Pedals in front of a rocket.....
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Pedals in front of a rocket.....
I just found a great pedal match for a rocket....The whiteface RAT 85 reissue!! Sounds like metal....
I tried before tube screamer style and it wasn't a good match at all!!
Other pedal I loved in front of the rocket is the D*A*M red rooster, What a sound!! instant Brian May lyrical melodic goodness!! Other experts had recommended fuzz pedals, I'm sure germanium transistor fuzzes would sound awesome!!. It makes it a really versatile amp. I still love it with nothing in front but AC/DC crunch would be its limit.
What a great amp!! thanks Ken!!!
Happy Thanksgiving everyone here!! I love The Amp Garage!!
I tried before tube screamer style and it wasn't a good match at all!!
Other pedal I loved in front of the rocket is the D*A*M red rooster, What a sound!! instant Brian May lyrical melodic goodness!! Other experts had recommended fuzz pedals, I'm sure germanium transistor fuzzes would sound awesome!!. It makes it a really versatile amp. I still love it with nothing in front but AC/DC crunch would be its limit.
What a great amp!! thanks Ken!!!
Happy Thanksgiving everyone here!! I love The Amp Garage!!
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I just got a Wampler Tweed 57 pedal and that really works great infront of my Rocket.
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Radial ToneBone - I use a Hot British.
Set the amp up for sparkly clean & use the tonebone for crunch.
Set the amp up for sparkly clean & use the tonebone for crunch.
Why Aye Man
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Push pedal, Geek Screamer, OCD, and many others work great for the Rocket.
I like to set the amp just about where it starts to breakup, then use pedals for the boost,or other effects you might want to use.
But yeah, a pedal in front of this amp works very well.
I like to set the amp just about where it starts to breakup, then use pedals for the boost,or other effects you might want to use.
But yeah, a pedal in front of this amp works very well.
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To keep my Rocket amps on the cleaner side I use low plate 100k on V1.
A stock Rocket breaks up too early for me. If I need more boost I either set the amp up with foot switch V1b gain boost or use pedal board to get my distortion.
Mark
A stock Rocket breaks up too early for me. If I need more boost I either set the amp up with foot switch V1b gain boost or use pedal board to get my distortion.
Mark
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My two favorites are a homemade OCD and a four knob GE fuzz with the roger Mayer mods.
I'm curious about the hotcake and maybe the zen drive.
This thread needs some clips!
I'm curious about the hotcake and maybe the zen drive.
This thread needs some clips!
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what about a rangemaster I've got acouple and gonna build a 2x7591 rocket soon
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I have used a homemade treble booster some times but used my Zendrive quite often with the Rocket.
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Never though about a zendrive!! to me a zendrive should be in front of a blackface fender or clone so when you step on it you can have dumble overdrive channel.
Since the rocket is more vox style, a treble booster provides Bryan May and a distorsion pedal could get plexi cranked tones!!
Interesting examples here to see what sounds good to people. I didn't like a tube screamer in front of it at all!!
Since the rocket is more vox style, a treble booster provides Bryan May and a distorsion pedal could get plexi cranked tones!!
Interesting examples here to see what sounds good to people. I didn't like a tube screamer in front of it at all!!
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A friend did recommend an OCD.
But then he said "bet you have to have more than 1"
I thought he was winding me up. He knows my OC tendencies.
Maybe he wasn't.
Maybe I need 2 or 3...
Maybe I need a bigger pedal board.
I definitely need more amps.
And guitars.
And stuff.
I should get an OCD pedal to start the process.
I really like the Tonebone though. Great for punching in the leads.
But then he said "bet you have to have more than 1"
I thought he was winding me up. He knows my OC tendencies.
Maybe he wasn't.
Maybe I need 2 or 3...
Maybe I need a bigger pedal board.
I definitely need more amps.
And guitars.
And stuff.
I should get an OCD pedal to start the process.
I really like the Tonebone though. Great for punching in the leads.
Why Aye Man
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I have an old expensive TS-9 I don't like at all, so I use Boss Blues Driver for one type of drive and the Zendrive for a wide range of drive tones very smooth. Now with the addition of the Wampler Tweed 57 I can cover a lot of territory through that voxy sounding EL84's.
Mark
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Re: Pedals in front of a rocket.....
I use a Zendrive and an Analog Man "King of Tone" for OD.
Also an Analog Man "ARDX20 Dual Analog Delay" to thicken things up a bit, or for slap-back.
Also an Analog Man "ARDX20 Dual Analog Delay" to thicken things up a bit, or for slap-back.