I recently listened to the Pedal Movie (because a friend insisted I do) and while a lot of it was obvious, clichéd and self serving there were a few interesting moments. At 6 minutes 23 there is a clip of an old recording of guitar. It's that classic big box guitar played through old amp (possibly with octal preamp tubes?) and pushed enough that it's just starting to clip. It's a very distinctive sound and one I have yet to achieve with an OD pedal.
Has anyone heard anything other than playing through an old, pushed tube amp that could get this kind of sound? I have built many circuits which claim to and while they do a reasonable job of higher gain it's the lower gain sounds that most struggle with. I'm a big Nick Curran fan too and he used to use Vero amps at times - The sound he would get was amazing, and I've never heard a pedal get sounds like that. His tone was a bit dirtier sometimes, with that sort of inter-modulated distortion which seems to thicken the sound. Most ODs seem to be designed to avoid that kind of "choked up" distortion.
Ideas?
Has anyone heard anything other than playing through an old, pushed tube amp that could get this kind of sound? I have built many circuits which claim to and while they do a reasonable job of higher gain it's the lower gain sounds that most struggle with. I'm a big Nick Curran fan too and he used to use Vero amps at times - The sound he would get was amazing, and I've never heard a pedal get sounds like that. His tone was a bit dirtier sometimes, with that sort of inter-modulated distortion which seems to thicken the sound. Most ODs seem to be designed to avoid that kind of "choked up" distortion.
Ideas?