Plexion (crunchbox) vs guvnor (zoom governor)

Some week ago i decided to reboot the pedalboard with the goal to simplify things up.

Obviously i keep the amp footswitch and decided for the zoom multistomp as a jack of all trades.

First thing missing was a wah, i actually am using the touch wah on the zoom, and working on a stand alone solution. Since i find the touch wah in the Zoom better than the one in the Mooer Mod Factory i gave up on the last one. I will get rid of that at some point!

But this is not point here. The next thing i noticed is that when i play Fade to black from Metallica, i am ok with the cleans and ok with the rythm, but i need a 3rd tone. A sweeth and cream britsh low gain tone.

I hunted a bit on the Multistomp options and i settled on the governor. Gain at 62, Tone at 18 and level at 78 (unity gain obviously). Tone at 18? Yes i am putting this in front to a very clean and very trebly Fender Tweed model.

Well, we all know where this is gonna lead us. Since i reboot the board i've felt like the first slot was to be filled with the plexion. Still my preferred stomp. Buy.. can we make a plexion(crunchbox)  sound like Marshall Guv'nor. Turns out that we can. Normal mode obviously. Half the gain (around 30 instead of 62 or 10-11 o'clock), tone just before half way and level just after.

What i've learn today? Since a crunchbox  is a son of the govnor, the low gain in the crunchbox sounds pretty close to the midgain in the govnor. And i am way happy about it!