Overdrive Pedals - Herbert

[sebby123]

Bottom line:

Great amps don't need overdrive or distortion pedals, kills the full range tone in most cases.

Now a great clean boost can definitely be another story.

+1 cant live without my BB

 

[Death by Uberschall]

Bottom line:

Great amps don't need overdrive or distortion pedals, kills the full range tone in most cases.

Now a great clean boost can definitely be another story.

+1 cant live without my BB

Love my Timmy

 

[RedB4Black]

Xotic BB preamp or RC Booster will work amazingly!

I have good results with the BB and AC on both my Herbert and VH4. I don't use them all the time, but I do like mix it up every now and then.

 

[VH4_BigRig]

I haven't played a Herbie, but I tried boosting channels 3/4 of my VH4 with a Boss OD3, Boss GE7 and Zoom Powerdrive just to see how it would sound, and didn't like it at all. Never tried boosting channels 1/2 though. Diezels have so much preamp gain on tap and great power sections that they really don't need the pedals. I haven't touched my EMG loaded Explorer in ages because even just active pickups were too much output for my tastes. To each their own though.

 

[van hellion]

Andy Wood only uses he OCD on the clean channel, I guess thats why i love boogies so much they take pedals so damn well!

this is true, however i recently started working with xotic and have switched to a bb preamp on the clean channel, and WOW! it kills for that bluesy timmons drive, sounds like landau kinda drive too. Sometimes i use a barber tone press on ch 3 with the gain back around 11:30 or noon for a more compressed fusion tone. But diezels on there own have so much tone, i never use a drive on the gain channels.

A Wood

 

[sebby123]

Andy Wood only uses he OCD on the clean channel, I guess thats why i love boogies so much they take pedals so damn well!

this is true, however i recently started working with xotic and have switched to a bb preamp on the clean channel, and WOW! it kills for that bluesy timmons drive, sounds like landau kinda drive too. Sometimes i use a barber tone press on ch 3 with the gain back around 11:30 or noon for a more compressed fusion tone. But diezels on there own have so much tone, i never use a drive on the gain channels.

A Wood

Xotic BB FTW