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[victor_smithe]

So, I'm bored at work and was just thinkin about all the people on here who play instruments and started wondering what everyone is rockin!
Personally, I have an Epiphone Les Paul Custom in ebony w/ gold hardware as well as a Simon and Patrick SP6 Cedar acoustic guitar. Oh and I have an Epiphone Strat rip-off called a Fat-310 which someday I'll replace with a nice Fender Telecaster.
I also have a Marshall MG30DFX amplifier and an M-Audio Ozone MIDI/Instrument Preamp for getting everything onto my computer.

No complicated pedals and whatnot yet... but eventually

So, what are you guys and girls playin?

[Signum_Tenebrae]

BC Rich Platinum Virgin Guitar
Fender FM212R Amp

[heretic]

taylor 110-GB needs repairs
schecter god knows what in the diamond series, it has an F in it F-###

[MilkmanDan]

2* Vestax PDX 2000 Decks with Shure M44-G Carts
2* Technics 1200 Mk2 Decks with Shure M44-7 Carts
Ecler HAK 360 Mixer
Stanton SK6F Mixer
Some crappy headphones

That'll come under 'instruments' rather than 'guitar'

[ASturge]

Gibson Les Paul Epiphone 7 string
Marshall DFX100
Zoom 707 mkII Pedal

[Mikendher]

Dean Performer E Acoustic/Electric Guitar
Acoustic/Electric Mandolin (A frame with F holes)
Eurorack UB802 Mixer (this mixer is perfect by the way, i love it)
2 Samson CO2 Condenser mics (small diaphram) so I can record in stereo
Jamplug Guitarplug to go from the mixer to my usb port

and..... crappy headphones. I really need to get some good headphones for listening to what is recorded. any suggestions?

[ASturge]

Nah, mine are crap as well.

[heretic]

ones that cover the entire ear, if you're going expensive don't go with ones that just sit on the ear, it is a waste, i forgot what mine are called, tell ya later

[Mikendher]

definitely, otherwise too much noise gets through. but i don't know anything beyond that about headphones. obviously better frequency range and accuracy is good

[OtterErotic]

Live setup:

*Schecter Hellcat / Gibson Blueshawk / Really fucked up frankenstein Telecaster I have no idea where it came from
*Tech 21 Trademark 60 amp
*Rocktron Silver Dragon pedal, Line 6 delay pedal, Electro-Harmonix MicroSynth pedal
*M-Audio Oxygen8 MIDI keyboard controlling a Nord Micromodular, Boss Dr. Sample SP-303, and DigiTech Vocalist Workstation EX

[kikanjuuneko]

ESP EC-50 guitar
Ibanez SM-7 distortion pedal
Ibanez TB15 amp

Now I just need to learn how to play the thing...

[Mikendher]

oh I have a somewhat related question, mabye you guys can help. The longer I leave my mixer on with the jamplug thing plugged into it, the more crappy the output signal gets. It starts going bad after 8 minutes or so, and then I have to turn everything off for a while. any ideas? I think it has to do with the jamplug thing (www.jamplug.com, the guitar plug). Because when it isn't plugged in the signal is usually fine.

[IronOxide]

I have an Epiphone SG rip off (I think it's called a G-400 or somthing similar) and some tiny amp. It works for someone who's teaching themselves.

I have my own trombone that sucks, but it's mine damnit.

I have a school marching baritone that's brond new, but my suck-ass case dented it already. I cry.

My sister has an acoustic guitar that is kind of in the process of hopefully becoming mine, she never touches it.

So what if I'm a music nerd?

[heretic]

oh I have a somewhat related question, mabye you guys can help. The longer I leave my mixer on with the jamplug thing plugged into it, the more crappy the output signal gets. It starts going bad after 8 minutes or so, and then I have to turn everything off for a while. any ideas? I think it has to do with the jamplug thing (www.jamplug.com, the guitar plug). Because when it isn't plugged in the signal is usually fine.

next time try touching all sides of the transmitter, see if it's getting hot or anything, also be sure where you have things placed in relation to eachother doesn't cross magnetic fields or frequecies, that type of shit. i spent all goddamn day trying to set up my garage-studio so shit wouldn't fight

[heretic]

oops sorry, thought the jamplug was something else, disregard previous post.

