Has he always used two tubescreamers for his crunch and lead tones? I know this is pretty unpractical, especially when he was using a CAE 3+ preamp which has gnarly and natural clean, crunch, and lead tones on it's own. Also I know when he was using the Fenders he had a footswitch for the amp's clean an OD. So how does he use the 2 tubescreamers? Is one of them purely for sustain or something? I can't imagine that sounding good, but I can't deny his badass lead tones. His Great Went guitar tones make my mouth water.
And it looks like he's running that single-channel (with no boost) preamp into the Mesa's power section now, leading me to believe that he truly does rely on the tubescreamers for his channel changing. Thoughts?
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yes the analog man silver mods make them work better togeather and reduce the "pedal sound" on a regular TS 9.. he keeps one on all the time @ low crunch usually (but from what i understand has been know to change settings depending on bands etc) and then the second one is kicked on to kick it up a notch..to me its brilliant as it keeps the tone true regardless of the amount of OD he is going with.. if i were you i would look at www.analogman.com (tube screamer page) and just get your google on to read more..