Dude....I am an A

ICIANDO of gear. Tone chaser for days. Line 6 is really decent if you get the right stuff. They make a ton of crap too. I might very well grab a Helix, they are badass. The Relay G series wireless is bomb. The DL4 is fantastic. The Spider Valve amps have a killer Bogner designed 6L6 x 4 plus 12AX7 x 2 power section. The preamp on those is terrible until you get to high volume though. I have one. The secret with that amp is use a different preamp and patch it through the FX return. And the preamp I am currently using is a Line 6 HD500, which I've had for 2 years and OMG this rig sounds FUCKING PERFECT. It's all modeled guitar tone. I am JP tone and technique chaser.. his Mesa/BOOGIE tone is the cats ass. I have come extremely close to an all around JP clean, crunch, and my favorite, lead. The two gainy tones are evolutions of themselves, saved as new patches on the HD. About 5 for the the dry crunch, which is thick and nasty a lot like older Metallica. The lead tone is on it's 10th at least. It's all about EQ once u get close. These tones are hand built from scratch, the lead has a Red Compressor, a TS-9 Tube Screamer, an INSANE WAH on a toggle modeled after a custom shop CryBaby. Default is off. Next is the Pre EQ block, then the amp modelling section which is a Mesa Dual Rectifier, 4x12 Mesa Recto cab with Vintage 30s, mic'd with an SM-57 on axis and a 421 off axis blended 50/50, they don't have any Mark Series Boogies on the HD [emoji20] ..it's mostly about EQ anyway. So after that we have the post amp section "in the FX loop" which is a light hall reverb and a absolutely dialed in digital stereo delay with a short and long tail option on another toggle. One for fast solos and one for big slow epic Pink Floyd type or something like The Spirit Carries On...which I just recently got a handle on. So much emotion in there. I got 2 412 cabs, a Line 6 Vintage 30 cab, which is another INSANE product they make, and a Peavey MS412 Birch Plywood. I'm about to score a Katana head just for shitz and giggles. I also have a Peavey Ultra 60 head that I bought new in 94 or so. It sounds great when it's cranked, but I use the FX return of that as well for the HD stereo. Sounds absolutely stellar bro. Huge. Perfect. Bliss. I also have a 94 ESP Japanese Custom Shop KH-2, a 1983 Ibanez TS-9 also from Japan, a 1993 Charvel 475 Deluxe in quilted maple sunburst with a bound neck and the Jackson Sharkfin inlays. Also got a 7 String Schecter and a few cheap Strat copies as well as three acoustics, one of which is a classical guitar for the living room grab. I LOVE guitar. Maybe I can record something a little later and share it. Something tasty for sure if I do. So you know that Line 6 is now Yamaha...that's more than most "guitar players" right there. If I had a nickel for every Joe that says they are a player....and they know power chords and cowboy chords. Don't know the notes. Think a m7b5 is a type of gun or new BMW model, etc. I almost wish I went to Berkeley or some other dedicated music school. I started playing piano at 8 or so and then played Alto saxamaphone in middle school. Then music theory 101 and 201 in high school then guitar with 3 years of weekly hourly lessons. I still play a touch of piano, and I can read sheet music, but I am slow like molasses. Slower than that even...lol. Music is a part of myself for sure. I cried when Dime got shot and was actually listening to Cowboys From Hell on top of a train light truss on the main line. Car parked in the weeds with the CD on go. Kinda nuts of all the CDs in the car, that was the one we were listening to. I saw Dream Theater right down the street from where that happened. Took a little road trip. Anyway, that's my guitarded story. How guitarded are you? Go.
(Your play sir)
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