[Mikendher]

I'm thinking it's probably because I use windows and the jamplug thing says it needs mac os x. I just wanted to test it out though (I got it for free).

[heretic]

who the fuck uses mac to o anything important? only thing they're good for is editing independant films about gay cowboys eating pudding. fuck macs

[Kai]

Thems Fightin words.

[Johnny C]

Yeah! Some of the cowboys eat soup.

[ASturge]

For music recording I use

SONAR 4 Producer's Edition

It's really rather good.

[victor_smithe]

who the fuck uses mac to o anything important? only thing they're good for is editing independant films about gay cowboys eating pudding. fuck macs

ok...
Software wise I use a compbination of Logic Express, Reason, and Garageband... All for Mac OSX. I enjoy not having Reason (or anything for that matter) freeze every ten seconds like it did on the PC

[heretic]

good god people, don't you recognize hyperbole? i don't prefer macs is all, i'm not actually heretic, the mac-bain

[KharBevNor]

Vintage Metal Axxe (My...well, axe)
15 watt Marshall amp with built in pre-amp. (Even that meager power is wasted. Fucking thin-walled terraced houses)
Yamaha flute
A Bodhran

For recording, when I can get the fucking things to work, I use Audacity, which I also use for my electronic music, along with fruityloops and a bunch of plugins.

[victor_smithe]

good god people, don't you recognize hyperbole? i don't prefer macs is all, i'm not actually heretic, the mac-bain

sorry, I just love my mac is all, nothing against you personally at all... I have a PC too for gaming so, we're cool

[heretic]

sorry, I just love my mac is all, nothing against you personally at all... I have a PC too for gaming so, we're cool

don't sweat it

[Me And The Moon Car]

I currently have four guitars at home. A Gibson copy Stagg, a Fender Squier, and two cheap acoustics. You can see a couple of them in pictures here, and here. They tuned in the following order,

Stagg: B Gb B D Gb B (good for thrashy stuff, works with slide too)
Squier: E A D G B E (well duh)
Falcon: D A D F# A D (nice for country folky things and slide guitar)
Encore: D A D D A D  (likewise)

Hurray!

[esacetaminophen]

I have an 8 year old Fender Statlike thing. For midgets. I also have a box that says marshall.

[Johnny C]

DADF#AD is good, but I love DADGAD tuning.

I work with an Epiphone Beast (explorer-style, no faceplate) out of a small Crate amp (doesn't even have a footswitch slot), and an Oscar Schmidt acoustic. Both are pretty much perpetually tuned to standard.

[Husker B.]

My main bass is a fender Steve Harris Signature P-Bass, featuring Seymour Duncan Quarter Pounders and a Badass II Bridge, I also have a Fender Jazz with the EMG-J setup with the stack preamp, a '68 gibson EB-0 that has been routed to be like an EB-3 (It looks like an SG) A cheap-ass Carlo Robelli (Sam Ash's House Brand) 8-string bass and an Acoustic Bass. I also have a squire strat, As well as a Squire Blink-182 strat (I love the fixed bridge, single hum and a volume control set-up...pure and simple) I've got a beater acoustic (also by Carlo Robelli) and a really nice Fernandez Monterrey, which is sort of a Les Paul copy,. but I gutted it an replaced the cheap-ass humbuckers with some decent p-90's to make it sort of like a LP Special.

I've got a little rinky dink practice amp, a Sunn 1200s (1200 watts at 2 Ohms!!!! ) with a fender 4-10...live I run that along with the Line 6 Pod direct, with my MXR phase 90 and a cheap ass generic distortion that Sounds great on the bass...All around I have grit growl and presence, without getting muddy...

Then I've got a whole bunch of other effects and crap laying around that I use for differrent stuff...


By the way, I hit the studio on Friday...Wish me luck...

