Redstone

lol! It's all about balance... and ummm.... rotation =)

Hey Red, We didn't play yet. It is every Wed(OPEN MIC). I will video -tape it so you can see the bottles flying at my head! Bill and I are going to play some "real" gigs this summer. I want to play some weddings and divorce parties. You can't stop real ROCK +ROLL!

I love wine-red. I would say it might be worth 9 to 11oo I don't really know. Post with the Big Boys on the main MLP forum. They Know everything. It would be nice to get a 2000. 11 years of settling and drying out. Good luck on bid!

Hey Red,It is known as an effects chain.Normally you plug a cord into your amp and then into pedal and then amp. Normally you would hook them together like this. amp>over-drive>into guitar. If you use a delay - amp-delay-over-drive-guitar> there are no set rules. I usually go straight into the amp. My amp has an Over-drive channel built in. The gain knob controls the amount of distortion. I like my guitar to still sound like a guitar so I set gain on 4 to give it "balls". The more gain you give it the more the guitar sounds like a chainsaw. The metal guys you know love that shitty chainsaw tone. I have great guitars > I want to hear my guitar not static. I love fuzz pedals. They do crap up your sound in a good way. Check out my thread in effects.GIve Me Fuzz Or Give Me Death for examples. Satisfaction by Stones is a great fuzz guitar. If you buy an amp with one channel you will need a distortion or overdive pedal to get cool 'dirty' guitar!

Hey Red, Sounds great you need an electric. Valvekings have gotten good reviews. It is hard to go wrong with a tube amp. My Koch Kills. Every guitar I play sounds meaty+rich through it,even my Strat! My Koch is an older one 2000. They now make a multi-tone which has 3 channels. It would be worth it if you can get a used one for maybe $1200-1400. It is alot but you hear it SCREAM on my vids. It makes a hack like me sound good!
I hope it comes through for you. A used LP studio would rock! Get a Classic Vibe tele for $300 and you got Page tone! Led zep 1 was all Tele and it sounds great! It shows what a great amp will do for you. I thought it was a Les Paul! I know you love Jimi but you need a Strat for that! Strats are a different beast! I love my Strat but I got lucky. Teles+Lespauls are a great match! Good luck.

I'll tell you what i think.Save up for a kick-ass tube amp.My Koch makes everything sound good.You have seen me with Teles,Strat and Sgs and they all sound great. What an amp.

Glad you like the vids. That Sg was SMOKIN. I was straight into that Koch. No need for pedals with that beast!

Red I don't play covers much. I writre my own songs. Try it it is easy. Don't over think it. Just bash chords.It will come to you. For covers I look at tab for chord structure and key of solo, and then I butcher it.Mini-hums are a strange pup. Most guys don't dig them. They replace them with p90s becaues they fit in without routing the guitar. I have never played a mini. I do own a KILLER hamer gold top w/ p90's. They scream. They are better dirtyIMO,more character. what type of tone do you want? Hit me back!

teles and pauls go together. I bought two last year.They feel great in your gut. You saw my ESP Ron wood on video. It has a humbucker in the neck<that screams! I own a cool strat. I am learning to play it. They do feel very strange! You will know when you have the right guitar in your hands. It will play like "butter">You can get a great Tele for under a grand(used). The Classic Vibe teles are great. They are $350! They are already routed for a neck humbucker if you want to drop one in! P90s are Mean. they don't sound good clean.Overdriven they are GOD. Think James Gang Funk #49 or Mountains' Miss. Queen!