7...and only one is an acoustic..sort of....
LP custom, heavy...very heavy, thick
Strat, Relic'd '56 custom shop...bright as the sun
Tele, a '52...the real deal, thiner then the strat, way better for funk and backing in acoustic settings.
Gretsch Country Club with a bigsby....sorry, not the original ones...I couldn't find one I liked to buy for less then 10G's
Gibson L5 from them 40's
i consider those my staples,
the remainder are filler or just beaters for messing around.
LP DC standard, with the pickups rewired for coil taps and out of phase...neat effects from phasing the coils get pinched tele tones and pop the knobs and you can have a cruncy LP tone....it's not as big as the LP custom, but it's great for most hard rock....also has a piezo bridge.....doesn't sound like an acoustic...but it does sound like most Taylor's or Ovations plugged in....the rubberbands strapped to a peice of cardboard sound that most Dave Mattew's fans seem to like (deaf)
Fender J Bass, two necks, one fretted, and one fretless
since most players don't own frills like a fretless but some songs really do benefit from the swelling pitch and weird mid tone/harmonic effects fretlesses produce.
I don't have an acoustic at all..
(obviously an L5 doesn't really count as a flat top acoustic)
this is because i'm retarted picky...and would only ever sink money into a top-of the heap tone.....I'll spend months hunting for it when I get there...and I'll likely spend $2000-4000 depending on what I get.
if I can't have a J200 or a nice Froggy Bottom....I MIGHT get a Larivee if I can find one with a Neck I like...but I don't like any of their necks....it's sad that Gibson has been so inconsistant with tone in their last 15 years....the feel is almost machine'd repetition...but their tones are ALL different much like Zildjian K's
Lists of guitars is pointless if you are plugging them in direct.....amps are just as important...really it's the pairing that makes magic happen.
70's Vibro-champ
50's Gibson GA-8T and my brother's Gibson Ranger(GA30)
70's Fender Bassman 100, this is a head and 4x12 cab...a stationary beast to be sure...but BOOM and bottom end is golden for doubling thick guitar tracks, adds weight to Mesa users and for old Rhodes and Wurlitzer players this is staple back up to the suitcase's cabinet.....also KILLER on elec bass.
A handfull of Trace Elliot's (acoustic guitar amps, Bass amps, one old point to point Super Tramp...odd bird with great bluesy tone)
I'm looking into getting an AC30 next....for obvious reasons
