Pedals-overdrive into distortion? Or vise versa?

[glassjaw7]

I've always ran lower gain overdrive pedals into my higher gain distortion pedals. Seemed like the logical thing to do since you typically use an od pedal as a boost before your amp's high gain channel.

I read recently that Pete Cornish suggests doing the opposite. He states that the distortion pedals provide sustain and the od pedals shape the tone. I have been trying both ways all day and can't decide, so I compromised and did both!

MXR classic OD --->Lovepedal Eternity--->Big Muff (set with higher gain)---> BB+ with one side setup with low gain and one with high---->OCD with gain set at noon and then finally into two delay pedals set with different repeat times. It's a whole lot of different gain tones, but it gives me tons of versatility. How are you guys running your dirt boxes?

 

[Nico]

I like running the OD first in the chain if I use both types of pedals...

 

[tekbow]

I actually run both. My signal chain can be a bit odd but it gives me lots of textures

Fuzz face - Wah - OD1 - distortion - OD2 - Muff - Muff - OD3

I actually have 3 or four muff variants in there in different places, bu the above is the overall vibe.

i don't drive the fuzzface with anything because it hates being anywhere other than right before the wah

OD1 is a tubescreamer set to a cleanish boost which i use to drive basically anything else on the board or get an SRV thing from the amps clean channel

OD2 is a KOT which i use for volume boosting the distortion because those 2 particular pedals get along very well, or on its own for a great crunchy classic rock thing

OD3 is a Tube Driver whichis used to smooth out the muffs ala gilmour

most of the above ae used on a clean channel set to just a touch of breakup and from time to time i use them to push the lead channel further

 

[slaktarn]

...or you can run an OD and a distorsion in parallel.
I just got a TC nova drive and the parallel mode is really useful!

In this clip you can hear the different routings of the nova drive.
OD into distorsion 5:55-6:10
Distorsion into OD 6:10-6:20
OD parallel with distorsion 6:53-7:03

 

[glassjaw7]

...or you can run an OD and a distorsion in parallel.
I just got a TC nova drive and the parallel mode is really useful!

In this clip you can hear the different routings of the nova drive.
OD into distorsion 5:55-6:10
Distorsion into OD 6:10-6:20
OD parallel with distorsion 6:53-7:03

Cool pedal and video, thanks. My BB+ allows me to route od into dist and vise versa. I like both options for different reasons.
BTW, is that Nova pedal analog like the od from the Nova System? Sorry if you already said it in the video, I skipped to the playing.

 

[jlbaxe]

...or you can run an OD and a distorsion in parallel.
I just got a TC nova drive and the parallel mode is really useful!

In this clip you can hear the different routings of the nova drive.
OD into distorsion 5:55-6:10
Distorsion into OD 6:10-6:20
OD parallel with distorsion 6:53-7:03

Cool pedal and video, thanks. My BB+ allows me to route od into dist and vise versa. I like both options for different reasons.
BTW, is that Nova pedal analog like the od from the Nova System? Sorry if you already said it in the video, I skipped to the playing.

Nova drive is analog Great pedal for the G system.

 

[JakeAC5253]

An OD808 before a Muff sounds AWESOME!

 

[slaktarn]

...or you can run an OD and a distorsion in parallel.
I just got a TC nova drive and the parallel mode is really useful!

In this clip you can hear the different routings of the nova drive.
OD into distorsion 5:55-6:10
Distorsion into OD 6:10-6:20
OD parallel with distorsion 6:53-7:03

Cool pedal and video, thanks. My BB+ allows me to route od into dist and vise versa. I like both options for different reasons.
BTW, is that Nova pedal analog like the od from the Nova System? Sorry if you already said it in the video, I skipped to the playing.

The video wasn't me... But it's an analog pedal with digital control, you can save presets and change presets with MIDI. Really useful pedal!