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I got one I built from parts you can have if you want it...
Built from a Duncan/Jackson coil and a Gibson 500T coil, wood spacers, A4 polished magnet. 180° out of phase, 16.5k
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I got one I built from parts you can have if you want it...
Built from a Duncan/Jackson coil and a Gibson 500T coil, wood spacers, A4 polished magnet. 180° out of phase, 16.5k
syscokid
Ambassador of War & Peace
Very generous of you, but no thanks. I would have no use for an extra pickup at this time.
gball
Ambassador of Boogie
Playing clean at high volume is a really cool experience. I've never been in a band/music situation that required clean tones but I love cranking a really clean amp when I am alone and just noodling about. It's a different discipline from the distorted and high-gain tones I am used to.
Kerry Brown
Ambassador of the Great Northern Bar Jams
It is great for practicing. Your mistakes are very apparent when you play clean and loud.
SG John
Ambassador of Cool Guitars and Amps.
Having an overall good clean tone to start with, especially in a three piece band to me is essential. It's probably why I've always gravitated towards non-master volume Marshalls, Hiwatt, Vox, and some Fender amps. It's easy to turn the guitar volume up to add some filth, and then hit a pedal for more drive. You can't get clean when your base tone is too dirty or compressed.
OP
No way!!!!
So you're THAT guy!!!!
I've quit bands who asked me to play clean...I'm dead serious!!!!
If it doesn't rattle the walls, I'm instantly bored...
Listen to some of our videos. I am backing-up two clean guitars. You would be shocked to hear the ridiculous level of gain that I am playing with....but fits.
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OP
No problemo!!!!
OP
I'm know as 'Dirty Rob' in this band...and for good reason. I'm a heavy-metal guy to the bone and then some.
We do a few songs that need a 'clean' tone. On my origin 50, all my controls are dimed and the 'boost' is engaged all the time. I am also hitting the amp with a TS-9 with level dimed and 'drive' at 12 Noon.
For 'clean' songs like "Hard Days Night," for example, I just switch off the TS-9 and the 'Boost' and the tone cleans up a lot, but I am NEVER EVER 100% clean.
Here's a 1 minute clip of our "test run" of hard days night. I'm playing through my Blackstar ID-Core 100 with gain maxed out, I'm just rolling the volume back enough to clean it up:
TBTH, I spent YEARS stuck playing in a touring country western band. I was required to play a twangy Telecaster through a Fender amp. I hated it, but it was an $800/week, full-time gig, and my only source of income at the time, so I stuck with it. When I was finally able to get out, I gave the Tele and the Princeton to one of the other guitars players and I have never touched those pieces of equipment ever again.
In 2007, I turned down a lucrative paying gig (with a HUGE country music star) because the contract read "must play only fender guitars and amplifiers."
I'm just "That Hard Rock Guy" and I avoid situations that call for anything outside that area of specialty.
Now, in my role as a studio guitarist, I may have to play a Tele through a Blackface, and in the performance of my duties as a session player, I will happily do whatever the work order demands. But, when it comes to playing in bands, I stick with only hard rock or heavy metal...
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Session 5
Ambassador of Strings & Wings
Session 5
Ambassador of Strings & Wings
OP
Out for delivery!!!!!
OP
It's here!!!!!
OP
DiMarzio Neanderthal going in tonight, just in time for tomorrow's performance....
