clean set up for lead solos

what would be a good combination of effects so it will produce a very clean tone for lead solos?

what do you think about my future set up?

distortion-compressor-chorus-cry baby-phaser-distortion

w/c produce cleaner tone overdrive or distortion? how about tone bender?

I cant afford to buy branded effects so I will just make my own.probably vinatge.. hehee im a poor musician you know.
my guitar is not branded also. made in the Philippines
I will just modify its pick-ups so it would sound great
what does synthesizers do?

Stay away from chains of digital effects. I'll kill your tone and linking a lot of stuff together can easily turn the signal to mud and create noise. It's also a bad idea putting distortion at both ends of the chain, especially digital. For the price of all that you can get a decent valve amp that can roar like it has a solid pair.

Also, if you want a clean solo sound, you're not going to be distorting it. A little overdrive might be good, but you'll want it as pure and analog as possible to preserve richness.

For clean solos I like guitar-->maybe a little reverb and/or delay-->speakers. Nothing more, besides setting the eq.

By synthesizer do you mean like something for guitar or something like what Pogo plays?

Definetly get an EQ(MXR) to boost your sound for your solo.

Overdrive is when the tubes are saturated. There are different levels. (Think old 50's-60's rock n' roll..and heavier Led Zeppelin 1)

A wah and delay would be cool for some clean solo's without drive.

that set up was for a heavey metal sound. how about a

compressor-chorus-overdrive

will it produce a clean tone?

what is a tone bender?

No. Well, depends on the overdrive and chorus. If it's a little for personality that's fine, but if you crank the overdrive it's going to be fuzzy, and unless you use the chorus sparingly and not too much when you do use it it's probably going to get old really fast.

If I remember right a tonebender is just a fuzz pedal, I've seen it made by vox and by colorsound.

If you want a clean sound just go with the compressor, or if you don't have much $$ not even that.

If you can, use the switch on your guitar to switch between pickups. Easy on an LP or Strat, little more difficult on the Tele, because of the volume knob.

i'm not a big fan of the chorus efect when soloing

try lite to med. distortion, with more bass little less treble, and turn up the reverb

the delay also adds a lot

Originally posted by Tele Master
Definetly get an EQ(MXR) to boost your sound for your solo.

Slash uses one of these.. what exactly do they do? Increase the level of gain?

boost adds a little gain but mainly it adds a lot of volume and sustain

so if you want your solo to be really prominent you hit the boost

the Yngwie boost pedal is really nice