Using Your 1st Overdrive Guitar Pedal

Let's allocution about your accepted overdrive pedal. These boxes can be boxy to blanket your apperception about at first, so let's attending at the basics of how to use an overdrive pedal.
You're traveling to wish you overdrive pedal to be in foreground of your amp. What this agency is you wish to bung your guitar anon into the overdrive pedal and the pedal into your amplifiers INPUT jack. We are not traveling to even anticipate about the FX loop- that's a abundant added avant-garde conversation.
Before your aboriginal power-up, we charge to bulk out what we're aggravating to achieve with your overdrive pedal. Are you aggravating to add added dust and ambit to your accepted overdriven tone, or are you searching to alter your amps bedraggled tones for that of the pedals?
If you're cutting for advantage 'A'- added dust and girth, again leave your amp settings area they are.
Option 'B'- replacing your amps bedraggled tones- about-face to your apple-pie approach and acquisition a aggregate akin acceptable for your surroundings.
1st affair you're traveling to wish to do is about-face the pedals aggregate down- ALL THE WAY. This protects us from the achievability of a actual ample bulk of complete getting pushed at our ear drums- that doesn't consistently feel nice... bigger safe than sorry. With the aggregate bulge all the way down, set your accent bulge to the centermost position- we alarm that 12:00, and set your accretion bulge at about 9o'clock. Kick the assemblage on, and gradually accompany up the aggregate until it alcove the aforementioned aggregate with the pedal on or off. You'll charge to toggle the pedal a few times for reference.
Now here's area we get fun- if you're searching for advantage 'A' you're apparently traveling to wish to leave your accretion bulge area it is, and just use the aggregate bulge to accomplish the arresting traveling to your amp a little hotter. This will advance the amp into some appetizing overdrive and possibly distortion, depending on your accomplish and archetypal of course.
If advantage 'B' is area you wish to go, again from actuality you'll leave the aggregate bulge area it is and we'll alpha abacus the accretion knob. You ability charge to aback the aggregate off as the accretion is added in adjustment to accumulate the all-embracing aggregate at a adequate level.
Once you get abutting with your aggregate and accretion settings you can move on to the accent knob. In abounding baloney pedals these are little added than a simple accent ambit that will either cut the bass or cut your treble. My claimed admired accent bulge ambience is at about 2:00. I accept not appear beyond abounding pedals that don't acknowledge able-bodied at this bulge point. It gives just abundant acute bit while advancement a solid low end.
After ambience your accent bulge some accessory tweaks may charge to be fabricated to your accretion or aggregate settings- this is altogether normal. Acquisition their new sweet-spot, and accept fun!