Re: Onboard distortion
yeah... "useless" tone knob... uh-huh, you're totally selling me on it...
no, you're right... it is WAY LESS of a pain in the ass to heat up my soldering iron, ruin the value of my stock original instrument and install a wad of duct tape inside my guitar, than it is to plug a cable into a pedal and strum 3 chords and decide if I like it.
besides, EVERYBODY knows that distortion, fuzz, and overdrive pedals sound WAYYY better BEFORE your wah pedal and your tuner! So you might as well send as MUCH DIRT AS POSSIBLE to them.
I hate this idea so much that I actually ran out of sarcastic things to say about it.