EliasMooseblaster

Very familiar with this temporal device myself...I've been telling myself I'll put some proper work into DADGAD tuning "soon" for the last couple of years!

Best of luck with your experimentation - I'll be very interested to hear how you get on with it!

Presumably then, you can do it with a standard set of nut files? (i.e., not having to go and buy any exotic outsized gauges!) Also presumably: you need a weird string set with (basically) two sets of 4th & 5th strings?

Isn't that just baritone guitar tuning?* Or are some strings going up and some down? (* I say this realising bari players have strong opinions about whether one should tune A-A or B-B!) EDIT: sorry, I did some digging and realised what it actually entails! Now it sounds more like an inversion of Nashville tuning...I'm certainly intrigued.

Oh, I've had exactly the same problem! I think I've finally got to the point where I'm happy to just reach for the Tube Screamer clone if I'm playing my Tele, and the Dumble clone if I'm on the SG - no longer um-ing and ah-ing about whether they'd sound better if I got just one more pedal... Funnily, I thought youtube gear videos would make my pedal GAS worse, but I think they've actually helped calm it down: I was almost going to flog my Caline PureSky (Timmy clone, I seem to recall?) before I found a video that showed me I'd been using it all wrong.

Oh, rest assured, it might have solved my immediate problem, but it certainly didn't cure my GAS!

Playing my SG earlier, I couldn't help but notice the sound on the bridge pickup seemed a little unbalanced. The tone was great on the bass-side strings, but the B and High E seemed very shrill. I tried adjusting the controls, but once I'd got the sound mellowed out on the top strings, the bottom two then sounded a bit dull and lifeless. What does this need?, I began to wonder, do I need to re-think my EQ, put a compressor in the chain, something else entirely...? I envisioned myself opening a thread to ask you lot what to suggest. I envisioned that there a pedal that might fix the problem, or if that I might just have to get used to this imbalance, and adjust the tone control as I went along. Then I turned the guitar around and looked at the pickups. The treble side on the bridge pickup seemed way up compared to the neck pickup. One turn of a screwdriver just saved me a lot of time and money!

I'll answer your first two questions with another question! What are you hoping to get out of it? To elaborate: are you chasing any specific guitar tones, or just looking to experiment and see what you can get out of your setup? Are you trying to make the Champ sound like a completely different amp, or just enhance the basic clean tone? I'm afraid it's a long time since I played with a multi-fx unit, but given how good the budget pedals are these days, I imagine it's worth a punt: even if you don't love it, it could be a good way to help decide what kind of tones and effects you like, and you could always buy some dedicated pedals for those. (And the resale value for the multi-fx will probably be pretty good if you decide it's not for you!) And to answer your third question: I'd have thought the Fender might be a better pairing for Knopfler-esque bluesy tones. Single-coil guitars into a Marshall is typically a bit more Hendrix, or even Ritchie Blackmore!

I quite agree: I appreciate what Line6 were trying to do with their (earlier) amps, but if the core tone is horrible, no amount of clever effects is going to compensate for that!

Just going to blow the dust off this thread as I've gone and bought myself a Mosky Big Fuzz - thanks again for your recommendations! The Behringer Super Fuzz was fine, but I recently realised I'd owned it for a couple of years, and had barely used it. After trying them both side-by-side, I think I've realised what it is: the two fuzz tones on the Behringer are a bit 'one-note.' Granted, they're very contrasting, but they don't really change very much as you vary the settings - the Mosky is much more responsive to my guitar's volume, and I feel like it just has a more well-rounded tone overall (not something I thought I'd be saying about a fuzz effect...) I might see if I can capture the differences on video; otherwise there may well be an SF300 on the GC marketplace quite soon!

Yeah, it really does make me wonder whether anybody over at Fender is looking at the damage this is doing to their brand and reputation - I don't know of any ordinary customers cheering them on to win these petty battles!

UPDATE: NOW SOLD Somebody bought this on eBay - this thread can be locked.

Has there been a change of management over at Fender? It does seem a very odd move to only now try and inch this stable door closed, so long after the Strat-shaped horse has galloped into the sunset...I've worked at places before where someone new comes in and decides to "make their mark" by "shaking things up," which generally means "pi55ing everyone off by insisting we put a huge amount of effort into changing something which had been working just fine up until now." On the other hand, I can't help but find it a bit odd that John Mayer would ask PRS to make him a signature guitar which looks so much like a Fender (headstock notwithstanding). Given how little it has in common with a 'typical' PRS guitar, I can't help but wonder if he was trying to wind them up..

