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=== Distortion Pedal and Amp ===
Another, easier way to get a little rough edge more prominence to the pick attack into the tone is to use the distortion from a pedal. These are typically solid state, featuring hard-clipping of asymmetric distortion (even if the design downplays its harsher nature) as opposed to the soft-clipping of tubes. They also tend to clip faster and with less compression, so they affect peaks without affecting sustained notes. The more popular way to do this is by turning up the gain on the pedal until it gets a mild crunch, then add amp distortion until saturation. Often, such pedals will distort peaks even with minimum Drive/Distortion settings. You can also get a very nasty distortion by using a fuzz distortion into a distorting amp. Fuzz distortion behaves very differently from typical tube distortion, and blending each at roughly the same amounts will get an interesting behavior to notes, if not a completely new distortion sound.
=== Multiple Distortion Pedals ===