Distortion Guidance.

[Slowy]

Standing in for a covers band recently confirmed that I can happily do an entire gig with the Korinacaster. It also showed that I have good tone, but even with a DLS and Boss OD3 maxed out, way too much headroom.

The Korinacaster is a Tele with the heart of a Les Paul Junior. It's way fatter and more powerful than you'd expect. My JTM45 and THD cabinet produce any tone I want, but often at much more volume than I can use. ( And this band ain't quiet. My ears are hurting )

I'm looking for a stompbox fix. Think AC/DC, ZZ Top tones. Obviously, it needs to work with single coils and it also needs to be articulate. I often pick with my chubby fingertips and I hate mush.

Hotcakes in this rig are too raspy for my taste. The obvious solution is a small Matamp and a Les Paul, but I'm not Unique.
I've thought of using an attenuator, but I do use those clean tones a lot and it seems easier just to get dirty sound from a box.

Anybody got some suggestions?

[mr_sooty]

G2D Classic. Very much old school Marshall grind and works great at pushing a tube amp and giving it that extra little somthing. Great for AC/DC sounds with a humbucker.

[Ironbird13]

try a Blooddrive

[Slowy]

G2D Classic. Very much old school Marshall grind and works great at pushing a tube amp and giving it that extra little somthing. Great for AC/DC sounds with a humbucker.

But Sooty, I'm not using a humbucker....
Will try one tho, thanks.

[Ironbird13]

the Blooddrive gave Alanp's SC strat a nice crunch the other day, and they're cheap, if you get past the coffin shape i find it responds well to pick attack as well

[Slowy]

the Blooddrive gave Alanp's SC strat a nice crunch the other day, and they're cheap, if you get past the coffin shape i find it responds well to pick attack as well

Just YouToob'd it. Looks meh but sounds promising. Are they available locally?

[Hamburgla]

The Blood Drive is disturbingly nice, even with the wacky coffin case.

I really like my Caitlinbread Teaser Stallion - great with single coils + humbuckers, versatile & clear. Try one out if you can. (Beware it's second 'kick me out of the band button', though...)

[mr_sooty]

G2D Classic. Very much old school Marshall grind and works great at pushing a tube amp and giving it that extra little somthing. Great for AC/DC sounds with a humbucker.

But Sooty, I'm not using a humbucker....
Will try one tho, thanks.

If you're going for AC/DC meets ZZ Top, you should try a Humbucker!

[Ironbird13]

the Blooddrive gave Alanp's SC strat a nice crunch the other day, and they're cheap, if you get past the coffin shape i find it responds well to pick attack as well

Just YouToob'd it. Looks meh but sounds promising. Are they available locally?

yep, they're a CoffinCase product

[Cdog]

If you haven't tried one of them yet, those Blackstar HT tube 'preamp' pedals are very well designed and can turn your polite clean channel into a tube wrecking ball.
The prollem with most ODs IMO is they require the amp to be pushed hard to sound really good, hence the volume/headroom issues. Get a nice tube preamp pedal and the magic happens on the floor before it hits your amp
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CDI3NGGkBs[/youtube]

[Slowy]

G2D Classic. Very much old school Marshall grind and works great at pushing a tube amp and giving it that extra little somthing. Great for AC/DC sounds with a humbucker.

But Sooty, I'm not using a humbucker....
Will try one tho, thanks.

If you're going for AC/DC meets ZZ Top, you should try a Humbucker!

No argument from me, but I'm trying to make the Korinacaster into the only gig guitar I need. Cos I really really like it. And a Lollar Special T with the tone wound back 50% is way closer to a humbucker than you might think.

[mr_sooty]

a Lollar Special T with the tone wound back 50% is way closer to a humbucker than you might think.

Sweet, then I'll stick with my original recommendation.

[Miza]

MI Audio Crunchbox?

[Sabbath Bloody Sabbath]

I've got one of these, I might be looking at selling it shortly. Sounds great with all pickups and can definitely do the AC/DC thing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn50XYYMoBA

[hamo]

MI Audio Crunchbox?

I second that. Or a Wampler Plextortion.