Korina Jack
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I mainly play McCarty's (57/08's and P-9o's). Will I like a Vela? Sell me! Thanks in advance.
Depends. If you are looking for something very different, the Vela is that (think Tele). If you mean you want something like the McCarty, move along.
It's interesting to combine the heavy half-time "doom" style riffs with the cleaner "blues" solos being played on top. That should just give a tiny bit of perspective as to how versatile the Vela can be. So far it has taken everything musically I have given it.
I LOVE mine. I am in the middle of a recording session today and I am using my Vela. It is covering everything on the tune. Just to give a bit of background on this session, and what the Vela KILLS at....
This is a Progressive tune where the distorted rhythm guitars are in Drop D. I used a Mesa MKIV and an Orange AD30 for those tracks. The Mesa track was just the Starla humbucker. The Orange track was the two pickups together, bridge split. The "heavy" section leads were recorded using Bad Cat Cub IV15. The first lead was the bridge pickup. The second lead was both, split. The third was the neck pickup. The leads are all done with minimal gain, a "bluesy" tone if you will. The only effects on there (no post production yet, so I don't know what will be added) are reverb and tremolo - both subtle. So far this tune is coming out pretty killer. It's interesting to combine the heavy half-time "doom" style riffs with the cleaner "blues" solos being played on top. That should just give a tiny bit of perspective as to how versatile the Vela can be. So far it has taken everything musically I have given it.
Here's mine!!