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if you have the luxury of a few pedals, that’ll get you through most gigs if you can play
For me, it's a challenge to make the covers as original sounding as I can. If I wasn't bothered about that, I'd be happy with much less gear.
I have to say, one of hte attractions of the Helix is that it's sooooo easy to create as many different sounds as you like - cleans, crunch, chimes, raaawwk! I love it!
So, I need just one device - a Helix
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Eqd Speaker Cranker clone
Monte Allums TR-2 Plus mod kit
Trading feedback: http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/60602/
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
My point (I think) is that most of the gear is for the guitarists benefit not the audience, that and playing well is at leat as important as the gear you use
Totally get what you’re saying, and if my pedalboard went bye byes I’m sure I’d cope, but as I said before, if I’m feeling the sound then I play better.
For gain sounds I always run the amp (I have three that do different amounts of loud) at the point of breakup. Then one can hit harder, add a pedal or do both to get varying amounts of gain. Also keep the pedal on and roll back the guitar volume.
A dual stage overdrive can be useful and is still just one pedal.
Delay and reverb can be interchangeable. The context reverb can do delay as well. Some reverbs have modulation etc.
I can cover a lot of sounds with two guitars a Klon(e) a Memoryman and a Vox type amp.
Pedal 2: digital delay eg Boss DD6
Pedal 3: wah wah eg crybaby
Pedal 4: chorus eg Boss CE2
That’s all you need really.
Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
The songs you are playing are different so this is enough variation to keep things interesting, so you don’t need different sounds to emulate the original song as long as you play it close enough to the original, no one will notice nor care. At home it’s fun to ‘nail’ the sounds on the record, but live is a different story and the ‘idea’ or ‘concept’ of the song is more important than the exact guitar tone imho.
I don’t like to adjust pedals live, it’s too much of an unknown quantity for me, so just having a low and high gain drive pedal always worked for me as there’s enough to go wrong when playing live that having my 2 sounds that ‘work’ was reassuring and I could concentrate on playing and enjoy myself, hopefully leading to the audience enjoying it too!
With so many comparison web sites out there, how do I choose the best one?
Boss sd1 super overdrive
Boss bd2 blues driver
Boss dm2w delay
That gives me clean, a couple of different crunch tones and a solo tone with both dirt pedals on. The delay gives a bit of ambience /space and that’s enough for the basics for me. I use a headstock tuner with that little board.
I tried an ME-5 again not long ago and although it sounded great, it was just too limited and frustrating to use by modern standards - editing anything on the fly is a complete pain, it's the traditional parameter-matrix/value-button method which is basically unusable under gig conditions. There's also no tone control on the OD/DS module so you're forced to have the EQ engaged at the same time and can't use it for a separate boost or tone change.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein