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I need some advice, any tips on getting a good "clean" sound for recording? at the moment i'm stuck with a fat strat and a single coil version, so would you recommend any other style of guitar? also what effects would you add?

thanks in advance

strat neck or middle pick-up.

a little reverb and a bit of chorus but very sparringly. drenching it with chorus gives instant crap 80s clean tone. maybe a tiny bit of reverb would work too. mess about with you're high eq too. you don't want it too bassy.

while we're at it. you might want to look into a boost pedal to make your clean tone "sparkle"

i have a catalin bread sagrano pablano picosso and it's supposed to be a stout boost but when you turn the knob down to 0 and leave it on, it adds a really nice shimmer to your tone especially when it's clean.

single coil bridge position is prob your best bet

chorus - small amount
bit of reverb for depth
small delay for character
high treble and middle, put bass at about 5ish
high presence also

this is the best you will get, plus if you want a bluesy clean just switch to the neck, personally id leave the fat strat for more heavy stuff like gain and leave the single coil for cleans and overdrive, but its all preference

playin the cit again tonight, last act on the bill again. this isnt the final set but a rough copy some songs will be changed around. some interestin songs have been thrown in, our new bassist is the shiz.

new orleans - gillan way, classic opener to get the crowd involved
wouldnt you like to know- paul stanley
victim of love -whitesnake
sleep when im dead- jovi
run to you - bryan adams
who says -jovi
cmon and love me - kiss
theatre of my soul- poison
i believe - jovi
photograph - def lep
dry county - jovi (i know weve never layed this live before but duff nails the solos if i play rhythum) but not a cert

Encore (were goin acoustic)

lucky man - the verve
dont look back in anger - oasis
wanted -jovi, this kicks straight in after DLBIA
jack and diance - john crouger
help - the beatles (slowed down obviously)
last cigarette - jovi (cool harmonies, bettar than jon n richie lol)
hang - MB20

i know this looks like a 2 hr set but im thinkin of pushin it cos last time we played last on the bill we played for ages.

ill post how it goes tomorrow

cya

thanks for the advice guys, will give it a go. i think i may need to get some new pups for the single coil though. just using stock MIM's at the moment. can't wait to unleash my new marshall though. anyone got anything more to add?
also any new stuff been put on these putfile things?

good luck tonight gaz.

thanx

got a song i wrote last night if you want that lol

got plenty of my own songs. got a shit job that's boring so i get loadsa time to write songs. just getting round to upgrading my equipment aso i can do some descent recordings. all i need now is a descent voice and i'll be sorted.

keep at it with your voice it aint hard

as for the songwriting i write total shit and i pass it on to duff who mixes it up a bit and makes it sound right, many of my songs are messy ,the lyrics are there just not in a musical way if you catch my drift, but i have to write cos if it wasleft up to the rest of the band there would be songs about getting high and driving fast carsm which is all well and good but it gets borin lol

i'm bored so i'll ask a question. what was the last song you learned on guitar?
Mine was counterfeit god by Zakk Wylde.