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Post by bustertheboy on Feb 1, 2007 3:07:30 GMT -7
There's been a lot of talk about fave pedals with Z's and Ghias in particular.
Here's what I found recently after adding an OCD to my pedal board- it's as we all knew- horses for courses. So long as the Ghia's volume wasn't above 9 oclock, the three pedals i was comparing could all be driven hard, but suited different guitars. The pedals were a TS-808 modded Ibanez TS-10, an Axis style Fuzz Face clone and the Fulltone OCD.
My Fender JD Tele was happy with all pedals- fat SRV style with the TS, beautiful detailed fuzz on the FF if the guitar's volume was backed off a notch (other wise the distortion was way too saturated and got totally lost), and with the OCD with volume, tone and drive at 12 oclock and HP switch on, I got a fat but bright marshally tone.
With my lap steel all three pedals worked much as for the tele but the real surprise was the FF which was super detailed and needed no volume cut (probably because it only has a bright rear tele pu)- huge.
With the ESP paramount (humbuckers) the TS is too midrangey on the back pu but can be sort of nice jazz-on-the -edge on the front pu. With the FF it is ok with the volume cut quite a bit. With the OCD it totally rules!
The point of all this- try your pedals with different settings, guitars, pickups and styles. Don't write one off until you've tried a lot of combinations- it might just work in some situations.
All the best Brett
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Post by Matt H. on Feb 3, 2007 6:36:29 GMT -7
Good Point! The Ghia is so versatile when it comes to guitars and pedals. It's almost impossible to make it sound bad. I do, however; have a EH Engligh Muff'n I plugged in to the Ghia for about 2 minutes before giving up, but that was when I first got the Ghia - and I was obsessed w/ the dry sound of the amp - I guess I still am. Perhaps I'll have to give it another try - maybe w/ a tele instead of the strat.
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Post by straightblues on Feb 26, 2007 17:16:00 GMT -7
I am using a Danelectro Daddy O with my Ghia. I have 10 other amps and the Daddy O sounded like crap with them all. I plugged it into the Ghia and it just kills. So yes, matching the right pedal, guitar and amp are important. You never know which ones will sound great to you until you try them.
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Post by guitarboy02451 on Mar 3, 2007 13:56:42 GMT -7
I use the RC, AC and BB as well as a Sparke Drive and they all sound awesome. Hands down the winning pedal infront of a Ghia is the Xotic AC.
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Post by soulcall on Mar 9, 2007 4:19:50 GMT -7
I agree. These amps love pedals. I use Tonefactor's "huckleberry" fuzz pedal and it sounds like a tube amp turned way up and is also musically sensitive to my volume control. I also have used the RC and AC boost pedals which are awesome.
soulcall
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