How do you get your dirt?

[Cjteleforum]

Just curious how people get their basic dirty sound
EDIT added modelling amp

 

[Jakedog]

I voted for the last one, cause it was closest.

I like to set my master volume amps up so that with the guitar wide open, I can get everything from super quiet and totally clean, to full band gig rhythm volume and light breakup with just my right hand dynamics.

Then I have four gain stages on the board that all stack beautifully. So I can add or take away as much as I need. They are Comp, TS808, Em Drive (a low gain transparent drive), and clean boost. In that order.

 

[Chud]

It really depends on the amp, but pretty much what @Jakedog said. I’m not at four gain stages on the small board I use most, but definitely three if you count the Keeley comp along with the TC Spark clean boost and TS mini.

 

[MilwMark]

Set the MV amp for maximum appropriate volume and maximum desired dirt with the guitar volume wide open. Then use technique and volume knob to control saturation and volume. SD1 for leads.

 

[Killing Floor]

Pedals into clean but that pedal is a tube preamp. Just blossom most of the time unless I hit a fuzz pedal.

 

[sax4blues]

All the above
Edit- add Helix

 

[Refugee]

Mark III was the most fun. Dime the clean, which stays clean. AM mini bicomp, Ross side. I would run it with bass off. Into Maxon SD9. Gain channel set low.

 

[39martind18]

Grab a shovel, head to the backyard and...

 

[AlbertaGriff]

Sometimes I like just a cranked amp.

Sometimes I like pedals into a pushed amp.

Sometimes I like pedals into a clean amp.

I don't have any MV amps but I bet I'd like using them sometimes if I had them.

 

[stratoman1]

I get mine from my amps. There's enough gain in my Mesa, Hughes and Kettner and Blackstar amps that going to outside sources isn't needed. I do push them pretty hard and use a passive attenuator in the loop to not irritate the neighbors though

 

[drmordo]

I voted "Master volume amp, no pedals", which is typical for me. But I do sometimes like to use fuzz, and then it's a fuzz into a dirty amp, and I clean it up with the volume knob.

 

[gitold]

All of the above.

 

[Maguchi]

The first two choices. Straight into a Tweed Fender or into a master volume Marshall, no pedlas.

 

[Guran]

Master volume amp for the basic sound, but I add a booster for some leads.

 

[trapdoor2]

It's a basic modeling amp. There's a dirt button in some of the models...which I rarely use. I wouldn't recognize dirt if you showed me. I need amp training.

 

[NWinther]

Master volume amp....not set for super dirty, just enough to sound "clean" if I do not push it.

 

[AAT65]

If I’m using the AC15C1 then it’s set as almost clean on the Normal channel, medium dirty on the Top Boost channel, ABY pedal to switch between them. Guitar volume normally about 7 so there’s a bit more on top if needed. If I need fuzz it’s into the Normal channel.
However now that I’m mostly playing through my JC40 (because I need really clean sounds too) all the dirt comes from the BOSS GP10, mostly through preamp models but sometimes adding a distortion effect in too.

 

[Brent Hutto]

Virtually every sound I use would probably be considered "clean" by some players. So I can easily get whatever little crunch or edge I need from pedals. My Katana sounds fairly awful in all its channels/modes other than "Clean".

 

[Lawdawg]

Pedals into MV amps just slightly on the dirty side of edge of breakup -- close enough that I can sound clean if I play light or back off the volume. My Twin Reverb is the exception since it's not practical to run it anywhere near the edge of breakup -- it's strictly clean. I use multiple boost/ODs similar to @Jakedog to get a wide variety of dirt sounds.

 

[Chester P Squier]

It's a basic modeling amp. There's a dirt button in some of the models...which I rarely use. I wouldn't recognize dirt if you showed me. I need amp training.

I'm mainly a bedroom player. I also have a modeling amp, a Vox AD15VT which has a 12AX7 tube in the preamp stage. It has channel 1 and channel 2. Channel 2 is the overdriven channel.

I didn't vote, because "Overdrive channel on modeling amp" was not a selection.