Aynsley Lister Rig Progress & Four Awesome ’70s Stratocasters

Did he stick with the wet-dry rig? Ayns returns to take us to tone school! Life too short for long YouTube videos? Please see the ‘Interesting bits and go-to sections’ information below. Welcome to the show! Back in January 2021, our good friend Aynsley Lister came to visit in the hope of getting some inspiration on developing his live guitar tone a little bit. We made a video of the day which you can see here: Bigger Tone For Aynsley Lister With Delay ... Later in 2021 Mick caught up with Ayns before a show in Newbury, UK to transfer the pedals you see in this video onto a board which he’s been using ever since. Today, Mister Lister returns for an update and to fill us in on how he’s been getting on with the expanded rig. Lucky for us he also brought a quartet of super cool 1970s Strats – not at all the ‘dead sounding boat anchors’ that many people believe them to be. As we’ll hear, these things sound utterly stellar! Couple of points of note: Wet/dry? Yeah, we know. The ‘correct’ definition of wet/dry is where there are no wet effects in the dry side, and no dry signal in the wet effect side. Try not to get too twisted about it. We refer to wet/dry in a TPS kinda ‘dual mono’ sense, and if it helps, every time we say wet/dry, just imagine we’re saying ‘wetanddry/dryandreverb’ as that’s actually what it is. The diagram around 24:40 should clear up any confusion. Does Ayns' board change at the end? Yep, Dan did a little tune up that we filmed… but the audio failed sadly so we couldn’t use it. All he did was sure up the power and patch cables to ‘tour ready’ standard, improve some of the velcro/pedalboard tape, and add an external tap tempo button for the delay. Enjoy the video, and for more on Aynsley, hit http://www.aynsleylister.co.uk/ Pedals in this episode • Alder & Ash The Tailor Pedalboard https://www.alderandashpedalboards.co... • Sonic Research ST-200 Turbo Tuner Australia: http://bit.ly/2mR1s8c • T-Rex Octavius (not currently available new) • T-Rex Alberta overdrive (not currently available new) • Mad Professor Royal Blue Overdrive https://www.mpamp.com/eu/royal-blue-o... • Free The Tone Final Booster (not currently available new) • JHS Pink Panther Delay (now called the Lucky Cat) UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z Australia: https://bit.ly/3c2lPIH • TheGigRig Bank Manager (used as external tap tempo) https://shop.thegigrig.com/g2-g3-bank... • JAM Pedals Harmonious Monk UK & Europe: https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z Australia: https://bit.ly/3rJBJAb Guitars in this episode • 1970 Fender Stratocaster, refinished Shoreline Gold by Dave Walsh at https://www.eternal-guitars.com/ • 1970 Fender Stratocaster Fiesta Red • 1974 Fender Stratocaster Olympic White • 1975 Fender Stratocaster Sunburst • Patrick James Eggle Macon Single Cut http://www.eggle.co.uk/the-guitars/ma... Amps in this episode • Rift Amplification Aynsley Lister Signature amp: https://www.riftamps.com/aynsley-list... • Fender Vibroverb reissue (no longer available new) Interesting bits and go-to sections 0:00 Intro playing 1:10 Welcome and context for today 4:00 How did the new rig fare? 6:11 Guitar volume control is king 8:00 Two amps & the Rift sig story 11:30 How the two amps are set up 12:35 Core sounds: the Rift amp 13:48 Most important pedal? 15:58 And the Vibroverb amp? 18:45 Royal Blue OD to Vibroverb 21:30 Gain, delay and mush 23:11 Why the wet amp needs to be clean 24:40 Signal flow diagram 25:40 Delay sounds, dry and wetdry 28:40 And some harmonic trem 30:30 More overdrive: Alberta 32:20 Aynsley’s ’70s Strats 37:25 ’74 and block saddles 39:00 Heavy guitars? 40:30 ’74 Strat sounds 42:50 ’70 Strat sounds 45:40 Enhancing the rig? 46:45 ’75 Strat 50:45 New album coming 51:47 Singing 54:00 How were the lockdowns? 56:30 Coming back - gig fit? 57:10 Guitar setup 1:00:00 The fun of the gear carnet 1:04:50 Ayns plays us out We hope you enjoy this episode. Please subscribe to our channel. You can buy TPS merch to support our efforts https://www.thatpedalshowstore.com We are on Patreon – crowdfunding for creatives Patreon: ThatPedalShow Please visit our preferred retailers! UK & Europe: Andertons Music https://bit.ly/3zaTX5Z Australia: Pedal Empire http://bit.ly/2mWmJQf