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I've seen the Peavey display room at Sound Check, which is where Neil Young and Faith Hill record. Tourists won't find that place because it is inside of an industrial park. The studios look like large raquetball courts. teleman I checked your info and you have some real dirty pedals with vintage equip., I like that! I guess Hamer's infamous shredder image kinda deters country musicians today, image is as much influence as the music. I would believe Hamer's marketing is different today.

Anyone out there? I live on the West Side with my wife and kid for over a year and a half. I am originally from NJ. I work full-time Army. I haven't been to a single performance here, except for Dora the Explorer and Incredibles on Ice; which doesn't constitute much of an itinerary. Has anyone seen a country performer playing a Hamer??? Gibson, Tele, blah, blah, blah!

THat was my operendus modus for years. I was using 3 (Real Tube, SD-1 and either Rat or Govner on multi effects). I read about guitarists using one or none and didn't know why I was using three all of the time? Until recently, I swich some effects around on the chain. I got rid of my chain 2 years back from this kind of frustration, the I bought Boss ME 50 multi thinking it was the alpha and omega, then found I was missing "my sound" and went back to installing pedals on top of it and now I have several more than I had originally. Now I find the original ME 50 tones and it has plenty with spades; and occasionally use the OD option and add OD boost(s). Rocktron Nitro is essential for subtle compressed tonal enhancement.

I tend to side with Mr Fuzzy. For years I pushed an SD-2 through an Ibanez Fat Cat. I don't know how to play any differently??? After 20 + years, maybe I am still clueless? I play guitar like a girlie man, at rather low volumes hen pecked by the spouse to turn it down. Just recently I switched my chain around and after 20 years of playing always with an overdrive punch on top of distortion, my multi-effects seems to be very qualified to play, minus additional overdrive pedal. Who knows????

I am experimenting with my chain. My Tube Works Real Tube sounds really different after distortion and it sounds like more like a pre-amp rather than an overdrive. I also have a Screaming Blues in front of distortion. I forgot to include in the poll: 1) Just use overdrive 2) Who cares? This poll sucks.

I am 41, and I'll piss before I jog. Then it sorta continues if I am wearing loose material and I am running down the road with a sizable wet spot and I gotta keep going and work up a sweat so it blends in.....

I'm not very popular. Politically incorrect. Just an idiot. I would like to get my bouncing jugs an honorable mention....watch then and listen to Beastie Boys "No Sleep till Brooklyn"

4 Racks with multi, 2 Wahs, Overdrive, BBE, Aphex Exciter, rocktron NitroGE 7, AMp Machine. I have no sense of purity. I am a dirty dirty man. I don't know what a clean guitar should sound like. Angus plays pure. I emulate his tone with what I've got. I am lost and confused. I also play in my living room so I am not open to much criticism.

Anything by Barry Manilow or Neil Diamond!

Neil Diamond Tom Jones Ricki Martin Bee Gees Milli Vanilli Boy George Vanilla Ice The Monkees William Shatner Liza Minelli Johny Mathis It's official, I'm out of the closet.........

I meant to say that the Nitro is a subtle compression, not EQ. Real compression is a must have, go for a quality rack unit. If you like ZZ Top Eliminator sound, that is the way to go. Boss stomp might be OK, but go for a rack. I read that the rule of thumb when using chorus is that the less heard, the better. I had an Ibanez stomp once and I miss the hell out of it. I have the BBE Sonic Maximizer. The instructions indicate that it is meant for recording, that's it. I was kinda suprised. I still use it anyway. I suggest the rack which is just a few bucks more than the stomp. Also Aphex Exciter. In the $100 range, but it basically cleans up your tone and evens everything out. You will hardly notice its there, butyou won't play without it. In the 70's, professional recording studios charged like $300 bucks a minute recording time with it, or something like that.

Rocktron Nitro is a real subtle to raunchy EQ tone alteration for under $50. This is defintely probably what you are looking for. It puts the Led in Zeppelin. Put it first in chain and it brings life to pick ups. I don't play without it on all of the time. Tube Works Real Tube also does the trick for me, if you are looking for tube OD.

I believe it is to the same rhythm as playing Solo. So low you can't hear it.

