What's your rig?

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my rig

I play a 1964 Gibson Thunderbird with a Bad Ass bridge , Semeur Duncan pickups plugged into a 1978 Acoustic 270 head. 450 watts into 4 ohms, with 2 single 15 cabs. If you want to know what it sounds like , Listen to the A chord at the end of Creams Crossroads. For recording my guitar is a Peavey T-60 with a Demarzio super distortion into a Peavey Audition 110. This is a great combo.
 
Well, actually I have 2 Peavey Stereo Chorus 212 amps, a black face Fender Dual Showman and a Marshall VS100R. I have many stomp boxes and rack effects and 2 Cry Baby wah wah's, one of which is an original '60's model. But when I play out all I take is one of the Peavey's and a volume pedal. The Peavey has several on board effect like delay and reverb with stereo chorus and 2 channels of distortion. It's 130W per channel.
 
my usual setup is my gibson explorer through a boss metal zone through an alesis microeq into a tube amp of some kind (i have a crate which sounds better than i expected but weighs a ton, and a '70 musicmaster).. i get kind of an old metallica plus a little more punch type sound i guess..
 
Here's one for the bass players...
Don't buy your dream bass until you have tried a Peavey Cirrus. Stop giggling... I'm serious.
I played my precious Fender Precision for 26 years, and finally decided to retire it, and get a 5-string. I tried Ken Smiths (several), Modulus, Alembic, Lakland, and several other hand-made basses. Admittedly, they were all very nice (especially the Ken Smiths and Laklands), but then I played a Cirrus, and I was stunned. It is easily in the same league as the afore mentioned instruments... exotic woods, neck-through-the-body, hand made in the US, with state-of-the-art active eq. It plays incredibly well, and at about half the price of any others I mentioned. I absolutely love it! Sorry. I don't mean to sound like a commercial. I just think this instrument deserves more recognition than it is getting.
 
Metalcore bass rig

I play bass in a four piece metalcore band so gut punching low end is pretty important :

Ibanez EDC705 (ergodyne) w. aguilar preamp (5string)
Spector NS5CRFM (5 string w/ gold plating)

Ernie Ball volume pedal
Big muff fuzz/distortion pedal
BOSS pedal tuner

Ampeg SVT3 PRO head
TC electronics chorus (on fx chain - mounted in the rack)
ALesis 3630 compressor
BBE Sonic Maximizer (on fx chain)

Mesa Boogie 8x10 cabinet

(all tied together with bass monster cabling throughout)


My sound is modeled after Godflesh and Cattlepress
 
RR Prototype
Cry Baby
A/B Box
ENGL Tube Pre
Marshall JCM800('82)
2 ENGL 4x12


Clover fretless 4-string
Yamaha Attitude (Billy Sheehan)
Trace Elliot Tube Pre-Amp
Modified Warwick 400Watts
LANEY 4x12
SWR GoliathII (4x10+Horn)

No fucking effects on this one.
Its all in your amp. (and your fingers)
 
Spray said:
RR Prototype
Cry Baby
A/B Box
ENGL Tube Pre
Marshall JCM800('82)
2 ENGL 4x12


Clover fretless 4-string
Yamaha Attitude (Billy Sheehan)
Trace Elliot Tube Pre-Amp
Modified Warwick 400Watts
LANEY 4x12
SWR GoliathII (4x10+Horn)

No fucking effects on this one.
Its all in your amp. (and your fingers)
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Look I dont play in a rock-star wannabe Kiss/Led Zep cock-rocker cover band OR in some weak kneed 'alternative' band like im sure you must.

Go listen to some Godflesh, Neurosis, ISIS, Unsane or for that matter Danny Lilker's stuff w/ SOD & Brutal Truth and then go eat your uneducated "No fucking effects/all in your fingers" comment.

I know everyone has their style but to go bashing people unprovoked is really ignorant. Especially when you dont know me or what you are talking about.

So go back to playing your billy sheehan attitude crap down in your basement you old dinosaur..





