Hey Blues Players!!!!!

[JasonBird]

Hey there, what settings on your guitar and amp and or effects do you use for your favorite blues playing? What about your tone knobs and reverb settings? Clean channel, and distortion chanel? what about some famous palyers....BB King, SRV, how did they set up their gear? Any general rules?
Jason

 

[TexasMusicForge]

My own personal recipe:

1. Strat w/rosewood neck for warmer tone;
2. 1961 Rickenbacher combo amp (same tubing as a vintage Tweed) with the original Jensen blue label 10" speaker; and, most importantly,
3. Soul.

On occasion, I also use a Roland GS-6 as a preamp and for chorus/delay effects. The 6V6 tubing of the Rickenbacher adds a lot of warmth to the somewhat sterile digital signal output of the GS-6. I tend to favor sounds produced using fingers, pick attack, picking at various spots up and down the guitar, etc. over use of effects pedals.

Most important, *less is more* when playing the blues. If what you play doesn't sing and cry and make the listener do the same, it's just musical masturbation.

Best regards from Texas,

Tio Ed

 

[dragonworks]

Gibson ES335 through a 64 Fender Super Reverb, crank volume to 10 with tone controls turned all the way down, then dial in tone.
On the old fenders if you turn the tone controls down and the volume up you get very little volume as the tone controls are all boost. Then you just turn up the tone controls until you get what you want.

Johnny Winter is my favorite blues man.

 

[fretwire]

For fat, Strat-style blues - like SRV, I think it's hard to beat a rosewood fingerboard Strat, and good Fender tube amp - like a Super - or even a Deluxe. Stick an MXR Dyna-Comp in the front end to heat it up - much smoother than a tube screamer.

For heavier Gibson tones - like Govt Mule, I'd go with a Les Paul through a higher-gain combo, perhaps a Marshall, but I'm mad about Budda SuperDrives.