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Equipment
My equipment and sound has remained the same for
many years. My main guitar is a late sixties Fender Strat. It has two Lawrence L-90 pickups, one in the
neck and one in the bridge position. The pickups are
wired to two on-off toggle switches and straight to
the volume control and straight out. There is no
tone control or filter in this guitar. This guitar
sounds big. The notes are thick like a foghorn. My
backup guitar is about a 1980 walnut Fender Strat.
This too is fitted with Lawrence L-90 pickups and
wired the same way with no tone control. The volume
control on both guitars is always all the way up,
and I control my volume with a volume pedal. Both
guitars use GHS guitar strings. Set number 1315,
.011-.050 gauge. But as long as they’re 11’s on top,
I can usually get by with any brand. And I use
Fender heavy gauge teardrop guitar picks.
My main amplifier is a first generation Fender Stage
Lead solid state amp. This amp gives me plenty of
honk. I also have a second Stage Lead from around
the same era that my amp guy, Vinnie Collins,
rewired the same as my main amp, since later
editions of that amp had used different components
which altered the sound from the originals. I also
have a 1987 Peavey Bandit 65 amp that has been a
solid sounding and durable backup to the backup amp.
My amp is set with the volume at 8, the gain at 7,
the master at 6, the treble in the range from 7 to
9, the mid all the way up, the bass all the way up
and the reverb set at about 4.
My pedal board is fitted with four effects pedals,
all by Boss. A BD-2 Blues Driver, a DD-3 Digital
Delay, a DM-3 analog delay and a NS-2 Noise
Suppressor/Power Supply. I also have a Seiko Tuner
and a Korg volume pedal. The analog delay is the
only pedal that is always on, just to fatten the
sound. The other pedals are used only when needed.
For micing when recording, I use two Sure 57
microphones. One placed facing the speaker at the
speaker grill, and the other placed at the speaker
grill at a ninety degree angle to the first mic.
The guitars, the pickups, the amps, they all take
care of business real well to give me my sound. When
I’m all the way up the single notes are thick. When
I turn down the volume I can still get full sounding
chords without distorting. |
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