Pop-Punk Pedal? All Time Low style

[Rock_on]

Plexi-drive? Box of Rock? Crunchbox? Striker's Striker Power Drive?

what do you think guys? Im looking for a pedal for my new genre, something like All Time Low and Mayday Parade.

All Time Low tone is amazing to my ears. I think they are heavy in distortion but still sounds clean. I mean it sounded................. what word is that? VERY VERY clean distortion? 

please suggest and if possible give me a schematic (if it's your own design).. I want simple ones only or semi-intermediate. like the ones I gave above.

[musiclikscreams]

most of those guys really just have high gain amps and maybe a tube screamer or ocd.  When we had The Wonder Years (which you should definitely give a listen to) at a venue i used to manage, that was essentially their rig majority of the time.  Pop punk isnt a very effect driven genre

[Rock_on]

oh really? How the H3LL do they make it sound clean? I mean not so rough tone? You get what I mean?

and also although they are hi in gain their sound is not that compressed. how's that?

[anchovie]

Are you using studio or live recordings as your benchmark? In a studio, they'll most like have multiple amps, multiple cabs, multiple mics and multiple amounts of distortion all recorded on different tracks and blended together.

Round my way, the pop-punk folks with money have Tubescreamers used as treble boosters into the front end of Dual Rectifiers, Orange Rockerverbs and the like; the ones with less to spend are using Metal Muffs.

[Rock_on]

Both.

Well thanks for that reply about the studio recordings. i'll try to do that in my reaper

im using multiple cab impulse in reaper but not multiple amp... Now I have learned new technique again. BWAHAHAHA!

what I usually do is record one track pan hard left duplicate it then pan hard right.. then remove the recorded track on the second track and record new one (I did that to duplicate the vst settings.. btw it's low in gain)

then record new one again using a new vst amp (hi gain).. then turn the it's volume down a little bit and pan it to center. Im only doing it just to put a little bit of crunch in my track. thanks for that reply again.

hmmm, we are going to different topic.. let's stop talking about recording.

any more pedal? can you please give one? I would use my new Tiny Giant Amp (after making a power supply for it).

[Vallhagen]

You might be interested in my Blüe Monster (I can sell you a pcb or you etch your own). Here's a link: http://www.diystompboxes.com/smfforum/index.php?topic=104288.0

"Heavy distortion but still clean" sounds like a suitable description of that box. Its not really "simple" though. But take a look.

Cheers:)

[musiclikscreams]

oh really? How the H3LL do they make it sound clean? I mean not so rough tone? You get what I mean?

and also although they are hi in gain their sound is not that compressed. how's that?

High gain amps have multiple channels.  somewhere along the lines of clean (no overdrive), crunch (medium overdrive), and lead (heavy overdrive).  i just googled their set ups and neither of the guitarists use drive pedals.  i grew up in the hard core and pop punk scene.  most of the guitarists i played with didn't have more than a tuner and a noise suppressor if that.

[wavley]

oh really? How the H3LL do they make it sound clean? I mean not so rough tone? You get what I mean?

and also although they are hi in gain their sound is not that compressed. how's that?

High gain amps have multiple channels.  somewhere along the lines of clean (no overdrive), crunch (medium overdrive), and lead (heavy overdrive).  i just googled their set ups and neither of the guitarists use drive pedals.  i grew up in the hard core and pop punk scene.  most of the guitarists i played with didn't have more than a tuner and a noise suppressor if that.

Ha!  Most of the folks I grew playing punk with fell into the "if that" category.  You can imagine what happened when I started showing up with a tuner, Distortion+, small stone, and a Space Echo.  Times have changed, the poor kids had pawn shop Marshall 1987's, old fenders, and traynors, the touring bands had JCM-800's, and the rich kids had JCM-900's.