Pedal for classic rock

[petemoore]

  The 1rst 'box' I'd look into is one with really nice guitar speakers, the one with a really nice [small enough wattage so that it can be 'loaded' at 'certain volume].
  Then I'd get a basic sound happnin' ...then I'd try to distort that sound more with a boost, OD, Boost>OD, Fuzz, OD>Fuzz etc.  Mod all that and you're probably pretty close already...oh I almost forgot the guitar..lol

[Meanderthal]

 Ugh. No, not this, not that either, no amp, no sansamp, must have DI, and nail both GnR and Def Leppard... yet a sansamp ain't gonna cut it...

Ds1 and direct box is about all ya can do since you're painting yourself in a corner like this. You won't really nail the sound yer lookin for the way you want to do it, unless you're willing and able to design yourself something entirely new.

It's like asking how to win the indy 500 driving a volkswagon. Or instructions on how to fly by flapping your arms.

The sounds you're trying to imitate involve large, expensive, heavy gear. It's much easier to create a sound all your own. Especially without an amp. No matter how many ways you can think of to ask if there's a pedal that can save ya $10000.00 in quality gear, the only honest answer is going to be NO every time.

[96ecss]

I think it's kind of funnty to mention GNR and Def Leopard in the same sentence when trying to describe a sound. They're on completely opposite ends of the scale IMHO. GNR is a very raw and wild sound that obviously simply comes from cranking the heck out of a Marshall of some kind. The Def Leopard sound is that overprocessed overproduced (lifeless) sound that seems to come from a refrigerator sized rack och preamps, compressor choruses and whatnot, into another refrigerator sized rack of delays reverbs into a number of different poweramps and speaker cabinets (the kind of sound that seems to come out of all those multi-FX gizmos...)

Right on brother!!!! I always hated Def Lep and their sterile wimpy guitar sound. To compare them to the raw tone of GNR is a crime to me. Just listen to the Def Lep song Photograph and then listen to Mr. Brownstone or anything else from Appetite For Destruction and see which tone you like better.

Dave

[grolschie]

Advice pedal for classic rock like GNR, Def leppard, 80's rock.
which pedal i should go for?
thx

If it's 80's rock, then the ProCo Rat2 or an original Marshall Guv'nor is the ticket. :-)

[teddybear]

thx for the help.
thx a lot. 

[teddybear]

which one is more marshall amp like bsiab or guvnor ar else?