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how to achieve top class guitar sound?
please can anyone help me to simply achieve a good clean rhythm and overdrive status quo type sound using my fender telecaster guitar, just 2 sounds, I have a 3 piece band comprising of keyboards and live drummer, so i`m not looking for an overdrive sound like metallica that will totally drown out the band
take into account bryan adams and status quo, I have spent so much money on pedals and amps and different type strings and still every night on stage with a different sound, and it`s beginning to drive me crazy,just lately i purchased the line 6 guitar pod 2 and doing a bit of messing around with this but still not getting the sound i want, the closest i got to an overdrive was using the boss ds-1 pedal but still not happy with this, I do not use any amp on stage just plug directly to the house mixer, is this where i`m going wrong ? so please can anyone guide me on the right track and give me some ideas of how you set your guitar sound and equipment used
I dare say it is very hard to get that type of clean "going into break up" sound by doing it the way you do now. I have tried several similar set ups (and use it from time to time). However, the only sounds I can get to be OK are the absolute clean ones or the distorted ones.
What will get you there faster than you can say "tube" is a real tube amp. Don't need the large monsters, just a small decent combo, which you'll then mike as usual through the PA. Look up the smaller amps from Blackheart (US) or Blackstar (UK) or similar. These give you real tube tone to die for at an affordable price.
There are two ways to get to the two-tone "thing". You can turn the amp into saturation and then turn down on your guitar to clean up the signal. Very pro and common. Or, you can put a good drive pedal (like a TS 808 tube sceamer) in front of a tube amp and push it into overdrive - also a slick solution.
In either case, both will get you a tone that is way, way better than any simulation or modelling stuff can hope to achieve. Don't get me wrong, I use the pod type of set up too (when we do cover band stuff I use it all the time), but this other way can not be copied - at least not yet.
Just look at the live or studio work of the artists you mention. You will always see at least one tube/valve amp cooking behind them, Fender, Marshall, Vox, Orange, Cornford, Dr. Z, Hiwatt, Matchless, Mesa Boogie and so on... This is not because they are being tone snobs (well, some may be) - it is because it delivers the best tone.
Good luck on your tone quest! Oh and if you insist on going the modelling route, then I think the Line 6 Vetta is the best there is.
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