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Our next gig is on December 16. My second guitarist has a bass combo, and it's not going to work. I have a Blues Junior III. I keep on nagging the other guitarist to borrow his friend's guitar amp, which is much larger and louder than mine. I know that he can always key in the volume so that...

I was experimenting today, and I came up with a really good tone: The Blues Junior's treble and bass were at 0, the mids were maxed out, and on my BOSS GE-7, the two lowest frequencies and two highest frequencies were kept as low as possible. I also maxed out the high mids, and kept one knob of...

There was a period in my life where I used nothing but the neck pickup to play loud music with other people. I would use my GE-7 to boost the high mids and treble in order to get the bassy pickup to cut through. I did this because I wanted to play without having to face the feedback that my Tele...

When I'm playing with my church band, I have to put my Blues Junior at around 3 on the master volume when it's on the floor, and nobody complains. As soon as I put it on a stand, however, with the volume still at 3, they're all telling me to turn down. I guess I'm just answering my own...

I have this Fender amp which sounds really beautiful on low volumes. When I raise it up for gigging, however, the tone becomes really harsh, like a "blizzard of nails". That is, it only becomes like that when I use my bridge pickup on my tele. When I use my neck pickup, it's fine. That's how...