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My only guitar was a PRS. 59/09 humbuckers, three-way toggle, two tone controls. Very limited really. It causes me to constantly fuss with the controls on the channels of my Carvin tube amp. Finally knowing that I can explore the music I love I started on a hunt for a couple new guitars. I figured I needed a good guitar for rockabilly and just some better tone options for rock lead and solos. The other option was to constantly change my electronics on the PRS. I opted to go shopping. Holy crap, I went 180 degrees from the PRS. I stumbled into the Ernie Ball Music Man Majesty (John Petrucci signature). My PRS has 22 frets, a pretty rounded neck, and a 10″ radius fretboard. The Ernie Ball has 24 frets, a thinner neck, and a whoppingly flat 17″ fretboard. With John Petrucci’s name on it I thought it was just a metal machine, or a shredder’s machine. But this thing is a tone monster. I’m simply amazed. It has Piezo. Never touched that before. When using the Piezo alone and using my clean channel this thing sounds like an acoustic, especially if you add just a touch of reverb. The two humbuckers come with a push pull coil splitter. You can play them as passive like any guitar or play them together with the Piezo. The tone options are crazy. On top of that there is a built-in preamp for boost if you split the coils to get that single coil P90 sound. My amplifier channel switch pedal has a boost already but having one right on the guitar is mighty handy. I don’t know if this is going to work well with getting some rockabilly tone but along with a little slap back echo I think I can do alright. Haven’t played around with that yet. Lately I’ve been wanting to record myself playing to some backing tracks. I have just my smartphone to record with and just couldn’t get the backing track playing on my computer speakers to be loud enough compared to the volume on my guitar coming through my amp. Along came the Boss RC-5 looper pedal. Now I download my backing tracks into one of the memory slots in my looper and then both play back through the amp. My pedal board is pretty basic. I have my guitar running into my memory man deluxe (mainly for echo) and then into the looper and off to the amp. I have my amp channel switch pedal there as well and that’s my set up. When I visit friends of mine that are in cover bands, I’m amazed at the number of guitars they own and the number of pedals on their pedal boards. My setup is pretty simple in comparison but right now I’m pretty happy with the tone options at my fingertips.
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