6/11/09: After seeing Phish a couble of weeks ago, I've been listening to them nonstop. Trey's Anastasio's tone is pretty amazing, so I thought I may try to recreate it....

His rig includes a custom made Paul Languedoc guitar, which can be checked out here: http://www.languedocguitars.com/. His guitars start at a mere $7500! Take a look at the gallery though, these are beautiful instruments.

The rest of Trey's rig is a complicated assortment of effects, (delay, pitch-shifter, looper ect.) but most of his tone comes from 2 custom TS9's going into a Ross compressor. The TS9s are modded by this man www.analogman.com.  Currently, he is also using an Analogman Ross/Orange Squeezer clone, the Bi-Comp. My brother has both the Bi-Comp and a TS9 silver-mod, so I was able to check them out a while back and I was quite impressed.

Eventually all this gets routed to either a custom Deluxe Reverb, or a Mesa/Boogie MkIII head, then to a Bruno cab (6x12 I believe), loaded up with Celestion Blue Alnicos.

On the next update I'll let everyone know how I went about recreating this setup.

5/21/09: I've been playing around with the Paul Cochrane Tim pedal recently. After placing the order about 8 months back, I was pretty excited to finally get my hands on one.

                                                                                                                                      

 

This is a very versatile little beast that has a very natural overdrive to it. Its also very easy to use, you've got volume, gain, treble and bass (Which are designed to act as a cut, rather than a boost) on top, with a drive and tone on the side. The side controls come into play when the boost is activated. The drive on the on boost side also has a push pull pot for symectrical or asymetrical clipping (hard or soft, quicker breakup or more subtle breakup). As if that weren't enough, the Tim also features an effects loop built right in, word on the street is that if you throw an eq in there, you can mimic any overdrive on the planet!

This is flat out the best overdrive I've encountered. Easy to use with limitless possibilities. As soon as I have the capability, I'll certainly throw some clips up.

O yeah, the pedal is named after everyone's favorite ram-horned Monty Python enchanter, which makes it about 20 times cooler.