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Mr Grumpy

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...speakers and cabs.

Marshall often limit their lower cost amps by their speaker choices. The DSL1 having that awful standard 8" speaker is a travesty.

But, here's what sounds you can open up with a few changes:

 
syscokid said:
You have a long way to go... :wink:
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Haha... :D

Just looking at a pedal to push the new amp. It's one you have, and I liked it better with the Origin 20 (which is a similar type to the Cornell) than any other pedal I tried. After downsizing, I am building back up again with lessons learnt...
 
Mr Grumpy said:
Haha... :D

Just looking at a pedal to push the new amp. It's one you have, and I liked it better with the Origin 20 (which is a similar type to the Cornell) than any other pedal I tried. After downsizing, I am building back up again with lessons learnt...
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Oh, so THAT’S why you’re asking about OD pedals in the other thread!

Gotcha.

Well, in that case allow me to suggest a....TubeScreamer!

Seriously, TubeScreamers have always married up well with Marshalls.
 
smitty_p said:
Well, in that case allow me to suggest a....TubeScreamer!
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:ROFLMAO:

You know, and I'm sure this was my incompetence..., I got a TS808 to push the Origin but I never got the sounds I had hoped for. It took me time, and it got better when I realized that I had to take the tone right down (and remove some of the amp highs, and a some mids too), but never sounded as good as the footswitchable boost 'channel'. I couldn't get the bloody fuzz (Catalinbread Katzenkonig - I'm sure I spell this differently every time...) to work either; &, I'm sure that's my uselessness too.

The OCD is really simple to use and all settings were nice, from a boost to adding thump, girth, drive, and not really colouring the amp (which worked for me). It just worked out of the box for the idiot named Mr Grumpy.

When the amp comes, I'll be putting the OCD into it, and if that doesn't work then I'll be Hotone Xtomp Tubescreamer into the amp - if that works better then I'll do a Smitty Told Me So... thread. :D A lot of it seems to be amp by amp, or just we get something in our head that we prefer a particular pedal then we make that pedal work for us. The more and more I mess around in this area, there simply isn't a tone to strive for or a better sound, it's all insanity. Human beings are fundamentally insane.
 
Mr Grumpy said:
:ROFLMAO:

You know, and I'm sure this was my incompetence..., I got a TS808 to push the Origin but I never got the sounds I had hoped for. It took me time, and it got better when I realized that I had to take the tone right down (and remove some of the amp highs, and a some mids too), but never sounded as good as the footswitchable boost 'channel'.
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I would always opt for the overdrive channel of an amp over a pedal!

But, I don’t use an overdrive pedal (such as the aforementioned standard by which all other “overdrive” pedals, so called, are judged...the TubeScreamer), as a replacement for the amp’s own overdrive channel.

I use it to add a bit more “hair” or gain to a clean channel or to add more saturation to the amp’s high-gain channel.

By the way, have I mentioned using the TubeScreamer, yet?
 
My upcoming amp (which I'm rather hoping will blow me away...) is a single channel, but has a switch that goes between clean and mean.

Basically, this is what I'm hoping for... :dood:

 

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