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Author Message Mrryte Username: Mrryte Registered: 01-2006 Posted on Tuesday, February 21, 2006 - 4:18 pm:    Recently me and a few friends had an interesting discussion about the differences between the TS7 and DS7. One of them had brought the DS7 pedal with him and compared it to my TS7. He said the that the TS7 sounded weak and soft compared to the DS7. I said that the TS7 is "SUPPOSED" to sound that way since it's an OVERDRIVE pedal and not a DISTORTION pedal. That's when the others chimed in about how the TS7 "just doesn't cut it". Now correct me if I'm wrong but isn't overdrive SUPPOSED to be milder and softer than distortion? Craigjc Username: Craigjc Registered: 11-2002 Posted on Wednesday, February 22, 2006 - 10:14 am:    Yes. Heynicerack Username: Heynicerack Registered: 02-2006 Posted on Wednesday, February 22, 2006 - 9:02 pm:    An overdrive is supposed to give a volume boost to overdrive an amp and create distortion inside the amp. They were invented to push the output valves harder in amps which had no master volume control, to get an overdriven sound at volumes which didn't cause deafness. This is why the Tube Screamer was called the Tube Screamer, it was designed to make tubes scream. The distortion pedal was a later invention, designed to create a large part of the distortion inside the pedal rather than from pushing the amp. Mainly because transistor amps comparatively sucked as far as creating distortion inside the amp goes. Also, master volume controls were added to amps so that the preamp valves could be overdriven. Preamp (which is called high-gain or metal) distortion became favoured over output distortion, which is a more bluesy type of sound. It's a lot more grey than this, but basically an overdrive is meant to be a volume boost used to create distortion within the output stage of an amplifier. So an overdrive pedal should therefore sound cleaner than a distortion pedal, which is meant to create its own distortion. I'm pretty sure I didn't make that up. Mrryte Username: Mrryte Registered: 01-2006 Posted on Thursday, February 23, 2006 - 11:02 am:    Thanks Heynicerack. If it's alright by you I'm going to copy, print and show that to those guys when I see them again. Filthgrinder Username: Filthgrinder Registered: 04-2006 Posted on Sunday, April 09, 2006 - 3:22 am:    I'm using my TS7 to boost my solid state Peavey & it rules.

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