For rhythm guitars, it seems to me that turning the gain down to near 0 gives me a better mix. The TS distortion seems to muddy things up. Anyone agree? Where do y'all have your settings?
How Much Tube Screamer Gain
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Well I think he was using the Tube Screamer's level rather than gain (meaning Drive), so it was more of a clean boost than a distortion pedal
Are you talking about level or drive? In my experience, a hot level works well to drive a low gained 5150 but a hot drive into the 5150 sounds like the poop.
Word. I usually have my drive somewhere between 0 and 9 o' clock, never higher than 10 o' clock. My level is usually between 1 and 3 o' clock and tone between 10 and 12 o' clock.
You want to leave the drive around 0 at the middle usually...but the gain should be all the way to the left to be 0.
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yeah - boosting the level hitting the amp, although i did have the drive at about 10 o clock or so
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I use the level at 12 o clock with my EMG's, with passive pickups I give it some more to 1 or 2 o clock depending on what I want.
The tone most of the time on 4-5 o clock. Always drive on zero.
I do like the drive for use with clean channels and giving it a very soft crunch that doesn't sound annoying. Most of the time I don't like to use too much gain on my amp on clean channels because I can't find a sweet spot where a little bit of distortion softly pops in here and there, but the tube screamer drive helps alot with that, so I only use it to give a little bit of crunch on clean channels (which it gives anyway, also on zero, but I like to give it some more then)
The tone most of the time on 4-5 o clock. Always drive on zero.
I do like the drive for use with clean channels and giving it a very soft crunch that doesn't sound annoying. Most of the time I don't like to use too much gain on my amp on clean channels because I can't find a sweet spot where a little bit of distortion softly pops in here and there, but the tube screamer drive helps alot with that, so I only use it to give a little bit of crunch on clean channels (which it gives anyway, also on zero, but I like to give it some more then)
