For years and years I've been looking for a country picking sound that is twangy and fat at the same time. I can get it with a pedalboard and amp but it's been impossible for me to find in a hardware modeler or in a DAW plugin.
Until now when Scuffham Amps release the SGS compressor within their S-Gear amp sim plugin.
For this clip I put two instances of the SGS in front of the Wayfarer and I think this really sounds good. Now I need to learn some more stuff.

Private Songs 2023

Hat Gets Bigger

I seldom do covers but when I heard Chuck D'Aloia's cover of Alfie, I knew I wanted to do a cover of his cover.
So this is what I came up with.

Covers

Alfie

I've been fascinated with synthesizers since the early 80's and love to program them to get my own specific sounds. Unfortunately, I've never had any success with guitar synths so since I got my Kemper profiling amp 12+ years ago I've been into profiling and playing weird sounds that sounds very little like electric guitars. I call this playing Un-Guitar. Along that, I've also tried all kinds of software plugins to craft more Un-Guitar sounds. One of my go-to software for this is Native Instruments Guitar Rig and with the latest version 7, I'm having a lot of fun!
Every sound you hear in this tunes except for the bass synth and the drums are made with guitars and in most ways mangled by Guitar Rig 7. The few sounds sounding most like traditional electric guitars were played through the Fender Tone Master Pro and then processed with GR7.  

Unknown Quantities

I started getting seriously into music in the late 70s and the 80s so there's were my main musical influences can be found. Both as a player and a composer.

This tune channels some of the lighter guitar fusion styles from that era. The guitar sound I was aiming for here is that of a Dumble ODS on its brighter side.

Force Of Habit

Once in every great while I like to get my slide out a play some stuff. As I seldom play with slide, when I do, it tends to be blues or rock.
I never retune any of my guitars so I always play in standard tuning.

This is a funkyish kind of blues with some really undisciplined slide playing.

The Physiotherapist

The Tone Master Pro from Fender is so good at replicating the interaction between a guitar and the amp and I love how I can use the same kind of dynamics as I do when I play a real amp.
So when I found this fat Twin Reverb sound, I wanted to write a tune based on that sound and I picked the Ruokangas Mojo King for the tune as I wanted to get away from the LP/335/ Strat format that I usually find myself with. 

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