MarkDyson
Blues Hound Wannabe
The Fender Acoustasonic's been getting almost all the love since I got it end of February; it's my go-to ride for my weekly open mics and all that.
With BGU NE 2019 just around the corner, and me thinking the Fender's not the best fit for the style of play I'll be doing there, the 339's been getting more and more attention. I've also started using a really small pedal board: just a Twiggy Blues and a tuner pedal. Playing style is really basic: mostly just chicks and now and then the mood takes me to randomly noodle around a bit.
I've had the Twiggy running the compressor at unity volume with the compression way down, like 9 o'clock, and the overdrive with gain also down around 9 and the volume just a hair over unity. This into a Bose Compact L1 PA in an attempt to get a sound similar to what I'd expect at a generic venue's PA. At bedroom volumes I have the guitar volume low, around 3-4, because ears. Neck pickup only.
Sharing all that info because it sounds really rich and enjoyable, but I've also noticed that, if I turn the Twiggy stuff off, just the 339 into the PA also sounds really, really nice. I'm far from expert at squeezing tones out of rigs but the guitar on its own does a great job to my ear—so much so that I'm seriously considering dumping the Twiggy and just running a tuner pedal with an internal battery and letting the guitar do all the tone shaping.
Maybe if I were better at taming the Twiggy, but that's one sweet guitar I have and I'm rather fond of it.
Just felt like sharing that.
With BGU NE 2019 just around the corner, and me thinking the Fender's not the best fit for the style of play I'll be doing there, the 339's been getting more and more attention. I've also started using a really small pedal board: just a Twiggy Blues and a tuner pedal. Playing style is really basic: mostly just chicks and now and then the mood takes me to randomly noodle around a bit.
I've had the Twiggy running the compressor at unity volume with the compression way down, like 9 o'clock, and the overdrive with gain also down around 9 and the volume just a hair over unity. This into a Bose Compact L1 PA in an attempt to get a sound similar to what I'd expect at a generic venue's PA. At bedroom volumes I have the guitar volume low, around 3-4, because ears. Neck pickup only.
Sharing all that info because it sounds really rich and enjoyable, but I've also noticed that, if I turn the Twiggy stuff off, just the 339 into the PA also sounds really, really nice. I'm far from expert at squeezing tones out of rigs but the guitar on its own does a great job to my ear—so much so that I'm seriously considering dumping the Twiggy and just running a tuner pedal with an internal battery and letting the guitar do all the tone shaping.
Maybe if I were better at taming the Twiggy, but that's one sweet guitar I have and I'm rather fond of it.
Just felt like sharing that.
Last edited: