Apart from your fingers.......

[antipodean]

About six beers....

[ozover50]

Yeah.... that too, Evan!

[scotty]

About six beers....

Light weight!

[britinvasion]

I really don't like being without my BBE compressor....but looking a few posts back, I think I need a chorus

[jps]

I really don't like being without my BBE compressor....but looking a few posts back, I think I need a chorus

Aitch wouldn't be the numpty man he is without them.

[longboard_ric]

I have that rare ability to sound the same no matter what. Single Coils or Humbuckers, Acoustic or Electric, Picks or Fingers, it doesn't matter, you will always know its me.

This rare "intangible" quality is best displayed in this video. Harry Chapin has done an excellent job in taking me off.

Enjoy.

[kiramdear]

Hilarious, Shane. I loved Harry Chapin. Talk about quick-witted

[ozover50]

About six beers....

Light weight!

Hang on, Scotty!! That's just while I'm tuning up, mate!!!

[scotty]

About six beers....

Light weight!

Hang on, Scotty!! That's just while I'm tuning up, mate!!!

I thought that,i didnt like to say!

[weemac]

Great responses!
I can't play too good if I have more than a couple of beers or whiskies, I lose all of the feeling in my hands long before I lose the feeling in my head!

Eden.

[1965]

Always use a pick, and it's always a Dunlop Tortex.

[jagdeluxe]

Hey Benjamin scoobster28 i guess you and i are a minority, i use the same thin picks as you for bass and guitar. Athin pick feels like an extension of my nails,i go through tons of them though but that,s all i can use.

[kiramdear]

For acoustic fingerstyle I use acrylic fingernails, because my own nails are too soft. I need those for a lot of songs I do acoustically.

[jimk]

I play either using a metal thumb pick and two finger picks, or else a relatively thin (0.73 mm) flat pick held between my thumb and index finger with the finger picks on my middle and ring fingers for rockabilly or McGuinn style hybrid picking.

JimK

[rsm]

The instrument is a given, IMO that is the foundation of my tone, my sound. However, for sound processing my sound comes from the following:

Guitar: Bose L1 / T1 Rickenbacker factory presets, and my Axe-Fx Ultra (so I can have many sounds, actually this thing is virtually limitless, but not for the tweaking averse )

Bass: Bose L1/T1 and Trace Elliot MP11 preamp. Not as tweakable as my old GP12SMX (no compressor, no input blend, pre shaping), but the flexible storage of 20 presets (10 factory, 10 user; more than enough for me) makes up for it (except the compressor, though that hasn't been an issue (more a nice to have), and I prefer clean solid state to tube for my bass). I've used ADA for bass (and guitar) since the early '90s, but my new rig has me selling my ADA gear. Nothing like Trace Elliot for bass for me, (preamps that is).

I can't say enough about the Ric factory presets in the Bose T1 though. IMO, they make the Rics sound awesome - pure, unadulterated, Ric tonal bliss. I'm actually using the T1 Ric presets for my main rhythm sound and I AB it with my Ultra for alternative rhythms / leads; and I haven't even tried to dial in any of the effects in the T1 (I just previewed them).

peace.