For anyone playing an amp without built-in reverb. Drip and splash on tap, and the fastest way to make a dry bedroom rig sound like a room worth recording in.
Not really a distortion — a midrange lens. Set the drive low, the level high, and it turns a decent amp into a focused one. Half the blues and metal tones you love have one in front of the amp.
One knob, one job, instantly recognisable. Sitting after the gain it adds that swirling movement to a rhythm part that flat DI-style tones never get.
Dark, degrading repeats that sit behind the note instead of on top of it. Set short for slapback thickness, long for atmosphere, and never louder than the dry signal.
