ImmortalSix
John Mayer's Mankini
I was getting ridonkulous clean tones out of my "B-rig" last night --- like, amazing, "can't stop playing" tone.
The rig was an Epiphone Dot Studio with Gibson Burstbucker Pros (Alnico 5 PAFs) and a brass Wilkinson roller bridge straight through an 18' cord to a 2001 Fender Ultimate Chorus (2x12", 130 watts, the poor man's JC-120).
MAN, what a sound!
I had written off this amp in the past few years because I've been living in an apartment and it's too LOUD, but last night at practice for my musical, I got to open it up a little bit, and it just flat out killed. The drive channel is nothing to write home about (solid state and grainy), BUT
On the other hand, the clean channel is wondrous, crystallicious, rainbows and unicorns tone. I can't describe it any better than that.
These pickups haven't been gelling with this guitar, or me, until last night. I adjusted their height, and put a wound G on the guitar to fatten it up and help it intonate better --- and it was just such a magical combination.
The bass strings rang out full full full, with no rattling anywhere, just a gigantic, full sound, perfect. The highs were sweet and punctuated, with the right amount of chirp and not an ounce too much cut --- I pulled out my phone and took pictures of how the knobs were set, because I just couldn't believe how good it sounded. I had kind of a "big band" club jazz tone going on --- a lot like the tone in this song but with a fuller, tighter bass.
Don't you just love it when you get a great tone?!
I really have been all "crunch" lately and have not taken a moment to "stop and smell the roses" of clean tone.
-Hunter
The rig was an Epiphone Dot Studio with Gibson Burstbucker Pros (Alnico 5 PAFs) and a brass Wilkinson roller bridge straight through an 18' cord to a 2001 Fender Ultimate Chorus (2x12", 130 watts, the poor man's JC-120).
MAN, what a sound!
I had written off this amp in the past few years because I've been living in an apartment and it's too LOUD, but last night at practice for my musical, I got to open it up a little bit, and it just flat out killed. The drive channel is nothing to write home about (solid state and grainy), BUT
On the other hand, the clean channel is wondrous, crystallicious, rainbows and unicorns tone. I can't describe it any better than that.
These pickups haven't been gelling with this guitar, or me, until last night. I adjusted their height, and put a wound G on the guitar to fatten it up and help it intonate better --- and it was just such a magical combination.
The bass strings rang out full full full, with no rattling anywhere, just a gigantic, full sound, perfect. The highs were sweet and punctuated, with the right amount of chirp and not an ounce too much cut --- I pulled out my phone and took pictures of how the knobs were set, because I just couldn't believe how good it sounded. I had kind of a "big band" club jazz tone going on --- a lot like the tone in this song but with a fuller, tighter bass.
Don't you just love it when you get a great tone?!
I really have been all "crunch" lately and have not taken a moment to "stop and smell the roses" of clean tone.
-Hunter
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