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Just got a pretty nice sized tax return and am looking to get some new pedals, Im looking at going with a the strokes, cage the elephant, old arctic monkeys direction for my current rig since im doing a lot of rythem and lead my budget is sitting around 250-350

I'm not currently playing at church due to politics and etc typical life drama that i want nothing to do with so i abstained from it before getting dragged in. i am how ever in a 300 level guitar class(junior year college) so i can have a lot more fun and not have to worry about a clean ambient sound since our professor/instructor is an old school rock and blues guy and none of us want to play ambient type stuff when were together jamming outside of class

Are you american? I forget

Well, I would go with a tube screamer, because it is a very garage-sound overdrive pedal and you can use it to boost your amp or other overdrive pedal also.

obviously I'm asking what country you live in so I can give some amp recommendations... different stuff is available on a budget in the US and UK... as I recall you have some kinda fender solid state amp and I would pump 300 bucks into a tube amp

Yea, Indiana is pretty flat this time of year

im good amp wise for now, im running blues junior on loan from a friend until i get my drri, which will be soon here hopefully, im in a better financial situation compared to around christmas time when i initially planned to get one, a 1000 dollar school bill and car repairs add up pretty quick

also have you played the laney L20t its recently caught my eye as an alternative to the 65 drri (as a side note the ac15 has come on my radar as a more budget conscious choice but idk about it I've played them and liked it but i see so many people saying its hit and miss from model to model and year to year quality wise (similar to the hot rod series))

the lionhearts all sound great from the 5 watt to the 50 watt... as long as you stay off the gain 'channel' which is just awful unless the amp is already rbeaking up, in which case why not just turn up some more on the normal channel? Kidna pointless. But I would totally own a Laney Lionheart 20 or 50. They have a taste o vox and a taste of early hiwatt but also some of their own mojo. I like the big oens ebcause tis rare to ehar a true class A,am that's single ended and not push-pull that's more than 10 watts.

I'm not in love with any chiense made ac15, I just don't think they sound that good, but for the price? they sound pretty decent. I prefer the tiny terror though. but if you cna scoop a handwired they sound pretty stellar , just a half power 30. might be too pricey. Vox hasn't made a true ac15 sicne the vintage era though. its a different circuit then the 30 in the preamp. Or its supposed to be. They were originally the same but after a few years vox dropped the ef86 in the 30 supposedly due to failure, but if the tube quality went so low why not lose it in the 15 and 10? Also, i use brit ef86 tubes form the era that vox ditched the tube in the 30 in my matchless and I've enver had an issue with them. In fact I have yet to need to replace the Mullard that's in tehre now and its been tehre for over a decade. Anyway... the original 15 and 10 retained a compliment of oddball preamp tubes for the gain stages and vib/trem effect until the arbiter buy out in the 70s as far as I know. no one has really replicated a real 15 with all thsoe weird tubes since then, or at elast not a production model. The original 10 and 15 have a certain mojo and i think that's why a lot of vox purists rag on the mdoern versions thata re just halfpower ac30s. The kodern 10 is nothing like msot real ac10s other than inc abient design... evne the super reverb twin 10 thatw as a ehad has a unique circuit from the ac30. Anyway, there are modern ac15s that sound fine, like low watt 30s and that ain't bad. Don't let the snobs get you down. AC15 versus a hot rod? I;ve never seen a hot rod fail at a gig and I've seen a chiense ac15 go down before. That said I cna enver get a tone out of a hot rod and I think most guys who gig with them (everyone) sound pretty lukewarm, its just a few who seem to know their inner secrets... an ac15 is ahrd to get bad tone out of although it cna be a little tricky tog et used to the weird tone stack response.

