Hoorah.....

shit, I'm at this point (where I'm just not a good guitar player and I know it) better than some 80's bands that sold a million records but hid behind distortion, it is not a device to be used in such a fashion as it has been.... it's meant to enhance music, not mask it

 

Exactly. If there's one thing I can't stand, it's a costant rhythm guitar built on distortion. It makes me cringe.

But when you're soloing and you hit that note that overloads a circuit, damn it sounds fine.

 

mos def.....

 

You can't beat a Bluesbreaker...

Actually, you could... it's called a Plexi.

I love Marshall's tube stuff, but I play through Fender Twins. I have a Les Paul, but I don't even use it because I was going a little nuts when I was playing slide one time and ripped the fucking input jack from its screws.

Haha, I don't even use any effects besides an A/B switcher to go from my C-T to the Reverb. Otherwise, all my distortion just comes from volume and my signal breaking up... I turn both tone knobs all the way to zero and play with middle/bridge on my Strats (hum cancelling).

There's only two amps that I'd ever play that aren't pure tube and that's the Cyber-Twin (tube preamp) and Gibson's Lab series.

If I had the money, I'd be using a Cesar Diaz, but I don't... I almost sold my combos and got a Soldano and a Marshall 1967A cab with basket weave a couple weeks ago, but I ended up buying a Bonnie Raitt strat and a used Toyota.

 

wow

 

Oh god, my combos push 300 watts (tube) easy, lmao... I use a JVC power amp to crank it a bit. I use my output jack for a cabinet and plug it into the P/A jack for microphones and it has a 25db boost. Every time I bring someone in to listen to me play they're always like "Why don't you just get a Marshall instead if you want a sound like that"... Simple, people don't expect them to be that loud.

It's kind of like what Henry Garza does... his clean sound comes from Marshalls and his dirty sound comes from Fenders. Neil Young mics his '59 Fender Deluxe into Marshalls (same kinda thing). If I go over 6 on my Cyber-Twin's master, it'll usually start breaking up and eventually die on me, so I tend to push about 120-130 watts maximum. People still tell me it's overkill.

 

Duck tape and pencils make for the best distortion... but it isn't reversable. I wouldn't do it to my shit, though.

I don't really mind the logo on Peavey Classic 30s and whatnot, but anything else looks like crap.