09-17-2020, 04:12 PM
(09-17-2020, 03:49 PM)Wes Mantooth Wrote: So super, super long story short as possible.
I got to finally play a Suhr about 5 years ago. I instantly fell in love with the guitar. Best S style guitar I ever played.
I had been mainly a Les Paul guy forever, but I had switched to playing almost nothing but my Strat when I got older. I had accumilated a ton of gear up until that point. (I used to work in a music store when I was younger and then I worked as a sales rep for a big guitar company)
I pretty much sold it all to fund the purchase of the two Suhrs, and I kept my favorite Les Paul. It was totally worth it to me. I had a lot of pretty nice stuff but just way too much of it. So I figured why not just get the best example of Strat and Tele that I can, and leave it at that. Although I do miss having 10+ guitars hanging in my music room.
I absolutely love my Helix. It's perfect for me. I don't play out any more and 99% of the time I'm just playing at home, either recording or jamming to backing tracks. I can run it right into my computer if I want without a standalone interfrace, I can run it with headphones, or I can run it to my monitors or my amp. It's pretty freaking incredible.
I don't have to worry about all my cables any more, or running things though my effects loops, or batteries, or power supplies. It's just hooked up and ready to go. I have a ton of patches I've worked out that I can just cycle though depending on what I want.
I've never used it live. But I do know loads of people do. There's guys that just tour with that unit alone and run to front of house. You can also get those cabs that work well with IR's if you want a more traditional amp setup.
I do a lot of work on guitars but just basic stuff. I stop at fret work. But I do setups and can do electronics. I keep saying I'm going to buy some files and try to learn how to do a fret dress and slot a nut, but I alway balk at the investment on tools. I do not mess with amps at all.
I've been seriously getting a Tonemaster for the very reason you said. Even my little Blues Jr has to get way too loud to sound really good.
Yeah, your amp collections rocks.
That is awesome, I cant even imagine how good those guitars play! Every single one I've seen and heard sounded amazing. I like both Andy Wood and Pete Thorn. Those guys really got me looking into the Suhr guitars just from watching youtube vids. And they are gorgeous guitars.
If you find a tonemaster to try at a music store, it may be hard not to walk out with one. Thats what happened to me. I went in to get strings, and the guy was like hey you have to check these amps out, and I walked out with it. I really love my little blues jr, but like you said its pretty loud, and the tonemaster solve that and the tones and vibrato are spot on. I am still feeling the kid at the candy store vibe with this thing and I've had it 3 weeks.
Thanks about my amp collection. I'm missing a 63 tremolux that I sold a few years back, but all the amps I have now are really sweet even that weird old SG systems amp with the huge knobs. It actually sounds amazing but weighs a ton and is 100 watts of loud. piss my ol' lady off tone lol.
