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I'm looking to get a suck it and see/favourite worst nightmare arctic monkeys tone. i know analog/tape delay is huge to their sound, but im not sure where to go fuzz wise, and then im between a proco rat 2 and tube screamer to go with the ocd for lead/solo, i already have reverb covered with a holy grail but i may get a chorus or flanger for modulation

the cv if you can afford it, its a good bang for the buck guitar just try to play it before buying and like jim said amps are massive part of his sound, if not more important

Ive been eyeing this amp for a while as a good bedroom amp, i heard it gets a good classic marshall tone and for 5 watts its loud enough to be used as a practice amp as long as the drummer isnt wailing away

i also saw Van McCann used it on Catfish and the Bottlemens first album

boss had a 6 saddle titanium bridge, im not sure if he did it right after or the lutheir who he got it from did it but he had it water proofed with titanium and stainless parts as well as silicone seals, it was a mod that ended up perfect for him according to an interview because the 3 hour rain or shine shows really put some wear on it and the waterproofing helped keep boss alive

i would firslty say dont worry about it being a blonde tele, if youre going for what he has youll need to drop a lot of cash on an esquire/nocaster and have a dead luthier gut it to all hell in his basement

bruce had a tele with an esquire neck with a lot of wood routed out under the pick guard, he then had hot single coils put in it with titanium saddles, it also has silicone gaskets. i would get a used tele, and put in some overwound single coils in it, im not sure how big an impact the titanium hardware would have i've never played anything with titanium on it.

another big part in bruces sound is cranked fender amps, i think he used bassmans, blackface super reverbs and various tweeds, youd just have to see what he used then and whats compaerable for your budget and i read somewhere he liked old EH delays and flangers back in the day

oh yea thats it

have you seen the video of 7 of them running together it was painful to listen to

i got sold on the fender mustang 20w it was good when i started and thought it was incredible till i actually got into music and realized how "fake" it sounded compared to what ot was trying to emulate, the new mustangs the are absolutely incredible and i think fender nailed them but the one i got was an older one early v2 i believe and its just a cheap 120 dollar starter no more no less

ignore what everyone says get the Boss MetalZone best distortion ever made ;)

so i was thinking about starting this thread a few days ago, as we all know theres plenty of youtube vids but i was just curious if that was your budget what would you get, and it can be bass or guitar rig or both(but no used gear) i just like seeing the diversity in everyones preferences

my rigs would be Guitar rig: Vintage Modified Mustang, Vox AC10, TS9, Mooer Shimverb Digi Reverb, Mooer Ana Echo Analog Delay

bass rig: Vintage Modified Jazz Bazz, Fender Rumble 200, XO Micro Pog

edit: if i would of done the soul pog for bass but it would of been about 30 over

ive been thinking about putting low output 60's pick ups in my strat and when i do so im gonna have all the wires redone any wiring kit and pot(mine are really unresponive when i want to do swells) reccomendations and any do's or donts when i take it to the shop, id try this myself with a squier but since its my number one im going to have a guitar tech do it

the starfire iv has a center block and is offered with trapeze and stop tail but the trapeze is more accurate the the originals(the one i played and fell in love with had a trapeze) and its more popular than the stop tailed model but ive been really digging vintage yamahas and am trying to find some i can play i may need to start calling shops and see if they have any but like you said they are pretty hard to come by

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePEFBxDGRw8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oVW8gcse4g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPUm1GnjyfE

i never noticed this between LoG and Testament until i heard them side by side

I may get a semi hollow instead of a tele(guild or vintage yamaha) and was wondering what the pros and cons of each are as to playability, intononation, holding tune etc, and i dont plan on putting a bigsby on it so thats out of the question.

another thing that really pissed me off is him saying no one is starting guitar because of people like mayer and we no longer have guitar heroes

im 20 years old and in college and started oplaying at 17 because i saw Keith Jeffery playing and that guy even tho he plays indie can let loose and shred and it inspired me and ive met people in school who started playing at 19-21 solely because of John Mayer, we still have guitar players who influence my generation such as Mayer, Adam Hann from the 1975 or Jake Bugg and Dan auerbach, just because someone doesnt feel they are an influential guitarist doesnt mean they arent.

