shinksma
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Saturday night was a get together of the core members of my band plus a couple of other close friends who are musicians with whom we have gigged several times, and we all hang out at festivals etc - three couples, as it turns out. We goofed around in my pool, went over to bandmates' house (same neighborhood) for dinner, and we jammed afterwards.
I used my RL SH Vela through a pedalboard of tiny pedals into a Roland micro-cube (my ultraportable rig, all battery powered!).
I dunno if it was the copious amounts of alcohol involved, but we all agreed the Vela sounded awesome - I was getting rock'n'roll, country chicken-pickin', and bluesy-jazz stuff all night long!
With the push-pull in single coil mode, it got really nice and "airy", for lack of a better word. Put that through some dirt, and very tasty - ranging from mild overdrive when hitting the string hard to gritty crunch. Then go full HB for a searing lead using the bridge pup. Then use both pups for a nice heavy rhythm chug.
Select neck pup, roll off the tone, touch of delay/reverb, and noodle - suddenly I was the background music for a lazy Sunday brunch.
Switch to spring reverb, lose the delay, and tone back to 8 or 9, and nice country tones were evoked. Add a bit of slide (add the delay back in), and oh man!
Paul and team really hit it out of the park with that model. I hope something similar returns to the fold - I dunno if it is the combo of ancient woods or just something else, but that guitar has soul.
I used my RL SH Vela through a pedalboard of tiny pedals into a Roland micro-cube (my ultraportable rig, all battery powered!).
I dunno if it was the copious amounts of alcohol involved, but we all agreed the Vela sounded awesome - I was getting rock'n'roll, country chicken-pickin', and bluesy-jazz stuff all night long!
With the push-pull in single coil mode, it got really nice and "airy", for lack of a better word. Put that through some dirt, and very tasty - ranging from mild overdrive when hitting the string hard to gritty crunch. Then go full HB for a searing lead using the bridge pup. Then use both pups for a nice heavy rhythm chug.
Select neck pup, roll off the tone, touch of delay/reverb, and noodle - suddenly I was the background music for a lazy Sunday brunch.
Switch to spring reverb, lose the delay, and tone back to 8 or 9, and nice country tones were evoked. Add a bit of slide (add the delay back in), and oh man!
Paul and team really hit it out of the park with that model. I hope something similar returns to the fold - I dunno if it is the combo of ancient woods or just something else, but that guitar has soul.
