The Guitar Corner: A Place Where Fellow Guitarists Can Talk Shop

[drogulus]

    I played my Green Thing 2 days in a row through my newest amp. I was surprised to find that even a little bit more fooling around allowed some of the skills I lost from 20 years of non playing to come back. I flipped the "Purity of Essence" switch on the amp on Day One and was so dazzled by the sound I went back the next day for more.

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I think I finally have my dream effects board put together and I've backed off considerably on the effect level of each effect to where some are now more subtler than they were before. I also switched to a 'Hall' reverb setting that I'm more than pleased with and the trailing effect is not quite so prominent. The purity of my tone is preserved.

Photos coming soon and hopefully I can run through a quick demonstration of my board.

[drogulus]

I think I finally have my dream effects board put together and I've backed off considerably on the effect level of each effect to where some are now more subtler than they were before. I also switched to a 'Hall' reverb setting that I'm more than pleased with and the trailing effect is not quite so prominent. The purity of my tone is preserved.

Photos coming soon and hopefully I can run through a quick demonstration of my board.

     My Strymon pedal has 2 Fendery spring reverb settings and something like a hall setting, which I find myself using a lot.

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     My Strymon pedal has 2 Fendery spring reverb settings and something like a hall setting, which I find myself using a lot.

Very nice. What I like about hall reverbs is the spaciousness of them and how they make your sound fuller. I never did care for spring or plate reverb.

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Hopefully, a better video than the last one I did of my effects setup:

https://www.youtube.com/v/tYtDTVz1-Y8

By the time of this video, I have assembled my final pedalboard (I hope), but in the video I didn't explain what I'm using or how any of the effects are setup. If anyone wants to know, I'd be more than willing to go through the video and point out what's what.

[Ghost of Baron Scarpia]

Interesting sounds, and interesting harmonies.

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Interesting sounds, and interesting harmonies.

Thanks, Scarpia. The majority of the demonstration was improvised, but there were some snippets of pieces I've been working on lately.

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For those wondering, which I know is no one , here are the effects and equipment I'm using:

I won't picture any guitar as I usually play through a Fender Stratocaster or a Les Paul, but in the video from above I was playing an Ibanez SA-160.

So from the guitar, I go into the following (in order):















From here my signal is split to two of these amplifiers:

[drogulus]

     What about strings? Who uses what, and why?

     Up to now I've used EB regular 10-46, because why not?

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     What about strings? Who uses what, and why?

     Up to now I've used EB regular 10-46, because why not?

I use Ernie Ball 10s. I've also used D'Addario from time to time.

[drogulus]

     I'm thinking about getting some premium strings. I have Pyramid Gold flats on my Starfire bass, and they will never come off. For guitar I could go with one of the Pyramid sets, or Thomastik-Infeld.

[NikF4]

     I'm thinking about getting some premium strings. I have Pyramid Gold flats on my Starfire bass, and they will never come off. For guitar I could go with one of the Pyramid sets, or Thomastik-Infeld.

Hey drogulus,  FWIW (probably f*ck all) I'm using a Thomastik set on one of my custom shop telecasters. I like them, but then again, I'm prone to buying whatever nickel 11 gauge I can for cheap - some places will sell you 24 sets at a discount. Labels mean little to me.

MI, glad to see you're obviously enjoying your playing.  Keep it up, bro.



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[drogulus]

Hey drogulus,  FWIW (probably f*ck all) I'm using a Thomastik set on one of my custom shop telecasters. I like them, but then again, I'm prone to buying whatever nickel 11 gauge I can for cheap - some places will sell you 24 sets at a discount. Labels mean little to me.

MI, glad to see you're obviously enjoying your playing.  Keep it up, bro.



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     Cool, I'll stick with 10s, and people swear by the TI Blues Sliders. OTOH the Pyramid round core pure nickel are surprisingly inexpensive.

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MI, glad to see you're obviously enjoying your playing.  Keep it up, bro.

Thanks, Nik. I wouldn't say I'm enjoying my own playing, but I do enjoy playing the guitar quite a bit. I guess I do enjoy playing since I've been playing for 25 years now.

[drogulus]

     I'm enjoying playing the Green Thing through my newest amp and speaker with my 3D cab.

     

     AMP: Divided/13 JRT 9/15, 9 watts in class A, 15 in normal mode

     Speaker: Fane AXA 12-100 OOP for several years now but I managed with inhuman persistence to score a new old stock one.

     A 3d cab is closed in the back with side vents and internal deflector panels. So, unlike a typical open back amp you can put it up against a wall and it will sound the same.

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Another addition to my effect pedal arsenal:



This will be the fourth delay pedal I've bought. The others being the Strymon Timeline, Boss DD-6 Digital Delay, and Electro-Harmonix Memory Man with Hazarai.

[drogulus]

     I think I would be happy just using an overdrive pedal into my Flint, though I'm intrigued by the Strymon El Capistan.
     

[Ghost of Baron Scarpia]

Ah, the good old days when "overdrive" was obtained by actually overdriving your equipment, not a DSP programmed by a bunch of applied mathematicians...

[drogulus]

Ah, the good old days when "overdrive" was obtained by actually overdriving your equipment, not a DSP programmed by a bunch of applied mathematicians...

     I don't even like master volumes on amps, that's how puritanical I am. But I live in an apartment, so cooking the power tubes is not an option.

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Currently, I have my eyes on this effects box: