Your recommendations please!

[Tom Gilroy]

Originally Posted by Dee

Indeed. But if you're not totally happy with the overdrive and you require something to improve it... that's why I asked. The MK50 MkII gain kicks ass, and it has tone to die for.

Nooo. You've got this all wrong. I LOVE the Hellcat's drive. It's ballsy and and tight and delicious and just dripping that great Class A tone. A Vox on steroids, and more responsive too. It's exactly the amp tone I want.

The "but" come in here. I like two very different kind of overdrives. I love the tight, British sound that the Hellcat does better than any other amp I've tried, but I also love the more open, smooth, violinesque sound that Eric Johnson and David Gilmour get. The latter won't come from the Cornford. I need an overdive unit to get me there, and it will probably have to be something like the BK or the radials. The solidstate OD is purely to change the flavour of the tone a little. This has purely to do with my excessive tone freakyness.

The reason I'm trying to smooth out a British amp, rather than trying to adds some balls to an American styled amp is purely base don the fact that I've been able to smooth out the drive on a cranked AC30 (which is in the same ballpark as the Hellcat, and about the same volume) exactly as much as I wanted to, but I have never been able to get the right kind of a bite into an American styled amp I've tried.

I considered the MK. I'm happy with what I have.

Originally Posted by David McCarroll

I used to run about eight pedals on a permanently set up board, and even with regular maintenance, the signal loss through the chain was diabolical, so in any case, if you want to go the stomp box route, you may want to have a look at Voodoo Lab's true bypass system, and maybe something like a Seymour Duncan Clean Boost pedal at the front end to juice up your input signal and buffer the effects pedals - I think wireless rigs do the same, as they generally have above unity gain and impedance buffering.... and they are fun too!

The Cornfords sound absolutely magic to me - do they have an effects loop?

I'd been thinking about getting a wireless system actually, I trip over leads alot.

If you're looking at a Cornford, I'd say the two channel MK would be better suited to you than the Hellcat(considering you bought a Triaxis). It has an effects loop.

[Dee]

OK, gotcha Tom.

[screamndemon69]

i really like my ATW-3110 wireless i just bought. $416 with a free gator case (cool case!) from AMS. i will get to try it out this weekend at a couple nights of bar/club gigs and post in another thread how it goes. it works great roaming around my townhouse going upstairs and outside, i haven't had any drop-outs.
it's a VERY pro series system for the money with far more features than i've had in past systems at comparable prices. the next level up is almost twice the price.

[SimpleMind]

You wrote you got your dream amp. Which amp did you buy?

[jemplayer55]

Originally Posted by SimpleMind

You wrote you got your dream amp. Which amp did you buy?

Isn't it a Cornfart or something like that???

[jb4674]

Originally Posted by Tom Gilroy

So now that I've got my dream amp, the time has come for me to add all those finishing touches to my rig, in the form of some shiny new effects. You guys know that I never do anything by halves, and I'm not afraid to pay for what sounds good.

Firstly, awesome as the Hellcat's own drive is, I would like to add some different colours to my tonal palette, and so I've been looking into a few overdrive pedals. I'd like something smoother than the Cornford's own drive. More Eric Johnson/David Gilmour than Paul Gilbert, so to speak. Which is precisely why the BK Butler Tube Driver caught my eye. With this kind of tone in mind, what other pedals do you think could give similar results?

The next type of drive I'd like would be in a similar vein to the Cornford. Very ballsy, raw drive. Just a slightly different flavour. I'm thinking the ideal pedal in this case would be something with a solid state construction, based on my experience. I'm particularly interested in your recommendations here, seeing as the range of products out there is, to put it mildly, quite extensive.

I would like a good wah. I hate crybabies and haven't been impressed by Vox or the Morleys (BH 1 & 2) that I've tried. I'm interested in Teese and the BudWah, but all I have to go by is some sound samples. If any of you have experience with any of these, or have any other ideas, please do share.

I think it's pretty vital that I get a good delay. I've been looking into the Electro Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man, which seems to get nothing but good reveiws. It also has the added bonus of a chorus effect, which I also want. Again, any personnal experience or other recommendations, please do share.

I'm also planning getting a phaser, but will probably just get an MXR Phase 90 unless somebody can tell em something infinitely superior that I cannot live without.

The final thing I can think of that I should get would be a noise gate to cut the high gain hiss from the Hellcat's pre-amp, although I really know very little about noise gates and the like. Enlighten me, please.

I didn't know BK Butler ventured into the guitar effects arena. I used to have one of the first tube driver car stereo amps he made back in the 90's. He's a pretty cool guy (I met him a few times when he came to the store I was working at to talk to the owner). His stuff is definitely well built and it sounds good.

Jimmy