Re:Grail Tones (guitar player thread)
Monday, June 11 2012 @ 11:26 PM CDT

Quote by: Feter Quote by: michael2 Quote by: Feter What pedal you recommend to keep it on while you are playing rhythm then when you switch to your lead pick up with higher volume will help you to have a powerful tone ? i like using an MXR micro amp for this sort of thing live. you can either set it up for a slight volume boost, or you can also set it up to get a little overdrive as well. Interesting ...so with this I ll keep it on all the gig and still I can switch between pickups with volume adjustment to let my Rhythm level smoothly switch to Lead mode with no loss and I dont need to go back and forth turn it on and off ?

no. what I have always done is get that awesome rhythm sound I want, then set the pedal so that when you want to solo you turn the pedal on and it is just a bit louder, thinner, edgy, whatever. if you're not going for a real distorted lead sound, it gives you a little extra "oomph" without drastically changing your sound.

Suppose you could get the same thing by doing it old school: turn your pickup volume down, get the rhythm sound you want by using the amp and guitar knobs, then turn the guitar volume knob up when you want to solo. you can see Jimmy Page do it a lot in the Song Remains The Same.