my basic set up right now with the brian burke band (www.brianburkeband.com)

Am Standard tele with maple neck with lindy fralin blues pus, glendale bridge, glendale pots, ghs boomers low strings, dunlop tortex mini jazz pics
am deluxe with glendale bridge
fmt set neck tele with a prs vintage bass from an 82 prs in the neck and a sd pearly gates in the bridge
99 maple nck lonestar strat

all cabls have switchcraft ends

pedal chain
vht valveulator
tu2
4 knob keeley compressor
keeley fuzz head
series 2 ts9 keeley modded
origional cry baby
ts10 keeley modded
tr2 keeley modded
mutron phasor
ernie ball jr volume pedal
vox timemachine delay
keeley katana
boss ns2
loop master a/by

Amps
69 twin
trainwreck express clone through a marshall 4x12
all enclosed in a keeley custom case

i carry a martin 000xce for acoustice shows

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Hmmm, dunno but anything that gives the cobain "in utero" sound really.

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I use a Super 210 for serious playing, Champ XD for practicing or playing on the patio. In either case, I mostly use clean settings (clean channel on the 210, and "Blackface" setting on the XD).

Cables - usually Monsters, and as short as I can get away with (e.g., 6' if possible).

Stomp boxes - very occasionally a TS-808 (new, not vintage) and also once in a while an MXR Dyna-comp. I also have a Small Clone chorus and BBE Sonic Maximizer I use now and then. I don't use stomps as a major part of my sound though.

I mostly let the guitars carry the mood and tone I'm looking for and I tend to do very little messing around with amp settings when playing. I play on around 3 - 4, bass on about 1/4, mid about halfway up, treble around 2/3, reverb on perhaps about 1/4.

I'm fortunate to have a decent little collection: SSS and HSS Strats, an SG, an older Guild solid body with soapbars, several Teles, Guild full size, etc. so I grab the guitar that has the sound I want for the song I'm playing.

Eg. blues -- Strat, sometimes Tele. Vintage Big Band stuff -- the full size Guild. Rock from groups that used horns (e.g., Chicago) -- the SG because you can do the more complicated chording fast (and they tended to use SGs to begin with). And so on.

Lately, I have been using my Oscar Schmidt OE-30 Tobacco Sunburst with GFS 59 pups. I have also installed an upgraded switch but volume and tone pots are stock. I use a full effects board with a Visual Sound Volume pedal. It has leds that let you know where you're at with the settting. I use a Korg Pitchblack tuner that is not in the chain. I have a Boss Compressor, to a Jekyll & Hyde to a Daneletro Drive to a Danelctro Distortion to a Modtone Aqua Chorus to a Boss delay. My practice amp is a Traynor YCV50 Blue and my gigging amp is an SCXD. We mic everything so I need a lower volume amp for gigs. We keep volume low for practice as well. The Traynor is heavier and bigger so it stays in the practice space. I used to play my Heritage at gigs but it was starting to show the wear and tear of gigging so it is now in my practice space at home. It surprises me how versatile the Oscar is and easy to play. I have been working on getting my Agile Harm 1 with P-90s upgraded to use it at gigs. Those Oscar and the Agile have incredible necks and are real easy to play.

What I need for my tone is any guitar that is in tune and stays in tune plus any amp that is working properly. No matter what gear I play, I always sound like myself. Because the tone is in me, not in the gear I use.
Free your mind and your tone will follow!

well said

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+1 on the well said. I can usually tell who's playin' by there style, riffs, etc.,. no matter what gear they play thru, but I also think playin' thru a tube amp or solid state, helps shape there sound. But most of the tone is due to the player. I personally like playin' thru tube amps, 'cause I think it helps shape the tone I wish to achieve. thanks for the replies. dutch

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2012 American Vintage Telecaster 1958
09 Fender american deluxe strat.
97 Gibson les paul special P90's double-cut
65 Princeton reverb re-issue
2010 Guild Gad-F40e

I want a tube amp bad but until I get one, im running a Custom Modified Squier Strat through a Boss FBM-1-->Marshall ED-1 Compressor into a Crate 1x12 amp with the Gain and 3/4's . Im a bedroom/ garage jammer so pardon my small setup, but one thing about the blues is you dont need to have a pedal collection. Til I get my Blues Jr Im lovin my tone, and I know it will be that much sweeter once its singing out a tube

Can't go wrong with the blues jr., I love the tone out of mine, easy to lug around also. Great for practice and small jams.

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2012 American Vintage Telecaster 1958
09 Fender american deluxe strat.
97 Gibson les paul special P90's double-cut
65 Princeton reverb re-issue
2010 Guild Gad-F40e

Mine is a strat to a hot rod deluxe amp(Don't have one ). Pedals are a distortion III and blues driver (If I want to get loud I play the together) to a wah maybe some reverb. Vibe for some songs

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Fender Highway 1 Strat
Marshall MG 50 DFX
Crybaby 535Q
Behringer Blues Overdrive
MXR Distortion III
Danelectro Flanger
Behringer Delay
EHX Small Stone
Boss Chromatic Tuner

The hot rod deluxe is a sweet amp. I use mine, when crankin' out classic hits from the 60's and 70's.

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2012 American Vintage Telecaster 1958
09 Fender american deluxe strat.
97 Gibson les paul special P90's double-cut
65 Princeton reverb re-issue
2010 Guild Gad-F40e

I play a Strat or Yamaha semi-hollow into a Peavey Classic 30, typically without any effects. If I use picks (I usually play fingerstyle), I use really thin picks for easy chord strumming, things like that.

The Yamaha and the Peavey are stock - the Strat has Copperhead pickups in it.

Home brewed strat with a Seymour Duncan Lil 59 in the bridge, 72 strat pup middle, and a 25th anniversary strat pup in the neck thru a dumble sounding type amp running into a port city 1x12 wave cab.
Or Epiphone Elitist dot thru the same amp.

I personally don't finger pick, but know afew guys that sound great just using their fingers.

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2012 American Vintage Telecaster 1958
09 Fender american deluxe strat.
97 Gibson les paul special P90's double-cut
65 Princeton reverb re-issue
2010 Guild Gad-F40e

Yeah I am playing that amp in a guitar shop near to our house every weekend pretyy sweet amp

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Fender Highway 1 Strat
Marshall MG 50 DFX
Crybaby 535Q
Behringer Blues Overdrive
MXR Distortion III
Danelectro Flanger
Behringer Delay
EHX Small Stone
Boss Chromatic Tuner