[iamlark]

lets see....
korg ms-2000 (bought from rob of tub ring/super 8-bit brothers/(and recently) mindless self indulgence) - i love that synth sooo much
roland xp-10 - used for live performance
alesis sr-16 - newest addtion (programming drums in cubase always frustrates me)
boss sp-202 - which i don't use enough
midiman keystation 61 usb/midi controller
two studiologic sl-161 midi controllers (non-functional at this time) - for live performance (if you've ever seen tub ring, you'll know why they're broken)
behringer UB802 mixer - i like it for live, but it it's kind of noisy for recording

recording wise, i use a griffin imic adapter connected to my ibook running cubase SE and garageband

that's about it...

[Shaft]

I enjoy not having Reason (or anything for that matter) freeze every ten seconds like it did on the PC

FUCK Please tell me that's not actually the reason... Reason and Cubase keep crashing. Please. I don't want a Mac.

[captainawesome]

At the moment i have a Washburn D30S acoustic, paid $300 for it, it's list price being $800.

I had an American J-Bass and a Crate BT-100, but I quit the band, and sold them, which I'm regretting quite a bit right now.

As for recording, I'm in need of a pre-amp of some sort, and a decent condenser mic, but run things through a cheap Behringer mixer and into my dual 2 gigahertz G5 and use Logic.

I've never really been a huge fan of Reason/Cubase, really.

[ASturge]

Me too.

Cubase really annoys me. Trust me, SONAR is the way to go.

[MilkmanDan]

Cubase is alright, but Reason is lame.
I'm a devout Live user myself, but it's not quite the same area.

[Saturday]

- Fender MIJ Telecaster (love it) with a Fender Usa Strat pickup in the neck position (the neck tele pup is in the middle position... so it has 3 pups)
- Fender MIJ Jazz Bass , in a pretty cool green metallic colour.
- Crappy Behringer Mixer
- Behringer Vamp II <- i use this for recording and playing, i need an amp tough.
- Behringer Monitors - they get the work done.
- Hohner Melodica
- Shure Mic.
- A Pc.

[SpacemanSpiff]

A beaten, crappy Yamaha drumkit, I don't which series and it's discontinued so I can't even check online.
A Pearl Eliminator P2000C bass drum pedal (soon to become a double pedal, I hope).
Cymbals: 14" Zildjian A-series new beat hi-hat, 16" Zildjian A-series thin crash, 20" Zildjian A-series medium ride, 10" Zildjian A-series custom splash. I still have to get a 18" crash.

[negative creep]

- some fake telecaster
- some crappy 20w amp which started to sound kind of broken 2 days ago
- danelectro pastrami overdrive

[Hatebunny]

Peavey 'Raptor Plus' gets a good sound out of it, for a medium-name guitar.
Peavey RAGE 158 Guitar Amp
Squier Precision 4-string Bass
Peavey Minx 110 Bass Amp
Zoom 607 Bass EFX pedal
Seagull S(6) CW Acoustic Guitar
M-Audio FastTrack/Dsound GT Player Express hardware/software
Cool Edit Pro 2.
Fruityloops Stuido 4

Lots of stuff, I guess.

[Addius]

I got your generic cheap but simple and good alt-sax.

On the subject of headphones, anyone here besides me who's got this thing for Electrostatic "earspeakers"?

[La Creme]

Instruments:

- Shitty old squier strat covered in stickers and left to get dusty in a corner with missing strings.

- Shitty old squier bass I stole from my friend because he never played it and I felt its neglect and pain and saved it.

- Yamaha SO3 Music Synthesizer Keyboard (It's magically delicious!)

- Ibanez acoustic/electric steel string. Usually tuned E-A-D-A-C#-E (classic russian de-tune)

- Epiphone Les Paul

(No middle pickup on mine... but still, orgasm.)

Amps:

- Shitty keyboard amp

- Peavey Envoy-110 (shitty volume and whatnot, but decent tone and built-in dist for an under-$200 amp.)

