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LOL, where is the "both" option!? =)

Ever since I got my pedal, I can't stand clean unless played with an Acoustic. I like to turn up gain and treble and put on distortion.

i liketh the destorstion my self
(cant spell)

i use a line 6 amp with the distortion built right in so i can go to diffrent channels. It has clean (which i only used once),Crunch,Metal,and Insane(which i use the most)

for all of the metal players here who ONLY use distortion, you should really rethink that. if you ONLY use distortion, it's eventually going to become a crutch and you'll be sloppy as hell because you dont need to articulate what you're playing. i learn songs with a clean tone before moving to distortion.

I personally use distortion more... but I practice my chords, arpeggios, etc., in clean. And I have a song where I go in and out of the two like... 2 or 3 times. But I would rather use an acoustic than a clean electric guitar...!

Like most people on here I prefer acoustic to clean, but I prefer clean to distortion. Though to be honest when I AM playing my electric I'm somewhere in-between. Sort of like Mr. Milk, only the other way round. So whereas he uses distortion with low volume, I play clean with compression (it's an effect, to newbies that basically mean extra volume =P). Distortion is always too heavy for me yet clean is never heavy enough, so it's perfect for me! It's a very indie sound, like Bloc Party or Arctic Monkeys. For those over the pond who might not have heard of these amazing brit bands, it's like the tone on RHCP's Can't Stop or Charlie. =) Having a telecaster in this situation always helps, man I want a tele SOOOOOOOOOO bad...