Blue Brit - Overdrive
Pick-Up Tips
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The Blue Brit offers a wide range of different sounds it can make by adjusting the Gain
knob, towards the top end of the gain you will get a light distortion sound, towards the lower
end, an overdrive sound. This threshold between the two is entirely dependent on the input
levels of your guitar.
If you have a very dynamic playing style, play around with the gain knob and find that
balance of clean when you pick and break up crunch when you dig in to the strings. If you
find the gain gets away from you a bit when you dig in, just slightly turn the gain back a tad.
Below are some recommended settings depending on the style of guitar being used, the
guitar in the brackets is what was used to determine the following settings.
Single Coil (Fender Stratocaster)
Vintage style single coil pick-ups have a far less output level when compared to
humbuckers. If you want to get a smooth sounding overdrive without too much crunch, it is
recommended you have the gain set to around 12 o’clock.
Humbuckers (Gibson Les Paul)
Humbucker pick-ups have far higher output levels when compared to single coils. To obtain
a similar sound to the above single coil setting, it is recommended to have the gain knob set
somewhere between 9 and 10 o’clock.
These are just approximations and obviously are dependent on the type of guitar and the
volume setting on the guitar itself.
