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ShawnPhase wrote:im appalled that nobody 's mentioned the sansamp gt-2...thats what i use and i love it.

Ben did in the Bass Distortion thread.

alex maiolo wrote:

A vs B wrote:my onespot works fine with my Danelectro fish&chips

Do you use it with other effects in line?
You're the only guy I've met who has had luck.

Every single Dano box I have, including a F&C, hums until I plug a Dano No Hum adapter into it. It took me a long time to suss this out, and finally I took the suggestion in the instructions.
I mean I *never* used Boss adapters on Boss gear - an adapter is an adapter in the polarity and ma is correct, right?

-A

yeah all the dan electro pedals i have used hum like a mother fucker with power adapters.

ChristopherM wrote:

ShawnPhase wrote:im appalled that nobody 's mentioned the sansamp gt-2...thats what i use and i love it.

Ben did in the Bass Distortion thread.

Funny thing is, I don't like it that much on guitars. It messes with the tonality too much in the guitar world. I have used it for DI guitars, as well as an "on top of the amp" guitar pedal to help out a crappy amp. But switching it on and off I think sounds too weird to me.

Ben Adrian

I do usually have a series of 4-8 or so pedals I'll experiment later and see if it affects anything. The Fish&Chips is a pretty quiet pedal in general, I also have a .....whatever the tremelo is I'll experiment with them, but I've never noticed an issue.

oh yeah and I love the Sansamp GT-2, and I also have a Tri-AC, but I don't really like it as a pedal into an amp. It just sounds so weird. It's nice going into a poweramp or something.

alex maiolo asked:

Never understood the cult of the Tube Screamer though. Why do people gush over tht thing so much?

The TS-808 alows me to hear my guitar through the fuzz. I played through tons of distortion pedals over a period of 11 years and this pedal won. Same with the TS-9. I enjoy it as a boost with a natural sounding grit. It may be the RC4558P chip, I don't know. I can still hear the personality of whatever guitar I'm using when it's engaged, it's not just an out of control blast.
I still like the Fuzz Factory and Harmonic Percolator for freak out fuzz (okay, the Foxx Tone Machine should also get a mention here), but for a great over-all distortion, I love me some TS-808. The reissues sound fine, too, you don't have to pay $400 for an old one...

What's Up With The Tube Screamer?

Analog Man does some fine mods, his website is a hoot, too...
http://www.analogman.com/
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I use an mxr distortion + through a an eq pedal to boost the bass...into a twin reverb. I aby it with a 69 Traynor head.

Im thinking up picking up a Fulltone Fulldrive 2. Any advice regarding this purchase?

John

I bought a thing called a "bad monkey" made by the digitech company. they cost $40 and are probably available at every Guitar Satan store in every strip mall in America. it's pretty mild - just a gain boost with tone knobs really - but I tried a number of different pedals but this one just sounded the best with my particular amp ('79 YGM-3). it shows its cheapness in that it sounds better with a battery. at least it doesn't eat batteries too quickly. I'd always used big muffs before, but with this amp they were too kazoo-like for the music I'm making.