What's YOUR guitar rig like?

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2002 Fender Strat; 1968 Gibson Les Paul; 1966 Fender Mustang; 1990 Fender Precision Bass; 2003 Carlo Robelli Classic

For performance: a 60w 1 12" Sam Ash amp. Mostly direct from guitar but occasionally, if effects are needed I have a floor box with Roland Boss compressor, chorus, digital delay, flanger, and super distortion; or a Behringer DSP something or other effects unit. If I need volume, the house can mic my amp. :-)

For recording: I usually go direct through my omnistudio pres and add effects via SONAR.

So most time I just use the sound of the guitar and the amp. Eventually when I get money (or I see a 50% off sale) I want a Fender Twin Reverb.
 
New Guitar!!!!

I just bought a used Gibson SG Standard, and for now I still have my Noodles signature, and I might get a new amp soon, but I have to sell the noodles. This will be hard to have my name IBanezrocks if I don't have one.... :eek:
 
epiphone les paul or strat copy --> fender tuner --> ts-7 overdrive or boss turbo overdrive --> crate vc6212 amp (loop: ibanez digital delay>ibanez phaser>ibanez bass chorus)--> fender 4x12.
 
mine

home made strat through my Line 6 Spider II 1x12

for acoustic (my main thing)
Guild D25 with fishman rare earth pickup goes into house
Avante Baritone guitar (acoustic) with Shadow pickup and EQ.
most of the time runs through a DI
unplugged i use my Gretsch acoustic and just play guitar for people
my Violin runs into an AT4040 and i use that for vocals a bit as well when i play it or otherwise i would just use a SM58.

sometimes when i want a nice simple tube sound i use a really old reel to reel tape machine and run the line outs into my mixer and then into computer or once the house PA.

i do use funky picks for everything now but thats another post :D
 
mixmkr said:
I wish...eh?

Looks like the amp room at Gil Southworth's store in Bethesda!
Except he has a whole bunch of tweed, brown, white and blackface Fenders, too.

My rig is a combination of:
Old Strat, Old 345, Blackface Vibrolux, Blackface Pro, Mesa Mk IV.

. . . and an 18 foot cable.
 
i use line6 head's to avoid lots of other stuff. right now my setup is my brian moore custom into a line 6 II head. a 4x12 with vintage 30's & a 2x15. the only things in my rack i use anymore are my sonic maximizer & wireless. i stopped with further eqing & compresing.
 
Well I've been fortunate enough to gather some pretty cool gear over the past 25 years that I've been playing........I've kept some, and sold a bunch. Here's gerneral breakdown of the rigs I'm using now.

1.) Carvin Quad X (4- channel Tube Pre-Amp) , Carvin T100 Tube amp, Alesis Quadraverb, and Carvin 4x12 cab. - This has been my main rig for about 10 years.

2.) Carvin Quad X, Boogie 50/50 power amp, Ear Candy Custom Buzz Bomb w/ eminence spkrs.

3.) Mesa Boogie Dual Recifier (older 2 channel version), Marshall 1960 TV 4X12

Pedal board:
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Most of the Boss pedals have been modded by Robert Keeley or Analog man....including my Dunlop Cry Baby (Not pictured.)

Guitars:

1. Jackson Soloist - Custom made out of CA. for me back in 94.

2. Kramer Striker 300 St. - All custom now with Duncan pups.

3. Agile 3000 LP Copy - Stock.....but wonderfull

4. 1964 Gibson SG Standard - Worth a mint! :D

5. Washburn EA 26 acoustic - Craig Chiquito (SP?) Signiture model (Fishman preamp

6. Fender Strat - Blond w/ maple neck

7. Fender Jazz Bass - Geddi Lee sig. model ---> VERY COOL :cool: (I've got a couple of bass amps and cabs as well (Hartke 3500 head...blah, blah....)

Well that's about it...:)


Rick
 
I use effects when the song calls for it, and don't when it doesn't. An all or none approach is really limiting.

Gear:

Dearmond Starfire or Strat

Fender tuner
Dano Fab-Tone
Dano Cool Cat
Ibanez DE-& Delay
Dunlop Crybaby

Fender Hot Rod Deluxe
 
Guitars
Gibson Les Paul Studio Plus - Desert Burst
PRS Custom 22 - Whale Blue
Alvarez Acoustic - Tobacco Burst

Amps
Mesa Dual Rectifier Solo Head
Line 6 Vetta II 2x12 Combo

Effects & Other
Mesa 4x12 Standard Recto Cab
Rack Light
Korg DTR-1000 Tuner
TC Electronic G-Major
BBE Sonic Maximizer
Shure ULX Wireless
Furman Power Conditioner
Morley Bad Horsie II
Digitech Whammy
DMC Ground Control Pro
Jellifish
Ebow Plus
Dunlop Tortex Red Picks
Rockstand Guitar Stands
George L, Monster, Planet Waves & Mogami Cables

Everything is in ATA Flight Cases as well...except the Vetta. I only record with it so it is sitting with my recording rig...I won't go into that setup though. Also, I have a wishlist of gear that I want...

