How do you use your OD
Obviously the effect most people want to achieve with most OD pedals is a creamy smooth tube amp overdrive. There are many ways and many different kinds of pedals to achieve this though and there are also many uses for an OD pedal for anything other than "overdrive". What kind of user are you?
1. You use an overdrive pedal on a clean one channel amp and try to get the most distortion from it that you can.
2. You use an OD pedal on a clean one channel amp and only use the pedal to get slightly broken up sounds...more like for drive.
3. You use an OD pedal on an already overdriven amp (2 channel amp) to produce even more singing distortion and drive.
4. You use two or more OD pedals to achieve different levels of OD.
For those that are either #1 or #2 users...do you try and balance out the sound output on the pedal so that when the OD pedal is not is use you have the same overall volume (clean) as it is when it's overdriven (dirty)? Or do you nix that and turn the pedal level all the way up or at least past halfway without regard to balanced volumes. Understandably I would think just a little bit more volume on an OD pedal would be the goal. What do you think?
For those that use more than one OD pedal...what goals are you trying to achieve? Different levels of gain? Different tones? Treble boosts or Bass boosts? Tell us how you use this technique if you are one of these multiple OD pedal users.
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