Quote Originally Posted by Wales-Bales View Post
Tasty playing! I normally run my Les Paul straight into a cranked Marshall type amp, and the Telecaster into a Fender/Vox type amp, either clean or on the edge of breakup.

FX is for used for variation, or when you are trying to get a specific sound. The FX pedals are usually run into a clean amp.

For something like this you definitely need FX pedals ..

When he was in KYUSS , he plugged his Les Paul straight into a bass amp for that dirty sound