So far, lead stuff with the Nova Drive in front has worked well. Easier with double notes, and with chords, you need to strum quite gently to keep it clean. It seems to do the edge of breakup thing quite well and picking strength on single notes needs to be quite high to transition from clean to distorted. It's quite interesting having such a mild drive sound. The overdrive channel is mild, to say the least - the Drive control hasn't been turned down from max all night. If further experimentation with the V30 is promising, I'll rob the driver from the 1x12 and put it into the Fender. Didn't have much time with the V30 cab before neighbour diplomacy cut-off time came around, and didn't do much clean playing, but I think there's enough of a difference to try it with the V30 some more and especially play around with the tone controls to see what I can get out of it. My initial impression of the bass was that it was a bit cleaner as well. Late in the evening, I decided to plug it into a Harley Benton 1x12 with a V30 in it (internal speaker disconnected), and the ice-pick thing seemed to disappear - hard attack on high notes was much better. Really quite unpleasant at times, and I spend a lot of time playing with the various bright controls (bright switch, treble, presence) to try and tame it. When twanging around at the higher frets playing clean lead, it was noticeably ice-picky when playing with more attack. It fills out the sound on the hollower of the out of phase sounds on the Red Special, but is too much for the thicker sounding pickup settings unless care is taken with picking strength. After a while, it became apparent that it's quite hard to get rid of the bass - even dialled right back, there was still a fair bit of bottom end, and with it turned up even a third, it was quite overpowering at daytime living room volumes. Plenty of smooth bottom end was what stood out, and a better spring reverb than I've used before (I don't generally like spring reverb that much). When I first plugged in, I liked it with the first strum of a chord. All playing so far has been with the Red Special. If you learn their styles, you’ll be learning his style as well.Picked up a used Fender Blues Deluxe Reissue today, and I thought I'd post my first impressions. King, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Robben Ford and Eric Johnson. He gets most of his licks and tricks from the greats like B.B. He comes from the Blues Rock style and you can hear those influences in his playing. He’s using mostly all pentatonic scales as he mentions in the first video below. Here’s some Joe Bonamassa instruction videos for you. After all, that’s what we all wanted to do when we were in our 30’s like Joe is. I suspect he will be like a fine wine and get better with age.īut for now, his playing is hot and heavy, and it’s keeping the blues alive for a new generation. Let’s see how he progresses as he matures. He’s still a young guy, sowing his oats now. Personally I think he will change over time and become a very tasteful player. But he does have plenty of soul in his playing. Sometimes he’s a little too busy and plays too many notes for my taste. He knows all the chords and all the scales.īut when it comes down to it, it’s his soul that comes through in his playing… or not. He can play fast and he can play intricate. Joe Bonamassa is a technical monster on guitar.
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