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i just got one of the new Digitech Hardwire SC-2 Valve Distortion pedals. Wow. What a great pedal. All of the new Hardwire pedals are high-voltage, true bypass. I've got the SC-2 in front of my Express 5:50 1x12 and it works great as a boost to the Burn channel, or as a medium gain overdrive...

i just got one of the new Digitech Hardwire SC-2 Valve Distortion pedals. Wow. What a great pedal. All of the new Hardwire pedals are high-voltage, true bypass. I've got the SC-2 in front of my Express 5:50 1x12 and it works great as a boost to the Burn channel, or as a medium gain overdrive...

I too use the Channels on my 5:50 1x12 in reverse. I've got Channel 1 set to Crunch with the gain all the way up and Channel 2 set to blues with the gain at about 10. I love the way this setup works. If you need any more gain, you can always put a pedal in front.

Which is exactly why I've only replaced the bridge pickup. With the humbucker in the bridge, you can get great rock tones with lots of gain, but still have the other two single-coils to get great strat sounds. Makes sense to me.

I play a strat through my 5:50. My suggestion is swap your bridge pickup with a stacked humbucker like a DiMarzio Pro Track or Seymour Duncan Hot Rails. It makes all the difference when finding good gain sounds.

Honestly, my favorite tone so far on my 5:50 is the crunch mode with the gain all the way up and master anywhere over 10 o'clock. I started with the instant gratification setting from the manual and tweaked it ever so slightly. I've recorded this tone and it reminds me a lot of Adam Jones'...

I've had the Express 5:50 1x12 combo for a couple of months now. Freakin awesome amp! I get all sorts of tones out of it. I typically have the Crunch mode set at full gain for my crunch sounds. I've got my blues mode set at low gain for my cleaner tones. I put a Boss DS-1 distortion pedal in...