i read one persons response to this and they mentioned a big thing its the guitar retailers that are dying, companies like guitar center that have dated marketing are suffering along with big manufacturers that flooded the market, i feel like these new lines fender is starting like the deluxe, american pro and elite are going to start phasing out their millions of models the had out a few years ago, i think soon we'll see Fender only carrying the Mex Standard, Mex Deluxe a few Mex vintage models, the Am Pro, Elite and AVRI. and i feel like gibsons prices are going to start coming down since the introduction of the budget american guitars.

another is companies like reverb and Chicago Music Exchange arent taking this recession like gc or big box companies and the article didnt talk about companies like them or interview young players, the market has just become so diluted that theres little point in buying a new guitar becsause companies liek fender flooded the market trying to keep sales up instead of offering a few models and letting the used market dry up a bit

i really like both of those, its got that timeless sound. but i may be getting the drri sooner now and finally own my own full fledged tube amp and not worry about a loaner or using the mustang i was tricked into getting when i got my first guitar, also the mustang i have the v2 is by far the worst amp ive ever played. i wanted a used ac4 they had for 200 but he talked me into the mustang by telling me how it had all these presets and all of them except the bass man and twin reverb sound terrible. the guy played me like a fool

also how would you go about getting a similar tone to the lead guitarist for these guys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlKhu0WPQGw

i know he's running a clean fender but im not shure how to dial in the delay and reverb, and im not sure if theres anything other than delay and reverb runnung

just on a tangent how loud is an ac15 im looking at getting that after a drri, id prefer to get a hw of the moneys there but it would give me two spectrums with the fender for good cleans and the vox for british style hollow cleans and a better driven sound hopefully

but also now that im expanding my pedal board my next 3 pedals will be a drive or fuzz, and then another delay and earthquaker levitation reverb so i can double them with my digidelay and holy grail to get some really airy aatmospheric cleans, ill also need a compressor soon too

yea he's the guitarist for steel panther they are like a satirical hair band but they are actually crazy talanted

i have a friend my ag who plays guitar for another church and he runs a drri and he maybe has it at 3 or 4 and i love the princeton to me its the perfect budget fender for people wanting a true fender tube amp, and i feel it gets overlooked since its 12 watts but its a respectable 12 watts

when we jam if the suns up we are going balls to the walls and cranking it if we wanna just mess around, but the problem for my church is it wasnt built for a band, it has a really tall peaked cealing one the walls opens into another smaller room that bounces a ton of sound back into the sanctuary and our stage is hollow, it was made when the 90's style joel olsteen stuff was huge

but even at that from what you say i gurantee you were putting out more sound than the three of us

like i said its all from what ive seen im more into new wave and alternativbe/indie obviosly but i didnt know how much of it translated to 80's style shred other than i know the hipshot was popular then and you need like Russ Parrish from Steel Panther to hook you up

i dont play shred trype stuff but i know the dimarzio super distortions are pretty popular

as for trems i dont play shred so im basing off my friends rig and what ive seen other metal bands in the area use, i know everyone and there brother has a floyd rose and my friend uses it mainly for dive bombs since it holds its tuning but ive also seen a lot of hipshots scattered throughput the mix, not sure how you feel about hipshots they tend to be as con troversial as floyds, ive not seen or used a babicz but when i looked them up id say its comparable but heavy usage probably would cause it to go out of tune quicker then the floyd, but if anyone says anything otherwise take their advice over mine

how good are its cleans but my church is changing venues and we may be an a proper auditoriam that i can actually run my amp in

also i didnt see it but you said it sounds like the smiths when marr went all fender and their second album has a ton of 80's influence to it, ive seen the live twice and theyve done covers in their set of Everybody Wants to Rule the World and You Spin Me Round by Dead or Alive

