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Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: victor_smithe on 21 Jun 2005, 11:49
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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?
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BC Rich Platinum Virgin Guitar
Fender FM212R Amp
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taylor 110-GB needs repairs
schecter god knows what in the diamond series, it has an F in it F-###
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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'
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Gibson Les Paul Epiphone 7 string
Marshall DFX100
Zoom 707 mkII Pedal
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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 :-D
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?
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Nah, mine are crap as well.
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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
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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
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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
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ESP EC-50 guitar
Ibanez SM-7 distortion pedal
Ibanez TB15 amp
Now I just need to learn how to play the thing...
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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.
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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?
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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
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oops sorry, thought the jamplug was something else, disregard previous post.
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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). :-)
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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
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Thems Fightin words.
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Yeah! Some of the cowboys eat soup.
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For music recording I use
SONAR 4 Producer's Edition
It's really rather good.
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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 :)
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good god people, don't you recognize hyperbole? i don't prefer macs is all, i'm not actually heretic, the mac-bain
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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.
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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 :)
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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
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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 (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v141/cuntychops/rubbishguitarist.jpg), and here (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v141/cuntychops/IM000577.jpg). 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!
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I have an 8 year old Fender Statlike thing. For midgets. I also have a box that says marshall.
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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.
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Me too.
Cubase really annoys me. Trust me, SONAR is the way to go.
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Cubase is alright, but Reason is lame.
I'm a devout Live user myself, but it's not quite the same area.
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- 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.
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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.
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- some fake telecaster
- some crappy 20w amp which started to sound kind of broken 2 days ago
- danelectro pastrami overdrive
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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.
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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"?
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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
(http://getthesound.de/images/medium/elpblackbeauty.jpg)
(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)
(http://www.steelbender.com/pictures/summernamm2003/fender11.jpg)
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
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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.
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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.
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Hohner Blues Harp in C
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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...
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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.
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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.
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Paul Reed Smith McCarty
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.
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v709/keidis/QC/gear002.jpg)
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.
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I needs to get me a gosh-danged fuzz pedal. Christ.
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I have a Gibson ES355 (http://www.mikedemicco.com/gallery-instrument_pages/Gibson_ES355.htm) 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 (!).
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Speaking of pickgaurds:
(http://www.electromusic.co.uk/guitars/media/P7010052.JPG)
The third sexiest strat (paint-wise) on earth.
The second is one of those 50's remake gold ones.
The first is a cream strat with a blood rerd pickguard with an abelone skull and X-bones on every fret. Why the fuck didn't I buy it?! POUR QUOI!!!!!!!!!
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A red Bridgecraft electric guitar (30 bucks on ebay. A real steal that one was) with a "Survival of the Rockingest" sticker from the Cat and Girl webcomic's store on it, a converter that cost three dollars from radio shack that lets me plug it into my computer's sound card.
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Richenbaucher makes so-so stuff that looks totally awesome and outlasts most other stuff by a good 10 years. I'd way go for it.
By the way, my friend Phobo is hooked uip bigtime in the music industry due to his padre being the director of 4 or 5 TV shows including Reno 911. Anyways, he got a free double neck Gibson SG with a supremely sexy paintjob. Should I kill him and steal it?
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Epiphone Les Paul Jr.
Crate 50w Amp
Stratocaster knock off
Martin knock off acoustic guitar
DOD Distortion Pedal
Its funny, I have been playing for 6 years, and my main axe hasn't changed once.
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Hello, first post eeevvvvvveeeeeeeeer on this forum, so I thought I'd do it on here :) anyways...
Main instrument: Peavey Wolfgang Special and VOX AD30VT amp. (Love 'em!)
Also have a PRS Santana SEII, an Ibanez EX series (With Floyd-rose), & Marshall Valvestate VS30R.
Pedals wise...MXR Phase 90, Line 6 Space Chorus, BOSS MT-2, BOSS OD-1....ummmmm...oh yeah, Morley Power Wah.
boom.
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Sorry, I had to bring this back. I might be getting this (http://i15.ebayimg.com/04/i/04/a3/d6/45_1.JPG) RickenBacker 4001 bass. I want to know, does someone on this board have experiene with Rics? I've heard about the famous treble, but does it have good mids?
Ricks are weird instruments. they are very punchy, they lack a bit of low end. they are like the exact oposite of a Precision Bass.
The best examples of a Rickenbackerīs Sound is anything by Joy Division and Franz Ferdinand. Both are rickenbacker players. Bright, and punchy, with sustain. and they have the best look ever.
