Originally Posted by: fretsmithHi maggior - I know what you mean - I have a G3 and some of my guitars "like it" more than others. I can't imagine how/why that might be? Might be an interesting query for Stephen in the tech section? The optimum set-up (from my own experience) from ZOOM is with an active pick-up guitar. Really good tones/sims that way.

As far as the volume control as a gain regulator - I personally consider that as a very significant factor in my judgement/critique/valuation of a guitar. I have some guitars that if you drop volume from 10 to 4 - the gain drops but the volume goes waaaay down. On others I can do 10 to 4 and have the gain drop proportionally but the actual volume drop only slightly. Those are my favorite guitars. I guess it's probably something to do with the pot? Maybe another Tech question? Could be your new PRS is engineered that way? I think once you get used to it and get a feel for what can be achieved this way your going to really like it. My ideal set-up would be a low wattage tube amp and a guitar with a responsive volume control (like yours) with no pedals/processors at all. You can play all sorts of stuff, all night, and never have to touch your amp.

You got a good rig Rich, I think your going to be really happy with it real soon. You might find your Fender and Gibson gathering a little dust :) ((altho I admit I have Fenders and a Gibson that do the knob thing quite well ))

T-Care, Ken

Hmmm, it must be that the Zoom like a higher level signal coming into it.

I know what you mean about the volume control not being very linear. I've never owned a guitar that behaved like this...it's nice actually because you can easily control the amount of crunch with a simple knob asjustment rather than having to configure 2 channels on your amp and using a foot pedal.

I love the idea of a simple setup - amp, guitar and that's it. That's the way I played our open mic gigs recently. There's something pure about that. We plan on doing a lot of covers and being able to mimic the original tones easily is very appealing to me. It's another aspect of the creative process. For instance, last night I got a patch set up on my Zoom for "PRS Clean" that works really well for Doobie Brothers and stuff like that. Next I'll be setting up a "hard rock crunch" patch for things like Black Crowes (think Hard to Handle). Then, since we are doing "Brown Sugar", I'll set up another patch with some slapback echo and some dirt.

For a blues jam or something...it would be straight guitar and amp though! I'm happy with my setup now and it's really growing on me, especially that I am getting comfortable with the tonal options I have available. Now I have no excuses...if my tone sucks I've got nobody to blame by myself :-).