music style and EB/MM guitars

[scottie]

Greetings all,

This may seem a bit off topic but...

I enjoy reading this forum very much, everybody is so helpful and friendly. I so enjoy everybody braggin' about their Balls and stuff.

What's got me curious is, what kinda music do you enjoy playing with your EB/MM guitar(s)?

And, for some of you guys that own several different models, do you feel that a certain EB/MM model is more suited for a particular type of music?

--scottie

 

[NorM]

For the Silo, anything but country. (I just don't like country) The silos are my workhorses and can handle anything.
For the Steve Morse, mostly Steve Morse tunes (which is just about anything) and stuff with alternate picking and string skipping.
For the Axes, They are (In My Stupid Opinion) more of a one trick pony. But damn! What a trick! They really ROCK! If you are a VH freak (and that's a good thing) you NEED one of these.
For the silo bass guitar. Two handed delay tapping for showing off. Also slow classical like Beethoven's Moonlight makes my moma cry.

 

[puppiesonacid]

the petrucci really can cover just about anything, at least in my opinion. I play guitar for church, but on my own i play everything... metal, hard rock, classic rock, jazz, blues,country, progressive, funk, techno.... its fun to have a guitar as diverse as your playing because your never limited in the application. Plus you dont have to have as many guitars. with that said... i wouldnt mind have a steve morse! pickup combo heaven hahaha. Thats why, in my other post, i stated that would love to have a petrucci body routed for the same pup style layout as the Morse, coupled with the petrucci piezo trem... i would have the ultimate guitar!!!!!!


ok... enough of me...


God bless,


Tony

 

[PurpleSport]

Hiya Scottie (nice name, I'm a Scotty myself)...

Funny you should bring this topic up...last nite I specifically put my newly purchased hardtail Axis Sport w/MM90s through various style paces with my Boss GT-6, which has great amp and effects models.

Without exaggeration, I'm happy to report it can do just about anything I threw at it! I dabble in about everything in my home studio, as I was raised on everything from bluegrass to Black Sabbath.

Some observations:

- I brought a Korg Pandora headphone amp with me to work to test the axe when it first arrived. Sounded great on all the presets from the git-go, so much so that I played it on the train all the way home...

- At first it didn't sound quite as good as I thought it would on the GT-6 amp models that my Ibanez JEM did well on. End result after some exploration and tweaking was I got far more great sounds out of the Axis on more amp models than the JEM, hands down.

- With the appropriate amp models and effects, it was easy to dial in the sounds I wanted for various styles. I was really pleased to see I could do a nice Dick Dale-ish imitation, as I love surf music. What was funny is that it sounded best on a Boogie amp sim vs. the Fender blackface one!

- Another oddity was that the best heavy metal sound I got was on the most extreme model the unit had, which normally sounded like crap with the JEM. Mind you, the MM90s aren't known for being metal pickups, but the high end really cut through, and the bottom stayed tight and wiry but full. (just don't try this without the Silent Circuit on, kids!)..

- Country twang was easily had on the blackface and tweed settings. The neck + bridge setting does a great Tele thing as does the bridge alone. Neck alone is throaty, and a Hendrix tone can be coaxed out of it by backing off the volume. Speaking of which....

- The volume control on this guitar/pickup combo is the most sensitive one I've ever used - these pickups really roll down or up responsively. With the volume and tone turned all the way up, this guitar really has both the spank of a Tele and the balls of a good vintage Gibson happening. Wind down a bit and there's plenty of nuances and no loss of tone....really amazing. The main thing to remember is the MM90s are neither Strat, Tele, or humbucker...they're a bit of them all. It thus takes a little guesswork and trial and error when you're using those as your base tone references, but the end
results are really pleasing.

Sorry this sounds more like a review than a simply saying what I'm into playing, but I really do fire off a mishmash of everything (sorta like Eric Johnson or Bill Frisell), and my Axis delivers in spades on all counts. I'm venturing to guess the triple MM90 Albert Lee version I'm dreaming of now covers even more ground and looks that much cooler...now if I just had a few extra bucks handy...<sigh>....

 

[lock-ny]

I play everything at home, but in my current band were a hard rock funk style project, with a touch of metal and I am using my silhouette special hum single single with a duncan distortion trembucker in the bridge. This is my most versatile guitar for sure, I can play just about anything on it, and yes even country. I also own two axis guitars but the SSpecial has become my main axe for this band -

 

[tvanveen]

Pretty much anything except metal.

Tomorrow we're doing an open mic thing and we're playing Gillian Welch, The Cars and The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, which is folk/country, new wave, and, um, I don't know what the hell the yeah yeah yeah's are. New new wave?

We also worked a bit on a reggae version of iron man.

 

[pack-rat]

We also worked a bit on a reggae version of iron man.

LOL I can hear it, mon !

it works...

 

[art027]

Rock & Roll and country and maybe some jazz.

I've always played blues and country orientated rock.
Since i saw and heard albert Lee playing i got into this hybrid picking which is hard to do but really cool. It allowes you to play banjo rolls using the pick and three fingers at the same time.

I used to listen to Charlie Parker, Pat Martino, George Benson for bebop licks.

I have both Albert Lee options, i think they're very versitile, i use them both for whatever i want to play.
When i want typical strat sounds i play the regular model.
Although it has a metal strip underneath the bridge pickup to help with the Tele tone, i usually prefer the MM90 bridge pickup for Telecaster twanging, don't really know why.
I'm not really an expert when it comes to pickups etc. i just play and listen and if it sounds right it's fine.

Michell

 

[tvanveen]

BTW, this is my first time ever playing in front of people.

Wish me luck.

<barf>

 

[Jimi D]

Hey Tom, don't sweat it... I got two words for you, man: DARK SUNGLASSES

Works for me (of course, I can't see a damned thing without my prescription glasses anyway)

 

[tvanveen]

Well, it didn't go too badly. I was a little stiff with nervousness, and only had one major flub, so I consider it a success.

BTW, this was an FDP jam and our own Dr. Worm was there with his Luke. He helped us out with lead and keyboard lines on The Cars' "Just What I Needed". Someone showed me a picture of Dr. with Luke, and me with Albert, I suppose there will be a link to it pretty soon.

 

[musikarero]

I bought a Albert Lee instructional audio tape back in the 80's and it changed everything for me. My style is with flat pick and fingers (couldn't play with just a pick now to save my life) but I try to mix in some blues and jazz as much as I can.

 

[peter71]

I play mostly in a Hendrix kind of style. A little Knopfler and Eric Johnson thrown in for fun.

Of course I am much crappier than any of those guys, but if I had to lable the horror I create on the guitar, it would be closest to them.