OK, We Haven't Done This For A While - Gear List!

[ProfessorGAC]

We have some new visitors to this group. So, let's do an equipment list and see who's got what. I'll start:

Electric Guitars: Ibanez JS-1000; Schecter BlackJack C-1; 2 Fender Strats; Fender Telecaster; Fender Jazzmaster; Dan Armstrong L-1.

Acoustic Guitars: Martin DCME-1; Takamine N-150; Giannini LB-10; Harmony Ambassador 12 String

Bass: Fender 5 String Jazz Bass with Vintage Noiseless P/U's.

Amps: Mesa Boogie F-30; Fender Stage 150; Fender Bassman 100; Fender Bassman 400.

Keyboards: Baldwin Piano; Alesis QS-8.1; Ensoniq SQ-2; Ensoniq ESQ-1; and 3 Rack mounted tone generators.

I use a Chorus, Wah, and Acoustic Simulator on my guitar, all by Boss.

Tascam 16 track digital recording system. Too many microphones to list and a small Yamaha PA for practice gear.

I've also got one of the Dr. Rhythm's for playing bass and drums through the smaller bass amp as backing for my guitar.

I might have some other old junk laying around, but out of sight, out of mind.

The Professor

[opiate69]

1. OK..here's my set-up

Guitar- Gibson SG Special, Wine Red

Amp - Mesa Boogie Mark III 100 watt head, with Mesa 2X12 cabinet loaded with EV speakers

Dunlop Original Wah Pedal

I like to keep it simple...I used to have tons of rack-mounted effects processors and all the toys...couldn't get a tone I was happy with though.

[Pepperbelly]

2. for live playing ...

I use two main signal paths

1, through a vox Brian May special into a fender princeton chorus (with the 2X10s) and

2, through an Alesis nanoverb to the fender princeton chorus ( I use the nanoverb primarily as a signal booster rather than an effect.

guitars ... a fender tele, an epi les paul studio, a dearmond m65c, an epi strat copy, a dearmond m65, a vantage acoustic with a fishman rare earth pu.

And that is pretty much it.

on edit, an A/B box.

[XNASA]

3. GAS. Somebody's got GAS.

:rofl:

[Pepperbelly]

4. I feel dumb as dirt ...

or a sack of hammers but I don't get it.

:smoke:

[XNASA]

5. It's a little inside joke that salesmen have....

It's short for Gear Acquisition Syndrome.

[Pepperbelly]

8. CGBS

Chronic Guitar Buying Syndrome.

It's a burden carried by many.

[ProfessorGAC]

13. Not Me!

I'm not looking for anything. I just know there are some new folks here and some are like me who like to know who's got what!

I ain't lookin' to acquire nuthin'!
The Professor

[Al Dente]

6. Heres mine

My main axe is my 100 year old Pfretzer German acoustic bass.
Then for electrics I have a 6 string Curbow bass with bartolini pickups, its actually the first 6 string greg ever made, so its pretty special to me
I have a recent bass that is a 25 year old F-Bass. It's so unlike any of the ones that are around now because he wasn't really a big deal back when this was made I guess, so its not really high dollar, but its a great little bass, interesting deep woody sound and the pickups are bartolinis, but before they were called bartolini. They just say Hi-A on them.
I also have a shitty little fretless rogue bass that I bought for 100 dollars right after I sold my other fretless. As crappy as it is, it has a really great fretless sound.
I recently bought a 250 watt Genz Benz cabinet and I am using my acoustic image contra head as the amp, so its really powerful, very warm sound, and it works great for doucling gigs where I have to play electric and upright. Thats all. Peace

[mitchum]

7. Here:

Epiphone Coronet
Rickenbacker 360
Supro Lap Steel
Epiphone Everly Bros Acoustic
Framus Archtop
several cigar box guitars and diddy bows
a ton of effects (mostly delays)
1967 Fender Vibro-Champ
1973 Fender Twin
1962 Gibson Explorer Amp
Marine Bands in every key that I need

[johnnie]

10. What year Coronet?

I have a 65'

[mitchum]

17. 1967

And I will really love it. I wish that I had a dozen (OK, a half-dozen) more.
They are great guitars.

[ProfessorGAC]

11. Surpo Lap Steel! Cool!

We just found out that a guy we know, (not a musician) has one of the mid-30's cast aluminum Rickenbacker lap steels. He had it hanging on the wall on a hook in the garage. We told him to put it back in the case and contact Gruhn by email.
The Professor

[mitchum]

18. There are many beautiful old Supros, Oahus, etc..at very reasonable...

prices. They don't have quite the scarcity issue issue found with vintage guitars. There is nothing to warp, and it's rather difficult to put your foot through a lap steel. I guess a chainsaw would do some damage, though.
Musician and songwriter Tom Gray ("Money Changes Everything") has been putting together a coffetable book about vintage lap steels. An excellent idea. Gray is a pretty ferocious lap steel player himself.

