upnorthbacon
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I got a great deal on a Peavey mini-colossal that I couldn't pass up. I've heard great things about them and it should be here this week. I went out on a limb with buying it before playing it, but I really like the idea behind the amp. Anyway I've heard to get a real high gain sound I need a pedal, although I haven't verified this yet. I'd like to get a classic rock crunch leaning towards maybe even some heavier distortion but not scooped metal sound. I've played with pedals before but I only used them on the amps clean channel and used the pedal for all the distortion. Would something like a tube screamer be used to boost the already distorted signal to get more gain? If so do I run the distortion pedal through the effects loop or straight in? I want to keep the good tube preamp sound without using the preamp out of a pedal, I've never really liked the tones I get from most distortion pedals, but I've always used solid state modeling amps. This is going to replace my current practice amp (My cube 15) I can't wait to get it this week.