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Onion ManOnion Man Posts: 17
edited June 2006 in Musicians and Gearheads
Here's my story. I've been playing guitar for about three years now. Up until now, I haven't been that serious about it. All I would play were simple PJ songs. Within the last couple of months, I've started learning more and more of their material. I gained enough confidence to start playing some of Mike's solos, something I never even imagined pulling off. I'm telling you, practice and just applying myself has improved my playing so much.

Now the question. I want to look into some pedals but don't know shit. I want something that would sound like the majority of Mike's solos. I'm on a budget and am looking to spend about $100 or less. I'm thinking I should go with the original Crybaby. What do you guys think?
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  • Guitarhero27Guitarhero27 Posts: 2,146
    a crybaby is a default pedal to own if you're looking for a mccready sound during your solo's....whether it be original or the 535Q...

    another pedal you may wanna pick up would be the MXR Phase 90 for phasing effects that can be heard on given to fly (although he used a phase 100 on that)....also on the ledbetter solo from the daughter cd single...as well as the bridge in WWS you can hear definate phase shifting.

    Stone can be heard using a phaser after the solo in Nothing As it Seems, and even Insignifance


    as well as a ton of other songs.

    Both pedals are under $100...the phase 90 i believe is $79.99 and the crybaby can be had for about $65-70

    get em both :)

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  • ellroyellroy Posts: 39
    hi there mike also uses a tubescreamer and a univibe.
    jimi hendrix used the univibe also.
    the prices i really dont know but i think it isnt to expensive good luck with that and let us know
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  • Pearl Jam and toastPearl Jam and toast Posts: 4,475
    Cry Baby is the way to go.

    much more useful than a phaser, especially for lead playing i think.
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  • keeponrockinkeeponrockin Posts: 7,446
    Crybaby. Best pedal I own.
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  • Guitarhero27Guitarhero27 Posts: 2,146
    a tubescreamer would run you at least $100 and a univibe can range between $125 (used) and $279 (new). I got mine for $200.
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  • CaptainSpaz91CaptainSpaz91 Posts: 266
    I really liked the tubescreamer, I wasn't a huge fan of the sonic distortion i had.
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  • SteveMurraySteveMurray Posts: 66
    get a hot cake distortion pedal and dunlop wah pedal
  • enharmonicenharmonic Posts: 1,917
    It's not the gear, my friend. It's the player. And thank god for that...because 100 bucks won't get you very far if you're trying to cop Mike's tone.
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  • harrisonmerwinharrisonmerwin Posts: 766
    enharmonic wrote:
    It's not the gear, my friend. It's the player. And thank god for that...because 100 bucks won't get you very far if you're trying to cop Mike's tone.

    very true. since i play liek mccready, and love his tone, i have been influenced to buy similar product, but not identical. It really comes down to how well you actually play though, effects are a bonus. if you really want to spend a couple hundred bucks, lessons should be factored in. I have too many bad habits these days to go into lessons, but i can adapt and learn it to fit my style, but still, lessons over gear in the early days, i would go back and get lessons
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