It's giving me a similar vibe to a PRS minus the looking-needlessly-ostentatious! Was it similar tone-wise?

Right, one last bump before this goes on eBay. Anybody interested?

I may be too late, and the OP may well have sold the Peavey valve amp already...but one of the other quirks in moving from SS to valve is the nature of the tone stack. Most SS amps have bass/mid/treble controls which act more like a graphic EQ - well-defined centre frequencies which you can cut and boost, often to quite extreme extents. Conversely, valve amp controls interact with each other a lot more - and can also change the extent (and voice) of the amp's distortion. It's possible that easing off the treble, for example, might lose a bit of top end off your rhythm tone, but the overdrive might then be less harsh when you wind the volume up for lead tones. I can only speculate, having not tried this amp myself. Another pissabolity: does it have a separate gain and master volume?

+1 for the body join: I'll never forget jamming with a guitarist who had a semi-hollow of a similar vintage. Looked and sounded lovely, but he explained he had to tune it down something like 2 whole tones because he was worried about the neck lifting off the body! Nothing a decent luthier couldn't fix, but you'd hope it wouldn't be an issue on a 4-grand purchase! Fingers crossed for you.

Hmm. I'm not an expert on Gibsons and their serial numbers, and I certainly don't want to accuse the seller of lying, but something isn't quite adding up. From the info I can find on the headstock serial number, it seems it should either be a 1955 LP Standard from the Gibson Custom Shop, or possibly a LP Classic built between '89 and 2014! Obviously it's not a Les Paul, and we know that the body is a genuine Gibson - it certainly looks like it could be original '70s from the picture! The serial number is the only thing that gives me pause for thought. Could the neck have been replaced with a LP neck? It certainly looks like a nice bit of kit, whatever its origins!

Curiouser and curiouser...could it be a sign they're already in serious talks with a buyer behind the scenes? Or maybe a buyer has made an offer to take on just the pedal range?

Yeah, possibly, and I suspect the aforementioned keyboard playing had something to do with it. I used to be "more" left-handed (I agree with the idea that it's a spectrum) - for years, I couldn't tie shoelaces, until my left-handed uncle showed me how to do it. Keys came a few years later, and I'm sure they helped to strengthen my right hand. Funnily enough, I also got used to using a mouse right-handed, as the home computer was set up that way for the rest of the family. But then maybe 15 years ago, I sprained that wrist, and switched to left-handed. I don't believe I've looked back...much to the annoyance of any right-handers sharing a computer with me!

First of all: hello, fellow southpaw! But no, when I first went looking for a bass, I kind of forgot that left-handed guitars and basses were a thing. (I suspect I was more preoccupied with what I could afford at the time!) Probably helped that I'd already been learning keys for a couple of years, so my right hand was no longer the dead weight it had been, but I never felt like a right-handed guitar was the wrong way round. Ironically, I've just tried flipping my guitar upside down, and my right hand is resolutely refusing to form any familiar shapes (either way up)!

Ahhhh, that would make sense. Funny you should mention the bass Tubescreamer - as someone who mainly played bass for the longest time, I got very excited when I found out Ibanez had released a TS-9B. I've never found another bass OD quite like it.

Yeah, I didn't bother to watch any of the videos YT suggested (it wasn't what I'd been looking for, after all), but I strongly suspect you're right: most of them probably don't even dislike Tube Screamers that strongly and are just playing up their opinions for clicks.

I agree entirely: if I put my TS between my Tele and Fender-style amp, it's exactly the tone I want. But my SG pairs better with a Marshall-style amp, and a (recently acquired) Dumble-style OD suits that signal chain much better!

I was searching YouTube for info on a (different) overdrive pedal, when one particular search revealed a rabbit hole full of people lining up to bash Tube Screamers - "Why Tube Screamers SUCK", "Why you should ditch your Tube Screamer", and so on. Really balanced, diplomatic titles, and all that. Is this a thing? I obviously don't expect everyone to like the same OD pedals I do, but I was always under the impression they were quite ubiquitous, pretty inoffensive, and generally accepted to be something you bought if you wanted to play Blues. Or is this a case of people just trying to get some video views out of attention-seeking titles? (I'm sure I heard somewhere that Rhett Shull isn't keen on TS9s, so I could believe some people might be trying to capitalise on that...)