Progrockabuse wrote:wanna ask you to try your formula five and delay/reverb in front front of the amp drive section. see how good/bad they sound.
Ok so I had a bit of a play earlier Rob and here is what I found.
1) Amp setting: Dirty channel, on verge of breakup (gain at about 9 - 10 o'clock I guess)
Pedals:
FN5 -
Gain at noon.
Sounds pretty good - but the character of the pedal doesn't
really come through. Sounds more like some sort of generic drive. Had to have the tone knob up full otherwise was a bit muddy.
DLS -
Gain at 2 o'clock.
Sounded better, or at least more distinct than the FN5. Probably because it is an inherently cleaner pedal.
Zvex SHO -
Gain at noon.
Worked really well kicking the amp into overdrive and retained the tone fo the amp for the most part. I guess adds the tone of the SHO but this works well with the darkness of the amp.
Carbon Copy -
short-ish delay set
Compared to on the clean channel it was MUCH more pronounced even with the regen and mix turned down some. I never use delay other than on the clean so was surprising how different it sounded. Difficult to get a subtle delay sound when on the drive channel.
2) Amp setting: Dirty channel, gain at 1 - 2 o'clock (this is a decent amount of gain)
Pedals (same settings):
FN5 - Quite mushy/muddy. Character of pedal didn't come through and just masked the lovely amp drive.
DLS - Again, just got quite muddy, much of the same as above.
SHO - Worked pretty well, but got quite noisy, still not muddy though.
CC - MASSIVELY pronounced. I would say unusable from my point of view.
Didn't have chance to test the FRV-1 reverb but probably wouldn't use it with this amp anyway.
If I have time I'll have a go at comparing having the delay in the loop.
