bscfo1":3db0k6vn said:
Pat,
Your tone is so amazing that I got a EG3/4 module just to sound like you! But even though I know a lot of it comes from your technique, I still don't get the same growl you get with my MOD 100 and 2x12 cab. What basics am I missing? Different pickups? I play an SG and a Strat.
By the way, the boost pedal is perfect in your rig, very transparent. Really enjoyed it.
thanks man-
i'm jealous...i've always wanted a sg!
maybe you can make a quick clip of your tone with the strat and then the sg so i can hear what's shakin in pickupland?
people have inquired about tones i get with various rigs and in the end what it always boils down to in my mind is just YEARS of experience tone chasing, having pretty solid points of reference, being that i've heard every one of my tone heroes play live, and always having a
clear target in my head about what i want to achieve with the gear i have, and upgrading to the pieces to compliment my tone targets:
1)ej and landau clean tones,
2)srv, landau and ford blues fusion rhythm and lead tones,
3)VH and landau brown crunch,
4)ej, holdsworth type lead tones.
simple
128 midi presets can really mess with a man's head!
for the longest time i had no midi controller with my
single channel mojave coyote rig and just left the gforce on one setting...ducking delay and verb...and that really helped me rehab from my triaxis rack days!
but once you find the general tone you seek, then i becomes a matter of playing
to that tone, for a decent amount of time so your hands and ears can wrap around it, to master it and refine the
little 
things like pus and tubes and speakers along the way.
guys that constantly flip gear will never be able to hone in a
great tone, imo.
it's why i've always loved mike landau....the guy KNOWS his tone kills, and he plays TO the tone, almost as if he's saying "check *this* tone out boys!" every guitar player NEEDS to see and hear him live at least once.
here's another eggie rig clip--the clean tone up front is pretty, and if you jump to the end you can see just how flexible the TOL tone is:
i'm still not totally keen on my TOL low/mid gain tones yet, especially since that's what the coyote owned at.
i'm running a boogie 2x12 micing the greenback, and an EV 12L 1x12, in stereo, on these clips....senheiser e609 on the EV and a 57 on the greenie--
i'm running the pedals into TOL 100 then into a thd 16 ohm hotplate on load, and taking the line out to the gforce into an old peavey ss power amp we had laying around at church for PA uses (because in my world cost IS an issue
)
so right away i know i'm missing some speaker cab massaging on the blues and rock tones, and the power amp is pretty flat so i miss out on the dimesion there as well...but all in all it's easier than hauling various cabs, and gives me total control of levels, and sounds good enough.
here's an audio clip of our church band jamming with our musical guest this past sunday--you can hear the eggie clean peak in and out here and there:
http://homepage.mac.com/mentoneman/paulclarkjam.mp3
