cephus
Slow Children Playing
You know, I don't think that you need new equipment. Maybe a mild, non-metal fuzztone like a rat. that guitar looks pretty normal. As long as the fingerboard isn't too wide and flat.
I'd suggest putting 10s on if you have something lighter on it now. The middle and rhythm pickup are the best for blues, so the humbucker isn't gonna mess with you.
I have sat in or borrowed solid state shitty amps before and was always able to get a decent tone using my rat and strat.
get a clean tone on the amp and use a fuzztone to get it barely distorted. That is where solid state amps really suck. If you try to use their internal distortion, that boundary between clean and dirty is where they sound the worst, and the tube amps sound the best. But a decent fuzz tone can get you there. Maybe that tube preamp would work too. You just want to start with a mostly clean tone.
I think a good transition from rock to blues is early AC/DC. It's not like after listening to shredding for years you'll be able to slip right into thinking delta blues played with a broken wine bottle is the cat's ass. Angus and some other blues rock players can help you get aclimated to the note choices that make the blues.
I'd suggest putting 10s on if you have something lighter on it now. The middle and rhythm pickup are the best for blues, so the humbucker isn't gonna mess with you.
I have sat in or borrowed solid state shitty amps before and was always able to get a decent tone using my rat and strat.
get a clean tone on the amp and use a fuzztone to get it barely distorted. That is where solid state amps really suck. If you try to use their internal distortion, that boundary between clean and dirty is where they sound the worst, and the tube amps sound the best. But a decent fuzz tone can get you there. Maybe that tube preamp would work too. You just want to start with a mostly clean tone.
I think a good transition from rock to blues is early AC/DC. It's not like after listening to shredding for years you'll be able to slip right into thinking delta blues played with a broken wine bottle is the cat's ass. Angus and some other blues rock players can help you get aclimated to the note choices that make the blues.
