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Thanks for all the well-wishes after mentioning the wreck. I was driving along a highway here in north Texas in November '22 (with my daughter) and a large tow-truck (the kind you put a large tractor/truck on the back of) ran a red light right in front of us. We hit it at 50mph. Very lucky to...

When ghost notes are enabled...it really does sound like a real one. Santiago handled this and he gets it. Also a great base for the EJ sound. I had one on loan for a bit but now am on guitar holiday for an extended period as I had shoulder/bicep surgery as the result of a bad wreck I was in.

Sounds heavy! ;-) Again, Greenbacks are fantastic in shaping/coloring/adding bounce and crunch to the sound. They are generally awful at helping replicate an already shaped/colored sound. The 68Lion has a great GB cab in the box. You don't want to double up on that.

Pedal solution, if I were building it today, would be (in this order) - MXR phase/flange - Bell Epoch - 68 Lion - Boss EQ-200 - Eventide Micropitch - UA DelVerb - Radial Pro-Iso Stereo XLR Isolator and Converter The Eventide could be dropped if you just want pre-Fair Warning tones. If you want...

Good question! I don't know. I've always liked the CL80 if you don't need any color from the speakers. I love GBs for the color they add, but if you are trying to get the crunch/harmonics/compression/etc done before the amplification stage, then CL80s will help to not overdo it. For instance...

There was no re-amping. I promise. What re-amping DOES sorta/kinda approximate is the 1176 adding a bit of compression, the Pulteq EQ adding a tiny bit of compression, quite a bit of tube color, and scooping things out a bit. 12301 was a fantastic-sounding Marshall but it was the "record/mix...

Play, fiddle, and record yourself. Listen to the recordings with different settings. The Ecstasy feels SO good to play that it is easy to get lost in it, whereas playing in a band context (which it can do as well) might call for different settings. The amp can be made to sound like a 100w...

I absolutely love my Syn30C with a BEBB module. I get a great clean that sits somewhere between a powerful Deluxe and an AC30, I get a versatile clean channel pedal platform (can be set flat, mid-humped, or scooped and can get a little grit), and then the BE channel from Friedman. All midi...

The tube compression, the subtle but real eq tweaks, and the fully analog chamber reverb is magic dust on the raw Marshall midrange tone (especially with that 50k mid pot). VH1's guitar tone doesn't sound nearly as "other worldly" without Donn Landee. The YT links are Ted's mixing ideas. Donn...

This should go a LONG way to demystifying Ed’s 12301 tone. It won’t, but it should. This is why Ecstasies and BE’s (both Reinhold and Dave have been in and around that amp a ton) sound the way they do. They are emulating the mix, and not the raw tone.

These raw takes show how much the processing at mixdown shapes the tone.

I have a song I did with it somewhere (a demo for a writer) but I have no idea where that audio is. I was shocked at how great it sounded clean. Just a great, spanky sound. Again (pardon me for repeating myself), like a pissed-off Tele.

Yeah I had an all-original 2459 back in the mid-90s. Glorious sound.

Just for comparison, this is my old Telecaster into a Bogner Telos, hardly a fire-breather (running in un-boosted JMP mode). https://youtu.be/Vxi2moEVQDI

SD '59n is the banger. Which interestingly enough is what Holdsworth used in the Red Baron (only with double philisters). The AH-1 was never used, and I wonder why Seymour marketed it as such.

Exactly right about resonant peak, Scott.

I could never get rid of it!

Scaring me!! Kramer body, neck from a company that starts with an L that escapes me now. Painted in a pattern that matched a pair of Jams shorts I had at the time (which were sacrificed in the process). Floyd from ‘84 or so. That black pickup was a Duncan Distortion, it now has an old Screamin’...

If you wanna see how the amp makes so much more difference than the pickup, how a high-output pickup can be self-defeating, and how the Strat bridge adds the zing, listen to the newly released outtakes from the Star Fleet Project. On “Let Me Out“ and on “Blues Breaker“, Ed is using his newly...

1. The amp (to a point) is more important than the pickup for VH1 2. A big part of the Frank sound on VH1 was the "zing" from the vintage strat bridge 3. It is basically a T-top PAF, not the others. Mid 7s dc & short A5. When you try it into the right rig, it is "there". Think beefier...