nope. I'm the original andy butler.
www.andybutler.com


How distortion sounds depends on the circuit that's doing the distortion,
not all analog circuits have a nice smooth overdrive.

The DE does have high output compared to a guitar.
It's possible you're going right past the nice overdrive
and giving some circuit in your amp too much to handle.

Monroe Eskew wrote:

> Doesn't that amp route all signals through digital processing

...yep, that would do it.


One thing you might try is feeding the DE into the fx return socket of your amp
and see how that works.

Hopefully this is just a matter of getting the gain staging right,
and not that any of your gear is faulty.

andy butler



avinopsvrecords wrote:

>
>
> I appreciate your comments. Are you the same andy butler from Hercules
> and Love Affair
>
> Anyway, I don't think it's just distortion. If I'm not mistaken, the
> nature of analog distortion is such that you get steadily more intense
> saturation as the circuitry is overdriven. This sounds (more) like
> digital distortion, like I'm hitting the ceiling, killing the headroom,
> and getting this very undesirable crackling noise.