As it stands right now, I have one electric guitar in the studio, but it's a good one: The Hammer Of The Gods, my McCarty Singlecut (and of course the obligatory picture):
And you're maybe thinking, "How's Les working professionally in the studio with only one guitar, and especially one guitar with such a distinctive tone signature and personality?"
Well, the answer is that it's going pretty darn well! I started back in the day when a guitar player had one guitar for everything. It's not that hard!
I just finished up a track for a car company for the International Auto Show circuit (sorry, I can't link it yet, the shows haven't happened yet). And the principal guitar part is the kind of clean part most guys would want to use a single coil guitar for. You know, high, chimey, lots of delay, etc.
Well I haven't got a single coil guitar, so I just turned the guitar volumes down, played with the middle position blend knob and the controls on the amp, and I got a beautiful tone. Seriously! You'd never know I used this guitar to get it.
And then I laid down some light crunchy parts, some heavier parts, and at the end, an even higher gain ending to finish out the track. All parts done with The Hammer, the DG30 amp/cab, and a few pedals! Just twist the knobs, use different pickups, and voila! Instant guitar collection!
At some point next year I'm going to add another electric guitar just to have something with a Tremolo on hand, an all-mahogany solid body Private Stock I'm currently dreaming up (I'm now really big on what happens with PS guitars). But it'll be the icing on the cake. Except for the tremolo thing, I get plenty of versatility with The Hammer.
Actually I'm pretty excited about how cool this one guitar is. I know that most of the folks here have lots of guitars, but this project just proves to me how much can be done with one guitar and a little imagination!
And you're maybe thinking, "How's Les working professionally in the studio with only one guitar, and especially one guitar with such a distinctive tone signature and personality?"
Well, the answer is that it's going pretty darn well! I started back in the day when a guitar player had one guitar for everything. It's not that hard!
I just finished up a track for a car company for the International Auto Show circuit (sorry, I can't link it yet, the shows haven't happened yet). And the principal guitar part is the kind of clean part most guys would want to use a single coil guitar for. You know, high, chimey, lots of delay, etc.
Well I haven't got a single coil guitar, so I just turned the guitar volumes down, played with the middle position blend knob and the controls on the amp, and I got a beautiful tone. Seriously! You'd never know I used this guitar to get it.
And then I laid down some light crunchy parts, some heavier parts, and at the end, an even higher gain ending to finish out the track. All parts done with The Hammer, the DG30 amp/cab, and a few pedals! Just twist the knobs, use different pickups, and voila! Instant guitar collection!
At some point next year I'm going to add another electric guitar just to have something with a Tremolo on hand, an all-mahogany solid body Private Stock I'm currently dreaming up (I'm now really big on what happens with PS guitars). But it'll be the icing on the cake. Except for the tremolo thing, I get plenty of versatility with The Hammer.
Actually I'm pretty excited about how cool this one guitar is. I know that most of the folks here have lots of guitars, but this project just proves to me how much can be done with one guitar and a little imagination!
