The Boss Loop Station :-) I believe mine is the RC-20. Really had to tighten up my rhythm chops to start my loops at the right spot!

@Gerald Christlieb A tuner is not the sexiest pedal on a board, but the Polytune is a cool tuner!

I came across it in the Classroom section. Some of the audio seemed a little off, as if a vibrato pedal had been inserted on the guitar track. But, the vocal instruction sounded normal.

@Jeremy Hall According to interviews, Brian May’s AC30s are wide open, and he gets all of his clean and distorted tones by using the Red Special’s volume pot! 😮

Apologies if someone already mentioned this, but a huge factor in how well you hear the various instruments and vocal parts in IEMs is whether the signal is stereo or mono. In my experience, the stereo/mono question is more significant than the number of drivers in the IEMs. It’s easier to hear individual parts when they are panned across the spectrum from hard left to hard right. Also, with a stereo mix, you don’t have to turn it up as loud to hear the parts. That saves your ears… and your batteries 😉 And then there is the question of whether you’re going to be wired or wireless. That can be a big factor in the cost of your IEM rig!

The Seymour Duncan Quarter Pound is a single coil with a hot output, which will get you closer to humbucker tone than a traditional Strat pickup. It also comes with a coil tap option, so you can use a push/pull pot or mini toggle to get old school single coil sounds. Another consideration would be to use humbuckers that are the same size as single coil pickups and split them for Strat/Tele tones. Seymour Duncan makes a Dave Murray (Iron Maiden) pickguard with bridge/neck Hot Rails and a JB in the middle. All three pickups are humbuckers that can be split. This may be overly technical for some folks, but there is a difference between a coil "tap" and a coil "split." On a 4-conductor humbucker, you can send one of the coils to ground, resulting in a single coil being active. This is a coil split. On a single coil pickup, you have one wire with start and end points that is wrapped around the pickup's magnets. One end of the wire goes to ground and the other end serves as the output. On a tappable single coil, a 2nd wire is soldered near the end of the output, making a kind of Y connection. This wire provides additional winds around the magnets for hotter output. It can be set as the primary output, and with a push/pull pot or mini toggle you can switch to the original, or "tapped," output. A lot of us guitarists refer to coil tapping when we really mean coil splitting. It's the same with vibrato vs. tremolo, but that's a topic for another day 😆