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Rolling off the guitar's volume can also sweeten the tone when playing hot pickups clean. A compressor might help you get the strength and sustain you're used to getting via distortion.

My band Felt Pilotes played the Bluebird with Brethren Fast one night long ago. Small world.

I go with Shubb capos, because you can adjust the pressure. Good luck!

I bought a backup Catalinbread Topanga and 5F6 last year in one of their b-stock sales... Those pedals have become an integral part of my sound... Only pedals I've ever bought backups for. Dyna Comp Deluxe was a mind blower. First time I plugged it in, all settings at noon... I finally heard...

Dyna Comp Deluxe... I play single coils, quietly, and the compressor sparks everything up beautifully. Catalinbread Formula 5F6... I use it as a tone shaper rather than an OD (I play clean), and it's exactly the sound I always wanted. Catalinbread Topanga... My main amp is a 1975 SF Champ...

Another vote here for the Topanga. I always just used the built in reverb in my Fender amps... When I picked up a Reverb-less SF Champ a few years ago I needed to get a pedal to use with it, and the Topanga nails a Fender spring reverb perfectly. I also have an RV6. Lotta fun sounds in there...

"Sweet Jane" - Velvet Underground

Get them both and send the Blizzard Pearl to me.

21, 22, 24... Doesn't matter to me. I have guitars with all three. I rarely play up there anyhow.

It's very possible that without Flipper I wouldn't have become an artist. They were the first band that I heard and loved where I thought "I could do that..." Not in a put down way, but in a sincere, encouraging way: "I can do it... I can play music, write songs, be in a band..." Looking back...

2018 "Bankruptcy Special," bought used but mint at GC for a song. The mini-humbuckers are so sweet with the guitar volume rolled back. Really woody/natural, chimey cleans. I'm a lifelong Tele player... this is my only Gibson.

Had a question rumbling around my brain recently, and might as well ask it here. On the TBX Strats, did both tone knobs have TBX pots, or just one, and if just one, which one? Thanks! (I have a '99 AS Strat with the no load pot, and an '88 AS Tele with the TBX, which I really dig.)

Gorilla GG-20 Peavey Backstage Plus Fender Pro-185 (Quit playing for 20 years due to health problems :() Vox Mini-3 2G Fender SCX2 Fender Champ (SF, 1975) I also have a Vox AV60 that is a great amp, but a little large for my current needs. Got it for a song, though, and will keep it "just in...

One way of being a punk is maintaining a pure sense of integrity through thick and thin, another way is demolishing expectations and "rules" at every turn. Both approaches have their place.

If I ever get another Strat, I hope it's Midnight Wine. What a great color.

Dyna Comp Deluxe > Catalinbread Formula 5F6 > MXR Analog Chorus > Carbon Copy Deluxe > Catalinbread Topanga > Boss TR-2

I like the variety I get from the pickup combos, and the way the strings feel so loosey goosey on a floating bridge. (I'm mainly a Tele player.) Also like the comfort/contours.

I buy records from Bear Family in Germany all the time. They are usually on my doorstep within a week of ordering. DHL doesn't mess around!

Yeah, one of the things I like about the Strat is that when recording, between those five settings, there's almost always one that works well in the context of a particular song. I don't care which one it is, as long as it works. And a lot of time the one that works is surprising.

I use em all. I like position 2 for chimey arpeggios with a little extra zap. Position 4 sounds great to me for punchy, clean rhythm playing.

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If the amp has reverb: Dyna Comp Deluxe MXR Analog Chorus Carbon Copy Deluxe Boss TR-2 I'f the amp doesn't have reverb, substitute a Topanga for the Carbon Copy. Runners up: Catalinbread Formula 5F6 Mojo Hand Mister-O

Beautiful! I love a natural body with rw board.

Two that always leave me feeling uplifted: Sly and the Family Stone, Horace Silver.

I spoke three hours too soon.