp boxes with a Fender Blues Deville 4x10
Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2014 8:06 am
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The Prime Distortion is a really good pedal for what it does. It's not very versatile. It's pretty much a one trick pony but it does that one trick fairly well. It is inexpensive for sure; maybe the least expensive pedal I've seen yet. I have one. It may find a place on my pedal board but it may not. It doesn't clean up when you roll off the volume. Heck, it doesn't even clean up when you roll off the grind. It basically has one sound but it's a good sound. I find it sounds best with gain at 10 or 11 o'clock.

I prefer OD to distortion and I still find myself going back to the OCD. It has transparency and is touch sensitive. It is likely the least expensive pedal in the Fulltone range.

I'm not a fan of the very popular TS9. It always seems too opaque to me to be called OD. I consider it to be a distortion pedal that is voiced somewhat like OD.

I do like the yellow BOSS OD-1. Once you get past the brightness of it and learn how to tame it the pedal is quite useful. It has a lot of hair on it but the guitar still sounds through. It is quite musical and is also inexpensive to boot.

Those are my opinions. I give them because they were asked for. In the end it is up to the individual guitarist to decide what works best and other people's opinions should only be used as guidelines, not hard and fast rules. One man's food is another man's poison.

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Post subject: Re: Best stomp boxes with a Fender Blues Deville 4x10
Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2014 12:13 pm
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I own a Hotrod Deville (very similar to the Blues DeVille), and play several different types of Strats. I personally like the Zacke Wylde OD pedal or the Boss DS1. I prefer the MRX ZW OD pedal over the regular one. It just sounds better to my ear. I also use a several other pedals: Line 6 Echo Park, Chorus and some compression.


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Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2014 7:34 pm
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http://forums.fender.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=96202

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