A friend of mine plays a Precision and hates them with all his heart. They arenīt for everyone...
Just go to a store and play one or several and judge by yourself.
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Yet again:
-Jackson SC04 with SD designed lipstick pickups.
-Targa (Cort) double-cutaway guitar, replacing the pickups with SD 59's verry soon.
-Seagull Mosaïc (Cedar/Mahogany) acoustic.
-LaPatrie Concert (Cedar/Mahogany) classic.
-Epiphone A-10 cheap acoustic (great for roadtrips).
-Casio small keyboard.
-Yamaha flute.
-Yamaha (cheap) harmonica.
-Roland Cube 60 guitar amp.
-Peavey Rage158 practice amp.
-DOD IceChorus pedal.
One of my friends' dad has an awesome thirty years old Norman 12 strings cutaway acoustic with a solid spruce top and solid maple back and sides, I'm curently in the process of pestering him to convince his dad to sell me the guitar. It's kindof sad that I have no recording gear whatsoever though. Anyone knows if there's a good sound card for recording out there under 200 american bucks?
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I'd spend more money on a decent cardiod microphone and a gold plated wire-in than I would on a sound-card. I know of exceptionally good albums recorded on naff cards (Ewigkeit's 'Radio Ixtlan' was recorded on a Sound Blaster 16. Jim Fogarty subsequently sold it on his website). As long as you have any Soundblaster above that you're pretty home and dry. But a good microphone really does make all the difference. I recommend Pro-Sound.
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some dean mandolin that i'm gonna sell to get a nice vintage gibson a-4
a homemade banjo that needs a new neck
a cheapo guitar that has holes in the body
(hopefully sometime soon, maybe, when i have the money) a nice american telecaster
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I have a shitload of stuff, but i am only going to list the things i use... it's odd that some of the low-end things i use more than the expensive things....
GUITARS
- Fender mim Strat, black w/ black p/g... i played 15 at the local music store and this was the best one out of the lot... it is almost MIJ quality (if it weren't for that haze in the finish on the neck... i refinished the neck with amber nitro anyway, so it plays and looks 3 times as good!)
- Custom Squier Strat Sunburst... my first guitar. i stripped the neck and refinished it (as well as did serious fretwork; squier frets suck balls) and put in seymour duncans. plays just as good, if not better than the MIM. wears the faux-70's 'ebay special' fender decal
- Decca 60's sunburst... Sounds just like frans ferdinand / the futureheads / any jangly guitar... only one pickup - the original toaster-top one.
- Washburn D100 Acoustic... played 21 of the same guitars when they got them in at the local guitar center. this one sounds AMAZING... such resonance and bass response! the finish where the neck is glued in is sorta shitty, but who cares with tone like that!
- Applause AA-21... fiberglass back and a metal neck. my dad bought it in 1984 and gave it to me a while back. light as a feather. martin thinline pickup.
- Ventura 70's 335 copy, black... sadly, the wood is there, but i have removed all the electronics to use in a coming project... the mini-humbuckers are classic and sound similar to the decca.
BASSES
- Fender USA Jazz Bass - body repair and refinish in metallic midnight blue with black pickguard. hottt. the neck is starting to bow a little, since it has had string tension on it constantly since 1989. and it was thrown around stage by a punk/grunge band for 6 years.
- Custom Parts P-Bass... It is almost done and the active J pickup in the bridge with the passive P pickup sound phenominal. headroom galore. Neck stripped and redone with gunstock finish and 70's fender decal.
- Washburn XB-100 tobacco sunburst... like the one the bassist from explosions in the sky started out on. i put in a seymour duncan spb-3 quarterpounder, and it sounds as good as any american fender p-bass. i play this one the most (i leave it in my band's practice space) because it is so damn light. the body weighs half (almost) of a stock fender one.
AMPS
- just sold my fender stage 160 and my peavy special 112 black widow... i am in the process of buying a Fender Hot Rod Deville 4x10... i love the simplicity of a combo! I have nothing against heads and cabs, but, unless the size of the venues you play dramatically varies, to constitute needing a smaller cab or an extra one (the deville can have an extention, so i need not worry), you don't need anything more...
- 1977 Acoustic 126 bass combo (1 x 15)
- Crate 15 watt
- Epiphone 15 watt
- Shure Pro-Audio late 70's 1100 watt 6-channel PA w/ reverb. Pushes 200 watts @ 4 ohms out of 4 DIFFERENT OUTPUTS AT THE SAME TIME... this thing has powered 3- 100 watt 4 x 12 carvin cabs at a friend's gig (orange 15 watt into the mixer) when his power amp broke. HUGE.
