Why can't my crappy little practice amp take distortion?

[metalspider]

you can get a nice clean tone out of just about anything imo.its once you start going for a distortion tone that quality and design really become important.

 

[Aceman]

BTMN has one of those little Brian May Decay things. I was jamming at his place, and I was playing through his red Marshall. He plugged in and played something and I just stopped.

"Whoa dude - what is that?!?!?!?!" He said it was his little Deacy amp through a 4x12.


I have a Roland Micro Cube sounds great distorted, but it was built for that....

 

[NegativeEase]

Probably because your overall level is way outside the headroom on a little solid state amp. Try reducing the level from the pedal in to the preamp but still diming the distortion if you hay control of both.

 

[Benjy_26]

My little practice amp is a Microcube with a ported 6" speaker. The rectifier setting gives some killer low volume distortion.

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Throw a Jensen Mod 5-30 in it. I did to mine. Made it WORLDS better.

 

[Animal]

Is it bad form to say something about the playing in that first video? Cause I wont if it is.

His playing is pretty bad, but nothing out of the ordinary for a beginner.

Hats off to him for going all the way to the docks to demonstrate the power of an MS-2 and not disturbing anyone else in the neighbourhood.