what is the basic blues effect set up?
Anyone here knows the effects used by Stevie? thanks

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Nice research! However understanding that normal people have budgets i would have to say...u need a fender with over wound pickups or the texas speical pickups with extra extra heavy gauge strings and a fender vibro king as the amp.

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WWSD? What would stevie do?

Yeah, I guess that's the more practical answer, rather than trying to buy every single piece of equipment SRV used.

One pedal that comes up a lot is the Ibanez TubeScreamer. I believe he used the TS-808, but there is a TS-9 which is basicallt the same pedal. The new ones have a different chip than the original, which some say affects tone. The original chip is a JRC3553 or something like that, and a new one can be modified (even by yourself) to use that chip instead. I found articles galore a couple of months back when I had bought a TS-9 and wanted reviews of it.

Basically, the TS is a clean boost type of pedal, but it can be tuned to introduce some pure-sounding dirt. The pedal is not too expensive. I thought it was OK, but it basically sounded the same as my amp's distortion channel with the gain down low, and I wasn't trying to achieve someone else's tone, so I returned the pedal.

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yeah - you can come close but you also have to understand a few things about the way he played...

1. his hands were VERY strong and he strangled that neck every time he played... if you can catch a video of him playing you'll see the bends he gets and he used heavy strings.

2. Stevie was constantly playing with his setups and equipment, tweaking them and making changes. So even if you get the same amp and guitar setup you'd still be missing a little something to replicate the sound.

3. Every guitar player sounds unique due to their skill, background, hand strength, angle of attack with or without a pick and then there's the whole mindset deal when playing.... I have a 50mb video of SRV doing Crossfire and he just gets lost in his playing.

best advice, if you have the cash, go get what he had, if you don't get what comes close. Most importantly, try to emulate him don't copy or you'll be just that (not that it's a bad thing) but think of it this way... do you want someone to say that you sound like him or do you want them to say that another guitar player sounds like you do!

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SRV gauge was so heavy that he had to glue the cracks of his finger nails and hands so that they would nt keep ripping with the bends.

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WWSD? What would stevie do?

I gotta call that a myth until otherwise convinced by means of solid proof.