- SEXY-ASS Fender Blues Junior (vintage remake)


Pedals:

- BOSS DD-6 DigiDelay (The greatest single pedal in the world, mutha fucka!)
- BOSS AW-3 Dynamic Wah
- BOSS PH-3 Phaser
- Danelectro Milkshake Chorus
- Jimmy Dunlop Classic Cry-baby Wah-Wah

[Kanno]

Guitars:
Epiphone Flying V copy
Harmony Les Paul-ish lookin' design (I've actually fixed this one up quite a bit, its even a natural wood color, so it looks pretty nice. Threw a couple of new pickups in it the other day, sounds like a champ.)
3/4 Squire Strat (the pride of my collection..haha)
Old Acoustic 6x10 cab.  I think it might be a bass cab, but it sounds killer.
I need a new amp head.

Drums:
Tama Swingstar Kit
Tama Rockstar Kit
Pearl Double Pedal
I used to have a lot of nice cymbals, but I broke them all playing grindcore.  All I have left is some nice zildjian hats, a z-custom 18" crash, and a ping ride.
Random snare drums

Tables:
Some halfway decent numark decks.  I'm not a very good DJ or anything, but it's fun to get drunk and spin hip hop beats and watch your friends try to freestyle.  
Numark Mixer
Shure cartridges

Recording Gear:
First, I want to make a bold statement.  FUCK ALL YOUR PC RECORDING CRAP.  Seriously, a nice mac with pro tools is what you need to succeed.  Or maybe Logic if you're into that whole MIDI thing, which I am certainly not.

Powerbook G4 17"/1.67ghz/1gig ram/about 600 gigs worth of various hard drives
Digi002 Rack
FMR Audio RNC/RNP combo (preamp and compressor, great deal!)
PreSonus Digimax LT (8 chan pre, for drums and stuff where I need many mics)
Some old DBX channel strip I hardly use
Rolls headphone amp (nice and cheap, really high output!)
Tons o' plugins
2 nice pairs of headphones, maybe 8 pairs of mediocre ones

Mics:
2 Shure 57's
Shure 58
Oktava 319
Oktava 012
Audio Technica 4040
Vintage RCA 77-DX Ribbon Mic (think Elvis)
Shure Beta 52 (kick drum mic)

Add to this a whole mess of cords and blank cd-r's, and I think that's most of my gear.

EDIT: Oh yeah, I also have an M-Box, I forgot about that thing, I only use it occasionally.

[MoiraFae]

Muahahaha. I'm a theatre/film sound designer and engineer, so the music stuff is more for fiddling and making the basics of soundtracks ... The recording stuff and processing whatnots are the important part. I'm in school for all of it right now, and poor, so I mostly use the school's equipment. Only someday may I hope to own all the cool stuff my mentor does ...

Kanno: You have a Digi002? I bow to the superiority of your recording stylez!! I wish I had the money for an 002 ... *drools* I just recently bought my M-Box. It is brand new and lovely.

Instruments:
Fender Squire (Awww. Moi's first guitar! I know how to play five chords! I am good at them.)
Irish Harp
Yamaha Flute, open-hole with extra key
Upright Piano (of unknown make at the moment, since I'm not in it's vicinity)
... I can play a few other things, but this is what I actually own ...

Recording/Sound Gear:
Powerbook G4
Garageband, Soundtrack, Final Cut Pro, Live, ProTools
M-Box
Built tower with Windows XP (and semi-crappy studio speakers)
SFX
Shure 58 mic
Sony MDR-7506 Headphones

Speaking of headphones, (well, you were a while ago) I absolutely love mine, they're sweet as all get out, and if you're willing to spend the money, they're pretty much industry standard (at least, when it comes to mixing big bands, theatre shows, live sound, etc.). They have a really, really nice sound, and the noise cancellation is very good. They cost around 100-125, although you might be able to find cheaper on the interweb ... You may be able to spend more on something else and get bells and whistles and 'extra' noise-cancellation and so forth, but for a really good pair of studio cans that will sound consistantly good for quite a long time, I don't think you can beat them.

