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Title: OT Free Matt Schofield webcast gig Post by: hywelg on January 16, 2012, 12:31:41 PM I am a huge fan of Matt Schofield and everyone who has ever played a guitar should check him out at least once.
http://www.tristudios.com/ (http://www.tristudios.com/) 7pm PST tomorrow. Repeated for us Europeans at 8pm GMT Wednesday. Title: Re: OT Free Matt Schofield webcast gig Post by: plasticvonaband on January 16, 2012, 04:59:01 PM Sweet!!!
Title: Re: OT Free Matt Schofield webcast gig Post by: citizen on January 16, 2012, 09:45:43 PM Cool - love Matt's playing too - cheers for the heads up.
8) Title: Re: OT Free Matt Schofield webcast gig Post by: exocet on January 18, 2012, 09:20:34 PM Damn, I missed most of that...be great if it was made widely available "on demand" as it appeared to be quite high quality.
I like Matt Schofield a lot....but whenever I listen to him I always end up wondering how he gets that lead sound on the Bridge Pick up......I really struggle with Strat sounds on this pickup.......always sound thin and weedy in my hands, even with lollar specials, thick strings, tone control and volume wound back. Any suggestions? Title: Re: OT Free Matt Schofield webcast gig Post by: citizen on January 19, 2012, 10:57:10 AM I have Fralin Vintage Hots in my Strat, which Matt previously used before he went to the Amalfitano's. I can get a nice tone on the bridge pickup (which has a metal baseplate) by doing what you were ie. rolling the tone off a little and maybe reducing the volume slightly too...I found the tone on all 3 pickups to be much better by having them set relatively low - bass side barely protruding from scratch plate on neck and middle with a slight slant upwards to treble side. I have bridge pickup set even on bass & treble just slightly higher than the other two.
Don't get me wrong - doesn't sound as fat as Matt's bridge but getting there..try lowering your pups & let the amp work a bit harder - worked for me ;) I had to go out last night so missed the webcast - if anyone knows where I could get a look at it (or even a few clips) I'd be much obliged - a friend has told me that it was fantastic.. Title: Re: OT Free Matt Schofield webcast gig Post by: exocet on January 19, 2012, 06:05:43 PM I have Fralin Vintage Hots in my Strat, which Matt previously used before he went to the Amalfitano's. I can get a nice tone on the bridge pickup (which has a metal baseplate) by doing what you were ie. rolling the tone off a little and maybe reducing the volume slightly too...I found the tone on all 3 pickups to be much better by having them set relatively low - bass side barely protruding from scratch plate on neck and middle with a slight slant upwards to treble side. I have bridge pickup set even on bass & treble just slightly higher than the other two. I had a set of Fralin Blues Specials complete with Base Plate on Bridge Pickup, to be honest they sounded much the same as the Lollars that I currently have fitted - the neck / middle and "in between" sound great - the bridge is very weedy and thin. I'm relatively inexperienced with Strats - my other guitar is a Hot Rodded Telecaster (Fender Japan Ritchie Kotzen) this has a mini humbucker in the Bridge position and it absolutely sings - I can roll the tone back and get something that is close enough to the Matt Schofield tone - with a Strat, I can't get near. My pickups are set quite low - about 1.5 - 2mm protruding from scratch plate - tilted as you described. I learnt the nasty tones that you can get if you raise them up too much. My bridge pickup is a lot closer to the strings to balance out the levels - I'll try dropping everything down a bit to see if that gets me any closer. I also have a Fender Eric Johnson which has low output pickups - this is no better when it comes to getting the "Fat, singing OD Tone". The temptation is to drop a humbucker in and be done with it but you know how the hunt for tone goes....sometimes you just have to take the most difficult route! Like many I have found that the stock OTS does not "like" Strats - it's strange because my immediate reaction is "Strats = lower output from pickups = crank the gain" but this really doesn't help in my experience. I have found that changing the Mid Cap improves things quite dramatically - a 0.01 in parallel with the stock 0.01 gives a total of 0.02 (Fender Bassman type value). This works well with a Strat but makes my Tele OD sound rather thin so I plan to make it switchable as others gave done. Finally I tried a few OD pedals (stacked, into the clean channel of the OTS or set very low and pumped into the amps OD) - none have been particularly successful in getting a lead sound :( Title: Re: OT Free Matt Schofield webcast gigs Post by: citizen on January 19, 2012, 06:46:54 PM Bridge pickup on a strat was never a favourite of mine either - i often wonder how Eric Johnson gets that lovely violin tone on his bridge pickup with a fuzz pedal ??? Any I've tried never sound like that!
I have a Bluesmaster 100 so the clean channel is voiced slightly different. With the strat I like to crank the clean channel volume to 7 or 8 - to fatten it up a bit I use a Zen drive with the 'voice' control set to thicken the mids..I'd imagine a tubescreamer type pedal would do a similar job. These amps are much easier to get a smile when playing humbuckers..imho of course :D |