Distortion Pedal Shootout! '80's ProCo Rat v. aboriginal MI Audio Crunch Box

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Starts with distortion dimed. At 1:14 I dial them down to about 6, with various guitar vol/pu settings; at 3:00 I turn the distortion way down, then gradually toe them back up. At 5:40 the amp is turned up louder but not cranked, and the pedals are full on again, for harmonic feedback (audio in this section is just the camera mic). In all cases I had the pedal volumes set for unity gain, give or take. The Upstairs Critics at 8:16.. Playing a 1991 Fender USA Strat Plus with Fender-Lace Sensor pickups (neck/middle: gold; bridge: silver) into an '86-'88 ProCo Rat (the black pedal), then into MI Audio Crunch Box (the red pedal). Both pedals are true bypass so I daisy chained instead of using a/b switch. Then into a Pignose B100V amp head, into a Yamaha S412 4x12 cab loaded with Celestions. For the first 5 minutes 40 seconds the amp is on about 5 (loud enough to play with a drummer--thus some of the unwanted feedback you hear early on, as I was standing two feet from the amp/speakers--single coil pickups are naturally pretty noisy, but neither pedal is noisier than the average distortion pedal; I'll say the Crunch Box is slightly quieter than the Rat in actual use). All tone knobs on the amp are around 5 (approximately flat). Yes this is a bass head, a Dennis Kager designed clone of the famous Ampeg B15 flip top but with four 6L6 power tubes instead of two. It's just a very solid clean tube head that passes the true tone of any guitar or bass right on through with minimal ...



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