Tubescreamer in front of OD pedal

Hootsmon

A TS into an OD for a leg up in volume and a little more saturation.......war's the ballpark setting ( on teh TS) for a good starting point for this here application?

Thanks peeps  

not_the_dj

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Hootsmon

Since i am here.......what difference do active tone controls on an OD pedal make compared the the regular passive ones?

rossyamaha

Everything at noon and go from there. However....

Try putting it after the OD. One of my favourite things to do. It does the volume boost thing if you want to but can add gain and either really thicken things up or give you an extra mid cut for a solo boost or alternative gain tone. I sometimes run 2. One for thick gain and one for brighter gain. Usually after a clear/ transparent drive. 

munckee

rossyamaha said:

Everything at noon and go from there. However....

Try putting it after the OD. One of my favourite things to do. It does the volume boost thing if you want to but can add gain and either really thicken things up or give you an extra mid cut for a solo boost or alternative gain tone. I sometimes run 2. One for thick gain and one for brighter gain. Usually after a clear/ transparent drive. 

I have compressor into overdrive into tubescreamer. 

Kebabkid

I run a Keeley TS-808 into an OCD. The 808 gain is set at 10 o'clock, the OCD's at 1 o'clock. I can push the 808 more if I wish, but I suppose it depends on how much gain you have on the other pedal and whether you will encounter feedback, noise etc

When stacking, I like setting pedals low to medium gain and finding a useable setting that allows them to still be used individually.

Adam_MD

rossyamaha said:

Everything at noon and go from there. However....

Try putting it after the OD. One of my favourite things to do. It does the volume boost thing if you want to but can add gain and either really thicken things up or give you an extra mid cut for a solo boost or alternative gain tone. I sometimes run 2. One for thick gain and one for brighter gain. Usually after a clear/ transparent drive. 

I'd run the tubescreamer after most other ODs as well if i wanted a volume boost. 

ICBM

hootsmon said:

A TS into an OD for a leg up in volume and a little more saturation.......war's the ballpark setting ( on teh TS) for a good starting point for this here application?

A Tube Screamer *is* an overdrive pedal... so whatever setting sounds best with whatever the other pedal is. It will vary depending on how you have the other pedal set.

As Kebabkid said, stacking usually works best when the pedals are set fairly conservatively rather than flat-out.

hootsmon said:

Since i am here.......what difference do active tone controls on an OD pedal make compared the the regular passive ones?

The tone control in a TS is actually a mixture of active and passive. Turning it down rolls off treble from the previous IC stage passively, turning it up actively boosts treble in the next IC stage.

Hootsmon

Many thanks all 

Winny_Pooh

I prefer a Clark gainster or clone for this job as it's less compressed and muddy.

Adam_MD

Winny_Pooh said:

I prefer a Clark gainster or clone for this job as it's less compressed and muddy.

That's one to add to the build list I keep forgetting about the Clark Gainster. 

dilbert

Bad Monkey to boost OCD clone, then into Riot for me. Next week it will be............. well something else . 

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