Guitar question.

[TomBanks147]

Just a question to all those who play guitar. On electric guitar, I, like Lindsey suffer from a lot of low end and have a large (in some cases unwanted) dynamic range. So basically I want to know how to go about reducing the amount of bass.

Unlike Lindsey I don't use any nail when I'm picking. I tried growing nails once but just couldn't get them to work so I just pick with flesh. Playing steel string acoustic isn't a problem. I may loose a bt of the brightness in tone that I would gain from using nails but it's a sacfrafice I've already made and don't regret it. The same could be said about nylon also. The problem I'm having is finding a tone that I really love on the electric. My electric is a strat (it's a squire, a top range squire but a squire none the less. Still, I'm saving to get an american made Fender telecaster in a couple of months so I should have a real quality instrument then.) My amp is great. All tube Peavey valveking 212 (basically a 100 watt amp with two 12 inch speakers.) As far as pedals are concerned I have the Boss SD-1 (which I haven't really used.) and the boss DS-1 (that's in the post, not yet arrived.)

Soooooooooooooo, what do I do? Are there any pedals I could get? I was thinking of an equalizer so everything is the same volume, but that doesn't solve the overly bassy tone. Was also thinking of changing and or altering the position of the pickups in relation to how close they are to the strings. (with the advice of a guitar forum.)

Guitar forums are great up to a point, it's just there are few people that can help with playing the electric guitar without a pick. Do/did anyone else suffer with this problem? Also curious if you players use finger nails or not cause perhaps that's my problem.

Thanks