Mesa Boogie Flux-Drive

gain stackingStacks two gain stages for more saturation than either produces alone. (mid-forward → high gain)

Mesa built the Flux-Drive to extend its own amps' voicing, and pushed into a Mark I's honky, midrange-forward preamp it just sounds like more amp.

Comes later in the signal chain

gain stackingStacks two gain stages for more saturation than either produces alone. (mid-forward → high gain)

Into the Triple Rectifier's own high-gain channels, the Flux-Drive adds warm, blues-rooted saturation rather than the amp's characteristically fizzier metal crunch.

Comes later in the signal chain

What Mesa Boogie Flux-Drive brings here leans toward crunchy — that's worth building a pairing around

Comes later in the signal chain

fills a frequency gapFills in a frequency range the other side doesn't cover, instead of piling more onto what's already there. (bright → warm)

Where this leans bright, Mesa Boogie Flux-Drive answers back warm

Comes later in the signal chain

Mesa Boogie Flux-Drive leans toward crunchy, and that's a real, usable character to pair with

Comes later in the signal chain

gain stackingStacks two gain stages for more saturation than either produces alone. (mid-forward → high gain)

What Mesa Boogie Flux-Drive brings here leans toward crunchy — that's worth building a pairing around

Comes later in the signal chain

Run Mesa Boogie Flux-Drive into that high headroom platform and it finally leans toward crunchy

Comes later in the signal chain

gain stackingStacks two gain stages for more saturation than either produces alone. (mid-forward → high gain)

Run mid-forward into Mesa Boogie Flux-Drive for more high gain on top

Comes later in the signal chain

fills a frequency gapFills in a frequency range the other side doesn't cover, instead of piling more onto what's already there. (warm → bright)

Push the Flux-Drive's warm, bluesy crunch with the VariOboost's own transparent treble boost and it stays articulate as it opens up.

pushes an already-dirty tonePushes an already-dirty tone harder and tightens it up. (crunchy → mid-forward)

Feed a crunchy signal into Klon Centaur and it comes out closer to mid-forward

shapes the dynamic responseShapes how the tone responds to picking dynamics rather than its frequency or gain.

MXR Dyna Comp's own bright character is the real reason this is worth trying

Comes earlier in the signal chain

sits in the right chain slotPlaced for where it does its job cleanly in the chain, not for a tonal interaction with the anchor.

The Flux-Drive's warm, bluesy crunch gives the Parabola's stage-ready tremolo pulse a saturated signal to chop up.

Comes later in the signal chain

sits in the right chain slotPlaced for where it does its job cleanly in the chain, not for a tonal interaction with the anchor.

The Flux-Drive's warm, bluesy crunch gives the Epoch-Set's tape echo something saturated to trail off into. — goes in the amp's FX loop (or last, into a clean amp)

Comes later in the signal chain

sits in the right chain slotPlaced for where it does its job cleanly in the chain, not for a tonal interaction with the anchor.

Put Boss DD-200 Digital Delay after Mesa Boogie Flux-Drive in the signal chain, clear of Mesa Boogie Flux-Drive's own gain stage — goes in the amp's FX loop (or last, into a clean amp)

Comes later in the signal chain

Comes earlier in the signal chain

Put MXR CAE Wah in front of Mesa Boogie Flux-Drive: a wah tracks picking dynamics best on the raw signal

Comes earlier in the signal chain

TC Electronic Spark Booster pushes a crunchy tone toward clean boost