Live strat blues - Big-Legged Woman

BTW - to empathize with your crowd problem, 20 years or so ago I used to play a 4-nighter at a club called 'The Zone'. We called it the 'Dead Zone'. It worked kinda like this:

Wed: 3 business men from Ohio. All drunk (yep - 'Free Bird'). We'd stay there after the last set and lament the crowd, do Jaegers, and generally drink 'til 3.

-- crap: Day Job

Thu: 25 people. A few females (10), business people, local fanboys, etc. Drink more; stay later. Urp.

- crap: Day Job

Fri: I want to stay home and watch USA repeats of Miami Vice (original). But, no way... feeling worn down from earlier in the week, I need to go to the gig and impress 800-1200 people. Roof. Exhausted by 2, head home.

Sat: Good thing - last night! Bad thing - pack-out. Another 500-600 folks are out tonight. Still burned out. Close the show closer to 1:30. By the time we get paid, it's 2:30 or later. Paying out the bar tab, the roadie (a.k.a. my son!), the sound company, the agent, and dividing the residual 8 ways (we had a horn section), I typically came out in the red. Fine by me - never did it for the $$, but for the fun.

Sun: another hangover from all of the shots the crowd bought me/us. I realize I started out with more $$ than I ended up _except_ the actual experience was STILL worth it. I loved the ACTUAL playing. I pretty much hated everything else.

Just sayin' - you isn't alone!
 
ezvictor said:
Great playing. And great sound.
Mind posting the patch? You run frfr? Sounds full. I'd like to see what you're doing.
I'm a 2 user so some screen shots would be greatly appreciated.
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If you look me up on Axe-change the patch is posted there - it'd be the "GCL Super" or something like that I believe. I set it up essentially how I would my 'real' rig, except for where I put the reverb & delay. Generally I run a Tubescreamer in front of a backface amp, with the level and tone cranked, drive all the way down. The ol' SRV ;) I do run FRFR, at this gig used an EV 112p as backline and ran a little into the house P.A. for fill. I really like the EVs, and they didn't cost me a fortune.

The main advice I'd give you is to tweak your patches for live use at as close to the volume you'll use them live as possible. Then tweak a little when you jam with your band, as sometimes the bass will swallow up part of what was a great-sounding tone. Also, it's so subjective - when I have a bad night playing-wise, I find my tone feels thin, there's no sustain, and the strings even feel sharp/un-cooperative. When I'm having a good night, it's like swimming in butter lol. So from night to night your headspace is gonna impact your perception of tone.
 
Cainer said:
If you look me up on Axe-change the patch is posted there - it'd be the "GCL Super" or something like that I believe. I set it up essentially how I would my 'real' rig, except for where I put the reverb & delay. Generally I run a Tubescreamer in front of a backface amp, with the level and tone cranked, drive all the way down. The ol' SRV ;) I do run FRFR, at this gig used an EV 112p as backline and ran a little into the house P.A. for fill. I really like the EVs, and they didn't cost me a fortune.

The main advice I'd give you is to tweak your patches for live use at as close to the volume you'll use them live as possible. Then tweak a little when you jam with your band, as sometimes the bass will swallow up part of what was a great-sounding tone. Also, it's so subjective - when I have a bad night playing-wise, I find my tone feels thin, there's no sustain, and the strings even feel sharp/un-cooperative. When I'm having a good night, it's like swimming in butter lol. So from night to night your headspace is gonna impact your perception of tone.
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Great. I'm about halfway there. What IRs are you using? 2 cabs in parallel right?
 
ezvictor said:
Great. I'm about halfway there. What IRs are you using? 2 cabs in parallel right?
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I'm travelling right now, so don't have access to my Axe FX, but one is Tyler Grund's Jensen E130 IR I'm sure, the other is likely a Marshall 4x12 one from a free pack Clark Kent posted a while back.
 
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Sounds great Cainer. I don't know why I never thought to try a marshall 4x12 for my more strat-y tones. Thank you and phenomenal playing btw.
 
ezvictor said:
Sounds great Cainer. I don't know why I never thought to try a marshall 4x12 for my more strat-y tones. Thank you and phenomenal playing btw.
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yeah, I seem to always default to Fenders, but there are some super-cool tones pairing a strat with a Marshall 4x12 or similar. Seemed to work really well for some guy back in the sixties...
 
Hi Cainer, great playin´ with flinky fingers and a good strat-sound. Like your bassmans lines too, together with the drummer they layed you a groovy basement for your blues. (sorry for the bad english)!
 
rolidoc said:
Hi Cainer, great playin´ with flinky fingers and a good strat-sound. Like your bassmans lines too, together with the drummer they layed you a groovy basement for your blues. (sorry for the bad english)!
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danke schön!
 
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