Re: bill frisell's tune "Rain, Rain" on my bamboo grand.
copied over from facebook..
Michael Johnstone ·Love it. Your music is about something BTW. What's your rig if I might inquire?Thanks!. I am lucky enough to have one of the magic custom pickups that's a Stickup on the bass side , and the emg active (telecastery ?) pickup on the melody side. so that has a lot to do with the sound. i have a mod duo for the effects which has two separate signal paths , which is perfect for the stick IMHO. it then goes into a couple of acoustic image amps (one for each channel) which i've had for a long time and like a lot. they're set pretty clean/neutral so i don't think they are influencing the sound much in this setup
the mod duo 'pedal board' is an alembic stereo preamp simulator
then on the melody side: fender amp simulator, reverb , delay
on the bass side: the 'stuck' plugin on the bass side for the drone bits,
then some reverb and tremolo.
the mod duo is nice because you can control the input stage impedance, so i use the the 1MegOhm setting on the bass side, which keeps the stickup half of the frankenpickup sounding it's best.