Originally Posted by: ericthecableguyOk, it's not quite as it sounds.

My drummer has a 100w gibson vintage guitar tube amp. He wont allow me to use distortion or effects on it for fear of it wrecking. Is this a legimate concern?

*cough* RETARD *cough*

using distortion or effects wont hurt it at all! The only way you could screw it up is if you turned the volume/level up on all the pedals and dramatically sent the thing into SUPER OVERDRIVE and crack a speaker cone or mess up the preamp. but you wouldn't do that, would you ? :rolleyes: