Live solo sound - how do you make yours?

[witeter]

Hi guys just wondered what makes up your live solo sound? i dont feel i have reached a preferred option on this yet so was just curious-id be after more of a hardrock/metal perspective if thats ok. Do you use your effects loop live? what pedals? thanks

[shobet]

Guitar, lead, pile of stomps, another lead, amp! Simple, just tune to taste.

[Cammi]

An EQ in effects loop. It's the only thing you need for a boost to make sure your solo comes to the front of the mix

[Frank]

An elderly Alesis Quadraverb, still does everything I need. Bit of chorus, the odd spacey reverb, tempo-matched multi-tap delays.

I'm allergic to pedals.

[d1dsj]

I use either a CMATMODS Deeelay or Strymon EL Capistan if some delay is required, volume boosted by a CAE Line driver in the loop. Gain is provided by my amps.

[witeter]

Cheers - What delay settings work best for you guys?

[horsehead]

either the volume control on the guitar or SHO

[HTH AMPS]

Dynacomp or TS-9, but I have an MXR 6-band EQ on all the time too for a mid-boost.

[witeter]

Have any of you guys got a noise surpressor? and if so do you turn it off for solos? just trying to minimize the amount of tap dancing on stage!

[Telerocker]

Blues Junior - clean/light crunch basic setting, solotones come from Emma Reezafratzitz, Suhr Riot, Toadworks Dual Boost. I use this setup for small gigs where we can't play loud.
Orange Rockerverb - solotone from the drivechannel , or when I cannot crank it really, with some help of the Emma Reezafratzitz and Toadworks Dual Boost. The Suhr Riot works amazingly good on the clean channel.
For colouring some pedals: wah, delay, etc.

[Twinfan]

XTC red channel, either dry or with delay/reverb from a G-Sharp.

Works for me.....

[Sancho]

I just stomp on the "solo" switch on my Splawn's footswitch :D

[gwEm]

The volume control, or some sort of pedal.. if anything :)

[Dmoney]

One thing i've played with is riding the tone knob.
I once read someone's guitar teacher told them to turn their guitars tone control down half way, then set up their amp so it sounds like it usual does, or so it sounded great, then when you want a boost just turn up the tone knob. When I've messed with doing it, it sounds pretty good. I think the thing I read was someone talking about techniques for setting up amp sounds.

[_tom_]

An EQ in effects loop. It's the only thing you need for a boost to make sure your solo comes to the front of the mix

+1. I'm thinking of adding a slight bit of delay or reverb though. Depending on the room some leads can sound really dry and cr@p without it.