I am currently getting badass fusion tone...

[distressed_romeo]

...by running my Dean semi-acoustic (11-52 gauge strings w/medium action) with the tone on full, and the bridge PU selected, into a whammy pedal on the 'shallow detune' setting and the pedal about half-way depressed, into my amp (Crate GFX30) on the overdriven channel with the gain set at about 4. Sounds like the perfect middle-ground between Scofield and Metheny! I wish I had a decent mic to record some samples...

 

[jacksonplayer]

...by running my Dean semi-acoustic (11-52 gauge strings w/medium action) with the tone on full, and the bridge PU selected, into a whammy pedal on the 'shallow detune' setting and the pedal about half-way depressed, into my amp (Crate GFX30) on the overdriven channel with the gain set at about 4. Sounds like the perfect middle-ground between Scofield and Metheny! I wish I had a decent mic to record some samples...

That sounds very interesting--very huge. I enjoy playing around with clean/distorted combo sounds, which was an old Zappa trick. I almost pulled the trigger on that Raines 7-string semihollow that ended on eBay yesterday, but I'll just stick to the solidbodies for now...

 

[ElRay]

... which was an old Zappa trick ...

Another Zappa tool was to use the Whammy to un-bend the note you're currently bending.

Ray