Message 10/15
Date: 29-Jul-03 @ 03:02 PM -
RE: overdrive
first off, who told you that was the way to mix. your gain pot gives you an optimum input level (or a purposely too high level in this case). your faders give you your volume to the mix buss. you might start out with a fader at unity to set your gain, but it's perfectly fine to slide them up and down after that.
number two (hehe) there's different ways of distorting something, all fine, all sounding different. input driving, stomp boxes, plug-ins, amp modelers (like the pod, sans amp), guitar amps, etc. try them all, they're different colors to add to your palette. I like taking a small shitty speaker and running it off a bass head, cranked, and record it with a mic while the voice coil fries. but i'm a sadistic bastard.