Hi everybody, I'm Scott, and we're going to
talk about tone today.
First I'm going to show you how I get my personal
tone, and then we'll go off from that by moving
the mic around and changing settings on the
pedals and amps, I'll show you how to get
some other kind of tones.
The first thing is the pickup adjustment,
if you don't have a hot pickup, you need to
raise the pickups, so they're at the same
volume.
And the tone controls are a very big part
of your sound.
I turn mine way down to like somewhere between
3 and 4, sometimes 5.
I 
have the bridge floating so that I can get
a major 3rd out of the G string.
So, I can go.
I have the block drilled out bigger and I
use bigger arms, because I tend to break the
fender ones, because I'm a little nuts with
the bar.
I've recorded a strat with Mike Landau pickups,
a strat with V60 pickups, which are closer
to the old strat pickups, a strat with a humbucker,
a Pete Thorn humbucker, an SG, and a Les Paul.
You know, everybody says good tone is in your
fingers, and guess what, they're right.
I am using the top part of the pick, not the
point, and that's very important.
If you use the point, it sounds like this.
Kind of thin and anemic sounding.
So I use the big part.
You can hear there's more bass.
A lot of my playing is in my fingers, especially
when playing melodies.
