How many of you take the "easy way out" ?

[VitaminG]

I wish that would work for me. I seem to have a knack for making any rig sound like a $20 transistor radio

[Robert Burns]

wrong bro.
Somebody said that EVH could play out of a transitor radio speaker with a Fender Squire and you could instantly tell it was him. Same thing with Dimebag and many other of the greats.

** It was posted last year, that in Japan i think? EVH played an import
strat thru a 15 watt Marshall practice amp...and he had tons o' "Brown sound" !!

[Thrust]

We are eerily the same...

:ROTF:

[ezbprimerib]

According to Dimebag it was more challanging to make unusual combinations work

Whatever floated his boat. I think that is all bullshit, like he's that much of a rebel to not follow the trend of using the bigger company's gear. I dig the guy, but that statement is silly.

[ezbprimerib]

My trusty... Hello Kitty Strat and Roland Microcube!

OMG! I have been wanting to get one of those and install EMGs in it. That or the butterfly Daisy Rock guitar. I just think it would get a funny rise out folks at our shows when we play stuff we do:

http://www.myspace.com/writhing

[slash-ed]

Whatever floated his boat. I think that is all bullshit, like he's that much of a rebel to not follow the trend of using the bigger company's gear. I dig the guy, but that statement is silly.

You must admit that crafting his tone around a pure SS amp was not quite the usually trodden path.

[horns666]

You must admit that crafting his tone around a pure SS amp was not quite the usually trodden path.

Sure, guys like Glen Drover and Andy LaRoque come to mind.

Sometimes you have to cradle the balls while you suck the cock..that's my wife's advice!

I'm high..

[organelle67]

A Laney Pro Tube AOR 100 watt, and an Epiphone LP Custom with a Seymour Duncan Distortion in the bridge.

Maybe this is the "easy way"...I just know it sounds killer!

[atilla]

Carvin or Charvel into a THD Univalve/Avatar Cab.

[Coyote_FH]

Dinky (loaded with DiMarzio's) into Laney /w a Behringer cab. (via 7 pedals, three of them Behringer, lol)

Works for me.

[JACKSONFREAK]

Anyone of my many J/C's or my Inanez, or Dean, or frankenstien or parts mutts or what ever i feel. through my pedal board which has a bunch of pedals on it but only three of them contribute to my sound. Mostly MT2, boss PQ4 and my NS2. I have 3 other distortion pedals that i swap out or use for a differnt sound but the MT2 gets the nod most of the time. All this into my crate VFX212. I love this amp. Sounds great weighs a ton and its the sound in my head. I just run the clean channel and use my pedals. And yes ton is in your figers, how you hold the pick and how you attack the strings etc. Clapton sounds like clapton through any rig. As does EVH or Billy Gibbons or me. I sound like me know matter what i play through. Im not great but i always have the same fingers so that remains constant.
If my crate isnt available I use my Rockman XP10 combo. currenlty without the pedals cus i dont have room at my work bench. But it sounds great through head phones.
Gil

[scotty]

The easy way out? Maybe at some point in time when can afford some descent gear. Guitar players are real tone whores. Every rocker should own a real Marshall at some point in life. That is what is based off. (depending on your style of rock of course) What ever music you listen to inspires all of us to what we want from our finger tips to our speakers. So to the easy way I say yes. You have to start some where.

[SiriusAbbott]

the easy way out?

october this year I will have been playing for 33 years.
I have met,played with and even been friends with some very talented(and some very famous) guitarists....that being said,the more talented they were,the more they sounded like "themselves" through whatever they happened to be playing...
as for me,my easy way out is....my guitar(I have many,use of which depends on the song)>MXR Zakk Wylde overdrive>Boss CH-1 chorus>Marshall JCM-900 100W combo into 2X Marshall 4X12's and an Ampeg VL-1002 into a Jackson 4X12
easy....loud as hell,but easy

[Flatpicker]

My setup is either:

1. Charvel Star with Dimarzio SD bridge and YJM neck PU's though a Marshall JCM 900 or a Line 6 pod xt set to the 18 watt Marshall setting. This has been beyond awesome because of the choice of sounds between the YJM and SD. I can go from Iron Maiden to Brad Paisley with a flip of a switch.

2. Hamer Artist Korina HB with dual SD 59's through a Line 6 pod xt set to the 18 watt Marshall setting. Classic rock all the way. This gives me Frampton, Sykes, and Page.

I also have a Hamer Standard with Rio Grande's BBQ set. Love the sound when I play alone, but can't get a good mix with another guitarist with it. The guitar itself is stellar.

[metalchurch79]

Jackson KV2 (bolt on/EMG'81) >Korg DRT1000>BossMT-2>Engl620 Preamp>Marshall9200>Marshall 1960B cab

Never saw someone with my setup yet, but my units aren't that uncommon.