And you made a great point, there is much involved in the chain to finding your "tone". Walk into any club and I'm willing to bet you'll sometimes be faced with hearing hum...
Not an expert but I can give you my experience. I started playing a ton of years ago when wireless was crap (old VHF stuff). It really changed your tone in a bad way, was unreliable and I've even...
I looked and it is all solid state. I was thinking tubes but if solid state I'm not sure why they tied the boost into the effects loops. With transistors you can pretty much do whatever wherever.
I've used a volume pedal in my effects loop as a poor man's boost. This might use the same concept and is a cheap way to get in-between the preamp and power stages of the amp to boost volume when...
I've known Audley Freed for many years and always thought his 6 part series on playing professional guitar was worth a listen. Very humble guy with serious chops and a nice resume to boot.
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That's kinda how it happened for me as well. I probably do better these days just playing from the seat of my pants impromptu than I do trying to sit down and learn tab.
I was going through some magazines last night and came across this article called Digging Deeper: Playing by Ear - Learn It and Forget It
Wayne Krantz
Learn how to practice allowing your ear to...
The Rebel 20 head should be costing around $550, not 700. Type it in google and you should see a vendor or two within that price range.
What kind of music are you going to be playing and what type...
Acoustic or electric?
Make sure to learn both the rhythm and leads throughout and all in the correct time (play it with the backing track or with drums, ec)? If you did, that probably puts you in a...
Do you have a good ear for picking up things from recordings? Best resource to me is the actual artist. Pick someone who plays the blues style you like. There are many type of Blues influences and...
JCM2000 50 and metal question....
Been posting here a long time and anyone that has been around a while knows I don't play metal but I have a good friend of mine who is in a metal based band and...
I've been very impressed with Danelectro effects. Maybe not the best on the market but bang for the buck, very hard to beat. I've used their drive pedal (cool cat Transparent Overdrive v1) on...
Looking at the main rock albums at that time, Zep's music was a little out there as they incorporated rockabilly, reggae, soul, funk, classical, Celtic, Indian, Arabic, pop, Latin and country yet...
Daisy chaining can work but in general it can cause AC ground loops (hum) and can rob tone especially using time effects (e.g. delay). An isolated supply like ones from Voodoo work by using a...