[McTaggart]

Hohner Blues Harp in C

[SpacemanSpiff]

Guitars:
Drums:
Tama Swingstar Kit
Tama Rockstar Kit
Pearl Double Pedal
I used to have a lot of nice cymbals, but I broke them all playing grindcore.  All I have left is some nice zildjian hats, a z-custom 18" crash, and a ping ride.
Random snare drums

First of all, regarding the Tama drumkits: Would you excuse me while I go and cry for a few minutes, maybe?

Also, another person who managed to break their cymbals, yay! I've managed to completely destroy my last cymbal set, save for the ride. My crash cymbal is actually two pieces now.
But I like to think I'm more careful with my Zildjians because they were so expensive I was left broke for months after I bought them. I can't afford to destroy equipment like that...

[Kanno]

Kanno: You have a Digi002? I bow to the superiority of your recording stylez!! I wish I had the money for an 002 ... *drools* I just recently bought my M-Box. It is brand new and lovely.

The M-Box kicks ass!  I forgot to mention that I have one of those also, it's what I started on.  It sucks that you only get the two channels, but it works great if you just get a decent board and hook the left and right output of the board up to the M-Box. Just get the mix right on the board the first time.  Plus, the M-Box is great for portability, I use it for bootleg type stuff all the time!

Sony MDR-7506 Headphones

Second'd!
Back at the pro studio I used to work at, we had a ton of these little guys, and they are really really nice headphones.

But I like to think I'm more careful with my Zildjians because they were so expensive I was left broke for months after I bought them. I can't afford to destroy equipment like that...

 Yeah, I'm through playing metal and grindcore stuff now, so now I treat my cymbals nicely.  I really miss my Zildjian 18" China... but now it makes a better frisbee than a cymbal.

[MoiraFae]

The M-Box kicks ass!  I forgot to mention that I have one of those also, it's what I started on.  It sucks that you only get the two channels, but it works great if you just get a decent board and hook the left and right output of the board up to the M-Box. Just get the mix right on the board the first time.  Plus, the M-Box is great for portability, I use it for bootleg type stuff all the time!

Agreed. That's why I like it so much - the portability factor is key. That, plus my powerlappy, some mics, and a nice backpackable hard drive (and all the fiddly bits) and I have my own extremely portable sound setup, plus I can edit and do all kinds of stuff on the go. It's the bestest evar. Two inputs, however, makes the baby Jesus cry. Oh well.

[jeph]

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Charvel Model A Plus (superstrat with a floyd rose and Seymour Duncan pickups)
ESP/LTD Viper 400 (looks like an SG only with 24 frets and EMG 81s in it)

MESA/Boogie Nomad 55 4x10 combo
MESA/Boogie Dual Rectified solo head (broken, currently, and I like the sound of the Nomad better anyway)

Eventually I'm gonna sell the Charvel and ESP to get a nice Stratocaster. Anyone wanna buy either? $300 for the ESP, $400 for the Charvel. Drop me a line if you're interested.

[Signum_Tenebrae]

Stingray Copy: I like it, but it's excessively heavy.
Ibanez GSR190: Awesome, but the hardware on mine is shot to hell.
Multi-Effect Board: Crappy and complicated.
Ibanez FZ(2)7: Kick-ass fuzz pedal.
Ibanez 10-watt amp: He's called Napolean!

I have that same multi-effect board as in the picture. . It's a Zoom 606, if I remember correctly.  Only thing I really used it for was distortion when I had my old amp, now the output jack is shot so I can't use it at all other than as a tuner.

[La Creme]

I needs to get me a gosh-danged fuzz pedal. Christ.

[5thWheel]

I have a Gibson ES355 copy of some description, my trusty Vantage VG-15 amp which I really need to replace or resite, and a ZoomPlayer 3000 effects unit that my brother got me for chrsitmas. I can play after a fashion, after about a year or so.  I just got some books of music which show me Everything I Know Is Wrong (which I could kindof hear anyway, but some of the internet tab I had sounded peachy and was still way oversimplified it turns out).

A question: what is the point in the scratchplate and will I suffer now I've (just recently) removed it?  I don't see much point in protecting the area under it if I never see it cos there is a scratchplate in front of it.. and if the area gets scratched I can always replace the scratchplate (!).