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19 Oct Playing with self-made backing track – Updated

Little update as of Oct. the 19th 2010. I am always experimenting as soon as I have a minute available, so I tried what follows. Now, one thing that also intrigues me immensely is "Powerage" and LTBR tone. Both of them. So I replayed rhythm and re-soloed this track trying to capture a bit of that spirit, although re-listening to this it sounds more Flick of the Switch-ish probably. Don't know, can't say. The delay I put on the solo guitar was meant to be more LTBR-ish. Now, the interesting - maybe - thing is the fact that I think Angus on LTBR was "overloading" the input channel of his amplifier somehow. NOT with a distortion pedal, but more with pure "volume boost", so basically a unit of some sort (might be already the Schaffer-Vega Diversity Systtem, that had a "boost" feature on the unit that would in fact "volume boost" the input signal). Might have been anything. So what I did, is to use a pedal I have (and will show to you) that has "volume boost" only, NO gain! No dirt here: just volume. It's the same as the famous "Klon" pedal, which I also have and tried prior to this other one. But this one is a little more "colored" and I liked it more. I used the lower input of my 2203 (the 100 watt Master Volume Lead) and blasted the volume of the pedal to overload the Marshall input signal. This is the result, both on the rhythm guitars and the solo.