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Post subject: Will using overdrive really fry my strat?!
Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 10:24 am
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This guy at school told me that if you use overdrive you will end up frying your guitar and your amp! please tell me if this is true or not.


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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 10:27 am
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No.


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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 10:33 am
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No it's utter rubbish. Overdrive and indeed any effect is applied to the signal once it has left the guitar either in a pedal or at the preamp stage and is then passed to the power amp. No effect is going to harm the guitar or amp under normal circumstances.


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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 11:12 am
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if that was true, you would hear no one using overdrive and distortion. and rock would still sound like it did in 1964.

maybe they meant that if you somehow crank a tube amp too much, the tubes will fry out. which is true, you can fry out tubes by driving them too much. but guitar amps generally don't let you get to that point. but overdrive pedals won't do it. and it wont effect a solid state amp. and it certainly won't fry your guitar.


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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 11:22 am
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Thanks alot people- i appreciate it.


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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 11:36 am
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We should start a forum topic on this kinda stuff, it's interesting. "What's the craziest guitar rumor you've ever heard" kinda stuff.


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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 1:54 pm
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Nope,
Used distortion on the same 72 Strat and 76 twin for over 30 years. No problem with either.


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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 1:57 pm
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We should start a forum topic on this kinda stuff, it's interesting. "What's the craziest guitar rumor you've ever heard" kinda stuff.


Maybe we could start our own "Mythbusters" thing.


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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 7:08 pm
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Yeah stick on YouTube just for laughs and watch us be on Discovery next month lol. :lol:

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Don't try to plug your guitar into those outlets on your walls.

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I'm begging you, don't!

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The Beatles did that in the old Beatle cartoons. lol


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Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 9:42 pm
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LOL... Like they said no it won't.

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Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 7:07 am
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It's incredible to hear which kind of misinformations are given in music schools today...they're supposed to be a place where people learn.


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Post subject: Re: Will using overdrive really fry my strat?!
Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 9:18 am
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celepenesuela wrote:
This guy at school told me that if you use overdrive you will end up frying your guitar and your amp! please tell me if this is true or not.


Is your friend in 6th grade?


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Post subject: overdrive fry
Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 1:37 pm
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Only if use turn the heat up too high
if that were true
Stevie ray would have set NO.1 on fire all the time


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