What is the best set up for a solo blues artist
Hi everyone, I own a Burns Marquee electric guitar, a Epiphone Les Paul, and a Young Chang 80s Telecater, I play through a Marshall Valve State 100 combo, and a Marshall Acoustic 50AC amp, I am trying to pick a good setup, including peddels to use, just for my own solo performance, as any of you blues members got any adive, I do write all my own songs and music and play live, but i'm really from a country music back ground, can you help, i'm just trying to get a feel for my change of direction into a more blues sound. cheers Dave,
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Permalink Reply by Dave Ciarella Murray on
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Thanks Billy, interesting i do make my own percussions and other sounds for my songs, but never made a mic, my instruments are at the cheaper end of the market, but have a TOP SOUND, its that sound i want to make better with the right amp. cheers Dave
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Permalink Reply by Chad Nordhoff on -
Speaking of amps, this is thee amp that made the "first rock 'n' roll record". The paper stuffed in the torn speaker cone made the distorted guitar sound on Jackie Brenston's "Rocket 88". It still sits at Sun Studio here in Memphis.
It's just interesting to think about how guitars, amps, and pedals are designed to get a certain sound. In many cases this is how these sounds began. This Seranola amp fell off the top of the band's car on the way up from Clarksdale.
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Now thats is one cool picture Chad, cheers Dave
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Permalink Reply by Charles Bell on -
wow, history right up the road from me in Memphis. I'm adding this to a planned itinerary
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Permalink Reply by billy freedom on -
yeah man its all in your fingers and i do mean fingers plural and not picks. i use a mic from a telephone or tape recorder attached to a flexible wire made hot with a small battery wrapped in black tape. i put it inside the guitar before i put strings on. it attaches to the tail pin and a 1/8" jack plugs into it. i use whatever is around someones amp or right into the pa. i make own own strings like they do in africa, fat E is fat copper electric wire, A is a euro video cable tinned copper, D is an american video cable copper, G is the wire off a whisk broom tinned steel, B is a strand of stainless steel rope, skinny E is a strand of galvanized steel euro bicycle brake cable. from low to high i tune CGDGBD when the copper strings start dying i tune higher to DADF#AD when these start to go i put a magic mojo bag inside and the strings sound new again. i also tie on extra frets with nylon thread so i dont have to bend them (its sway like sitar) theyre movable and i can adjust them to buzz how i like. i slide with a metal ring on my middle finger it totally gets out of the way when i need it to, or i use a bic lighter lap style. it may sound crazy but this is my sound, i really dont want to change it for anything.
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nice one, i am only learning the inns and outs, i like your style man, keep the info coming any good ideas for making good sounds is welcome, can you put some picture od your gear up fro me to see, cheers Dae
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Permalink Reply by BRIXTONBOOGIE on -
Sorry, but valve state amps just suck. Sell it and buy a tube amp; or maybe you can use it for keyboard or whatever you use. I found a so called "Loop Station" (by Boss) very useful, because it allows you to record your rhythm guitar and then play it back in a loop - you´re free to add a nice solo/riff to your music while the show goes on - no need to program or anything in advance, just use it as any other pedal. Costs from 160 - 450 € here in Germany... A small mixer helps too (as said before) and one should also check different mics, because a high-priced mike doesn´t mean you have a better sound. It depends very much on the voice/mic combination... Just check it out and pick what you/or what people like, no metter if you end up singing through a 20 Dollar mic...
all the best from Hamburg!
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Thanks for the feedback Brixton, i will defo check out a tube amp, have you any names to ook for, l have just got a Boss loop pedal 3 days ago, I am learning on it, yeh its a great peda, it gives you some much freedom to deveop your leads and chords, Brixton and a memers all advice is very much welcome, as l am a new man on the block, I am writting new songs every day, i aim to start putting some of my songs on upload soon, i own a AKAI DPS 24 track, so I prouduce and record all my own songs, cheers Dave,
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Permalink Reply by Barton Katz on -
Line 6 has hooked up with boogner tube amps. Check out sigler music in springdale Arkansas. My brother tom has worked there 20 years. look up siglermusic.com ask for Tom tell him Bart his brother gave you the info. ask to talk to Tom. if you have the energy take care Bart.
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Permalink Reply by Chad Nordhoff on
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I just got a (late 50s-early 60s?) Kay N3 archtop for fairly cheap. It sounds great through my Fender Princeton (solid state) amp. When I play it through my old tube amps it takes me back to a time I never saw or heard. Either way, it's kickin azz! Throw a little somethin' under my stompin' foot, SOLO BLUES!!!!!!
then i found out it is the same guitar Jack White uses live. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fM2qhG8mA4
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