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lalimacefolle
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lalimacefolle
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03/27/2002 10:20 pm
When your amp doesn't really play with a clean tone, but is clear when you play softly, that's overdrive. When your tone is almost never clean, that's distortion. And also, when it's the input volume that causes the amp to distort, it's fuzz.