Josh Smith Jamming on a Bludotone

[Funkalicousgroove]

Great player fo sho!

http://www.joshsmithandthefrost.com/blu ... 20solo.mp3

[Structo]

Sounds good Brandon.

Do you know what guitar he used?

[larsmuller]

This just blew me away....sjeeezzz what a nice sound...so HRM or not?? Bluesmaster??? Guitar??

I like your amps !

[Bob-I]

Sounds GREAT.

[dogears]

I dig this one!

http://www.joshsmithandthefrost.com/blu ... ngsolo.mp3

[tjauernig]

Josh can rip, there's no doubt about it. And he's a nice guy to boot!

[Funkalicousgroove]

Josh is an awesome guy, it's nice to meet talented people that aren't all full of themselves.

[Funkalicousgroove]

This just blew me away....sjeeezzz what a nice sound...so HRM or not?? Bluesmaster??? Guitar??

I like your amps !

He's either playing a tele or a les paul, the amp is a Classic with standard overdrive, it's the same amp that court was using on Jay leno the other night-

[tubedogsmith]

Brandon, is this a full classic with 100k plates? Any treble bleed anywhere?

This just blew me away....sjeeezzz what a nice sound...so HRM or not?? Bluesmaster??? Guitar??

I like your amps !

He's either playing a tele or a les paul, the amp is a Classic with standard overdrive, it's the same amp that court was using on Jay leno the other night-

[stelligan]

Great sounding amp - killer player.
It seems you can tell when a player is digging the sound he has going. Sounds like he had a blast with the amp. Congrats! Does he own this one then? Or trying it on for size?

[Funkalicousgroove]

it's his amp, I built it to his spec- he just let Court borrow it for TV until I am done with his

It's actually a High plate classic, the low plate classic is very bright IMHO- Cool, but bright.

[tubedogsmith]

it's his amp, I built it to his spec- he just let Court borrow it for TV until I am done with his

It's actually a High plate classic, the low plate classic is very bright IMHO- Cool, but bright.

Thanks, that's what I thought. The tones he's getting didn't sound like 100k plates unless you had some kinda kickass treble bleed in there.

[ayan]

Thanks, that's what I thought. The tones he's getting didn't sound like 100k plates unless you had some kinda kickass treble bleed in there.

Simply impossible to to say from a recording. Also, the effect of the guitar tone control being rolled off some can be greater than that of the plate load resistor values, or even using a 4x12 closed back VS 1x12 open back, etc. I have seen Josh play live a couple of times -- fantastic player! -- and he seems to consistently gravitate towards that nice fat type of tone, so it makes sense to me that he'd sound like that regardless of amp and guitar.

(Very cool clips, Josh!)

Gil

[tubedogsmith]

I don't disagree but it didn't sound like a 100k plate amp to me and I was just checking to see if something else might have been going on. It's hard to tell on recordings but it sounded like a bridge pickup and didn't sound like what I hear with the low plates. Besides, who wants to play their new amp with the tone control on their guitar all the way down! The distortion seems a little different between the two but i certainly defer to your greater experience with these things.

[ayan]

I don't disagree but it didn't sound like a 100k plate amp to me and I was just checking to see if something else might have been going on. It's hard to tell on recordings but it sounded like a bridge pickup and didn't sound like what I hear with the low plates. Besides, who wants to play their new amp with the tone control on their guitar all the way down! The distortion seems a little different between the two but i certainly defer to your greater experience with these things.

Ah, Tubedogsmith... I am a tone control knob snob too. However, many of my all time heroes toy with the tone controls on their guitars like there's no tomorrow: Eric Clapton, Larry Carlton, Jeff Beck... etc. Also, if you get an ultra phat tone out of the bridge pickup with the tone control wide open, that pretty much rules out usig the neck pickup... -- again, Clapton and Carlton come to mind.

If I had to guess, I would think that on that clip Josh either has the tone control on the guitar slightly rolled off, or else he is not using PAB at all and has the tone rolled off from the amp (by which I mean below 12 o'clock when using linear pots, or below 2+ o'clock when using audio pots)... However, I have to confess that the compression factor (again, impossible to tell from a recording, especially one tha thas been encoded as an MP3) would suggest to me that hehad the PAB on. Maybe Josh will chime in and take me out of my mysery.

In closing, if I had been asked to guess I would have thought the amp was a Skyliner because of the fatness and pretty significant bass I hear, and I would have been wrong. That's what my "greater" experience does for me.

Cheers,

Gil