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Re: Black verses sparkle for power? [message #5344 is a reply to message #5303]

Thu, 13 January 2005 09:50

edforgothispassword
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Registered: July 2004

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hey Jimi....glad for the post...and yer are dead on right about the Boss dual OD pedal..it is my mainstay...I run the cleaner setting as clean as I can get it so that all I'm really getting is a bolder tone with a thicker sustain voice..then I hit the pedal again and go to the red light and get solid screaming power chord and soaring solo lead voicings...but..and here's the trick...in front of the boss OD2.. I run a Boss comp/sustain pedal...it smooths the signal to the OD just a bit more and adds more sustain while not giving me too much compression sound..this combination is basically the tube screamer theory Iguess..but the tone is much better than the TS9..which I also own..but just never use...
I also keep a boss heavey metal pedal which on occasional projects I'll throw in the chain where the OD2 normally would sit

right behind the OD2 is a boss paramtric eq..this lets me quick adjust presence and low end and carve the mids on different kustoms in different room situations..if I'm able to run my kustom at full throttle then I don't need the parametric as the amp starts to work...but at lower volumes the eq really helps...I've got these pedals sitting in an old Boss ME-X expandable board which has all the wet fx like stereo delay/tap, flange, stereo chorus , verb, etc all in the brain and then allows you to drop 3 pedals into the chain and program them into the patches..its an older board..but still my fav..and I've tried many rigs..but came back to this one for all my stage work. with just these 3 pedals covering tone and then the wet fx I can get what I want and seriously have stood shoulder to shoulder with my friends mesa combos and fender combos and really hurt their feelings...Glenn Pierce (national guitarist our of LA) taught me the boss triple chain when we were doing promise keepers gigs years ago...he worked with Mike W. Smith on the last big praise album and has tons of touring hours under his belt..and this is his formula for getting his tone on any endorsed or backlined amp he may encounter when on the road..whether it be a fender twin or a Peavey or a marshall or even the modeling amps...just run the amps clean and to their breakup point -1 click..then let this pedal combination do the rest...but what I found was that the kustoms take better to this pedal setup than any of the other amps...and I own and have tried a bunch of em..probably the one amp that I like as much (blasphemy)..is the older fender blues deville..60 watts tube into 2x12s..clean and bold..well tubed...I have a pair of them and they have made some money for me as a number of R&B and blues nationals like them when they can get them..but aside from that...mesa, marshal, fenders...my kustoms with this pedal board is my preferred rig when I go out to play whether local stage or national platform...see.. I didn't once mention black vs sparkle...(whew!..that was tuff)

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