Overdrive or Distortion

Appfro · Post by **Appfro** » Wed May 04, 2005 1:59 pm

Which one? I know it kind of matters what sound you're looking for. I want good clean distortion to play around w/ when playing along w/ other songs now that I have an electric, but I can't see myself ever writing a song w/ straight up distortion plus you can use overdrive w/ an acoustic. So I'm stuck. Plus I don't know a lot about either.

mangold · Post by **mangold** » Wed May 04, 2005 2:06 pm

I thought they were the same thing...

Appfro · Post by **Appfro** » Wed May 04, 2005 2:19 pm

mangold · Post by **mangold** » Wed May 04, 2005 3:53 pm

http://metaltabs.com/forum/showthread.p ... ge=1&pp=20
heres what i found... it basically says distortion is overdrive that works on low volume

jeffro · Post by **jeffro** » Wed May 04, 2005 7:01 pm

Distortion distorts everything, but with practice you can make it so that your overdrive will only distort what you want it to. I vote overdrive.

Go buy a Boss Blues Driver 2.

Appfro · Post by **Appfro** » Wed May 04, 2005 7:03 pm

i already got the boss od-3 overdrive. i was debating selling and getting the distortion. that's waht this whole thing is for

mangold · Post by **mangold** » Wed May 04, 2005 7:13 pm

well then i vote overdrive... thanks for the help jeffro

thejoe · Post by **thejoe** » Fri May 06, 2005 8:20 pm

definetly overdrive for what you want

get the ibanez tubescreamer... its pretty much the holy grail of overdrive (a la trey)

jeffro · Post by **jeffro** » Fri May 06, 2005 9:41 pm

crash_in_to_me wrote:definetly overdrive for what you want

get the ibanez tubescreamer... its pretty much the holy grail of overdrive (a la trey)

Yeah tubescreamers are great! I made a whole long ass post about them in a different thread.

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Overdrive or Distortion

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Overdrive or Distortion