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Nope, Bloomfield never used pedals, he just plugged straight in and turned up the amp. The amp is some kind of blonde Bassman or something, can't tell exactly which amp it is except its a Fender head and cab combo. Thats what PAF's sound like played simply without much amp distortion. Very bright, as PAF's are, classic vocal tone and chirpy things happening. Michael used very heavy strings, 12's or 13's, probably the typical Black Diamond strings we were stuck with back then. I still have permanent grooves in my fingers from learning on those things. I read that guys would ask to play his guitar at jams and he'd hand it to them and they'd quickly hand it back ;-)
There's an excellent website about him that has a lengthy audio documentary on him with alot of good music he did, he was also great on acoustic and learned to sing really well towards the end of his career:
Mike Bloomfield: An American Guitarist
You can download the four hour audio documentary here, I highly recommend it:
http://www.mikebloomfieldamericanmus.../downloads.htm
There's an excellent website about him that has a lengthy audio documentary on him with alot of good music he did, he was also great on acoustic and learned to sing really well towards the end of his career:
Mike Bloomfield: An American Guitarist
You can download the four hour audio documentary here, I highly recommend it:
http://www.mikebloomfieldamericanmus.../downloads.htm
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