[Kevin_Ageeee]

Alright, I'm in the electric guitar mood because I've been playing acoustic for the past 8 months. I'm looking for a guitar with a warm fuzzy tone. Think Jimi Hendrix in Voodoo child. I don't want it to sound sharp. What guitar/amp/pedals will give me this fat tone I'm looking for? I'm thinking a strat w/ a tube amp. I'm going to go to the guitar shop to test some out but your input would help greatly! Thanks dudes!

[Stratrat]

Man, there are a LOT of variables in that question.....but in general, a guitar equipped with humbucker (dual-coil) pickups will have a "fatter" sound than single coils. Different amps are voiced differently, even comparing tube amps to tube amps. A Mesa Dual Rectifier is going to have an entirely different tone than a Fender Twin, etc. It is true that tube amps are generally considered as "warmer" sounding than solid state amps - but there can be exceptions to that rule also.

Pedals can drastically change your tone - you talked about Hendrix having a fat, warm tone, yet he played a Strat with single-coil pickups. It's grossly over-simplifying things, but within distortion pedals you have 3 general classes - overdrive, distortion and "fuzz". A fuzz pedal will give the sound you're looking for. I believe the pedal he used (or one of them, anyways) was the Dallas Arbiter Fuzz Face (which Dunlop just released a copy of). Just about every pedal mfr. has a fuzz pedal on the market - Electro-Harmonix has the Big Muff Pi, Digitech has the "Hendrix Experience Pedal", and many others also offer them.

[krissovo]

I have a american strat wired through the digitech Hendrix pedal to a Fender Blues Junior Valve amp.

Its a beatiful combination and most of the Hendrix "Live" Tones, Voodoo Child for instance on the hendrix pedal is 4 tones on the one setting. 1, Is the WAH intro 2, Is rhythm tone 3, is the lead tone 4 Is the lead tone with the WAH

Its sounds great with my own Rock Blues progressions as well!