The EVH 5150III does not need any pedal reinforcements as long as distortion goes but I'd like to mess with conventions, if that's what happened earlier today. I plugged in EHX's East River Drive into the amp in series so the pedal sends its driven signals to the amp before everything gets processed & heard through the driver.
In the crunch channel, the pedal's effect is such that it brought the intensity up, if I may, to the levels offered by the lead channel. However, the voicing has the pedal additives to it, meaning, I could hear the East River Drive ringing in there so it's not just the amp roaring. Letting the pedal influence the lead channel is a case of downright distortion overdose, there's way too much on offer but that's how it is with some of us, we want to go past that limit just for discovery's sake. Due to the nature of the lead channel's distortion, the pedal is reduced to a boost function at best, very little could be heard in terms of the pedal's isolated performance but we don't invest in the 5150III to hear pedals, do we?
