Gunny47
New member
Haven't been posting lately, especially stuff about me. I've reacquired a taste for my Xbox 360 and have been playing it a lot :smoker: , I've been playing guitar a lot and doing tons of homework and dealing with a new bassist in my band and teaching him the ropes so I've been plenty busy...
Anyway, some more sh!t about me recently. I finally broke in my NOS RCAs in my GA5 and its much better than before obviously. Less headroom which is good so now I can get in a nice light crunch for rhythm when I'm playing and not have my dad threatening me with the shovel. Clean sounds seem on the perfect thickness and not muddy at all. As for cranked lead tones, definitely much brighter, focusing the distortion on the high mids, so when I'm using the bridge pickup the tone knob (on my R7 Im talking about) always gets rolled down to 5 or 4 or 3 and then its perfect. Because the amp now has some extra high end, I can use the neck pickup or both pickups with no problem. Volume at about 1 oclock seems to be where I like it the most for overdrive, fat creamy lead sound and growling ballsy rhythm sounds. I also dialed in a few other good tones using my pedals and blending the pickups on the R7. I never really tried this before. I usually do not use both pickups at the same time (middle position on a 3 way switch), but because I've been playing clean almost solely whether it be jazz, blues or actually classical and flamenco Ive been playing lately, Ive been using both pickups. I was playing distorted today and thought about the out-of-phase clapton tone with the bridge and middle pickup I dialed in with my friends strat. So I wanted to replicate it but with a Les Paul and my GA5. So when I went to both pickups, I lowered the volume on the neck pickup but kept the bridge pickup up all the way, so it had more of bridge than neck and sounded very good. Just like recordings like (hate to use this, but I cant think of anything else) Black Dog. So I defitely have an extra few tones to work with now.
Ugh, rambled again, gotta get back to the point...
Anyway, I ordered the Fender '57 Tweed Twin-Amp (Low Power Twin Custom RI) the other day at Guitar Center and got a few hundred off because I got it through the same guy I got my R7 from who gave me a deal for that too. Its going to take 8 weeks to come in. But Im not complaining because I saved a good amount of cash on it. Ive been wanting a Tweed amp since 2 years ago and 8 weeks is not going to kill me. Played this amp a lot already and definitely think that its fat tone will be perfect for me.
Anyway, some more sh!t about me recently. I finally broke in my NOS RCAs in my GA5 and its much better than before obviously. Less headroom which is good so now I can get in a nice light crunch for rhythm when I'm playing and not have my dad threatening me with the shovel. Clean sounds seem on the perfect thickness and not muddy at all. As for cranked lead tones, definitely much brighter, focusing the distortion on the high mids, so when I'm using the bridge pickup the tone knob (on my R7 Im talking about) always gets rolled down to 5 or 4 or 3 and then its perfect. Because the amp now has some extra high end, I can use the neck pickup or both pickups with no problem. Volume at about 1 oclock seems to be where I like it the most for overdrive, fat creamy lead sound and growling ballsy rhythm sounds. I also dialed in a few other good tones using my pedals and blending the pickups on the R7. I never really tried this before. I usually do not use both pickups at the same time (middle position on a 3 way switch), but because I've been playing clean almost solely whether it be jazz, blues or actually classical and flamenco Ive been playing lately, Ive been using both pickups. I was playing distorted today and thought about the out-of-phase clapton tone with the bridge and middle pickup I dialed in with my friends strat. So I wanted to replicate it but with a Les Paul and my GA5. So when I went to both pickups, I lowered the volume on the neck pickup but kept the bridge pickup up all the way, so it had more of bridge than neck and sounded very good. Just like recordings like (hate to use this, but I cant think of anything else) Black Dog. So I defitely have an extra few tones to work with now.
Ugh, rambled again, gotta get back to the point...
Anyway, I ordered the Fender '57 Tweed Twin-Amp (Low Power Twin Custom RI) the other day at Guitar Center and got a few hundred off because I got it through the same guy I got my R7 from who gave me a deal for that too. Its going to take 8 weeks to come in. But Im not complaining because I saved a good amount of cash on it. Ive been wanting a Tweed amp since 2 years ago and 8 weeks is not going to kill me. Played this amp a lot already and definitely think that its fat tone will be perfect for me.
