Pedal to create a "3rd" channel

[jsabo]

hey dudes

I own a rectoverb 50 watt combo and i LOVE it

but i do wish i had a 3nd channel sandwiched in between clean and super heavy

what pedal do you recommend for this?

I'm already going to have either an OCD, an ibanez tubescreamer or a keeley modded blues driver for bluesey stuff, so don't include those.

I've heard good things about the mi audio crunch box?

Thanks.

 

[mikey383]

What I use to get a 3rd channel?


A Digitech GSP2101. It's an old school rackmount processor, but it works great in the loop of a Recto set to full wet.

I have mine set up so that I'm using the processor for cleans, but have my orange channel gain, and red channel gain.

If you're wanting to go with a pedal, the OCD is a great mid-gain pedal. It won't get you into metal territory, but it does hard/heavy rock very well. Much better than a tubescreamer.

 

[davidfloyd]

The other thing to consider is to to set your second channel as your medium-gain and simply boost it with something transparent to become the gain channel.

 

[Heritage Softail]

Xotic has a few boost products, one may work for you. Demo if you can. There is a guy posting here that has a few youtubes of Xotic pedals. Wickedly effective gear. Thread search.... Even if you don't like the pedal, the playing in the link is killer.

 

[dap9]

Fultone OCD (I have verson 3) is exactly what I use w/ my Tremoverb. I've recently made a Catalinbread DLS clone which is a really cool Marshall-in-a-box pedal. They're both really good, but IMO, the OCD sounds crappy at the higher gain settings. Neither one sounds like the other, and they're both pretty sweet. But if I had to choose one over the other, I'd go w/ the DLS.