I think I'm going through "Change of Ax"

[Platefire]

As one being a Fender Man all my life, Mostly Stratocater and also Telecaster---I seem to be preferring nowdays thickness of a fixed neck and humbuckers. My poor strat and tele hasn't seen much action lately. I love the way a humbuker drives my tube amps and off course once you back of the volume you got that nice mellow clean tone and a humbucker to my ears sound better for distorted tones. I keep wondering if this is just a temporary phase but right now I'm just pleased to being in Phat city!  

[tubesornothing]

Have em all - thats what I do.  The whole line up: tele, strat, 57 LP w p90s, R8 LP with humbuckers, archtop, acoustic

cant have too many guitars.

[Platefire]

Well, One thing for sure I'm sure not going to sell the strat and tele! I've been through a enough phases/seasons/changes to learn not to make any rash decisions during those periods! Just ride them out and enjoy them until they play out! 

[tubesornothing]

In one of the bands I am in, its a cover band.  That's when it gets goofy - cause I want to have all three on stage.  So I got myself one of those 5 guitar stands, then I put the tele, strat and LP all in there.  Way over the top for a low level cover band, but I love it.

[Platefire]

Yeah, you have to be quick, agile and Johnny on the spot to do that and not hold up the flow of the program changing guitars. I never was good at that and it seems to be hard for me acclimating to a completly different guitar and maintain performance and sound. So when I was doing the group thing, I used a strat completly becaues is so versitile for all types of mucic and had something else as a backup in case I broke a string. The hardest group acclimation ever was where I played bass on some songs and lead on others--that was a truely difficult aclimating transition but you do it and do your best with it even though if feels really weird. Plate

[flocentblack]

As one being a Fender Man all my life...

Going through the opposite right now,  never cared for fenders, always play a les paul, but as of late I'm digging the strat thing...

[tubesornothing]

As one being a Fender Man all my life...

Going through the opposite right now,  never cared for fenders, always play a les paul, but as of late I'm digging the strat thing...

I love strats for their sound, can't get that anywhere...

[Dynaflow]

Yeah, you have to be quick, agile and Johnny on the spot to do that and not hold up the flow of the program changing guitars. I never was good at that and it seems to be hard for me acclimating to a completly different guitar and maintain performance and sound. So when I was doing the group thing, I used a strat completly becaues is so versitile for all types of mucic and had something else as a backup in case I broke a string. The hardest group acclimation ever was where I played bass on some songs and lead on others--that was a truely difficult aclimating transition but you do it and do your best with it even though if feels really weird. Plate

 I hear ya. I used to have to get the set list arranged where I could change guitars between a song and then play what I wanted with that guitar until break and then strap the other on coming off of break, I wasn't fast at it either (well I could if I pushed it like you break a string drop that one and strap the other one on real quick). One example is when we did one of the stones tunes and I'd use keif tuning on one and then play a few others that required it towards the end of the set. Problem was the bass player would arrange the darn things willy nilly and I'd be in a struggle to get back to a guitar that wasn't in open tuning.

Regards,

Dyna

[jjasilli]

Have you tried a compressor pedal for your Fender guitars?

[Platefire]

jjasilli

Yeah I've tried the compressor many times and used them more consistantly when I used a floor processor and the compression was part of the patch of other effects. I played with one group several years back where I used a lot of effects and some songs had up to three patch changes.

With the pedals I never can get them set where I feel comfortable with them for live playing---they volume either too hi or too lo, the compression setting not enough or too much--just never could get a pedal to work for me live. Now for recording I use a lot of compression from pedals and processors.

While were on the subject of compressors, one of the most amazing compressors I ever had that I only used for recording was a TC Electronics Sustainer/EQ. I sold it on e-bay because I got to where I wasn't using it real regular anymore but now I regret I got rid of it. You could get a sustain out of it that was similar to using a E-bow---very unique sonund!

Dynaflow-using those special tuning is something I missed out on and never used that I wish I would have. I've read how that Keith done a lot of the stones songs with special tunings. I've played around with it enough to know you can do special licks and sounds that way.

[jjasilli]

Interesting.  I'm just getting into pedals, having recently unearthed my '70's MXR Distortion+ (script logo! but it was just a run of the mill pedal back then when I bought it).  I immediately fell in love with it, and just bought a bunch of analog pedals on ebay:  BBE Orange Squash Compressor (a bit bright); MXR Dynacomp Compressor M-202 (warm); 1980's Ibanez flanger (love it); delay (not sure about); and chorus (hasn't arrived yet).  I've heard good things about the TC, but I'm afraid of "digitizing" my sound.  I'm finally getting around to putting a board together, but had been lacking motivation.

[Platefire]

jjasilli

Let me clairify one thing that I said that sounds mis-leading--when I refered to pedals in my last post---I was refering to compressor pedals only. I use pedals all the time but I've always had problems working with a compressor pedal live. Also the "TC" I was refering to was not a modern digital processor but an old 80's pedal some say is a "Holy Grail" of old compressor pedals. I now have a Visual Sounds Route 66 Overdrive/compressor on my pedalboard. The main effects I use is delay, distortion and tremolo even though I have more effects on my pedalboard. My effects pedals consist of DIY 2 Effects loops switcher and bypass, Boss Tuner, Route 66, two modified Ibanez Classic Metals, Dunlop Stereo panner/Tremolo, Line 6 Delay modeler, Boss Super Chorus, Boss RV3, 80's DOD analog delay, Morley Dist/Vol/Wah and Whirlwind A/B/Y box. I have an old 90's Art Effects Command Center (ECC) flooe processor that combines anolog and digital effects that I use for direct recording. I also have an old 90's ART SGX LT rack mount preamp and processor I use for direct recording. So I'm very much into effects but 90% of my playing is just a guitar of choice through a delay with a little reverb into a good tube amp. Plate