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A compressor is an obvious answer - is it home use or live ? - Live you have an element of amp volume to help you - Home and far harder to acquire endless sustain with a clean amp setting
As I said a compressor will help - after that, without knowing the grade of your guitar, various tone enhancing upgrades to your guitar can help like better saddles, maybe bridge, maybe pick-ups - but I'd go down the compressor route first and take it from there - yet you mention 'Still Got the blues' so try a light touch of overdrive, assuming you don't want to much gain - as you mentioned you play clean
A nice clean action - any fret-buzz that doesn't come out of the speakers still takes a lot of energy from the vibrating string.
A good left-hand vibrato technique - keeps the note going without changing the pitch. I have NO IDEA how to do it or how I learnt it, but one day it was just there.
Strings that are newer than "dead". I'm not very fond of brand new strings, but newer strings definitely seem to have more sustain in them.
And, yes, a compressor - although, personally, I've never managed to make one work as a sustainer in a way that I like. I got a lot more success out of the left-hand vibrato.
Btw - do you use the Editor software with the THR10C? If you don't, be aware that you have two compressors inside it. A stomp boxy one, and a FABULOUS "studio type" one. (I rarely use either as a compressor, but I do use the second one as a clean boost into the British Amp model, to push it into "heavenly" territory... but if you mainly play clean, you probably have no need of this particular application!!)
EDIT: Ah! You're already aware of it
Yea aware of the editor but not spend any time really tweaking things, just tried a few presets. Will spend some time familiarising with it over the weekend
I had another thought, reading @guitars4you reply: volume. Definitely.
That might be how I figured out the vibrato thing, many many years ago - I probably did it live, kind of instinctively. Once you know what it feels and sounds like, then you tend to make the same movements at home volume and compromise over the tone - your imagination fills in the rest.
Have you got anywhere you can turn the THR up for a while? It easily gets to the volume that "helps" with sustain, attack, juicyness, etc - but I have to wait until the missus is not in the same room!
playing loud and close to the speaker helps allot
I got a cheap dyna comp pedal that does that pink floyd thing well, makes playing lead on clean sounds more fun for sure.
The boss compressor doesn't do the same thing, but it is useful too
you do of course realise that both those intro's you mentioned have a good bit of gain on them?
But yes, get an E Bow! Every guitarist should have one. Not quite the sustain you're after at the moment, but HOURS and HOURS of fun. With a bit of practice you're imitating cellos and flutes. (I've had one for about a year, used it non-stop for weeks - not seen it for months, though... can't remember exactly where it is a the moment!! somehwere in the "studio", I guess)
- Volume
- Compression
- finger technique/vibrato
- boost
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
Volume is everything. Feedback is the air from the speakers pushing the strings (slightly). Impossible without volume - or sitting with your guitar VERY close to the speaker!