Rips! Decided to start her up loaded with GE 6550's and used 3 different pedals. SD-1, amptweaker and a Bad Monkey...and jumped the 1 and 2 input! Sounds great! Preferred the amptweaker pedal! Bad monkey was great for just tightening it up but didn't have enough gain for my confidence! The SD-1 does the 80's thing to a T!
Then I plugged in my Valve Jr with the M5 mod and man for a 5 watt amp this thing just smokes!
I love Super Leads .... rather have it than most of the "modern" amps. I think with a pedal in front (or not) it sounds as good or better than any modification I have heard.
I think it is strange no one else has posted here myself.
I love Super Leads .... rather have it than most of the "modern" amps. I think with a pedal in front (or not) it sounds as good or better than any modification I have heard.
I think it is strange no one else has posted here myself.
It just has the balls and the mid grind I love. The addition of the pedal gives my less than stellar playing a boost of confidence! Amp paid for..pedals pretty cheap to change the level of gain and tone! Much better use of my money.
i'm really looking forward to getting my dsl fixed. i really do think my amp gas sickness will be cured once it is. i'm still waiting for my special to get back from the shop. once it does it's on to the dsl repairs. i have a plan and an order for dealing with some gear that needs repair.. and i'm sticking to it.
i've tried a luxury drive in front of my dsl. i really like what it does. it's sort of like a fulltone fat boost.. but with a bit of high end sparkle. it puts a smile on my face.
I use a pretty hot pick up most of the time. JB is in my LP, David Gilmour EMG set in my Strat. These two guitars are the ones I use most. One day with the band about 6 years ago I decided not to use a pedal for the solo .... it took a few week and since then I do not even feel I need the extra push. Nothing made me clean up my playing like this did. Best thing I did for focus.
For a long time in the 80's my main rig was a Marshall Super Lead half stack and Fender Twin. My favorite pedal with the Marshall was a Rat. Both of these amps takes pedals very well. I think part of the reason so many pedals sound great with these amps is because when the people voiced the pedals they were using these amps to voice them.
I could easy use a Twin and JMP and skip everything else.
My favorite amp these days is my THD Series One Plexi (JMP style amp). I like a lot of amps .... but this kind of amp works best for me.
I am back to playing my 1959 as well. This amp has always made my pedals sound their best. I got an M13 and was using it in the loop and 4 cable method of my other amps. Decided to try it straight in and yeah! I will be playing that for awhile! Very very very loud mutha! OMG!
One thing I really like is dialling in the brite and dark volumes. I can dial in the thump with the dark and get plenty o' sizzle with the brite vol. Very powerful setup.
I don't have a super lead but I do have an early 80s 2204. I've been setting that clean and hitting it with a Blackstar dual for crunch and have tried a bunch of other pedals to stack for solo tone. One I like really well for solos is a cheap Delta Labs metal distortion. I keep the gain way down and use the volume and tone controls for a nice, blasting solo tone. Plug it all into a TM212 and I get half stack tones at volumes that won't bring the cops. Not as convincing with single coils but great with HBs.
You just never know what combo is going to work. One thing I've realized is that you don't always have to throw a lot of money at the problem to find a good solution. Of course I realized that after the fact.
As far as running the VJ through the front, I did that with a Blackstar HT5 head. Worked really well but not any better than the HT Dual pedal that it was modeled after.
