invigor - without having the luxury of vintage kit a 'Gilmore-like'setting would be to use plenty of compression... set the amp gain so it sounds as though it is just around the point where distortion starts - which means it's 'almost clean' and this adds yet more compression... a nice long reverb and a Strat in the 'neck out-of-phase' pick-up selection.. the eq you'll need to mess with yourself though as that's down to your amp / speaker set up....

yep, gilmour .. vintage strat thru hiwatt 100 heads clean turned way the heck up.

way the heck up is important, cause thos amps sound pretty bad at normal volumes ;-) NO sustain at all, haha. well, IME anyway.

shine on doesn't SOUND like a LP, but given how little gilmour cares aobut processing his tone .. who knows :)

re: signature models .. i dunno, fine whatever works best for you, signature model or not .. but always stay open to other possibilities. my jem really is the slickest guitar i've played, but the $140 used '81 ibanez blazer bl550 i found at a local store is definitely the sweetest guitar i have .. i like this one just as much as the jem - but it brings out the blues-ish-man in me, LOL - which is definitely to say that while you still sound like yourself no matter what you play, but different tools bring out differences even within yourself.

peace all ..

matt king: Bravo dude!......I agree with what your saying about the Sig Series ....Whenever I do get a PGM it's gonna have the "F Holes" removed, lol, not that I'm gonna' get famous anytime soon!! LMAO!! I just love the simplicity of them....

PhryDom: Glad to see b'ness is booming, and good luck with Physic's!! I'm sure Naty can take care of you in the Espresso Dept., lol....Hi Naty :-)

JOE "When I went to the other rooms myself it was a total barrage of chat and instant messaging that left me no choice but to log off and go play my guitar!...But, hey, it was fun anyway...Thanks"

Is this man the epittomy of Kharma-geddon or what!! lol ;-)

Peace all, /\/\ike

Thanks Austin for the chat script. Now onto my point. itisstunotboo gleed - The webmaster does have a point. The service is free, and he's under no obligation to make it work for you specifically. It does sound like he was a little rude, but maybe he had a lot of people emailing him about the chat.

Regardless if it was free or not. I was simply giving advice on how to improve the site,thats all.I shouldnt have been blamed for something that was out of my control. Its the same as blaming a raped victum for being raped.

Another example,Jstrat57 recieved his free guitar right? So lets say he brought it home and tried it out for the first time. Does not work. So if the guitar is broken,its his fault because its free? I highly disagree with that point.

Yeah Clarky!

It's funny you should mention the Low Blood Pressure thing... blood is the key to this issue I'm sure...

11 years ago I was diagnosed with a rare form of Hipoglycemia(spelling!?)... at times I would have real low blood sugar to the point that I'd Black Out... my heart would actually stop for a split second, enough for me to lose consiousness and then at other times it's as if I had so much energy that I could hardly control myself & my actions... like a diabetic shock (almost drukin state)... my family doctor accused me of being on drugs, drinking too much alcohol (that's silly because I can barely handle one beer).

For the record I've never smoked up, shot up, sniffed, swallowed, and I've been drunk maybe enough to hold 4 fingers up to count the times...

I knew I hadn't done anything wrong but unfortunately the doctor and I don't get along anymore, and I decided to find another doctor but never got around to it and again; unfortunately there are no doctors in my city taking patients anymore, and I haven't been to one for 6 years now... This thing has been a real kicker to me over the years... But I haven't had any serious problems for many years now...

Yeah I guess it's time to go, my girlfriend luckily has a doctor and gets along with him really good, so she's going to try to get me in with him as soon as her next appointment comes along... I'm crossing my fingers!

about signature guitars, I totally agree with Matt King. To me, a signature guitar is a collector's item. Not something you would use to perform with. Well, unless you customize it your way. I don't like to copy an artist, I will only be influenced. I think it's a natural thing. I play with my band, and we were experimenting with a bit of speed metal, but I kept slipping these bluesy Satch-like licks into it and I was like, "what the hell am I doing?" Ha!

But it does annoy me when another artist is using a signature series guitar. There's this local artist here, and he is quite a good guitarist, but on one of his albums, he had a picture of a JSY2K!!! I mean, who does he think he is? Korn used Vai's Universe in the early days, but it's because they could not find anything that plays that well. Also, it was only a temporary guitar, they got their own signature models later.

NARFACE...

I know how you feel man... the only thing about Ibanez is that you imediately think that it's a SATCH or VAI instrument, at least that's how I felt about Ibanez anyway... and then with Fender Strat that's a Gilmour, Clapton, Hendrix, Malmsteen, Vaughn instrument... with Gibson Les Pauls, that's a Page, Slash, Wylde, instrument...

I felt that in order for me to feel "myself" on a guitar, it had to be something that I put together myself! "Here's My Guitar"

It looks professional, and I had a hand in building it... I think truely if you really want to understand the instrument more then; take the time, be patient, and build one yourself! whether it's from scratch or from prefabricated parts, I say TRY IT!!!

these are the guys that helped me out http://www.warmoth.com

gleed - If you were just giving advice, you probably shouldn't've received that kind of reply. Sorry about that... I don't want to get into a fight, so I'll stop here.

Hey Austin, any chance you could email me the transcript as well? Thanks. :-)

Clarky... I have a random question for you. I'm not really expecting you to know the answer, but I guess I'll ask anyway. If you don't know, maybe someone else can help me...

There were a few times between a year and year and a half ago where I was calling the AOL customer service department. They put me on hold (LOL), and the music that they played in the background was really cool. I don't remember much about it, but it had a really cool piano part (it was mostly piano). There might've been some symphonic stuff in the background as well.

There was a certain piano part that was repeated every so often...it sounded very much like the harmonic intro to Summer Song (the thing around the 4th and 5th frets on the A, D, and G strings).

Do you have any idea what piece of music this might be? Your earlier comments about Summer Song reminded me of this question. And with your recent posts about different orchestral stuff I thought I should ask the question again... LOL. Thanks for reading this far. ;-) I'm sorry for being completely random.

I tend to agree with Matt on this Les Paul thing. I don't see my Les Paul guitar as a Les Paul the person signature series. It's the name of the guitar that he designed. I don't think, that when the LP came out, it was being advertised as "the guitar Les Paul plays", but nearly a new style guitar that happens to be named after the man that designed it. That's where most of the companies got there first models' names I'm sure. Do people buy PRS guitars to sound like Paul Reed Smith? Do people buy Fender guitars to sound like Leo Fender?