With Page his work with guitar arranegments is excellent!All those "small" sounds work so well because of how he "stacks" his parts!Although he may not be the "greatest" player to me he's the "greatest" guitar arang. of his era..He's the first in my mind to take it to that level..which lead to...
I agree with Chessrock..I did a session with a band last night.Hard to please kinda guys..Gave them a ruff for working on their overdubs.They called me after hearing the ruff CD...The drums sound great !......they might be able to work with this..I take my praise in dribs and drabs :D Overheads...
The reason the Grace doesn't shine for vocals for me{I have a pair} is that its too abrupt/hard sounding..When it works on something it works well..When it doesn't its not a pleasing experience.YMMV/IMHO ect. ect. Lately I've been useing them for keyboard DI's when I need alot of "cut" in a mix...
Well that sucks...Don't matter to me if you are Orville Gibson or Leo Fender or Joe Blow!Sucks that you should have to go..But you gotta do what you gotta do..
For a bass/mono keys DI..perhaps a Avalon U5 which is very good for a "cleaner" sound or a GT Brick for DI{pre..I've never used one}..I don't know if they still make the Ditto.. as a way to go also.. there are so many choices :)
Perhaps the Sheffields are modeled after the old 25 watters?Never liked those as much they reminded me of the EMC's,too loose for me..Different strokes :)