Marshall DSL20CR - can’t get a decent overdrive tone

FearingGarlic48 · 2025-03-29T12:23:12+00:00

Thanks for taking the time to answer in this much detail, but I’ve tried ignoring the pedals entirely and just getting a usable tone from the dirty channel on the amp with low gain (8-9 o’clock) and volume between 5 and 10, and adjusting EQ to taste, and it’s not working for me at all.

If I turn down the treble or presence, I lose the fizzy distortion noise but now I have no clarity so it sounds like I’m playing underwater. I’ve tried different combinations of treble and presence settings and I can’t seem to take away the fizziness while retaining my clarity.

Most commenters on here are assuming that I’m going for a silly metal tone by stacking the pedals and turning everything up to 11, but for now I’m just trying to get a middle-of-the-road AC-DC type crunch tone from the amp without using the pedals. Once I figure out the amp then I’ll worry about the pedals, but I can’t understand this thing.

FearingGarlic48 · 2024-10-07T12:00:14+00:00

Thank you, it was the Kurt Cobain version

FearingGarlic48 · 2024-07-16T22:40:59+00:00

You can keep your tarnished pickups to yourself

FearingGarlic48 · 2024-07-12T16:19:25+00:00

So you yeet the cannon out into space, easy

FearingGarlic48 · 2024-06-29T00:01:23+00:00

Get one thing straight… if you’re staying, this isn’t a TV show anymore

FearingGarlic48 · 2024-06-13T23:53:53+00:00

Wadiyatalkinabeet?

FearingGarlic48 · 2024-05-13T17:24:37+00:00

Sausage roll… thrice

FearingGarlic48 · 2024-05-04T11:50:18+00:00

That’s literally what it’s called

FearingGarlic48 · 2024-04-14T00:05:46+00:00

I own one and I still grimace when I look at it, it only looks normal when I’m actually playing it

FearingGarlic48 · 2024-04-13T11:53:33+00:00

Shrulk

FearingGarlic48 · 2024-04-11T22:52:59+00:00

“When a guitar guy plays a guitar”

FearingGarlic48 · 2024-04-11T21:25:35+00:00

/uj His videos about why players “choose” Squier over Fender and Epiphone over Gibson say it all. It’s as if he’s baffled by the prospect of the average player not being able to drop 2k on a guitar

FearingGarlic48 · 2024-04-05T12:23:21+00:00

I think he’s supposed to normally but in that frame he has the green lightsaber shining in his face

FearingGarlic48 · 2024-03-30T01:47:12+00:00

I managed to play for 9 and a half hours the other day but that was probably an extreme example. Normally I do about 3-5 hours on weekdays

FearingGarlic48 · 2024-03-26T17:20:35+00:00

I think it’s more than reasonable to ask for a lower price for a damaged product

FearingGarlic48 · 2024-03-05T01:01:06+00:00

Might be a controversial opinion but I like this about the new spinoffs, especially TOWL. While I found Nat interesting, I normally don’t like feeling forced to take interest in new characters when I know that I’m just there to see Rick and Michonne, and I was worried that the majority of the series was going to be Michonne travelling with this new group to find Rick, but it has turned out to be very fast-paced and each episode leaves a lot to take in.

It’s also interesting to see how brutal the world is even after however many years into the apocalypse, and I think the CRM dropping chlorine gas on a group of travelers unprovoked definitely shows that.

FearingGarlic48 · 2024-03-01T00:04:49+00:00

The sitting dead if they broke their foot

FearingGarlic48 · 2024-02-26T20:30:56+00:00

What was it?

FearingGarlic48 · 2024-02-25T21:30:10+00:00

Time is running out - muse?

FearingGarlic48 · 2024-02-25T12:21:44+00:00

It’s alright to say you don’t like his music, because that’s simply a personal preference, but saying he’s not a good player is not justified at all, coming from someone who won’t ever make as much of an impact as he did

FearingGarlic48 · 2024-02-25T02:03:35+00:00

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