smurph1 Posted July 1, 2011 Posted July 1, 2011 After months of building up my home-made "Hillbilly" pedal board with 2 distortions, a Crybaby, Small Stone chorus, MXR Dyna Comp etc..I've decided to take a less is more approach..I've re-discovered the BEAUTIFUL pre amp over drive my Classic 30 posseses..So that is once again becoming my "go to" lead tone.. I'll still use my trusty TS-9 for a bit of bluesy crunch, Keep the Crybaby for occasional "Sonic Spice"..add a better chorus of some type, and an in line tuner, and Thats IT!! LESS IS MORE BABY!! When you are playing a 535, you really don't need to hide behind a bunch of effects.. My 2 cents..
DetroitBlues Posted July 1, 2011 Posted July 1, 2011 Could go the Buddy Guy route... Strat(or your guitar of choice) into a crybaby wah into a pair of fender bassman's... MONSTER tone!
NoNameBand Posted July 1, 2011 Posted July 1, 2011 After months of building up my home-made "Hillbilly" pedal board with 2 distortions, a Crybaby, Small Stone chorus, MXR Dyna Comp etc..I've decided to take a less is more approach..I've re-discovered the BEAUTIFUL pre amp over drive my Classic 30 posseses..So that is once again becoming my "go to" lead tone.. I'll still use my trusty TS-9 for a bit of bluesy crunch, Keep the Crybaby for occasional "Sonic Spice"..add a better chorus of some type, and an in line tuner, and Thats IT!! LESS IS MORE BABY!! When you are playing a 535, you really don't need to hide behind a bunch of effects.. My 2 cents.. Thats what I've been saying all along. A great Les Paul T-shirt from Gibson is "Les is More", I have a couple of these. I've always felt that way.
Trouble Posted July 1, 2011 Posted July 1, 2011 Thats what I've been saying all along. A great Les Paul T-shirt from Gibson is "Les is More", I have a couple of these. I've always felt that way. Cool Shirt. There is always going to be a divide it seems when it comes to effects. When it comes to guys like Buddy Guy, Slash, Clapton those guys play there own songs their own way with their own sound. That's all well and good but when your in a cover band you are playing other peoples songs, I know there are guys in cover bands who use minimal effects but when you are going from one song to an extremely diffrent sounding soung back to back, effect pedals make it easy to make extreme changes quickly. To make it simple, I don't use effects to get my sound I use effects to get other peoples sound, quickly. Of course if your in a cover band that plays a particular type of music more or less exclusively probably wouldn't need effects, I think that would be nice to tell the truth, I would love to be in a band that just played blues, with the occasional southern/ classic rock tune. My band seems to be falling apart at the moment maybe when work settles down I can find a band like that.
Trouble Posted July 1, 2011 Posted July 1, 2011 After months of building up my home-made "Hillbilly" pedal board with 2 distortions, a Crybaby, Small Stone chorus, MXR Dyna Comp etc..I've decided to take a less is more approach..I've re-discovered the BEAUTIFUL pre amp over drive my Classic 30 posseses..So that is once again becoming my "go to" lead tone.. I'll still use my trusty TS-9 for a bit of bluesy crunch, Keep the Crybaby for occasional "Sonic Spice"..add a better chorus of some type, and an in line tuner, and Thats IT!! LESS IS MORE BABY!! When you are playing a 535, you really don't need to hide behind a bunch of effects.. My 2 cents.. I would keep your pedals if I were you, you might find yourself in a cover band and need them!
smurph1 Posted July 1, 2011 Author Posted July 1, 2011 Cool Shirt. There is always going to be a divide it seems when it comes to effects. When it comes to guys like Buddy Guy, Slash, Clapton those guys play there own songs their own way with their own sound. That's all well and good but when your in a cover band you are playing other peoples songs, I know there are guys in cover bands who use minimal effects but when you are going from one song to an extremely diffrent sounding soung back to back, effect pedals make it easy to make extreme changes quickly. To make it simple, I don't use effects to get my sound I use effects to get other peoples sound, quickly. Of course if your in a cover band that plays a particular type of music more or less exclusively probably wouldn't need effects, I think that would be nice to tell the truth, I would love to be in a band that just played blues, with the occasional southern/ classic rock tune. My band seems to be falling apart at the moment maybe when work settles down I can find a band like that. My band does a mixture of originals, Motown, Beatles, Elton John, even some christian Stuff like Michael W Smith.. Maybe our audiences aren't that picky, but I seem to be getting away with just using the bare minimum of effects..The amp does have a beautiful reverb on it, and that really can cover a multitude of sins..
Trouble Posted July 1, 2011 Posted July 1, 2011 My band does a mixture of originals, Motown, Beatles, Elton John, even some christian Stuff like Michael W Smith.. Maybe our audiences aren't that picky, but I seem to be getting away with just using the bare minimum of effects..The amp does have a beautiful reverb on it, and that really can cover a multitude of sins.. We flop around a lot from old classic country to 80's hair bands. Admittedly I could get away with fewer affects, I use a chorus on a couple songs, a delay on one or two, a tremelo on one, and the drives I switch back and forth depending on the room(or outdoors) song, and mood. I also like to put a phase 90 over some slow solos once in a while. For a long time I only used my amps footswitch, a chorus and a delay, but I was constantly tweaking my amp and delay for different songs and would sometimes accidently end up with my amp too loud or too dirty and have to suffer through a song until I could tweak again, the effects just make it easier for me. Most of the time I only have my amp clean with maybe the OCD which I keep at a very low setting, and it still sounds like my guitar and amp but I can get a little grit when I dig in. The effects also help me to avoid boredom from playing the same stuff over and over, honestly most of the stuff my band plays is not what I would choose to play, so I do get a little bored at times. Is it too much to ask for some STP or Nirvana once in a while?
JeffB Posted July 2, 2011 Posted July 2, 2011 The sounds I want to use or rather like to hear myself use are seldom the ones I get a lot of time using other than at home. The last full on rock band I was in played some some songs that had a lot of fx in them. I went and watched bands that did similar stuff to see how they got around the parts, some just played through without trying to play the fx and some attempted to copy the parts. They all worked in their own way but the bands who's guitarists bothered to try really did stand out and the songs seemed fuller and complete to my ears. So I spent time cultivating those fx and applying them. It paid off I think. I had a Multi fx unit in the loop and one in the front, I controlled them using midi. The other guitar player just plugged straight into his Mesa Dual Rec and played straight guitar parts and I played trumpet, keyboard, synth and general wiggy textural parts as they came up. During the time in that band I spent less time worrying about how my guitar tones and more about how close I was to nailing the other moments. I new we had succeeded when a guy in another band came up and asked if we were using backing tracks. But.... I really like just plugging into my Mesa LS and just playing guitar parts with nice clean and a medium low gain sound. Thats more me..... Maybe a little delay....and trem, I love trem.
ledzef Posted July 3, 2011 Posted July 3, 2011 I think sometimes putting away some pedals is a good thing makes for less clutter and after awhile you can go back to those pedals and see what you liked about them in the first place. It really does help you discover your amps tone and what it can do.
High Flying Bird Posted July 3, 2011 Posted July 3, 2011 ...... to tell the truth, I would love to be in a band that just played blues, with the occasional southern/ classic rock tune. That sounds good to me too.
Trouble Posted July 3, 2011 Posted July 3, 2011 That sounds good to me too. Let's start one up you know a good bass player?!
Trouble Posted July 3, 2011 Posted July 3, 2011 That sounds good to me too. Check my interests I enjoy #u@3d up humor too!
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.