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From: Renato Padovani Tognolo
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 15:38:18 -0200
Subject: Re: digital equipment vs. vintage amps

Mike Curtis wrote:
>
> (...)
> I tried a Boss Blues Driver last month for guitar and harp. What a piece
> of junk.
>

It worked for me. My band's guitarist has one and its the only
distortion pedal that I tried and liked. I have a Bassman RI+Bluesblaster
and sometimes I miss a little distortion on the sound.

I don't have too much mileage on the matter, because I am 24
years old and music shops here in Brazil don't have a big variety of
equipment so we can try them all.

Among all my experiences, the overdrives I liked were:

- Fender Blues Deluxe
- A solid-state Fender Deluxe (?) 112, distortion on,
gain knob at *zero*, volume knob at 0.5 (this little amp is 90W,
makes a LOT of noise!!!)
- The Boss Blues Driver

(I'd like to note that the only that I really *liked* was
the Blues Deluxe sound. The other two were ok also, but I had the
chance to buy them and preferred to save my money and try to buy
one more amp [maybe a Fender Blues Jr.])

Not suited for harp (at least, for my taste):

- Ibanez TubeScreamer TS-10
- Marshall Valvestates (_this_ is a piece of crap)
- Marshall JTM-30 amp

Not so bad at all:

- My little battery-powered 1W Marshall amp cranked to the
limit :-)

And, Mike, I once attended a concert where the harp player
was using, guess what, Green Bullet + blackface Champ. Sounded
*great* but that harp player would sound great on almost any setup...
It provides some warm distortion indeed....


Padovani