soloing over 12 bar blues

Yes, it should the Key of E.

That amp is an Epiphone galaxie 10" at the end of a rather unique signal chain. Please don't run out and buy one thinking you'll sound like that, won't happen. With everything taken into consideration like the equipment before it even gets to the final output stage and recording technique. Like using a rack mounted stereo tube power amp set to 100 watts mono into a dummy-load as a preamp, numerous stereo Eq's, tube effects, finally into a Mesa boogie 50/50, two Marshall's (one guitar amp and one rack mounted), one Gibson Falcon, one Epiphone 10". All amps have attenuators on them. Four of the amps have Celestion speakers and the Gibson speaker is stock.

The Miking technique is unique. I took the galaxie 10" set it upon two padded briefcase's and leaned it at a 30 degree's against the wall. The Mic was set 2 feet away on a few small camping pillows off center the speaker. That is how the recording was created. Also have to give my 9 year old daughter credit for the drum's. which was a keyboard with a built-in drum module were you can use certain keys to add fills.

Hope you have fun playing along with it. When time permits I'll get a few more backing tracks uploaded.

Joe

I hope you're making money as a recording engineer, Joe, because really, the fact that you have the knowledge to pull something like this off... very impressive. I wouldn't have even considered using multiple other amps as preamps like that... Is there a huge difference when you take one out of the chain? Seems like it would colored by so many different things that most of the subtleties would never make it to the final mix....

Playing guitar is what I do. Never thought about it I'm always taking things beyond. Don't pay the fairy man till he gets you to the other side. I know what I can get from one amp, so I thought what if I do this or do that, hook this to that, that to this, coming up with the using more than one amp, each one sounding a little different. All at low volume thats the trick. I can always play loud. I use lots of channels on a mixer. No need to over dub to get that thicker sound.

Now when I get asked to perform it's a whole different game. Depending on the style the band plays, which band it is, and the size of the venue dictates what equipment I will use. A professional guitar player needs to versatile. Most of all I like being a guitar player and have fun doing it. Won't be long I'll have the Mp3's of different styles finished and uploaded. They'll be fun to practice against.

Joe