The Rickenbacker is quite a find!

[Bonhomme Richard]

9. What the hell

Guitars:
Fender American Strat
Rickenbacker 330-12
Hamer Archtop
Washburn Maverick
Martin D-18
Ovation Mod. 1778 Legend
Ovation Mod. 1517
Hondo Mandolin w/ pickup
Bass - Hybrid

Drums:
Yamaha hybrid mix kit

Keys:
Wurlitzer Upright Piano
Hammond A-100 w/ Leslie
Casio CT-638

Harmonicas:
A Bunch

Amps:
Roland JC-120
Marshall VS65R
Fender Rumble 100
Crate G-40C

PA:
Mackie 808M
Shure 57's, 58's

[ProfessorGAC]

12. Thanks Everyone

I just enjoy reading what others are using.
The Professor

[dbt]

14. *GEAR?* I don't need no stinkin' gear!

My Mom blessed me with a '66 Fender Bandmaster (blackface) amp, which still has one of its original Sylvania 6L6 power tubes left. The only concession I have made to Modernity is to purchase a Monster Cable Jazz lead to run from whatever guitar I want to plug into this Charming Beast.

(I am told that Sir George Martin acquired one of these amps for the Beatles' studio of choice at Abbey Road, but that's another story for another day.)

The only thing I do is crank the pickup screws UP to where the wolf tones appear and back them off a quarter turn.

The rest is Tube Magic, especially if the pickups in question are P-90s.

:evilgrin:
dbt
Remember New Orleans

[greyl]

15. my list o gear

Electric Guitars: Starforce; Custom shaped and painted Kramer strat body with authentic Fender strat neck - trem removed - 1 emg pickup.

Acoustic Guitars: Martin DCX1KE

Pod xt, Rocktron Chameleon, Dunlop Wah, Morley Wah.

Handmade sugarcane flute

Yamaha Recorder

LP Bongos

Hohner Chromatic Harmonica C

Hohner Harmonica G

Studiologic SL-880 Controller Keyboard

Hey Professor, do you know how to use your pc to record music yet?

[ProfessorGAC]

16. Answer To Your Question

I know how, but don't have the hardware of software. I know how to record, and the software i've seen is well designed to be intuitive for anyone who knows how to use a mixer and FX.

I prefer a standalone set up, which is why we have the multitrack i described. Just a matter of preference. I know how to convert finished mixes to MP3, too. It's just that i'm much more a player than songwriter or producer. I just don't apply myself to the songwriting or production side that often, because i just don't care enough, i guess.

I understand the tech. I just can't motivate myself to do much with it. I just want to play!
The Professor

[DeepGreen]

19. ...

67 Fender Jaguar
PRS Custom 24
Roland Fantom
Roland 1820CD
Music Man Double Stack
various effects boxes
Epiphone Electric Acoustic

[no name no slogan]

20. Here goes:

My two main electrics guitars are both solid-body Godins with built-in Roland guitar synth output, via a set of R.L. Baggs transducers on the bridge, installed at the factory. One's a steel-string, the other a nylon-string. The synth tracking on both of these is AMAZING-- far better than anything I've played from Roland.

Main signal path goes through a Behringer V-AMP Pro rack processor, an Alesis MidiVerb 4, and also through an Aphex parametric EQ. The stereo signal goes into a small, 8-channel stereo rack-mount mixer and then into a Roland JC-120 Jazz Chorus amp.

The synth signal controls a Roland GR-33 guitar synth. The stereo signal from the synth goes through a graphic EQ, into the stereo rack-mount mixer and also into the JC-120 (or else into a stereo PA). Occassionally I'll run the "dry" guitar signal from the synth output into a Yamaha AG Stomp acoustic pre-amp, too, if I'm playing any tunes that require an acoustic guitar sound.

I play in a three-piece, and we have a fairly symphonic sound. Hence, I'm a bit of an equipment junky.

[jimshoes]

21. Hello everybody

I'm kinda new to this group so here's the stuff I have accumulated and play through, Peavey Milestone bass, an old Rythmline bass that I practice on, a 1976 Epiphone acoustic 6 string (Japanese),Electra 6 sting (Les Paul copy) 3 Hammond L-100 organs, a Roland Electric piano (cheap), a Hohner D6 Clavinet, a Yamaha Alto sax, a Bundy alto sax, Fender Bassman 10 Silverface, Fender Princeton Reverb blackface, a Yamaha Bass amp, assorted mics, Yamaha PM 430- 8 channel mixer, Yamaha PM 400- 8 channel mixer, an Audio Centron PA system, Akai reel to reel, a Dokorder reel to reel a bunch of effects pedals I rarely use, and the guitar player has a CD recorder that burns a CD straight from the analog signal from the Yamaha mixer. It's very sweet.