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Ty Mustakatu, any help is highly appreciated.

And yeah, I’ve seen it all, or so I thought.

You don’t know my story (just Peter), but now that I have finally recovered a lot of health after years and years, I took out a pedal that somene gave to me brand new, that I never opened because of lack of health, enthusiasm, energy,etc.

Beautiful pedal (on the outside), looks marvelous, all of that not important but this: I didn’t know it was a DIGITAL pedal, and that it could work as a preamp.

Little did I know, I just plugged it in to my interface as a regular pedal, and somehow, if I am not deluded, I am getting that great sound of those youtubers. I attribute it to it being a preamp, idk.

It’s like it fixes my signal, maybe it’s the impedance, I have no clue.

I just know my sound seems to have been fixed. Have tested this twice, so I hope this holds up true.

The pedal? Positive Grid Distortion Pro. Found some videos and one in particular sounded awesome.

I don’t want to Jinx it but it seems I finally will be able to finish my songs.

Godspeed y’all!

EDiT: I haven’t found a good sound of ToneX. It all sounds distant and muddy. No matter the gain staging I do. I tried… a lot… cleans are alright, but high gain is out of the question. Amalgam captures don’t do it either. V2 ones… nope… DI (only amps)… nope.

At least got rid of the harshness I was detecting a lot.
Not even the Soldano NDSP sounds good to my ears.

ALL VERY HOLLOW and kind of honky. I tried using equalization before the amp… nothing… (with EQ I managed to get “better” cleans though).
No presence and tightness at all most of the time.

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