[Edited by enemyofthesun on 08-10-2000 at 14:31]
 
I think you got something wrong here.
My post wasnt meant as an offense to you.
And by the way, I dont play in one of those bands you mentioned. I play bass in a progressive band.
But my main job is playing in the studio.
Doing a lot of tracks for german hip-hop bands.
And as it comes to guitar Im playing in a straight Rock band with songs somewhere between Black Label Society(Zakk Wylde) and Bon Jovi.
I know that many people like effects but I think you should let your sound tech deal with it cause he knows what is good for you.
 
Ooops I forgaot one thing.
I read "uneducated" in your post.
Actually I have spent 5 years at the university just to get something called "Toningenieur" what would be an audio engineer in US. So I dont think Im "uneducated" at all.
I agree with you that some tunes need effects on it, but if it comes to the point all that counts is the "line" not the sound.
 
I use
Guitars - Home-made semihollow tele with duncans (rosewood board), Ibanez RG570, History electric lap steel (with 1xP90), K Yairi acoustic, Washburn Status series bass, and crap nylon-string and Nashville-tuned steel string no-namers
Fx - Digitech RP6, Boss metalzone and octaver, Ibanez TS5 tubescreamer, modified ProCo Rat, Arion chorus
Amp - Fender Pro 185 (sounds OK, reliable and loud, still have tube-lust tho.

SteveMcB
 
i've got a hamer 5-string bass that i gutted the electronics totally and put in the elecroics from some old ESP bass, and re did the pickups with EMGs. i also have got a ESP surveyor bass... s'got a nice sound to it. but my favorite has to be the fretless rickenbacker from '82 that i absconded with from a freind of mine.

i run an Ampeg svt350h head with 4 x 10 and an 18. i also use the zoom 708 from time to time.
 
Who can resist talking about his gear? Not me, apparently.
I have different stuff for different music: a '70 Les Paul Deluxe goldtop or a '63 Gretsch Chet Atkins Country Gentleman through an '82 Carvin tube X-amp with a Torres tone kit in it (brought that amp to life, I'll tell ya) or a 63 Silvertone Twin Twelve tube amp (listen to the first Velvet Underground album: Sterling Morrison's playing a strat through one) or an unknown vintage Musicman 135 reverb head through a 2X12 cab. When necessary I add a Crybaby. My bass is a borrowed Jazz (a Carvin LB20 is on order -- they're what Jazz basses would be if Gibson made 'em) and the amp is a '63 Ampeg B15N tube.
Note: I realize some of this gear sounds 'vintage', but most of I bought when it was just 'old'.
Oh yeah: a miked '84 Dobro wooden body round neck is what I am currently playing live.
 
American Standard Strat (84)
Blues deVille 2X12
Tube Screamer (TS10)
 
Basic arsenal...

U.S. Vintage 1962 Reissue Fender Jazz
Rickenbacker 4001 bass, circa 1975(?)
Ibanez SR406 6 string bass
Les Paul Bass copy
P.O.S. Hagstrom 8 string bass (avocado green)
'72 Thinline Telecaster- "Conway Twitty" autographed w/the
"Twitty Bird" painted over the bridge.
Gibson Flying V copy
Montgomery Ward "Airline" lap steel guitar- cute l'il buger.

Fender Bassman 100 tube head w/1 4x 12" cab worn to hell
Fender Twin Reverb circa 1965 also looks like s_____.
Crate BX160 Bass Amp w/ extra cab
Pignose battery power amp (former bong stash)
3 boxes of old screwed up effects pedals

I love all kinds of music, but me doin' metal
is like George Jones doin' trip-hop.

los Faithmonsteur
 
I'd like to say something in regards to words swapped by Spray and enemyofthesun.

It doesn't matter whether you have effects or not when you're trying to impress someone. Which is, in fact, what Spray seemed to be trying to do.

It's not the guitar, it's not the amp, it's not the effects, and it's not your fingers. It's the intention in your heart when you play. People don't get recognized for their equipment; people respond to the feeling that comes off of the player.
 
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