Distortion Pedal For Plugging Direct Into the Board

[kinggabbo]

Our praise band has a gig coming up where we can't use amps and have to plug into the board. I am looking for a distortion pedal that would sound good plugged into the board. I'm not looking for a tubescreamer sound. I have one of those I will be using as well. I'm also not looking for a multi-effects pedal.

I'm more looking into a heavier sounding distortion. I often use a Peavey Classic 30 with the gain turned up around 6-8, so I would be looking for a pedal with about that amount of distortion that won't sound buzzy and horrible through the PA.

Any suggestions?

 

[middy]

Tech 21 Blonde SansAmp

 

[telewacked]

You might look for an Award Session JD10 - I have an older one and it has some real nice distortion tones and is made to also act as a preamp, however, I've only run mine thru an amp.

I found a quick link here http://www.award-session.com/jd10.html

 

[DADGAD]

A lot of the Digitech pedals have a speaker emulated output jack that is voiced to plug directly into a board.

As well as PODs, Digitech Multi-effects, the Korg Pandora, etc.

 

[bigbandtele]

Any of the Tech21 character pedals, or their GT2.

 

[00JETT]

Ya +1 on the preamp type pedals, just using a distortion box into a PA will still sound like poop unless it has a line level/headphone out.

 

[Ronsonic]

As pointed out, you really want speaker / cab / mic emulation. The Sansamp stuff works. Used Pods can be had for $50 on up. For a low budget, look into the Vox amplug gadgets.

 

[Breezecookie]

+++ on the Tech 21 Blonde (or any of the character series). I played a coffeehouse last night with my Blonde straight to the board- clean for the first half, light Bassman crunch for the second half. Best I've ever sounded there.

 

[fakeocaster]

jd 10

 

[kinggabbo]

Thanks guys. Am now looking for some kind of amp sim type pedal like you all said. If necessary, I guess I can use a POD.

 

[mrSlush50]

Tech 21 Blonde SansAmp

+1

 

[kinggabbo]

Been looking on and listening to the Tech21 website. Man, those pedals sound great. I am definitely interested in getting at least one of them, if not before the upcoming gig, sometime soon.

 

[ravindave_3600]

Been looking on and listening to the Tech21 website. Man, those pedals sound great. I am definitely interested in getting at least one of them, if not before the upcoming gig, sometime soon.

I can recommend their Liverpool both for guitar (nice Voxy tone) and bass (full, and much lighter for small gigs than my GK set up).

 

[fuddy]

I used the Liverpool for awhile--beautiful Vox tone, but I had some noise issues with it--could be just the combination of the Liverpool with our mixer, I'm not sure--but it seemed to have some hiss or buzz. Now I use a Digitech RP1000, and it's perfect for our setup.

 

[ravindave_3600]

I've had no problems with mine. In fact, it's quieter than most tube amps.

 

[BobHolland]

Digitech Bad Monkey is pedal that is usually cheap, sounds good & has a amp & mixer out.

 

[A.B.Negative]

Another vote here for Tech 21. I have British pedal which can sound exactly like my Marshall. From what I've read, the others in the series are just as good.

 

[dhuber]

Behringer V Amp Pro, 2, or 3 plugged into a Behringer Direct Box. Cheap and dirty but it works and I've done it before. Another route is pedals plugged into a Crate Power Block. The Crate Power Block and V Amp Pro have Direct Outputs on them so they work real nice. Crate Power Blocks are becoming hard to come by but Behringer V Amps can be picked up cheap on ebay.

 

[songofthewind]

Morley/Award Session JD-10. Has a hi/lo gain switch, on high is very thick if you need it. Speaker sim switch too, and 3 band EQ.
I record direct to computer with it, excellent results, and it's also good for generally fattening/clean boosting your sound. Built like a tank.

 

[tjalla]

I'd highly recommend a Palmer PDI-09 filtered direct box. This way you can use any OD pedal. I run a pair after my ODs (menatones mainly) to DD20 direct to board every Sun AM.