Myles
I enjoy reading your thoughtful advice on various websites. Perhaps you can help me. I have a 1994 Gibson Les Paul Standard with Ernie Ball Super Slinky strings. I am looking for an amp (and effects?) which would give me some of the following amp tones: 1) Jimmy Page on "Led Zepplin 2", 2) Martin Barre on Jethro Tull's "Aqualung", 3) Leslie West on any old Mountain album, 4) Tony Iommi on the first "Black Sabbath" album, and/or 5) Jeff Healey.
Having traded in a Marshall Valvestate 8040 with which I was dissatisfied, I am left with a POD and a 1968 Fender Princeton Reverb.
If the process of finding the right tone becomes too time-consuming (I am a self-employed mid-40's-something, living in suburban Connecticut, 35 miles from NYC, who works long hours and plays so infrequently that I no longer have callouses on my fingers), I will probably buy a modeling amp (e.g., Vox Valvetronix or Line 6 Flextone?) just to have "something".
Can you provide me with any guidance before I take this "desperate" step (which is seemingly inconsistant with the pattern of your advice)? I just don't have the time to try lots of amps and the digital solution is beginning to look like an acceptable one. (Though the range of sounds that I am looking for is fairly narrow. I want that fat humbucking tone which makes it sound as though the pick is plucking against the pickup and causing the note to "wail"). Or might it be my guitar? Many thanks!
