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What do people think of an ibanez tubescreamer (TS5. TS7 or TS808) Trying to
get a late 80s/early 90s metallica sound and I would be using the pedal with
a gibson explorer and a marshall avt150 (if anyone knows hot to use the fx
loop on that I would be very grateful if you could share it with me)

TIA

Dave

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Dave wrote:


Normally used to overdrive the front end valve of a valve amp. Its
own distortion tends to be a bit fizzy and unconvincing. Its the
unconvincing nature of its natural distortion that has resulted
in companies like Fulltone producing boutique versions. These are
almost invariably electronically modified Tubescreamers to
try and improve the natural distortion of the box. If your
planning to use it with an AVT, which is essentially a tranny amp)
its unlikely to work well.


Probably better (and cheaper!) with a Boss Metal Zone or similar.


According to the info site I checked, it has 2 FX loops. Both
are parallel loops with a return pot on the front panel, so that
would limit it to time delay effects (chorus, phase,flange,reverb,
digital delay etc). If it were a series loop, you could add in
tremelo and possibly filter effects like wah. To use, set up your
fx (say chorus) with the desired speed and depth,and use the front
panel FX control on the AVT now becomes FX return. You may have to
adjust the levels on the back of the amp to make sure they match
your fx pedal and dont overload it. Usually, theres a small slide
switch or a level pot for setting this on the back somewhere.

DO NOT put a compressor in this loop (or any loop for that matter).
All it would do is make the amp very noisy. Compressors go between
your guitar and the amp.

I have tried a boss metalzone pedal (guitar - pedal - front socket on amp)
and only got a sound that I could match with the overdrive1 setting built
into the amp.

What other similar pedal could you reccomend?

Dave

How?

S

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Ive tried that amp setting and it isnt to my taste... turning the mid to
zero improves it but its still not what I want

Has anyone had a go on a marshall jackhammer jh-1?

Dave wrote in news:4L-
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Ive got a Marshall Jackhammer. Ive never tried replicating the Metallica
sound with it (I prefer to use my own sounds even when doing covers) but
its very flexible and should be able to do what you want. Its also got a
sh**load of gain too :)

cheers
Fred