Dirt from pedals or dirt from amp?

[noisepolluter]

At home - pedals all the way - no other choice really!

Playing louder: amp for clean/crunch (amp set round halfway, controlled using guitar volume), pedal if any more gain needed.

My 'loud' amp is 22w though - my only option for more clean headroom is throwing a boot at the drummer.

[monquixote]

I'm pretty much in the pedals camp although I think for most people it's really a mixture as there is usually some element of kicking the amps arse involved in using the pedal, not to mention the solid state components in a lot of modern valve amps.

[Kebabkid]

Either/both.

It's easier to have pedals that can be used into a clean amp if you're going to be playing through provided gear though, so I try to have combinations that work like that as well as with an overdriven amp.

This!

[Cirrusband]

It just depends. At the moment my gigging rig is basically a clean/dirty two channel amp with an sd-1 to boost the front and a clean boost in the loop for volume boosts.

But for a long time I was using an edge of breakup ac30 with up to four different pedals plus clean boost to get different feels.

Both are great as long as you're doing something appropriate for the song.