FOUR ON THE FLOOR-SCOTT BAXENDALE OF BAXENDALE GUITAR

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What are your four ‘must-have’ pedals? That is what we ask our guests to share with you in our Four On the Floor podcast segment.

Scott turns those old hard to play, funky sounding Kay, Harmony and Silvertone style acoustics into brilliant sounding and great playing guitars. If you are not familiar with Baxendale Guitar do yourself a favor and check him out. He gave us a fantastic interview too! You can hear the episode for yourself right here. Check out these choices for his Four On The Floor.

1. Ibanez – TS9 Tube Screamer Overdrive

“I bought new probably in 1993, and it’s been my number one pedal ever since. I can’t imagine being without it. I find that it gives me a little more presence and punch, you know, just to get some natural compression and it just puts my sound right in the mix where I’d like to be. And if I set it right, it allows me to basically control my clean and dirty settings for the most part with just my volume control.“

Check out the Ibanez – TS9 Tube Screamer Overdrive

2. Greer Amps – Pork And Beans Boost

“I like that mid boost and I use it in conjunction with a tube screamer. A lot like the tube screamer, it sort of just gives me my basic tone where I set the kind of set the gain on like six and I get the distortion on like five or six and the treble and the tone on about like 11:00. And then that just sort of feeds everything else. So I go into the pork and beans pedal and then I use that when I want to kick it into high gear on top of the tube screamer. Nick Greer makes some great stuff, man. He makes great stuff. It’s all bulletproof and it all works great.“

Check out the Greer Amps – Pork And Beans Boost

3. Korg – G4 Rotary Speaker Simulator

“I’ve had that since the nineties and the only reason I ever bought that pedal was because of Warren Haynes actually. When I lived in Nashville and worked at Gruhns Guitars, my best friend was Allen woody who later played bass with Government Mule and The Allman Brothers. When Government Mule was really starting to get into high gear I was able to meet up with Allen and the band one time and Warren Haynes showed me this pedal and I just couldn’t believe how closely it simulated the real Leslie rotating speaker, especially if you use two amps with it. So, I’ve had one ever since and I haven’t really found a Leslie simulator that I thought was any better than this one. Just like a real Leslie 122, you can vary the speed and the spread of the microphones like an emulation of the upper rotor and the lower rotor microphones, and you can even vary the stereo spread of that. If you feed it through two amps and spread the amps few feet apart, man, it moves the air. ”

Check out the Korg – G4 Rotary Speaker Simulator

4. MXR – M169 Carbon Copy Analog Delay

“The Carbon Copy is one of those pedals that they just got it right. It’ll work well. A lot of the gigs I play now I playing my silvertone 1446, which is a hollow body guitar with a Bigsby on it and I’m doing a lot of like Tex-Mex kind of surfy vibe, vibrato kind of stuff and to just have that slapback echo in there, it’s essential to get that kind of sound especially with the Bigsby where I’m doing long sustaining stuff, which I’m going to kind of into lately the echo lends itself so well, so I use that a lot more these days.“

Check out the MXR – M169 Carbon Copy Analog Delay

Huge thanks to Scott Baxendale for being a guest on our show and please check out Baxendale Guitar We wish him continued success!