Wishlist
Marshall JMP-1
Mesa Strategy 500
VHT Two/Fifty/Two
Randall RM4
Randall RT2
Mesa 4x12 Straight Recto Cab
Gibson SG Standard w/EMGs (maybe)
Taylor 414CE
 
93 Gibson Les Paul Standard Tobacco Sunburst

86 American Strat
93 Strat deluxe plus
90 standard tele
Taylor 814CE
Godin 12 string Acoustacaster

Boss GT6

Marshall JMP1
Alesis quadraverb GT
Peavey 60/60 power amp
2003 Fender Twin (I modified it to my own tastes, I'm an electronics technologist and have been doing up tube amps for 15 years)
Marshall JCM900 4X12 straight cab


Yes I'm a gear pig.
 
I sold all my stuff accept for..


Fender Tele 1952 RI Blond Butterscotch
Jackson Performer PS-2
Takamine E-334SC Acoustic
Dean Bass
A cheap acoustic I use for high tuning for the 12 string effect..




Fiddles
Mandolins
Keys


A Fender Twin Chorus Amp
 
i've got a gibson lespaul r7, a gibson cs 356, and a fender cyclone I have 3 distortion pedals(turborat,dod od/preamp250,and a tubescreamer), but don't use them in my band and rarely use them any other time, and i use a compressor(dynacomp) and delay pedal (ibanez something or other)occasionally. all that goes through my rivera knucklehead55 and a marshall tsl 2-12 cab.
 
Donkeystyle I'm drooling over a R7

I'm drooling over a R7..Muummm Goldtops rule..Sweet guitars :)
 
gig rig:

Fender tele custom '72 solidbody reissue

diy tubescreamer
dunlop crybaby in a mxr-type box (no rocker)
diy coloursound tonebender fuzz
MXR phase 100
little danoelectro plastic delay
plastic arion analog delay

'72 Traynor YBA-1a MkII head
weber MASS attenuator
custom ampeg replica 4-10" cab (shortbox) with EH speakers (until I blow them up)
 
'64 Strat--Dunlop Volume Pedal--MXR DynaComp--MXR Distorion Plus('70's)--Ibanez Tube Screamer--Boss Tuner--Ibanez Analog Delay--Boss Stereo Chorus--Blackface Princeton Reverb with a 12" instead of a 10".
 
Henri Devill said:
Donkeystyle I'm drooling over a R7

I'm drooling over a R7..Muummm Goldtops rule..Sweet guitars :)

mine actually isn't a gold top. it's inverness green. it also doesn't have a 50's neck on it. it has a "players profile neck" which is a 13th of an inch(or maybe it was a 16th, i can't remember now) bigger than a 60's neck. sometimes i think i can feel the difference between the 60's necks and mine, but i'm not sure i really can. anyway. my r7 isn't exactly historically accurate. but I do love gold tops also.in fact, I want a normal r7 goldtop, but the necks are just too huge for me. a 59 neck is about as big as I can go.
 
I Threw Away My Digitech ...got Rid Of My Peavy Tube Amp And
Bought A Line 6 Spider For 400.00 ..plug Guitar In Straight And Rock
Has All I Need In 1 Simple Package ..incl Just Enough Effects
 
Gibson lespaul junior(all modern pick ups and pots) into booss GT6 into a two separate mashall valve states amps for stero processing from the GT6 Sweet sound!!

Rock on! WEEEE DWEEEDLE eEEE WEEEE WAHHHHH
 
Currently rebuilding my rig to the best setup I ever had....

Ampeg VH-140C head
Gallien Kruger ML/S head
dbx 266XL
Rocktron ProQ
Rocktron Intellifex
Had a Ground Control, but am going with Sound Sculpture now ;)
Art X15 control board

4x12's will be the Ampeg slant face loaded w/ Celestian Pro's

Fender HM Strat
Conklin GTG-7
Conklin GTG-7T
Ibanez Dreadnught acoustic (w/ PU)
and, in may, I'll get in my custom DC747 from Carvin :)
 
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