Since this is the Gear forum and all...

Hi, I'm new here but I'm a regular at Stone Dragon's forum and I just stumbled on this one.
My equipment in order or purchase. A Lotus Jazzmaster copy (lousy intonation) a Cort soloist copy, an Ibanez Les Paul copy (do you see where I'm going with this? An Electra MPC Les Paul copy and yes my newest baby, a '96 Gibson Les Paul custom in ebony with 3 SD's.
I run everything thru a Roland Gp8, a crybaby wah and an occasional Ibanez Dist pedal. My main amp is a Peavy Bandit 50 but it just died and I'm using a friends Peavy 5150 combo till he makes, and I mean makes me give it back. Unfortunatly, when I give it back, I'll be using a Leem 50 watt cheapo till I get my own 5150. Best amp I've ever used. But then again I've never used a mesa stack so I'm not saying its the best period.
Speaking of best.
I just got my LP custom and I do love it but I'd swear that my Electra is a better sounding, better feeling, lighter guitar. Maybe I'm just not used to the Gibson yet but I'm kinda taken aback. I've had it exactly a week and for the first 3 days I never put it down. A couple days ago my buddy came over to jam and we were kinda rockin out and I felt the urge to go back to my Electra. I did and since I've not picked up my gibson. I wonder if it's just me, if my Gwas not the wholy grail I'd always hoped for or if it'll just take much more time. Well as for my Electra, it's not completly stock, I did change out those pickups with a 490R and a 490T and went with new pots a while ago, you know tapped and so on. I'd swear that it sounds just as good, and I can play it better. Hmmm

BlaZin

When I bought my Yamaha SBG-1000 in 1984, I paid about CDN$650 for it. The Gibson LP Custom that I decided not to buy was CDN$1300. The Yamaha was, and still is, a better guitar.

Its as simple as that.

Nothing fancy:

Fender Mexican Strat (with Dunlop strap locks - highly recommended, also shielded, also recommended)
Traynor YCV-40 amp - all-tube, 40 watts
BOSS MT-2 Metal Zone pedal
BOSS DD-3 Digital Delay (I basically own this, but technically it's borrowed from a friend)
BOSS Super Chorus (same ownership situation as DD-3)

That's all, folks! I am looking to buy a wah-wah pedal soon, and also a BOSS GT-3 (I found out Music123.com sells them for $269 USD - the cheapest I've ever seen them).

I have :-

Fender Mexico Strat (Midnight blue)
Marshall VS30R (now going up in price, as 30W valvestates are no longer made)
Soundlab Footswitch
Planet waves cable (THE best on the planet)
Dunlop picks and slide
Kaiser capo

I am getting (hopefully) :-

Kramer FR422S - this kicks ass. Quad rail pickup!!
Digitech RP300 - unbelieveable amount of FX
Custom maple body Gibson 345 copy - a guy who lives near me makes these at bargain prices. Unbelievable tone.

Guitars:

1. Ibanez Sabre with EMG's (81 and 2 SA's)
2. A custom built guitar, Custom paint job and is my main guitar is loaded with EMG's (81 and 89), Emg Power switch, EMG phase inverter, Kahler Trem, 15 to 22'nd fret is scalloped, 2 Volume knobs (one splits the 89 into a single coil)), and no tone knobs.


My amp and effects:

1. Mesa Boogie TriAxis
2. Rocktron Intellifex
3. DOD 15 band stereo eq
4. Mesa Boogie Stereo Simul-Class 2:Ninety Power Amp
5. 2 Boogie rectifier bottom cabs with armor plating on the sides
6. Ground Control Digital pedal board
7. Crybaby Wah
8. Rotovibe Wah
9. Boss FV-50 volume/expression wah witch is running straight into the Ground Controll

The ground controll pedal board is a godsend and is capable of many different things...it does have a slight learning curve though :-)

WOW this is an old thread!! Since my last posting in this thread (9-2000) my gear has changed:
Guitars - I recently caught the bug to downsize my guitar collection - so I currently have on order a DTM G-4. Will have it in about 4 months.. I will sell a few guitars by then to pay for it- ebay here I come!!
Fender Strats:
2 Custom shop models
1 '89 strat plus
1 2001 American standard
Jackson:
1 Soloist SL-1
1 Soloist SL-2
Carvin
1 DC 127
1 DC 135
Kramer:
1 1987 Baretta/w Kline Beer mug graphic
Misc:
1 "Frankenstien" parts from PRS, G&L, & Fender
Acoustic:
1 Taylor 414CE

Amplifiers:
2 ADA MP-1 preamps, Alesis Effects processer, BBE 462 Sonic maximizer, ADA Microtube 100 Power amp. 1 2x12 Carvin Legacy Speaker cab.
1 Carvin VL-100 Vai Legacy head/w 4x12 cab.

