What are your interesting gear combinations/ sounds that most people probably haven't tried?

Cirrus

No idea what category this should be in.

By this I mean any combination of gear/ settings that you use and enjoy and think most people probably won't have tried. Could be a secret weapon £15 pedal or £6k worth of amp blending, or a way of using gear that most people won't have thought of.


Here are two examples;

- For a few months, I gigged a JMP50 combo through a Vox 2x12 with Alnico Golds. It was the best I ever heard golds sounding, i really didn't like them with my AC30 but somehow with the JMP the presence/ sizzle/ low end paired really well.

- The middle position on my Gretsch Duo Jet with TV Jones pickups - a Brian Setzer Filtertron in the Bridge, and a t-armond single coil in the neck. Gives this really interesting notched midrange, kind of like position 2/4 on a strat but thicker and spankier, and particularly the low strings have this ultra deep twang I've never heard from anything else. 

monquixote

Compressor pushing a Boss OD3 with single coil pickups.

Massive lead tone.

Warhog into Peacekeeper is the Thorpy magic trick.

Gassage

Using a Lazy J and a vintage blackface in stereo with stereo delay.

(Although I know both @PC1971 and @fretfinder are also fans of this little plutocratoic amp configuration....)

viz

Couple of clean boost pedals in the loop - easier and quieter than a volume pedal (plus you can use the 2nd one as a kill switch if you like)

maharg101

Cocked wah pedal for more interesting lead tones. Set to desired position, use bright onions latching / momentary loop to bring it in. I have a v1 Budda Bud Wah but any wah you like the sound of will do

PolarityMan

boss gt-10 touch synth....wish i hadnt sold mine

Supportact

monquixote said:

Compressor pushing a Boss OD3 with single coil pickups.

Massive lead tone.

Warhog into Peacekeeper is the Thorpy magic trick.

Hmmm, I've got both these pedals but never tried this. How do you set them if you don't mind me asking? 

merlin

Demiurge Black Mountain signal (Broastcast Dual clone) gain set low/mid into Team Medic. Foof.....! 

Lebarque

Les Paul with a Marshall. Can't believe nobody else does it.

LastMantra

Gibson the Paul goldburst into a WEM amp (or two).

roberty

Super Fuzz into a Phase 90, absolutely wild

Spring reverb into reverse delay

thecolourbox

The Vox amp model on the Zoom G3 multifx, with cab sim off, direct with no reverb. Perfect Velvet Underground guitar sounds

Dominic

Old comb and baking paper 

slacker

I've got a Rasptop Super Divider that is quite rare. It's probably rare because it is so tempermental. You have to blend the octaves just so and none of the controls are labelled, When it 'works' it is amazing. 

Roland

Managing volume and tone through right hand muting

stratman3142

roberty said:

Super Fuzz into a Phase 90, absolutely wild

I was impressed with the sound you got at the end of Richard III at the recent jam and asked you about it at the time. I know it was a Phase 90 but what was the drive you used? I think it might have been some sort of Rat pedal.

Springywheel

Piezo mic on a didgeridoo, hooked up to a tremolo. 

andy_k

Pedals of choice ( varies ) into self built Fuzzdog Noisy cricket into Marshall 4 x 12, massive sounds at low volume.
Noisy cricket is 'apparently' similar tone to a Fender Bassman, crazy I know, but that is where it all began.
Never ceases to amaze me, and makes me wonder why I bother with amps sometimes.

axisus

I fitted my Tele with a bridge humbucker, a P90 in the neck and a single coil in the middle. 5 way switch and position 2 split the humbucker. Lots of good sounds, although I currently have a different config.

ICBM

A Rickenbacker just DI'd as if it was an electro-acoustic works surprisingly well. Most electric guitars don't sound great like that - solidbodies sound too hard and strident, and most humbucker guitars a bit muddy, but a semi-acoustic with single coils seems to work quite nicely. It doesn't sound quite like a normal electro-acoustic, but it's a good and usable tone.

More complex, a Rickenbacker guitar used in stereo, neck pickup DI'd straight to the PA with a bit of delay on it as the 'electro acoustic' sound, and bridge pickup through overdrive into a guitar amp or amp simulator into the PA. It sounds almost like an acoustic and an electric being played at the same time - the delay and overdrive produce very different results from pick transients and sustained notes, especially within chords. I've also tried it by splitting a mono signal from a guitar and it doesn't work as well, not sure quite why - it must be the difference in harmonic content from the two pickups.