i can get that tone from the video and the clean for pedals pretty well, both of those are definitely fenders ball park but the driven sound i wouldnt say sounds as good, it kinda sounds fake compared to a driven vox or marshall or vintage orange, but the vox distortion helps color it a bit and the ocd on the low peak setting with the tone around 1/3 helps me get a bit more presense with the low end but its not a sound i use often its more of a tone i like to jam alone with. i would say if i want to start playing blues rock or something needing a more ballsy tone id get a vox or look for a used marshall head

that 80's tone is my go to for jamming in general since its pretty easy to dial in and is easy to hear with other people playing in a 85 degree garage because its 11pm at night and you have to keep the garage door shut since the neighbors are sleeping and you dont want a noise complaint

the 60's type tone i use the vox pedal overdrive and some reverb at the edge of break up but it would sound better with a vox

thre first one im running in amp reverb, my reverb set to mid/long spring a longer quiet delay and the neck pick up gives a good tone that i can play rythem with and not have the chords bleed into each other

the third id say is short reverb some chorus( i dont have one so ive got a setting with my delay i use to compensate) and light drive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLSvSPop5U0 45 seconds in when the chorus starts is the third tone

theres three tones i use the most 1) that really chill indie type sound that has reverb and delay and all the goods 2) the classic 60's/70's with a clean crunch and little extra bass and reverb 3) which i dont know how to describe but the guitar tone from the Atlas Genius somg Molecules its kinda got a simplified 80's new wave sound

ive been wanting to play a bit of jazz just to work on playing cleaner, but im not very into jazz so my strat will have to do

i want a 335 in walnut but ill take any es gibson as long as its a double cut im not a fan of jazz boxes

with the drri you also cant mess up running 2 delays, 2 reverbs, a boost, a pog and a fuzz, and maybe something like a chorus or flanger

i like shoegazing and its a real problem as i slowly get more pedals my condition worsens

I mean i wouldnt turn it down but it would be like a fender American Vintage Reissue 52 Reissue

i think its a Custom Shop reissue 335, last year gibson released a 63 335 custom shop with split inlays and it was all black with gold hard ware like this just without a bigsby which he could of put on it

could be this one cant tell in the pic if its got a worn finish or not but if it doesnt id still venture to say its a 335 from their custom shop since they are big gibson users they probably have a hook up with them

https://www.chicagomusicexchange.com/products/gibson-custom-shop-1963-es-335-reissue-lightly-aged-psl-ebony-nh-serial-cme030?utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=googlepla&variant=36004625424&gclid=CjwKEAjwsqjKBRDtwOSjs6GTgmASJACRbI3fQDKR0GhVxFYO1tXWkRK-NFq940dqCaE4iWWOoJnHaBoCTlPw_wcB

im gonna go with my gut and take your advice ill still shop around but i wont get one till ive had the drri for a couple months

i must of looked right over the tc spark, hows it stand up to the Keeley Katana and Luna OD

and i put the luna because i know it does pretty well for a cleaner drive tone

i forgot about the timmy, but rn a princeton ill be gettinf a drri at the end of summer once i see what my first school bill is but i have a 1000 more on my loan so it shouldnt be too bad

im looking for either a transparent overdrive or boost pedal something to push my tone with out distorting my signal too much for cleaner parts that i need to boost like a solo or build ups in before a big chorus

im looking at the EHX Crayon, Foxpedal Kingdom and JHS Morning Glory and the Keeley Katana but im game to any and all suggestions as well as old and used gear

i just think they play way to skinny, their 9.5 fretboards feel skinnier than fenders 60's necks with the tiny 7.25 fretboard and vary a lot on the quality of the fret edges ive played few that think could actually cut your hand

that said tho the classic vibes tend to have better qc then the others

ive played a millenium 4 and it was a solid bass just not my style looks wise trans blue was cool but i wouldnt buy a bass that color, but it was super light and had a fast slim neck

id say do it if you like it and its a good price as long as ots in good shape, my only gripe with squier is their necks other than that they are good guitars