Chris asked about my guitar setup, so I thought I’d lay the basics out here.
I started with a Fender Texas Special American Strat, and added a L.R. Baggs X-Bridge (a piezo pickup) to get a pretty convincing acoustic guitar sound. The X-Bridge signal goes to a DTAR Mama Bear to pre-amp, neutralize piezo pickup unpleasantness, and add in acoustic guitar emulation as needed.
The Strat’s magnetic pickups go into my DigiTech GNX4, which is just crazy all by itself. Sometimes I refer to it as my semi-portable MP3 player.
Anyway, I then mix in my piezo/Mama Bear signal into the GNX’s line inputs so I can have straight acoustic sound, electric sound, or my favorite: the acoustic/electric blend. It’s pretty fun and almost too flexible with all the tone-tweaking possibilities.
The signal currently is just going into my bass amp/cab–a Fender Bassman 60.
So no tubes–at least not yet…
That Digitech is nuts! I have one Digitech effects pedal–a Tone Driver: Overdrive.
It has three different distortion qualities that can produce just enough stuff to keep my interest.
I’d love to hear the acoustic/electric frankenstein in action someday. đŸ˜‰
I’ll try to post a little sample snippit sometime. That is if I ever stop fiddling with knobs. :O)
OK, I’m not usually too bad about tweaking, but there has been once or twice where I realized I had just spent an hour and a half or so just tweeking the tone of one of my presets.
Actually, I’ve been spending more time with my Alveraz acoustic the past couple weeks. Something about spending money for repairs makes me think I need to use it. Plus, there’s no “on” buttons to have to push. :O)