my vote goes 530 + 2/90/2..... i want a 580 and the 2/90/2..... but the 530 is awesome too.
but.... this is a dist pedal thread so i'm gonna stop my off topic posts.

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tube amps are great, but if you take a pedal and run it through the clean channel and crank the poweramp, you'll get a great sound.

well, yeah we should get back on topic, but yeah ill get those items if and when i ever get the money because the 530 is discontinued now i think.

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depends on the amp and the pedal.....

no it isnt, rocksolidamps.com sells them..... but i buy used, it's cheaper.. the 630 is distcontinued, i think thats what def has.... 630 or 620 or something...... i like the 530 more... but the 580 is the end all be all....

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i like the metal zone that i use, but i havent tried many

is the 580 discontinued? DerekB from rocksolid posts on harmony central user forms, and im on there too, so weve posted about stuff like this, the 530 is the one that just says 4 channel pre amp then right?

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the 580 is still made.... the 530 is the 4 channel one....

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both are still made.

anyways, my favorite distortions are the Proco Rat (the original 80's one, I've got one from 84...) the fulltone Fulldrive 2 (boutique pedal, us handmade) and the TS9DX tubescreamer....

the Rat takes off where the TS leaves you, and the fulldrive can make any amp sound good. though its not as heavy as you'de expect.

i almost bought a rackmount rat when i bought my mesa rack vtwin.... i was going to use them together for a ridiculously heavy distortion, but i was like $50 short.....

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rackmount rat???? I didn't even know they made them, got a link or something?

I've only seen the rat I's and I's and the turbo rat's. I've got one from the first few series which looks all worn out but still sounds good, right now its at my friends place kicking the living shit out of a farting old jcm 800

ha, they don't make em any more.... very rare... when i went to music go round to try out some rack stuff they had a mesa v-twin rack pre and a rack mounted rat through a mesa simul 3:95..... i was playing it all through a marshall 2x12 with g12t-75's.... it sounded like a big muff on crack, it was soooo cool....

but yeh, there is a keely modded rat pedal on harmony central's classifieds... $100 bones.

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eh, so you got a pic of it?

I really don't see the use of getting a stompbox with 3 knobs in rack format

i don't have a pic of it... it was just at the used gear store.... you can probably hunt on the net for some info or maybe even pics of it....

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