I have a 1993 Ibanez RG570 Factory Special, modded with Seymour Duncan humbuckers (Lil'59 neck, '59 Trembucker bridge), an internal Roland GK-2 hex pickup and a Sustainiac Stealth.

That goes into a Roland VG-88, and for amping I have a choice:

Sheer volume: Fender Sunn 300W amp with 2 Carlsboro Alpha 15 cabs (a 15" driver and a horn in each)

General use: Sirocco Crossfire 4.1 amp and subwoofer, 4 Boston Acoustics CR6 monitors.

PRS CE24,
Fender California fat Strat or
Fender Strat (Bridge SD Cool rail) into:

POD pro (with big floor board thing) with a Midiverb 4 in the loop, to Behringer Compressor, Behringer noise gate, Tascam MK III Portastudio to Alesis MK4 Active Speakers all connected via a big patch bay or?.

Tube screamer into an ART TPS Tube pre-amp!

And here's the rest of my gear:

1. Peavey Xr 400B Mixer Monitor amp (Mono)
2. Boss Dr. Rhythm Dr-660 Drum Machine
3. Ampeg Bass Head (Yeah i play a little bass as well)
4. A very old 2X15 carven bass cab with new Carven Bass speakers
5. A 2X12 Peavey cab with 30W Celestions (Hated the widows)
6. Vestex Mr-44 4-track racmount.
7. Shure sm 57 and a 58 mic/s
8. yamaha acoustic
9. Ibanez sdgr serries bass
10. A strat copy
11. A really cheap keyboard i sometime run through my effects to make it sound better :-p

Here's what I have at the moment:

19?? Washburn EA20-12B 12-string electric/acoustic
19?? Washburn EA20MTS 6-string electric/acoustic
(mid 80's?) Washburn A-20 6-string electric (weird-looking beast)
(mid 80's?) Odyssey V built better than either the Gibson or Epiphone Vs (sounds better too!)
1986 Yamaha SBG-1000 double cutaway Les Paul copy ("Brand X", my main axe)

[u]Update 13 July:[/u] The 1977 Daijon 12-string acoustic w/Shadow bridge p/u has been sold to someone who appreciates it. Its in good hands, and my collecton is down to an almost reasonable level.


1991-4 Peavey Rock Master tube pre-amps (3 of 'em!)
1977 Ampeg VT-22 120 Watt, 2x12 tube combo
197? Ampeg VT-40 60 Watt, 4x10 tube combo
1997 Gallian-Kreuger Backline 100 100 Watt, 1x12 transistor combo
2002 WeeBeastie 5 Watt home-built experimental amp
197? Garnet 4x10 cabs (2 of 'em)

i just have this samick guitar and a little crate amp.
I'm hoping to get a telecaster, though.
the blue voodoo amps or whatever are pretty cool looking.

I run one of two guitars, a home made thing botched together from the remains of a hohner rockwood strat copy, I basically tore it apart, made a new body for it out of some maple my father in-law sold to me, used the original neck, heavily sanded to a slimmer profile, sliced the annoying bulge off the bottom of the headstock and filed it to a point. For the electronics, I just wired two of the existing singlecoils in series for a nice humbucking tone, but fitted a flick switch behind the bridge to split the coils. I just put the volume pot back on and ignored the tone pots, (why bother?) it plays quite well all things considered, and this was my first attempt at customising a guitar (I've since made and sold 3 other guitars for friends)
My main guitar is one I bought from my brother, it's a BC Rich gunslinger pro, as standard, I messed around with the string height a little, and shimmed the neck, so it has a really fast low action and it just feels right

Amp wise, I only have 2 small practice amps, a 15 watt samick, that I've owned for around 10 years, and a 15 watt 'park' (by marshall) amp, which came as a package when my brother bought his BC rich. They're both solid state, although the park has a richer sound, more tube like than the samick. Probably due to the varying gain and overdrive setups they have more than anything

FX wise I used to own a Zoom GFX707, but I sold it, and swapped it for a bunch of stomp boxes, I use a Boss AC-1, and a DOD YJM308 preamp pedal (this is a killer pedal, yngwie malmsteen uses one) as well as a Boss phaser and a morley wah!

For playing out live, I would borrow my friend's Marshall JCM DSL stack, which I once managed to knock off the stage of a small club! I always wanted one, but expenses of being a father of 2 (soon to be 3) always prohibited me from acheiving my dreams of owning a GOOD rig!

Update: I just read about a tech21 double drive pedal, which I just HAVE to own, it's an analogue circuit, which emulates both class A and class A/B amps, it's just great (And being tech21 the tone is about as close to valves as you're gonna get)

[Edited by nasum_human on 07-18-2002 at 08:55 PM]

Originally posted by Lordathestrings

1991-4 Peavey Rock Master tube pre-amps (3 of 'em!)

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interested in selling one??!!??

...after what I went through to find them?? :eek:

that's my point, you do the hard work, and I use my cold hard cash to benefit!

dang, but ya cant blame me for asking!