Here’s the deal, You go out and buy a Fender (Strat or Tele) for that sound and the first thing that most of you do is strip it down and change stuff because it is not to your liking because it don’t have that sound you are looking for and you go out a buy ton’s of peddles on top of the guitar overhaul and your still not happy!
The sound your looking for came from ( old school ) #1 the guitar,#2 a working guitar cord,#3 an amp,#4 knowing how to work the knobs on that guitar and amp to get your sound. You say you’re looking for that pure sound; you can’t any purer sound than that!
Or am I just old and stuck in my ways?

er...kc.. are you having a rough afternoon???

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Hey, Boy Blue is back!

Why limit yourself?
Just because something is fundamental doesn't make it superior.

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Rated "M" for meaty.

I'm chasing sounds I hear in my head, that's why I modify, add to or take away from my ever-evolving rig.

I've found those sounds in several different guitars, amps and pedals--some stock, some highly modified...but there's always another sound "in there", even after I've attained or satisfied one of those sounds.

Just because you've scratched an itch doesn't mean you shouldn't scratch the next one that somes along!

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Good Vibes To Y'all!



Screamin' Armadillos
Texas Roadhouse Music
Guitar/Slide Guitar/Harp/Vocals

No not at all. I know everybody wants their own sound and all that, but after awhile I think it is all getting lost with all the toys if front of the guitar. For me if you have more money in toys than you do for the guitar and amp put together you need to rethink how you are running the basic’s because the real sound of your guitar is getting lost or you lack the technique and are trying to make (cover) up for it.

Whatever gets the sound your after works for me. Personally, I like plug and play............ Mike

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The blues ain't nothin but a good man feelin bad.

If I was willing to pony up the mega-bucks to have the Custom Shop build me a guitar to my stringent specs I would.

But I'm not. I'm too cheap and I have too many other interests that require substantial investment.



So I've done the next logical thing......I've become my own "custom shop".

If that gives somebody heartburn, too fooking bad. Chug a bottle of Pepto and get over it.

Arjay

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"Here's why reliability is job one: A great sounding amp that breaks down goes from being a favorite piece of gear to a useless piece of crap in less time than it takes to read this sentence." -- BRUCE ZINKY

+1

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Speaking for myself, I'm still a firm believer in, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Further, I'm from the old, "Plug in Direct and Play" school and after forty some odd years of playing, pedals still don't even enter into the equation.

With me, it is not a question of acquiring a guitar and concurrently making preparations to disembowel it. Rather, it is a question of knowing what I want tonally and power wise out of any of my guitars and I shall have it. If the OEM pickups and electronics in whole or in part are satisfactory, well then, on a case to case basis in whole or in part, they stay. If to me they are deficient in whole or in part, I will exchange the unsatisfactory components with ones I know will achieve 'my sound'. Simple, logical and realistic, eh? Of course, YMMV.

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You dig?

I don't need to Chug a bottle of Pepto I am just wanting to know why so many are Chasing their tail when it comes to a good sound for the guitar!
I don't mean to push someones buttons about it

Me, I plug in and play. The only thing I use is the reverb on my amp.. It is all good.
ABS

like others have said I usually just plug in and play, but most of the time i play my electrics unplugged... does that make me weird?

I could never understand the rationale of buying a guitar that has a sound or feel you're not happy with and then modding it out spending even more money. If I play a guitar in a store and I'm not 100% happy with it it stays there for someone who likes it.I've never bought a guitar that I wasn't 100% pleased with.The money you spend buying and modding a guitar could possibly buy a guitar that was perfect for you right out of the box. I am quite capable of doing just about any kind of mod but I'd rather not bother.

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'65 Strat,65 Mustang,65 Jaguar,4 more Strats,3 vintage Vox guitars,5 Vox amps,'69 Bassman with a '68 2-15 Bassman cab,36 guitars total-15asst'd amps total,2 vintage '60s Hammond organs & a myriad of effects-with a few rare vintage ones.

My "buttons" aren't pushed -- it takes a lot more than that to fry my bacon.

That said, you don't think for one nano-second that your favorite guitar messiah (whomever he or she happens to be) walks into a local Guitar Circus, buys some dead-stock shake-and-bake instrument off the wall, then plays it onstage that very evening in front of thousands of fans without his personal luthier fine-tuning and/or modifiying the instrument to his client's liking, do you?

There's no tooth fairy, no Easter Bunny, no Santa Claus, and that seldom -- if ever -- happens.

Arjay

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"Here's why reliability is job one: A great sounding amp that breaks down goes from being a favorite piece of gear to a useless piece of crap in less time than it takes to read this sentence." -- BRUCE ZINKY

u kiddin man

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