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Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2009 10:10 pm
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I got texas specials and they do the srv tone pretty well.


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Running a JBjr in the bridge , a Classic Strat Stack in the middle and a Duckbucker in the neck position. But I'm also runnin a Marshall amp throught a Peavey 4 X 12, w/a BBE Sonic Stomp in the FX Loop, a rotovibe and Zakk Wylde Wah, DD6 Delay, a Metal Muff Distortion, w/a Boss Noie Reduction. Theres more to changing pickups. And my rig is less than appealing.


With all these preamps, I would think pickup selection wouldn't be much of an issue.

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This is precisely why I NEVER strove to achieve someone else's tonality and above all, attempt to incorporate it as my own.

Being from the old, "Plug In and Play School", I always chose my amps based on their inherent characteristics which I personally liked and then and only as necessary, tailored my guitars' pickups to enhance the qualities I was looking for through these amps. It is and always was quite refreshing, sounding like myself and no one else. Sure, I can mimic lots of players' 'sound' but this is because I'm thoroughly familiar with mine and how to bend it, should the need arise.

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Absolutely agree, Martian. But many cant or wont try to conceptualize some sound they could adopt as their own. Especially on these boards, its easier to target a sound we can refer to. He may say SRV, but even SRV had lots of different tones. So which is it? Well, its easier to say SRV than "that texas blues, plunky 50's vintaga quack sound". What the heck does "warm" mean anyway?

Those famous player sounds are a common denominator we can understand.


I see your point.

I also never understood many of the tonal references, especially the ones akin to dairy products like, "creamy", "buttery", etc.

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Absolutely agree, Martian. But many cant or wont try to conceptualize some sound they could adopt as their own. Especially on these boards, its easier to target a sound we can refer to. He may say SRV, but even SRV had lots of different tones. So which is it? Well, its easier to say SRV than "that texas blues, plunky 50's vintaga quack sound". What the heck does "warm" mean anyway?

Those famous player sounds are a common denominator we can understand.


I see your point.

I also never understood many of the tonal references, especially the ones akin to dairy products like, "creamy", "buttery", etc.


:lol: Music people are like wine officianato's...."A smokey, yet vibrant bouque, narrow after taste, with a slight hint of minerals and, dare I say?, a smidgen of southern facing soil?" What?????

"Those pickups offer a "punchy, stretchy, warm and robust tone with hints of low scoop mids" What???????

I try to appreciate what the words describe because you have to try to describe the sounds somehow. But....

I think SlapChop knows a lot a about this type of lingo, what it all means. Maybe he could give us some insight?


Heh When I started playing my friends and I would always seem to refer to certain songs or albums when we talk about gear. We have common music interests, so when someone says "It sounds like Jimmy did on Candy Store Rock or that laney sounds like Tony on Tommorow's Dream we all knew what we meant. then we had a new bandmate, and he was talking about creamy highs, and buttery mids, we all looked at him like he was an alien.

Now I catch myself saying stuff like that, and even I'm not sure what I meant after!

Some I get, like 'growley' or twangy. But I think they're the exceptions. Springy seems to suggest reverb to me, but I could be way off base.

What's buttery?

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Twelvebar wrote:
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Absolutely agree, Martian. But many cant or wont try to conceptualize some sound they could adopt as their own. Especially on these boards, its easier to target a sound we can refer to. He may say SRV, but even SRV had lots of different tones. So which is it? Well, its easier to say SRV than "that texas blues, plunky 50's vintaga quack sound". What the heck does "warm" mean anyway?

Those famous player sounds are a common denominator we can understand.


I see your point.

I also never understood many of the tonal references, especially the ones akin to dairy products like, "creamy", "buttery", etc.


:lol: Music people are like wine officianato's...."A smokey, yet vibrant bouque, narrow after taste, with a slight hint of minerals and, dare I say?, a smidgen of southern facing soil?" What?????

"Those pickups offer a "punchy, stretchy, warm and robust tone with hints of low scoop mids" What???????

I try to appreciate what the words describe because you have to try to describe the sounds somehow. But....

I think SlapChop knows a lot a about this type of lingo, what it all means. Maybe he could give us some insight?


Heh When I started playing my friends and I would always seem to refer to certain songs or albums when we talk about gear. We have common music interests, so when someone says "It sounds like Jimmy did on Candy Store Rock or that laney sounds like Tony on Tommorow's Dream we all knew what we meant. then we had a new bandmate, and he was talking about creamy highs, and buttery mids, we all looked at him like he was an alien.

Now I catch myself saying stuff like that, and even I'm not sure what I meant after!

Some I get, like 'growley' or twangy. But I think they're the exceptions. Springy seems to suggest reverb to me, but I could be way off base.

What's buttery?


This is what I'm getting at. At least, there was a definitive point of reference. But when all these other metaphors are thrown in such as, but not limited to, "springy" and buttery", I hear or read the word but in this context, it has no practical meaning to me.

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Okay, I intended to tell that I play trough a Fender Blues DV, 410, 60W amp, but I totally forgot since I was in a bit of a hurry.


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Okay, I intended to tell that I play trough a Fender Blues DV, 410, 60W amp, but I totally forgot since I was in a bit of a hurry.


Actually, if it were me, I'd probably leave the stock pickups in there, raise the midrange on the amp, turn the volume up and let the overdrive do its thing.

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Okay, I intended to tell that I play trough a Fender Blues DV, 410, 60W amp, but I totally forgot since I was in a bit of a hurry.


Intend to play? Does that mean you haven't played through it yet?

I would suggest you do. See how close of a tone you can get before you do any modding. Kind of what I meant when I suggested looking at your amplification first. I bet you'll get pretty close with all this stock.

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Okay, I intended to tell that I play trough a Fender Blues DV, 410, 60W amp, but I totally forgot since I was in a bit of a hurry.


Intend to play? Does that mean you haven't played through it yet?

I would suggest you do. See how close of a tone you can get before you do any modding. Kind of what I meant when I suggested looking at your amplification first. I bet you'll get pretty close with all this stock.


No, I inteded to TELL that I play trough a Blues DV. Not intend to play..


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I can't believe it's not butter. 8) Mike

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