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bbzswa777
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bbzswa777
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09/17/2014 7:57 pm
I see. Is an overdrive pedal meant to copy the sound of overdriving an old tube amp on its own? Like before there were gain knobs, how did they get that overdriven or distorted sound on a tube amp? Did they just turn the volume up really high?