OTHER
Arrow a-style mandolin
Kay 1930's Banjo (5-string)
Thomas Organ Company chord organ (late 1950's)
Casio Keyboard (it's technically my ex's, but who's keeping track?)
RECORDING
- Ross 4x4 cassette recorder (i use it to do demos, or to process levels before going into my computer.
- EV bk-1632 16 track mixer (for big live things)
- Protools for big projects
- Steinberg Wavelab for demos.
random microphones. all of them are shure or realistic.
that;s all i can recall right now... i need to clean house!
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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.
That PRS is teh sex. Plus I'm sure the LTD is worth more than $300?
Anyways, I'm currently packing either a Gibson SG Special or a Fender American Fat Strat through a Jim Dunlop Crybaby wah and a Boss GT-3 to a Marshall VS100 or Marshall VS265.
What I am messing around with is an Encore Jazz Bass copy, an Encore electroacoustic, a Takamine EF341FC electroacoustic all in black which is utterly sexy and a Fender JG-12CE, an electroacoustic 12 string, which rules.
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Yet again:
One of my friends' dad has an awesome thirty years old Norman 12 strings cutaway acoustic with a solid spruce top and solid maple back and sides, I'm curently in the process of pestering him to convince his dad to sell me the guitar. It's kindof sad that I have no recording gear whatsoever though. Anyone knows if there's a good sound card for recording out there under 200 american bucks?
you can get an m-audio audiophile 2496 for 100 bucks.
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Cherry Sunburst Epiphone Les Paul Junior
Squier Strat
Marshall MG-100
Fender Champion 30 watt
Are those Mesa Boogies really worth it?
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Fender American Telecaster (3 tone sunburst)
The tele goes into the effects chain, which gets kind of complicated. First it goes to a Korg dt10 (everyone needs a tuner on the floor, I don't care who you are), then it breaks into two loops thanks to my loooper (http://www.loooper.com).
Loop 1:
zvex Fuzz Factory
Boss DM-3
Loop 2:
Vox V847 wah
sovtek big muff (one of the old green ones)
Digitech Whammy
Boss DM-3 (used for short delays)
Moog Ring Mod
Ibanez DML10
Dod fx90 (used for self-oscillation noise)
Line 6 Tap Trem
Boss DD-6 (used for reverse delay and sampling, thinking about getting a Line 6 DL4 to replace it)
The seperate loops are necessary because the Fuzz Factory does not play will with other pedals. It is an awesome pedal, but put any sort of modulation in front of it and all you get is terrible hissing noise. In most cases any sort of Filter or modulation effect after it will just gunk up your sound while not putting any sort of positive spin on what you are playing.
All of that feeds into a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe amp.
It is a fun rig to play with. I wish I could afford a Jazzmaster and a Lovetone Big Cheese though, then I think it would be perfect.
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KEEP THE DD-6! IS GOD! IS GOD!
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-Ibanez BTB 400 bass
-Self defretted (poorly) Squier p-bass
-Digitech bp200 multi-effects
-Digitech Bass Synth pedal
-SWR LA-12 amp...(The old model...They came out with a brand new design just months after I got mine. Obsoletion is depressing...)
-Hammond organ I still haven't even tried to fix yet
-GEM novoPiano DP-40 p.o.s. keyboard which I use for MIDI in Fruity Loops
And by the way...all of my Digitech stuff likes to be very broken and not worky. Anyone else have problems with Digitech pedals?
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I can't remember exactly, but I think it was about $610 with a case from Guitar Center.
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Ibanez encoye 4string
Ampeg SVT preamp
Crest Post amp
Playing through a boss bass distortion and vintage cry baby...
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Yeah, it's active. 3 band and a "vari-mid" midrange frequency dealy.
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i currently own an ESP EXP the explorer style shape but the classic old school one that james hetfield used to play. I picked it up second hand, can't get em new anymore because gibson sued esp for copying the explorer design pretty much exactly (at least thats what i heard) Its basically like a gibson explorer but with a more evil metal style to it. I also have an Ibanez destroyer (yes i know my guitars are extra cheesy but i love 'em), the cheap kind that cost about Ģ220 rather than the Ģ500 one. I can't remember what the specific model was but its like a step up from the geo range. Don't play it much any more since i got my second hand esp repaired. It all runs through a peavey envoy 40 watt shitbag of an amp with a Boss MD-2 Mega Distortion pedal and a lil purple flanger pedal i got for Ģ10 off a friend of mine :)