Mark Knopfler has an extraordinary ability...

[sir pball]

...to make a Schecter Custom Stratocaster hoot and sing like angels on a Saturday night, exhausted from being good all week and needing a stiff drink.

[Cracklin Charlie]

1. He does a version of White Lightenin with George Jones...

So good make you wanna slap your grandma!

Major talent!

[Aristus]

2. Another gorgeous piece:

Heavenly...

[pnwest]

3. One of my guitar heroes!

[ProfessorGAC]

4. He Was A Fave Of Mine For Quite Some Time

Then he bought a distortion pedal. I think he ruined his own signature tone.

[Iggo]

7. I know what you mean.

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I play an L.P. straight through a bass amp.

I bought myself a Tube Screamer, just to add a little salt, but it sucked the heart out of my tone. I just couldn't find it anywhere.

I'm back to volume and a slight goose of the gain knob.

Like chimes again.

[ProfessorGAC]

9. I'm The Opposite

I use 3 tones.
One is pedal to the metal saturation! I use a Boogie or a Marshall.
Second is still pretty thick, but less bit for rhythm not lead
Third is single coil, thin as tissue paper and jangly as hell!
For jam nights, I have a Vox Saturator which gets that thick Satch sound using someone else's amp set clean. Then all I need is one of my guitars and an old lap top bag. Too old to be moving an amp to play for 25 minutes!

On Edit: forgot to mention that my wife and I saw them on the second album tour. Chicago's Uptown Theatre, 5th row dead center! Mark was 15 feet away when he was at the mike!

[Iggo]

10. I just meant for my favorite tone, the one I use for loud, soaring, deep-bending, melodic leads.

I've got access to my brother's Matchless 2x12 in the garage, but really the biggest amp I ever use anymore is a little Line-6 1x10 bass amp. Lotsa beef of course, and a nice round tone, and it scorches the paint offa my bedroom walls if I want it to.

I've got the usual suspects on my pedal board...BOSS distortion and reverb , one of those ancient DigiTech delays (the big blue thing with the two pedals), and an MXR micro flanger. (Oh and now the Tube Screamer.) So with a little tweaking I can get enough of the sounds I want. I only play for fun and never for show anymore.

That Vox Saturator sounds interesting...lol. Just kidding. I've really gotten a handle on my Gear Acquisition Syndrome.

Mostly...

[ProfessorGAC]

11. Same Page

The Saturator is GREAT though!
Keep rockin' Iggo!

[FSogol]

5. I am due beer and travel money and many experiences....

Someone had to say it.

[Iggo]

8. Ups, my brother!

[rogerballard]

6. I love Mark Knopfler...

I could never get into Dire Straits.

[ailsagirl]

12. Love all of Dire Straits' stuff

(AKA Mark Knopfler)