Suggest a pedal for Renegade head?

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I love the overdrive I get out of my amp, but since I play in a cover band that handles a wide range of material, what complimentary overdrive/distortion pedals can you guys recommend?

Just looking to add some variety to my sound so I can cover most of the bases.
 
tomk62":2qk2qjcj said:
I love the overdrive I get out of my amp, but since I play in a cover band that handles a wide range of material, what complimentary overdrive/distortion pedals can you guys recommend?

Just looking to add some variety to my sound so I can cover most of the bases.
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This is probably overkill for what you're looking for, but I use Line6's M13 mutifx unit, and I have to tell you it absolutely KILLS with the Renegade 65's two channels. You can run the M13 in what's called the four cable method b/c it has its own fx loop. So you can put stomps (lots of great stomps from mild boosts to Tubescreamer to melt yer face Distortion) in front of the Eggie, run out of the Eggy back into the M13 for lucious chorus/flange fx, delays, reverbs, harmonizers, eq's, whatever you want, then back into the Eggie for liftoff.

The M13 and the Renegade together make a wicked pair, imho.

Cheers,

Fester2k
 
I did not want to hear that! :)

Yes, I have been intrigued by the M13, just not sure I want to spend that kind of money right now. But then again, I am also looking for delay and compression (and probably some filter too) so I'll have to think about what all of it might cost me as individual pedals. I don't mind buying things used to keep my costs down.
 
BB pre or COD...But the M13 sounds like it would be nice..
 
I just picked up a v4 ocd, nice pedal. I cant believe how much better it sounds the v3 I had and sold it just a couple of hours of use,
 
RockStarNick":2855s9c4 said:
BB Preamp or Fulltone OCD V4. Both are top notch.
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Thanks Nick - what "tone" would those give me? Any examples of bands or guitarists?
 
What are you trying to achieve? Keeping the basic tone of the Renegade, and just drive it harder, or get a different tone altogether? When I had my M4 with the SL module, I really liked the BB for driving the SL harder, and getting it into SL2-ish territory, but I didn't really think the BB changed the overall tone of the module drastically - i.e. it still had a very Marshally flavor.

I have been looking into some pedals for my Renegade too, but I am looking to add completely different flavors of tone. I am curious about pedals like the Tone Freak Severe - the clips sound very Rectifier-ish, or the AMT R1, and the Vox Cooltron Over the Top Boost - which is supposedly a AC30 Top Boost-like circuit in a pedal. Basically curious about running pedals like that into the clean channel of the Renegade to effectively add a third or fourth "channel", as opposed to a overdriven version of the existing channels.....at least until the E2 is ready.

When I do want an overdriven version of the existing channels, I've been using a Fulltone Fat Boost v3. I'm not sure what the differences are between the Fat Boost and the OCD, but I'm really like the FB3 a lot. I pretty much have it on all the time - it really helps make up for the losses I get when running through my other pedals (even the "true bypass" ones). And it has a nice drive circuit when I want it to not be so transparent.
 
Resonant Alien":1itjhfnz said:
What are you trying to achieve? ... I have been looking into some pedals for my Renegade too, but I am looking to add completely different flavors of tone.
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This.

I would like to get some different tones that the Renegade on its own does not achieve so I can have a "full palette" of sounds to work with. Anywhere from Stone Temple Pilots to Foo Fighters to Nirvana to ...
 
To me pedals will only get you the tone you want if done with a clean channel. If you put it with dirt, you just get different colored dirt and the amp has lost what it was intended to sound like. So you end up dumping the amp cause the pedal changed the amp. On the clean side you get a new tone!
 
The OCD works great with a straight up clean channel...

If you set your Renegade for Clean-clean and heavy crunch, then by adding the OCD, you can have a light crunch channel, and some extra saturation on the dirty channel for leads.

ALmost turning a 2 channel head into a 4 channel head...
 
Jeff Hilligan":j0j7nhch said:
To me pedals will only get you the tone you want if done with a clean channel. If you put it with dirt, you just get different colored dirt and the amp has lost what it was intended to sound like. So you end up dumping the amp cause the pedal changed the amp. On the clean side you get a new tone!
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Definitely. And I think Renegade clean channel is particularly great for this too. It is possible to dial in such a clean clean on Ch 1 that it really can take on the character of whatever you have stuck in front. Trying to do this with pedals, I would definitely say Ch 2 will remain your "Marshall" channel, while Ch 1 can be your whatever channel, depending on what you have in front of it.
 
Jeff Hilligan":1ib526r8 said:
To me pedals will only get you the tone you want if done with a clean channel. If you put it with dirt, you just get different colored dirt and the amp has lost what it was intended to sound like. So you end up dumping the amp cause the pedal changed the amp. On the clean side you get a new tone!
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I agree on distortion pedals. For boost pedals...like Tube Screamers...or BB Preamps...etc....They are meant more for boosting a distorted or clean signal. And that's what I prefer to use personally instead of full on distortion boxes.

Eric
 
tomk62":167fx9ho said:
Resonant Alien":167fx9ho said:
What are you trying to achieve? ... I have been looking into some pedals for my Renegade too, but I am looking to add completely different flavors of tone.
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This.

I would like to get some different tones that the Renegade on its own does not achieve so I can have a "full palette" of sounds to work with. Anywhere from Stone Temple Pilots to Foo Fighters to Nirvana to ...
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I get foo fighter and stp with my renegade
 
Jeff Hilligan":kfxr9bi4 said:
To me pedals will only get you the tone you want if done with a clean channel. If you put it with dirt, you just get different colored dirt and the amp has lost what it was intended to sound like. So you end up dumping the amp cause the pedal changed the amp. On the clean side you get a new tone!
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Well understood and agreed with!

I am looking for suggestions for pedals I can run on the clean channel that will complement (not replace) the sounds I get (and like very much) from the dirty channel. The goal is to have a full complement of distortion/overdrive/fuzz tones to play with.
 
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