Originally Posted by: rob3004hey guys i have a fender strat with a marshall 30dfx with a pod2.0 i am desperatley trying to recreate the sound used by eric johnson in cliffs of dover but cant get any where near the scream noise he gets on the string bends. at the moment it sounds like an ice-cream tub with elastic bands on it. someone please help

I have a strat with Dimarzios and a heavy blues pick-up in the bridge position-I can pull the tone lever out and mix this pick-up with any combination of pick-ups- so I use the neck pick-up then pull yhe tone lever out and the heavy blues pick-up mixes with the neck-it screams on the bends on the 15th fret-I've been working on cliffs of dover for a while there is a you tube
video with Eric playing a les paul with a 75 watt spider Line six-it's the best tutorial I've found so far-I've decided it's in your fingers- but my pick-up configuration helps alot-I'm only playing througfh a 20 watt Raven amp but
it works- it's not an easy song to learn- there is even a girl with a black les paul and a marshall who does a good job on it she's on the same you tube site as Eric-Randy Jones