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I don't do this now but this was the guitars me and the other guitarist used for a couple of years before we slimmed it down to 2 guitars each.
This is what I used for what songs
Ibanez neck mahogany guitar with locking trem - used on all the heavy stuff like Van Halen
Gibson 1986 LP custom - used as main guitar
White Fender Strat - fitted with 12's and used only for U2 songs
Red Strat - used for Sultans of Swing
Gibson SG Double neck - used for Hotel California and Dead or Alive
Then the other guitarist used
Gretch Bono sig guitar
Unknown Tele with humbuckers
Gibson J200 acoustic
Taylour 12 string acoustic.
There is \ was never any feedback problems with the acoustics, despite having huge amounts of them sent to the floor wedges. And he plays at a quite frankly mental stage volume
I remember it used to take 3 trips just to get the guitars in the venue from the van, what were we thinking
Can you see Julie and Sandra pissed last orders " eeeh i'm not dancing to dakota, he's playing a les paul with marshall stack and i know kelly plays a 82 sg standard with 9'sthrough a matchless valve amp .
Best I can come up with is arranging the set to have a 'slide/open tuning' section.
The Variax (mentioned above) is interesting...didn't know they could do that.
Any other ideas?
For everything. Nobody appears to have complained yet.
unfortunately there are plenty of bands out there using the right kit to create the wrong tone
I used to keep changing guitars through the course of a set and ended up realising that it's more important to keep the set flowing and minimise delays/interruptions for guitar changes.
I tend to take two guitars with me now, a Les Paul which is the "main" guitar, and an Ibanez AZ as a back up and to use if the song requires a trem.
I'm playing through a Helix so it's easy enough to modify the tones to suit different guitars if required, although I don't actually use different patches for different guitars. I'm also starting to belatedly realise I'm probably the only one who really notices (or cares about) the difference between the guitars anyway!
I've definitely come across people who seem to use their eyes more than their ears when it comes to gear choices. I remember someone I was in a band with once doing a quite ropey sounding version of sweet child o mine. The tone just sounded completely wrong but he was convinced it must be right solely because he was using a Les Paul through a Marshall.