Love With Volume

I wonder why all guitarists love playing at high volumes. When I was new to the electric guitar I used to keep the volume at the quarter of my amps capacity. But now Its normally at level 8. May be then It was dificult to control sound at high volume (not tyring to boast) :-)

Controlling Overdrive From Guitar

A few days back i got the trick of controlling the overdrive gain from the guitar itself. Its a good substitute for a overdrive pedal if you want to change tone on fly. It was a new thing for me. I dont like many effects chained into the tone (I like only a mild overdriven amp). I guess its the same technique by which the greats used to control the tone when sound processors were not there.

I gave my amp a very high dose of overdrive, bass and volume and kept the volume down from the guitar, and most amazing tone i get when at low volume, it gives a very bright clean sound with a lot of sustain and feedback. Also i get the harmonics at low volume (no probs for neighbours & parents), the amount of crunch increases as volume is turned up from the guitar.

Finally Met!

So I got my acoustic back from Pune, but its in not a very good condition :(
The fret board is bowed.
Action is horrible and the tone has died :-(
Got to get it mended but I think i myself will try some trick on it, that folk in Pune made a mess of it.
Thinking of getting a Takamine Jasamine or an Indonesian made Fender Acoustic, but will wait for a few months before shelling out 15Ks.