Amp Gain vs. Pedal Gain

Episode 99.4: Amp Gain vs. Pedal Gain

Welcome to the Chairmen of the Boards Podcast! The ultimate pedalboard podcast with the foremost rig builders in the world: Grant Klassen (Goodwood Audio), Brian Omilion (Omilion Audio), and Mason Marangella (Vertex Effects/The Rig Doctor). We've teamed up to democratize great tone and provide you with our best tricks, tips, resources and hacks so you can build the pedalboard of your dreams!

TABLE OF CONTENTS
01:15 - Intro
01:16 - Mason’s amp and pedal journey
04:39 - Mason: Benefits of pedals into clean amp
04:55 - Mason: examples of Michael Landau using pedal gain
05:56 - Mason: thoughts on amp gain
06:37 - Mason: Example of amp gain
08:09 - Brians amp and pedal journey
08:56 - Brians FIRST amp
09:50 - Brains first rig
10:49 - Brian gets a VOX
11:30 - Brians first OD pedal
12:04 - Higher wattage doesn’t mean more gain
12:56 - Brians current rig
14:35 - Grant disagrees with Brian
14:49 - Grant on how he would set up an amp
15:47 - Defining “edge of breakup”
16:11 - listening to your amp through IEMs
17:05 - Grant - spend time understanding your amp tone under a mic
20:37 - Brian's thoughts on IEMs
25:56 -Grant on his mesa boogie amp
28:17- Understanding amp signal path
30:12 - Input volume vs master volume
34:13 - Mason's thought on the Dual Rectifier
34:55 - Mason on tradeoffs of channel switching amps
37:46 - Mason's favorite channel switching amps
40:04 - What amp setup would mason take to a gig
40:48 - Brian's gig rig
42:50 - Amp switching pedalboard rig
43:15 - Brian's thoughts on channel switching amps
45:17 - Grant wouldn’t buy a channel switching amps
45:33 - Grant's Fender Twin
47:07 - Channel switching amps are like mini vans
47:36 - Grant won’t consider a channel switching amp
50:24 - What’s on our current pedalboards
50:31 - Grant's current rig
53:48 - Brian's rig
56:20 - Mason rig
59:31 - Mason's thoughts on Tube Screamers
1:01:47 - Session Players
1:04:01- Grant's closing thoughts
1:04:42 - Brian's Closing Thoughts
1:07:05 - Mason's closing thoughts
1:10:07 - Where should you start?

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