Allright:
I've watched demo after demo, and learned...nothing. How about some REAL-WORLD demos - i.e, for us guys who play something besides mellow Strat licks in our bedrooms!
I want to hear some CRANKED Deluxe Reverb demos with Les Pauls and ES-335's, with neck and bridge pickups dimed vs. reduced (via guitar volume knobs) guitar rhythym volumes, for those of us who actually play in the real world. This is ridiculous - everybody in the world doesn't sit around on their duffs and play Strats in their bedrooms for their Grandmothers! PLEASE - some REAL WORLD demos, besides all this staged easy-listening stuff! These demos are frustrating, contrived, and misleading as heck!
EAGERLY awaiting a response to this challenge to these silly, wimpy, staged stoogey demos. I wanna buy some speakers, but show me the REAL DEAL.
I PLAY GIBSON GUITARS IN BARS with blues and classic rock bands, not wimpy SRV Strat licks in my bedroom at Mommy's house, ok? How about some demos for real men who play in real situations? Fer cryin' out loud.
Crank these amps and speakers up and give us the REAL story for REAL men who play REAL world gigs. Gawd!!
End of rant.
Switch to Decaf
at LEAST some power chords....and maybe some lightly compressed leads
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B4-hv-Ix5UY
reverb is from a late 70s holy grail pedal.
This is the last song at a gig at the house of the president of my rugby club. (So read between the lines on any performance issues!)
Heres a couple clips from a gig a couple yrs ago from a cover band I was in. Im using (2) 2x12 oversized cabs...an HM75 and a Retro 30 in each...and I run them in an X pattern. Im using a Rivera KR7 head...Im the guitar player on the right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azhEhoNJXIY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alnSrBWXY6A
A more recent gig....same cabs/speakers....but with an Orange Rockerverb 100 head. ...Im the guitar player on the right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h006gLBNkzA
All of the guitar tracks on the recordings below were done with the same WGS speakers/cabs above...and various heads (Rivera, Orange, Sovtek, Bugera, Hugh and Kettner)
https://soundcloud.com/sin4vii
For live...I usually mic a Retro 30....recording I mic Retro30 and HM75 and blend