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The best setting is the one that fits your amp and guitar.  If you have a guitar with high output pickups, humbuckers, or otherwise, it's going to take more volume from the pedal to get the volume of your rig to go up when you hit the stompbox.  If you have a kind of bright fender type guitar you want your tone set a little lower so it's not shrill.  If you have a lower wattage amp without a lot of headroom when you hit the overdrive it's going to smack the amps preamp and squish it.  That can be great or terrible, depending on your goals.

 

Don't be fooled into thinking there is a secret code to unlock the thing.  There are only so many knobs on there.  Think of what you need it to be doing and spend an hour messing with your amp settings and you pedal settings.  If it doesn't get there, think of what could be different and continue the tone chase.

 

Sorry if that was way more than you even wanted, or needed to hear on the topic.

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