tedmanzie Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 Just bought a Fulltone OCDv4 on this forum, it has a great overdrive sound! Certainly better than my Maxon OD9 pro+ However I was after a just a tiny touch of overdrive to my funky Strat clean sound and the OCD (in fact [i]all[/i] my overdrives/distortions) remove some of the thickness and 'snap' from the sound even when they are barely overdriving. I figured I'd give a blender a go so I could mix a touch of OD in parallel with my clean signal. Couldn't stretch to the Xotic blender so went for a Boss LS-2. After about 25 minutes trying to work out how to do it I finally figured it out. Success! A perfect (for me) blend of OD without losing any of the clean snap. In fact it opens up a load of new sounds - you can really ramp up the OD but only mix in a [i]tiny[/i] bit to the clean sound which gives a new kind of clean/thick sound all together. This is the same way that 'parallel compression' is quite a thing in the production world - mixing in a touch of super compressed drums to the clean drums for massive drums. Just thought I'd report back. Cheers Ted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwi Posted November 20, 2014 Share Posted November 20, 2014 I've achieved something similar using two amps - one clean and one dirty to keep things fairly articulate. The sound reminded me of the guitarist from Bryan Adam's band - Keith Scott. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tedmanzie Posted November 23, 2014 Author Share Posted November 23, 2014 good idea! i've only got one amp but i like the idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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