What to Build for a Southern Rocker?

[erix]

Folks,

I want to gift an old friend of mine (tip 'o the hat to Mark Hammer for the idea!) who plays Southern rock and blues. He plays an original non-reverse Firebird through a Marshall combo (don't know which one) and sometimes uses an old Boss distortion box.

Any southern rockers here? What's standard issue in the Skynyrd toolbox?

- thanx

[Yun]

Folks,

I want to gift an old friend of mine (tip 'o the hat to Mark Hammer for the idea!) who plays Southern rock and blues. He plays an original non-reverse Firebird through a Marshall combo (don't know which one) and sometimes uses an old Boss distortion box.

Any southern rockers here? What's standard issue in the Skynyrd toolbox?

- thanx

You should build:

Fuzz-Face (germanium)
Rat
Brown sound in a box
Any marshall "brown sound" overdrive will do....

[Yun]

or that Overdrive that ZZ-top uses i can't remember the name of it, but it's a chrome enclosure that's circular (similar to a fuzz face's enclosure).

[bluesdevil]

or that Overdrive that ZZ-top uses i can't remember the name of it, but it's a chrome enclosure that's circular (similar to a fuzz face's enclosure).

Bixonic  Expandora?

[spudulike]

ROG Tube Reamer.

[black mariah]

Screw all that! ROG New Clipper. More gain than a Tube Screamer with a fuller tone. Plug it into a clean amp and you'll get the perfect amount of distortion for Skynrd type stuff.

[petemoore]

Marshall combo (don't know which one).
 Here's where I'd start, at the speaker end of the chain...
 Depending...~
 and sometimes uses an old Boss distortion box.
 Messing with this position in the chain could do some magic, what is the amp?
 To me, Skynerd is everything from a boosted reverbed amp to less than metal, post psychadelia.
 I saw some footage and it looked to me like there was a fair amount of preparation going on behind the Huge Tones. They probably figured out the speaker thing, then picked/tweeked to get amps that 'work with all those Fuzz/OD boxes etc.
 For overall usability with a wide variety of stuff and also for nice med to crunch tones, a seriesed Mu Amp type design may be found to be of excellent service.
 For 'Southern rock and blues.' and skynerd in particular I'd use some LP filter[s on a FF for the lead parts.
 All depends on how the pickups amp and everything inbetween is tuned, maybe try some circuit]s, socket some stuff or breadboard, see what you can get, then look at the amp...?
 I find it's much less stressful to tweek at less than lethal voltages.