Gibson Custom Shop LP Goldtop Reissue w/ P90s and Bigsby -> Keeley BD-2 Mod -> Egnater Rebel 20 -> Orange 1x12 Cab -> Heil PR40 -> UA 2-610 -> Distressor (1:1 or Bypass)-> Rosetta 800

tone heaven.

Ok then, lol

"The quest for tone shall be yours until the end of days.
Forever shall you wander through stacked shadows.
Tweakage shall be your constant constant companion and distortion shall forever haunt your days."

Anonymous Curse

what's yours? I'm all about finding what works, if you have a dope guitar chain, please share it man!

so far i am staying with big string, ASAT, cable, and a sweet tube amp.heh

I could give you the typical GS answer: depends on the song and the player; not to mention the room, the engineer, the day... heh

I have a few guitar fx amp mic combos I'm loving lately, though...

My Hagstrom Swede through my Ceriatone 18/36 Watt TMB (Plexi clone, basically) with a Fulltone OCD. The cab is an Avatar 2 x 12, but it's set up so I can just use one speaker at a time or both. Usually, I use a Greenback, but sometimes the Vintage 30. I always use a Weber Mini Mass cause I'm in a small room and the Ceriatone blows me away with volume. I like to mic the Greenback with a Michael Joly modded MJE K47 Rode NT2 going through my Avedis MA 5 preamp.

Lately, I've also been using the Tech 21 Character series and their Boost RVB (yep, recording with reverb... a no-no, I know!). The U.S. Steel (Rectifier model) and the Blonde (various Fender models) sound amazing and pretty damn convincing.

But I'll use a totally different set up depending on the track and my mood...

I just find it funny, because what works today will sound different tommorrow. I've been thru so many different setups trying to find that perfect sound. I've listened back to a few recordings I made years ago and I think my guitar sounds everybit as good as it does now only different.

So since you asked;

For a nice blues sound like SRV or kennywayne Shepard type stuff. I use a 1989 fender eric clapton model but replaced the entire electronics with pickups from Lindy Fralin vintage standard set.

I use a Divided by 13 JRT amp using the 6v6 tubes. From out of the speaker output I run it into a marshall emulater and take the speaker outputs thru jack to a bogner 2x12 open back cab with a g12h anniversary celestion and one vintage green back.

I take the line output from the emulater and run that into a little lab's re-amp box to convert the signal back to guitar level. From there into a mxr phase shifter then into a chandler digital echo. From the chandler output I go to my modded epiphone junior. So basically I have a wet and dry setup.

I mic one speaker of the bogner cab with a royer 121 into a BAE 312 preamp. Out of the pre to a portico tape sim 5042. From the tape sim to a Panasonic Ramsa WZad96 converter to one channel of the DAW.

I run the output of the epi junior to a homemade speaker cab loaded with 2 weber 8 inch alnico speakers. I mic one of the speakers with a gefell um92.1s condensor to a pendulum audio quartet. From the preamp into the Ramsa converters and a second channel of the DAW. Blend and mix to taste.

Sometimes I will use the ibanez reissue 808 pedal in front of the divided by 13 amp for a little more gain. From the 808 I patch into a vintage maxon cp101 comp. I usually leave the comp on and bypass the ibanez.

Anyway that's also tone heaven.

I have some more speaker cabs and amps also that I can get tone heaven from. It's all about what your going for.