Rick05 Posted July 19, 2016 Share Posted July 19, 2016 Hi Everyone, I am slowly building up my board and trying to get a few different types of overdrive ad distortion for my bands songs. Currently I have tuner -> compressor -> octave -> darkglass duality distortion -> reverb -> chorus -> Tech 21 VT Sansamp. The distortion and sansamp work so well together and love the tone, but I have found would like another option for overdrive. Knowing how good darkglass are I have been looking at getting the bk3 and putting it between the octave and distortion pedals. I could then have just a the Sansamp or both the sansamp and bk3 tones for two awesome overdrive sounds. People have been great with advice before here and wanted to ask if this would be a good idea for two types of overdrive, while keeping the sansamp at the end of the chain for DI. This sounds good in my head, but does anyone have experience doing this? Will they work well together, or is this a waste of money and board space? Thanks for looking, Rick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmo Valdemar Posted July 19, 2016 Share Posted July 19, 2016 Are you using the Sansamp as a preamp or just part of the pedal chain? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanEly Posted July 19, 2016 Share Posted July 19, 2016 Stick the B3K after the duality if you do get one. I use a B7K after my Duality with a octave to add more weight behind what I'm playing. Saying that, I use a tone hammer at the end of my chain as a (clean) pre-amp. Personally I wouldn't use another drive at the end of my chain if I was using another one in the middle, I reckon it might get a bit squashy and mushy. I have tried using the grit on my tone hammer at the end and it just ruined my tone as soon as I kicked in any fuzz or distortions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick05 Posted July 19, 2016 Author Share Posted July 19, 2016 (edited) Thanks for the replies I use the sansamp at the end of my chain with both drive and presence on to beef up my sound, so when I play the pedal is always on. So I think I use it as a preamp then? I could see using another overdrive pedal to give a different driving sound. The sansamp and bk3 would both be on then. Edited July 19, 2016 by Rick05 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick05 Posted July 19, 2016 Author Share Posted July 19, 2016 Sorry guys, if I'd looked a bit harder there's a post further down about this http://basschat.co.uk/topic/287686-sansamp-para-driver-di-darkglass-b3k/page__pid__3087377#entry3087377 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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