How is the lonestar if you ad an overdrive

Hey everyone. I was just curious. I was at guitar center today and played a 1x12 lonestar and loved the clean sound but the dist channel wasnt even close to the heavy sound i need yet the clarity/cut through sound it had was amazing. Does anyone ever use the lonestar for heavy metal type music maybe once adding an overdrive, say the zakk wylde pedal, maxon, or tubescreamer, or is it still pretty dry or even worse, to much of a tinsel sound from relying on mostly a overdrive. Any help with this would be great. Opinions ARE WELCOME. haha. Happy holidays

You can do it, but it's not ideal. I tried running my OCD with the "dirty" channel set to clean and it sounded pretty good. Amp sounds loads better for rock through my closed back 212 with V-30's in it.

If you want heavy you'll be best served to do what I did and just get an amp that does heavy really well and A/B them.

not EVEN. I just added a KEELEY MODDED MT2 to my pedalboard. un-friggin-real and kills through the LONESTAR CLASSIC!!

hev-eeeeeee

I am not sure if you are asking about the Classic or Special, but I have had the LSS for 6 months now and have been tweaking alot. I should say that over the last week, I broke the manual out again and tried the sample settings and was really really happy. For example, the "LoneStar State" with the higher gain in channel 1 is just poppin now. So thick.

I have put various pedals on both channels ( I honestly think Channel 1 takes them better). Put a TS-9 with the drive at around 8 and tone/vol around noon, and you get a pretty good SRV tone.

The thing I am finding out now is that Channel 2 sounds better Loud without the "Drive" and using a pedal to increase the attack and breakup, whether it be a clean boost or low OD settings.

I then use a Keeley Rat or MJM fuzz for over the top stuff.

I put a Barber LTD SR through my LSC and it gets tone so thick you can chew on it. However, it not anywhere close to metal.

Just for kicks after I read your post I put an old DOD FX 86B Death Metal pedal through the drive channel and it sounded like... crap.

The lone star's drive channel can get pretty heavy. Use the thicker switch. and turn up the effects loop on the back to about 2 or 3 O'clock. Also use the treble to add some gain, once again turn it up to about 2 or 3 O'clock.
It's not gonna get ya Nu-metal. But you can get Hard rock, and maybe some 80's metal tone (depending on your idea of 80's metal) that way. With an overdrive on that channel you can defintely get to 80's metal tone depending on how you use it.

For heavier stuff I'm kinda diggin the way the Metal muff sounds through the lone stars clean channel.

It depends on what type of sound you are going for. I have a LSC, and it does rock pretty good without pedals. For the heavier stuff I use a Dual Rec.

I heard the MI audio Tube Zone does the Rectifier thang really well. Bone crunching scooped mids death slayer mayhem. Also can be dial in for almost any sound. Hell! It's got 6 knobs and an internal adjustment as well. Cause that LSC ain't gonna breath fire. Mine don't.

My LSS really likes od pedals. I use either a Visual Sound RT-66 or a boss sd-1, and it is awesome. I turn the SD-1 up for a great crunch tone, then add the rt-66 for more hair.

I use an MXR Dist+ that I've had since the eighties on ch1 for a little Blues bite. I set the gain low, around 10 o'clock and it just adds a nice little kick to everyhting. It doesn't sound so great on ch2 however

thirstypirate said:

I put a Barber LTD SR through my LSC and it gets tone so thick you can chew on it. However, it not anywhere close to metal.

Click to expand...

I would like to fully retract this statement.

I got to play my LSC twice as loud as I normally do last night and for the first time at that volume with the Barber LTD. The results were stunning. Channel 1 can get fairly heavy and then go right back to pristine cleans with the OD off, but the real surprise was Channel 2.

That thing was getting nasty in all the right ways at 50w, Drive 9:30, Gain 1:30, Thick, Loop normal, Master 11:00. I had the LTD set for unity gain, Drive 2:00, Tone 10:00.

I had to dial in more bass than usual and added some on the LTD which I usually keep at 12.

The tone was punchy, full of harmonics, with powerful sustain. It did not have the scoped "super high gain mega distortion" tone that a lot of people go for and love, but it certainly wasn't tame either. Warm and spongy with a lot of mid range thump.

As a general rule every amp that has an excellent clean channel will work great with a good quality high gain distortion pedal.

Running high gain distortion pedals into the dirty channel of an amp will give you mud.

If you need more gain get a pedal that does it well. There's a few good metal pedals around but the Metal Zone ain't one of em IMHO.

I run my EH Metal Muff (w boost) into the clean channel of my 5:50 and the result is excellent & low hum with or without a cab.

This gives far more gain than any metalhead could ever need.

This is a better combo IMHO if you need a wide variety of different tones. If you get a specialist high gain/metal amp with an ordinary clean channel no pedal is gonna give you great clean or slight OD tones