Oh yeah, make sure you get yourself some old school classic though. I would invest in an MXR BC108 fuzz if I were you, maybe an EHX double muff instead, either way... I'd pick up a rangemaster or some other colored boost effect to try on my tube amp when it shows up... I'd try an OD250 and a distortion+ and pick one, worth having one of those... I'd look at quality analog choruses, flangers and phasers or maybe an octave fuzz and something off the fucking wall like an EHX frequency analyzer or octave divider? I've been really rediscovering some of those old designs while recording altely.... a main guitar part can eb a good clean tube amp sound but in with the synthesizers its can be fun to make some splatty, clangy and outright weird guitar tracks to shake thigns up and you're not doing that without some old oddball effects. verything modern and digital leans towards ambient or its too in your face... and much as I erespect EQD and those companies their shit is borderline unmusical and pretty overpriced. Don't tell EQD I said that though.

ill definitly look into those pedals, might to an octive fuzz and chorus theyll add some more flavor to my rig beyond my drives, digi delay and nano grail and the mosfet has caught my eye while i was digging through cme today. and i agree, i love eqd and walrus but some of their stuff is out their(walrus isnt as bad) and if you arent playing stuff like explosions in the sky or god is an astronaut(two other groups ive been really getting into lately) they arent practical.

as for the hot rods its the deluxe more than the deville having issues, ive heard a lot of people say that theyve been touring or playing a local show/church and the amp will shit out due to cold joint solders, i know its an easy fix but idk about the ac15 now after seeing your assessment of it and that its a different circut from the ac30, but hopefully ill have the money for a drri or L20t, i put aside enough from my tax return to cover about a 1/4 of it and i have 1/2 of it saved up already so plans if i find one for 700-750 around end of next month ill buy it

EHX Pitch Fork, a fuzz (Blues Driver), and a chorus seem like they would work?

yea im def feeling a chorus and ill check out the blues driver again when i was looking at over drives i played that, the ocd and the ts 9 side by side and went with the ocd because i really liked how could go from a distorted rhythm on the low peak and flip it for a lead with some more bite on the high peak

the OCD is really only an ODin the sense the DOD OD250 is... its one of thos greay area effects that hard clips but has headroom on the clipping... it defintiely ocerdrives more like a big brit amp than the average fender or an ac30 even... its a good thing... I would NEVER accuse the tubescremer/SD1 of being amp like, maybe tis softer clipping is tube-like, but its just its own thing overall and a classic thing it is I might add. The Bluesdriver is the first OD I remember being advertised as amp-like (I'm gettig that old that I vaguelly remember boss hyping it up in my buddy's guitar rags when it was relatively new). I have NEVER liked it... vastly prefer the SD1/TS9/OD1 type circuits.

Disregard my comment about an OD250 or Distortion+, the OCD is derived from that lineage. its just a more dynamic, more refined version with a tone control and variable input fitlering via the switch. It can kidna cover rat tones too... somewhat. I have amps so if iw ant amp drive I use an amp turned up. I like the more primitive circuits ebcaus ethey sound like themselves. They're an effect. The amp-like drive thing mystifies me. mps alreayd voerdrive when turned up. Use an amp that's the right volume for the room and have at it. if you need a bone clean sound use 2 amps on an AB box. If iw ant to hit a epdal iw ant an EFFECT. it might work WITH my amp but it shouldn't be trying to simualte soemthing ym amp can do on its own. that's silly. That said the OCD is a great design. Voodoo lab ahd a genius idea when they ivnented the type of clipping it implements and mike fuller was brilliant for knowing about it to rip it off.

like a big blackface LDR trem?

i love the ocd, when i got it, it was the perfect overdrive for what i needed it reallt cranks when you dial it in right and it ads so much oomph behind an already crunchy channel but the blues driver was cool but didnt seem as useful as the ts9 or ocd but i may go back and try it next to a ts9 and ts808, and if they have it a mosfet, but im def getting a chorus or some sort of modulation

also how would that quilter micro sound infront of a drri/blues jr

that's a blackface trem as far as I know because Isaac and his band tend to use super reverbs, LDR circuit in the preamp. the other trem in blackface is the bias vary trem that's in the power amp... oh and the vibrochamp uses a different preamp trem that's like ac30 trem (vintage top boosted ac30 trem)

also how would that quilter micro sound infront of a drri/blues jr

you can't put the quilter inf ront of another amp, it IS an amp... it you use it as a drive pedal it will blow up your tube amp

Overdrive As an overdrive then I'd say go for the Seymour Duncan 805. It is a great overdrive pedal that can be used as a clean boost. The 805 is a very versatile pedal, leaving you plenty of room to play around in different styles. If you're looking to read about some other overdrive pedals, I wrote a little article about it.

YATS (yet another tube screamer)

I'd get a noise gate pedal like the Boss-NS2.