Again, I concur. I hope this post isn't wasting too much curiosity. I wish I offered a more humorous viewpoint. The guitar is a damn sexy instument and likely to provoke unmitigated jealous rages.

I concur..... What was the joke about a man choosing between his wife and his dog? He is gonna miss his wife?

I was kinda embarrassed to post this issue at first, figuring I would get rude and painful comments and have to remove the post. So far, most replies have been genuine. I am not a professional by any stretch, had a professional line up a few years back, but the lead singer had LSD (Lead Singer Disease) and the band fizzled out after I was forced to play bass. I live in Nashville and hope to network some studio time somewhere, somehow. My wife won't even dance. I am probably better not expecting her opinion anyway.

My wife refuses to compliment my guitar playing, ever. As a young man I would receive accolades from various aspirants. Now I am my 40s and married with child for 4 1/2 years. I may not have the same time or energy to play like I used to in my single days, which averaged 45 min to 2-3 hours per day. There is your occasional argument and my wife will threaten to burn my book collection/library, or throw out a favorite personel item. But she will never threaten to do anything to my guitars, which then means its really personel. Perhaps my talent has vanished. My dreams have faded into obscurity. I have become infamous like Sony Bono. Or a discarded dinosaur like Disco.

All 3 of these artists play Gibson Les Pauls. I enjoy replicating classic rock/blues albums with my reliable 81 Special. Al DiMeola Elegant Gypsy Allman Bros Live At Fillmore East Gary Moore Blues Alive These 3 are my top 3 albums. Other albums could be Back in Black, Paranoid, Zep II/Phys Graffiti, RU Experienced?, Aerosmith Live Bootleg and Flirting With Disaster. Anything by Neil Sedaka or Barry Manilow.......

Tube Works Real Tube. Get one on ebay for $80. DigiTech Bad Monkey is a steal. Those two I implement in combination with Boss ME 50 multi-effects. I play all 3 at low volume. The two former effects have the gutsiest, bluesiest sound I have stumbled across. Aphex Exciter and BBE Sonic Maximizer are also a good combo investment to kick up quality of tone.

Basically the Tube Works Real Tube in combination with Boss ME 50 distortions is at gut level basic without getting too much noise. I like the Rat, Govner and OD2 settings. The Bad Monkey I kick in with the other 2, and I just like the OD parameters...that is where the noise starts getting really ugly. I am a living room guitarist, so I am not doing any sets. I am just experimenting with sounds. Been playing 22 years. sorry about wasting anyones time with such a mundane subject. I am just trying to get some input to how everyone else is getting their sound. Instead of GAS, I have TAS, tone aquisition syndrome.

Yes, 3 at once. Even 4 if I include Rocktron Nitro. First the OD produces tone clarity, then the Tube Works gives it a nice overdrivven tube sound, then the actual distortion. I know it sounds sick, but is there anyone out there but me who thinks its normal?

A blues guitarist died and found himself in front of St. Peter at the Pearly Gates. St. Peter was trying to concentrate and was a little flustered by the slide guitar music behind him. The guitarist asks, "Do I hear Duane Allman? Is that really Duane, can I meet him?" St. Peter ignored his comments and kept working. Stunned by the performance, the guitarist beckoned St. Peter's attention and said, "This may be my only chance while I am here at the entrance to meet Duane Allman. Is that Duane? St. Peter ruefully rolled his eyes and said, "No that is not Duane. It is God. He just thinks he's Duane!" I think I told it right...

I am not sure I understand my problem either, but the wife says I have one...hehe My question is, is my set up extreme by normal standards? If it's not considered extreme, then what options are there to eliminate hiss, if any? I am sure almost everyone has their own overdriven sound, what are they?

I did that a while back and I will try it again now, thanks... but it won't give me true stereo. I had another little Crate practice amp which served that function, but I think I killed it... problem is is that its transistors and not tubes

I love the Allmans. Live at Fillmore was rated #2 influential album by Rolling Stone. They even did concerts which helped a Presidential candidate get elected. Top blues band, ever. I don't think anyone could expect more from a band of that calibur. During the 70's all the girlies were taking their tops of to Freebird, and not Whipping Post, though. With the loss of their original lead guitarist and bass player, I think it left a void in talent and creativity in the long run. Enlighten Rouges is a very underrated album. It ended up on the discount rack at super market chains during the 80's.