For the cover band stuff, I got tired of chasing someone else’s sound just for the sake of authenticity. Once I had my rig set for ‘infinity tone’, my anxiety of covering almost anything disappeared at shows. Three basic tones...clean...dirty...lead...with or without an available boost, delay, trem, reverb. The rest of the equation was in the guitar selection and how the volume control and my picking dynamics governed the final product. On demand, the vocalist could call an audible and I needed just a couple of seconds to prepare. A couple of taps, a twist of the volume knob, or at worst a guitar change, and off we went. It worked wonders on my mental game and felt pretty confident.