What kind of music do you play mate?
The blowtorch applies the fuzz/ drive to a specific mid range frequency. Perhaps the ashdown lomenzo hyperdrive might fit the bill- it also applies the effect to a specific chosen frequency
I understand the points made, but I suspect the point about quality of mike is key.
Once I point out that my mike is not a £10 maplin karaoke mike they do pipe down.
I use a pretty expensive sennheiser that is one of the few mikes that leave my foghorn voice sounding reasonable
Don't forget the context- in this, vai is the devils representative in a guitar battle for the mans soul. Completely believable, and worthy of serious musical critique
Iirc pino used an oc2 on the paul young stuff. Doesn't do octave up though
There aren't many that are capable of both octave up and down- pearl octave, pog and derivatives, octron. Can't think of any more ATM
Love my mp jag.
The main difference between the squier and fender models afaict is that the neck is glossed, and the pups are fender models rather than the Duncan designed ones on the squier
To me it doesn't matter where it's made- as long as its a good instrument. If its good it gets gigged!
Full tone bass drive- widely rated
Sparkle drive
Bad monkey- sounds good, but most prefer the modded version
Hardwire tube od- lovely pedal, criminally underrated
I got some direct from fender about 15 years ago.
They said they had nearly run out then.
Allparts are the uk fender spares people now. Perhaps a call/ email to them might be in order