Sometimes, I wish...

gball said:
It took me years to finally accept that I am just a Gibson and high-gain amp guy. I tried to for a long time to work Fenders and vintage-style amps into my style and just fought them every step of the way. Once I came to the realization that I was just never going to get the sounds I wanted that way I became much happier. As for music, I am all over the place as far as taste but really only play hard rock and metal.
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Amen, Tone Bro...
 
smitty_p said:
Okay...

So here’s the situation....

I’m playing a praise and worship set tomorrow in a church.

Ya’ll can pick the guitar that I play.

There’s nothing about this set that forces the tonality towards a specific guitar,

Here are the options...you pick it...I’ll play it:

1. 1974 Gibson SG with mini-humbuckers.
2. 2014 SG Original 2 with 57 Classics with A4 magnets.
3. 2007 Gibson Les Paul Studio with Seymour Duncan Classico 5 in the bridge and Seymour Duncan ‘59 in the neck.
4. 2006 Fender Diamond Anniversary Stratocaster.
5. 2007 Gibson Les Paul Custom, with stock 490R and 498T. (BTW... this guitar prettty much slays all comers )
6. Unknown year Washburn HB-30 (ES-335 copy) with Seymour Duncan ‘59s. (FYI...This Washburn is a Les Paul Killer. Hide yer Lesters!)

7. Jackson Dinky with Seymour Duncan Trembucker in the bridge and ‘59 Bridge in the neck...and a perfectly setup Floyd Rose.


There ya go go, boys.

Pick my church guitar by 8:00 am tomorrow!!!

I’ll be watchin’ some George Thorogood and some Brian Setzer, in the mean time...
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I don't qualify to make those choices...
 
smitty_p said:
Sometimes, I wish I was a "________(Fill in the blank)____ Guy". I mean, like a "Les Paul Guy", or an "SG Guy", or a "Strat Guy". Guitars would be simpler for me. I used to think I was an "SG Guy". That was before I got other guitars.

My problem is...I really like most guitars - Les Pauls, SGs, Stratocasters, semi-hollows. I like the variety of sizes, shapes, and neck profiles. I like big guitars and small guitars. It's a pleasure to jump from a thin 25.5 scale neck to a thicker 24.75 scale neck.

The same goes for pickups - Single coils, humbuckers, mini-humbuckers - I like them all.

All this makes guitars complicated for me. Sometimes, picking a guitar for a song is easy because the tonality of a song really begs for a certain guitar sound. Other times, it's not so definitive and I have to ponder which guitar to use. Sometimes, I literally make the choice based on what goes best with what I'm wearing.

I have the same problem with music. I'm not a "Rock Guy", a "Country Guy", a "MoTown Guy", or a "Metal Guy". Though I do lean toward being a "Classical Guy", my tastes aren't bound to that genre, either. My playlist may go from Aretha Franklin to AC/DC. It may jump from Bach to the B-52s. It may leap from Paganini to Pink Floyd.

Sometimes, I wish I could just be a certain kind of "______ Guy". It would make choosing, enjoying, and playing music a much simpler process.

Then again...I'd probably get really bored, too.

So... I'm probably happier this way!

Ah well....
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I wish I knew all these songs I have to learn to work as a solo artist...I want to stop commuting...
 
I'm in the same boat, where I like several different guitars and amp, as well as genres of music.

Right now, Pandora is set to my "Los Straightjackets Radio" channel, and I'm enjoying a ton of great surf stuff.

For music I love surf, prog, garage, early British psych, first and second waves of British heavy metal, '60s psych, blues, punk, Australian proto-punk like Buffalo, Radio Birdman, The Saints, and Cosmic Psychos, Kraut-Rock, some jam bands, some classical and opera, "real country and western", Hawaiian, and Americana stuff. Oh, and Lemmy IS god!

As for my guitars, I love my Gibsons more than anything, but I also really like my Rickenbackers, Fenders, and Gretsch.

As for amps, I love my Hiwatts, Marshalls, Fenders, and Voxes. Yeah, some are clones, but they're the same circuits. They were all bought to fill a specific sound in the spectrum of what tones are bouncing around in my head.
 
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I am a Gibson guy. I try to get along with Fenders, but they don't love me back the same. I even put a 24.75 scale neck on this one. In fact the only Fender pieces still on this one are the trem bridge plate, the jack plate and the body which has been refinished. Still a redheaded stepchild.
 
my brain was thinking earlier...all my amps are derived from

fender bassman..or
fender Deluxe,,,yes even the M's must honor Leo

That is my sound for the music i play. each amp has a slight twist with dif values & speakers to do a specif sound.

Sound is very usable.. noticed..all the amps sent packing were either fizzy pre amp tone stack or were in a range not needed..they were all very good but settling in has been a relief

speakers matter..must have all the celestions & jensens & weber...it will do more to tone than most.things ya can do...same amp speaker change can put right on top a bass in the mix

Guitars..Gibson 24.75..all dif pickups ..never enough
Epi -my fav semi
Strat-tone needed for certain songs- i dont rearrange everything to use one more
tele-no comment,, got it to look at ...certain gear site has me hating them..lol

Gretsch-on the way..cant wait..

pedals..as many nuance bumpers as needed..not for main tone but to color with..favor transparent pedals cause the amps are set up way too good to mess with tonal character

great guitar into a great amp with speakers for the job..plus a slight pedal boost....thats it....the more the merrier
 
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