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PEDALS 1. Line 6 DL4: It’s got a looper on it, and with Tift, I primarily use it for several dif- ferent flavors of tremolo and vibrato. 2. Line 6 MM4: It’s got a lot of effects, like a Leslie and a couple of flangers and four or five choruses, all of which I don’t use. 3. Zvex Super Hard-on: This is one of my favorite pedals. I use this pedal prob- ably more than I use any other pedal, and I often keep it on all the time or use it for solo boost. Basically, it boosts the signal without mak- ing it all small and buzzy, but it will ram the hell out of your amp. 4. Boss TU-2 Chromatic Tuner: The pedal that I actually use the most: the tuner. 5. Fulltone Full-drive 2: It’s a really nice tube screamer. It gets that overdriven Marshall sound. This is a pretty popular one in the guitar geek community. 1952 FENDER TELECASTER REISSUE: You can get so many great sounds out of them. They have a very pure tone. I purchased the guitar new when I joined the Two Dollar Pistols in 1999. I was play- ing a Strat before then. It’s kind of the right guitar, especially for the live stuff. … I have traditionally, in the last five or six years, played with baritones. Kenny Roby and John Howie are big baritone singers. The Telecaster would cut over the top of the baritone singer, and they were loud bands, so it worked. I was like, “I’m going to try something really different this time. I’m going to get a humbucker guitar, like a Gibson, and have a mellow, warmer sound, and that will be under Tift’s voice.” But I went back to the Telecaster because old habits die hard. INSTRUMENTALISTS: HOW LOCAL MUSICIANS GET THEIR SOUNDS ACOUSTIC: My one good acoustic that I can plug in is an early ’80s Taylor. It’s a smaller-body one, and it’s got a nice mid- range quality to it. You can get the Willie Nelson/ David Rawlings stuff, kind of weaving this tapestry. It doesn’t do chords particularly well like a jumbo, but I kind of like it like that. It’s from the early ’80s, where they built them thin … I never really liked Taylors, but that seemed to have a really nice warm sound to it—not too pingy. VOX AC15 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION: [Purchased in March after McCall watched Daniel Lanois play an original AC30 at South by Southwest] These amps are famous for being ridicu- lously overbuilt, like furniture, because of British safety standards. It’s like I could hit a button and a record player would come out. I was using an amp that was too loud, and I couldn’t get it to sing on stage. It was choked. I’ve worked it out now so I’m not blaring the band out. PRACTICE: I like to play the guitar more than practicing a lot. I’ll get on the com- puter [and record], but if I’m playing a lot, that usually does it. STRINGS: I like drop D tuning a lot. Whatever fits. Having one guitar on stage and working it through all of the songs, it’s good to keep it close to stan- dard. But … you can’t be a Ry Cooder fan without knowing open D and open G and DADGAD and Malagasy. PHILOSOPHY: I read something a long time ago where Ry Cooder was talking about, ‘You want to be in your bubble.’ The bubble can change. You want to feel comfortable that you’re not having to hit your guitar to be heard or you’re too loud or you’re not really digging in enough. You want that broad range of dynamics. MUSICIAN: Scott McCall LOCATION: Hillsborough AGE: 32 MEMBERSHIPS: Tift Merritt, Two Dollar Pistols, Joe Romeo, Kenny Roby’s The Mercy Filter KNOWN FOR: Impeccable tone and tasteful leads GUITAR HEROES: George Harrison, Ry Cooder, Bill Frisell, Reggie Young, David Lindley INTERVIEW BY GRAYSON CURRIN; PHOTOS BY JEREMY M. LANGE 1 2 3 4 5

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Pedals1. line 6 dl4: It’s got a looper on it, and with Tift, I primarily use it for several dif-ferent flavors of tremolo and vibrato.

2. line 6 MM4: It’s got a lot of effects, like a Leslie and a couple of flangers and four or five choruses, all of which I don’t use.

3. Zvex super Hard-on: This is one of my favorite pedals. I use this pedal prob-ably more than I use any other pedal, and

I often keep it on all the time or use it for solo boost. Basically, it boosts the signal without mak-ing it all small and buzzy, but it will ram the hell out of your amp.

4. Boss TU-2 Chromatic Tuner: The pedal that I actually use the most: the tuner.

5. Fulltone Full-drive 2: It’s a really nice tube screamer. It gets that overdriven Marshall sound. This is a pretty popular one in the guitar geek community.

1952 FeNdeR TeleCasTeR ReIssUe:You can get so many great sounds out of them. They have a very pure tone. I purchased the guitar new when I joined the Two Dollar Pistols in 1999. I was play-ing a Strat before then. It’s kind of the right guitar, especially for the live stuff. … I have traditionally, in the last five or six years, played with baritones. Kenny Roby and John Howie are big baritone singers. The Telecaster would cut over the top of the baritone singer, and they were loud bands, so it worked. I was like, “I’m going to try something really different this time. I’m going to get a humbucker guitar, like a Gibson, and have a mellow, warmer sound, and that will be under Tift’s voice.” But I went back to the Telecaster because old habits die hard.

■ I N s T R U M e NTa lI s T s : H o w lo C a l M U s I C Ia N s g e T TH e I R s o U N d s

aCoUsTIC: My one good acoustic that I can plug in is an early ’80s Taylor. It’s a smaller-body one, and it’s got a nice mid-range quality to it. You can get the Willie Nelson/ David Rawlings stuff, kind of weaving this tapestry. It doesn’t do chords particularly well like a jumbo, but I kind of like it like that. It’s from the early ’80s, where they built them thin … I never really liked Taylors, but that seemed to have a really nice warm sound to it—not too pingy.

VoX aC15 50TH aNNIVeRsaRY edITIoN: [Purchased in March after McCall watched Daniel Lanois play an original AC30 at South by Southwest] These amps are famous for being ridicu-lously overbuilt, like furniture, because of British safety standards. It’s like I could hit a button and a record player would come out. I was using an amp that was too loud, and I couldn’t get it to sing on stage. It was choked. I’ve worked it out now so I’m not blaring the band out.

PRaCTICe: I like to play the guitar more than practicing a lot. I’ll get on the com-puter [and record], but if I’m playing a lot, that usually does it.

sTRINgs: I like drop D tuning a lot. Whatever fits. Having one guitar on stage and working it through all of the songs, it’s good to keep it close to stan-dard. But … you can’t be a Ry Cooder fan without knowing open D and open G and DADGAD and Malagasy.

PHIlosoPHY: I read something a long time ago where Ry Cooder was talking about, ‘You want to be in your bubble.’ The bubble can change. You want to feel comfortable that you’re not having to hit your guitar to be heard or you’re too loud or you’re not really digging in enough. You want that broad range of dynamics.

MUsICIaN: Scott McCallloCaTIoN: Hillsboroughage: 32MeMBeRsHIPs: Tift Merritt, Two Dollar Pistols, Joe Romeo, Kenny Roby’s The Mercy FilterKNowN FoR: Impeccable tone and tasteful leadsgUITaR HeRoes: George Harrison, Ry Cooder, Bill Frisell, Reggie Young, David Lindley

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