The clean tone of the Crate Palomino can be a bit bass heavy and the highs of the cheap tube amp are piercing my eras in certain situations.
The amp's EQ can only do so much, but with this two overdrive pedals in front, I am able to enhance the clean sound and tailor it to my liking.
The guitar's volume is dialed back a bit which filters out some of the highs already.
I use the neck pickup for single notes and the middle position for strumming chords.
The signal then goes into the "Orange Burst", a medium overdrive / booster.
The volume of the pedal is almost all the way up, gain is turned down completely.
The "Pure Sky" is a low gain overdrive which is set up with the gain all the way down and the volume is set to unity level when both pedals are on, compared to the pure signal of amp and guitar.
Both pedals provide a treble and bass knob to reign in the harsh highs and booming lows.
So two overdrives provide quite an effective way to eq the guitar signal before it meets my amp.
There are a multiple of ways to achieve the same goal, you could of course use a dedicated EQ pedal, some sort of booster or filter and every combination will yield different tonal results.
This variant worked for me, so I post it before it vanishes into the obscurity of my fleeting mind.
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