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In short, yes. You’re cascading one boost into another (distorting a distorted signal) and also driving the front of the amp harder. In addition, Tube Screamers are very mid centric and whilst often sounding great in front of a clean Fender style amp, adding them to an amp with more mids (typical Marshall type voicing) you’re getting a rather large hump, mid range in your EQ, which adds to that harshness you’re hearing. Rhett Shull recently did a video on TS boxes.

Sometimes the simplest things provide a fix. Glad you got it sorted.

If you tap on the add files box, you load photos directly from your photo library.

Take your guitar to a shop (if possible) and try a bunch for a potential budget. Usual suspects apply: Marshall, Fender, Blackstar, Vox, etc. Personally, I always seem to veer towards Fender, or Fender style amps, but that’s just my preference.

I saw that release the other day, still not particularly pocket friendly, but heading in the right direction.

I had a Tokai Love Rock many years ago, I only have good memories of it. However, I can’t help in terms of a comparison as I didn’t try Epi or Gibson LPs at the time.

Can’t help you on the patches front, but…

I always seem to always go back to D’Addario XLs 10-42. Pick wise, despite trying numerous ones, all of which offer something different, I seem to go back to Dunlop Jazz 3s.

You can drag and drop into the ‘Add Files’ or browse to them.

I’m a big fan of Yammy Pacificas, a guitar that has always punched above its price point, no matter which level of Pacifica it is. I don’t know much about your amp, other than it’s very small and it’s this where I think your issue might lay. Try and use your guitar through a bigger amp, if possible, and see how that sounds to you.

Tokay Tele, eh? Nice. Make sure to post some pics of that beast in the Tele Tuesday thread (it ceased being just on a Tuesday some time back).

You might find this thread over one our sister forum useful. https://www.basschat.co.uk/topic/248509-beginners-guide-to-home-recording/

There’s a bunch of gear heads here (myself included) so you won’t be short of wallet depleting suggestions. Ask away and we shall help as best we can.

Wow!

It's from '97, which would make him 43 at the time. However, he isn't bad looking these days for a 67 year old, so maybe right about the monkey glands.

Great intro there, complete with gear photo too; just the ticket. It’s not super busy here, but then it doesn’t take hours out of your day catching up with all the updates, but we’re always willing to throw our collective weight behind any questions, guitar related or otherwise. Many of us are also bass players and contribute to BassChat, where it’s a lot busier, but we come here to chill and talk about the 6 stringed thing without the gentle ribbing we receive there (all very good natured though, they’re a nice bunch). Chris

Love a bit of Eric Johnson and having Roscoe Beck on bass in the same video is always going to get my vote. I’ve recently been learning The Rain Song by Zeppelin and came across this very nice solo adaptation.

New one on me, can’t help you there, sorry.

No Bluetooth means no potential latency issues, so not a bad thing.

Might be something to do with using headphones, but you'll always have some sort of pick/finger attack, but it can be reduced. The way I achieve that really 'singing', violin tone (Eric Johnson is my go to guy for this tone), is by using a fuzz face style fuzz. With what you have, you might get closer by cranking up your distortion pedal into your already gain driven amp and then rolling the tone off at the guitar until you get where you want it to be. In short, more knob tweaking. If you place your compressor after the distortion (not the 'normal' way, I know) you might be able to set it up to add sustain without emphasising the note attack. Happy tweaking.

Hmm. I’m surprised that you can’t get a decent overdriven tone through the headphones (assuming they’re headphones designed for listening to music) with that set up. Just cranking the gain on the amp should saturate your signal enough to achieve a level of overdriven smoothness, even before adding the overdrive pedal. I wouldn’t use the compressor just yet, not until you have something like the effect looking for, then you can add it to taste. Sorry, I don’t think I can help beyond that.

Welcome, Frank. No problem about questions, we were all beginners once and there’s always the chance for those with more experience to pick up some new info with the answers to seemingly simple enquiries. Can you tell us what amplifier you’re using? It may be a case of you acquiring a multi FX with some amp simulations (together with other FX, inc distortion, comp and some other fun stuff).

Definitely a thing and has been so for quite some time. Battery powered amps seem to be the standard modus operandi.

Clear with sanded back red. Without pg to start with, you can always add one later.

Be careful about talking to like minded people, we’ll make you spend money on gear so that we can experience new stuff vicariously.