No idea what category this should be in.
By this I mean any combination of gear/ settings that you use and enjoy and think most people probably won't have tried. Could be a secret weapon £15 pedal or £6k worth of amp blending, or a way of using gear that most people won't have thought of.
Here are two examples;
- For a few months, I gigged a JMP50 combo through a Vox 2x12 with Alnico Golds. It was the best I ever heard golds sounding, i really didn't like them with my AC30 but somehow with the JMP the presence/ sizzle/ low end paired really well.
- The middle position on my Gretsch Duo Jet with TV Jones pickups - a Brian Setzer Filtertron in the Bridge, and a t-armond single coil in the neck. Gives this really interesting notched midrange, kind of like position 2/4 on a strat but thicker and spankier, and particularly the low strings have this ultra deep twang I've never heard from anything else.
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Supportact said: [my style is] probably more an accumulation of limitations and bad habits than a 'style'.
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Noisy cricket is 'apparently' similar tone to a Fender Bassman, crazy I know, but that is where it all began.
Never ceases to amaze me, and makes me wonder why I bother with amps sometimes.
More complex, a Rickenbacker guitar used in stereo, neck pickup DI'd straight to the PA with a bit of delay on it as the 'electro acoustic' sound, and bridge pickup through overdrive into a guitar amp or amp simulator into the PA. It sounds almost like an acoustic and an electric being played at the same time - the delay and overdrive produce very different results from pick transients and sustained notes, especially within chords. I've also tried it by splitting a mono signal from a guitar and it doesn't work as well, not sure quite why - it must be the difference in harmonic content from the two pickups.
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