Thread: Tube Saturating
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Old May 7th, 2008, 04:44 PM   #2 (permalink)
Alcaline
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I don't think more distortion is the answer to your problem. From what I can see, those heads have masses and masses of gain. I think you would be better off getting an EQ pedal to put in the loop and have it extract high frequencies more intricately than you can with the controls on the amp.

Of course, you could run the head clean/slightly dirty and use something like a Damage control distortion pedal that actually has a valve in it. You would run that through the front of the amp. That would give you the most authentic 'tube' tone, although you could also look into conventional distortion pedals just to provide a different distortion to what your head does.
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