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Post subject: OVERDRIVE PEDALS
Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 8:57 am
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please ! if you play a strat [ ESPECIALLY ONE WITH THE DANGEROUS SINGLE COIl IN THE BRIDGE TYPE] do the S R V thing. get a Tube Screamer or a Blues Driver, set it on 2 and sound great. oltherwise, keep it in the neck pickup . that brittle thin sound is a drag. it sounds bad. Strat with overdrive on 1,2, or 3, GREAT. seriously, Slam


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Post subject: Re: OVERDRIVE PEDALS
Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 10:04 am
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slamre wrote:
please ! if you play a strat keep it in the neck pickup . that brittle thin sound is a drag. it sounds bad.


Hey! Speak for your own playing!


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Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 3:54 pm
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What works for your set up will probably not sound the same for others.

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I thought the piercing sound was the whole idea of the strat bridge pickup.

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Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 4:08 pm
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nikininja wrote:
I thought the piercing sound was the whole idea of the strat bridge pickup.


I know Zappa made good use of it.

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If you're not happy with the tone from your Strat, you probably have the amp settings wrong.

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hendrix put it to good use too, with a snarling fuzz box and a wah non the less.
watching clapton live from 86 he spends most of his time in possition4 (mid and bridge)

certainly discounts the theory that its useless doesnt it.

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Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 6:19 pm
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The thin piercing treble sound was good for Ritchie Blackmore. Jon Lord overdrove his organ to get that distortion in Deep Purple but Blackmore always played clean. I use Mike Fuller's new Fulltone OCD overdrive pedal. This is what Robin Trower is currently using to get his overdrive.


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IMHO, for those that seek out many tones you should get a Boss ME 20 multi pedal. 5 diff distortion settings, chorus, flanger, phaser, tremolo, rotary, reverb, 2 delays, noise gate, tuner, volume pedal and wah all in one easy to use pedal


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nikininja wrote:
hendrix put it to good use too ... watching clapton live from 86 he spends most of his time in possition4 (mid and bridge)

certainly discounts the theory that it's useless

Ummm, I agree with you. But I don't think this "theory" is really a theory, if you know what I mean...


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ok its a notion not a theory. my bad. :oops:

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Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2008 5:00 pm
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slamre wrote:
please ! if you play a strat [ ESPECIALLY ONE WITH THE DANGEROUS SINGLE COIl IN THE BRIDGE TYPE] do the S R V thing. get a Tube Screamer or a Blues Driver, set it on 2 and sound great. oltherwise, keep it in the neck pickup . that brittle thin sound is a drag. it sounds bad. Strat with overdrive on 1,2, or 3, GREAT. seriously, Slam


I was not aware that bridge pup was dangerous, lol! Is it a health hazard :twisted:

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