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rawrockkills
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rawrockkills
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10/14/2005 12:26 am
what is the diffrence between an overdrive pedal and a distortion pedal.... what do each of them do?
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Homebrew1709
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10/14/2005 1:15 am
use the search function. that question mustve been asked and answered a million times.
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Blues_Man
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10/14/2005 1:31 am
An overdrive is a bit smoother, and warmer and simulates a tube amp.
Distortion is not as smooth, a little more in your face.
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Tele Master
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10/15/2005 4:57 pm
whats a quick pedal?
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10/15/2005 5:42 pm
Originally Posted by: Tele Masterwhats a quick pedal?

smart ass

and yeah overdrive is smoother and the distortion is a little more on the edge, like the stuff you'd hear in metal and hard rock music.
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