All makes sense. Sansamp at the end of the chain it is...
Out of interest, if one of your channels on the Sansamp, or one of your pedals, ends up being massively louder when you click it than your normal sound, what happens in the front of house sound?
I find its quite hard to get everything to be within the same volume range, but I suppose it has to be done, and thats what sound checks are for!
Its nice to have a distortion a bit louder than your clean sound for that extra bit of balls, whats a safe louder volume to keep it at without drowning everything else out?
alh: the sobbat is just a nice boutique pedal I heard someone play through once for a lovely overdriven tone, and I had to find it!