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consolidated our setlist a bit so
that we only need three guitars.”PRS P22
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acoustic sounds through a clean
sound on Angel’s Son and it sounds
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anything else.”KEMPER PROFILER
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sounds a bit more by setting up
whatever I used on that album. I
don’t want our engineers to have
to deal with new sonics with
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going a bit more in depth with it.
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I really love. I was really reluctant
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to be more bluesy sounding. But I
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ago and ended up trying one out
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with this. The mids are
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are good and get close enough
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tap dance. I had a mad pedalboard
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boxes and we use all sorts in the
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hearing in my head. I love my TC
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At the moment I’m just using
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there’s a latency there that
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up sounding!”“THERE’S A LATENCY THERE THAT
ALMOST MAKES IT MORE DIRTY
AND GRIMY. JOHN HATES THAT...”
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