Boss Metal Zone vs. Soldano Supercharger GTO

[shredfit]

Outlaws,

When you hit a tube amp with a boosted line signal... your really just overdriving the pre-amp section of the tube amp... hence, "a overdrive pedal." It has really nothing to do with the power tubes... To achieve power tube satuation(which is what I think your refering to) you need to turn the amp up bigtime! (crank the sheet out of it!)... Which in most cases, this isn't viable becase of the sheer volume involved...(even in some smaller amps) not to mention very hard on speaker due to occational DC thoughput

I do admit power tube satuation can be pretty sweet sounding... one work-around to achieve power tube satuation is a soak of some kind...(ie the Marshall powerbrake) which allows you to attunate the speaker output...with the amp just screaming...

Another much more dangerous(to the amp) way is to lower the power section input voltage(which requires rebiasing of the amp) and of course a stand alone voltage generator(this is what Eddie Van Halen did with his Variac).

All that said, When you use a tube to preamp your amps preamp(which is what you do with a tube pedal)...your just kind of adding another tube to the preamp section of your amp...If this tube is driven hard/with high levels... your tube amps preamps will overdrive and you'll have distortion bliss!!! If the tube pedal is designed well... I can be very quiet(my Varidrive produces less noise than either of my Rat pedals).

I've tried every other tube pedal on that planet...and must admit most of them totally suck!

And yes that Soldano pedal in overly noisy!

The power from my sound(using the Varidrive) comes from My marshalls EL34's

Shred

 

[Metalheartnm156]

Yeah, I have a Fender Blues Junior. I bought it out of a desperate need to have a tube practice/recording amp. It doesn't get the kind of gain I'm looking for when it's controls are sitting on 10. That's why I want a tube overdrive/distortion pedal.

What about the Mesa Boogie V-1 Bottle Rocket? Anybody heard one before?

I have the Mesa Boogie V1 bottle rocket pedal and it sounds sweet, u can use with any amp to give u extra channel. I also use a Hughes & kettner Tube Factor pedal, it has 2 channels, the 1st channel boost every thing but drive and the 2nd channel is your lead. A little noisy ,but it sounds like Honey!

 

[distortedrumble]

Opinions are of course subjective, especially w/r/t to sound. But it has been empirically proven that Boss distortions are the worst thing you can do to a guitar. Soldano is limited though, they have one sound and they do it very well, but that sound and slight variations are about all you're gonna get.

i disagree i had a good ol' time with my metal zone pedal. i now use boss GT-6 and still use the distortion on that too......i would suggest trying out many different pedals before deciding on one for a distortion or one for an overdrive.

i would start tossing insults at suckahassler here but I'm going to take the high road