The Definitive Gear Thread

HackettFan wrote: SteveG wrote: I'm so glad that I don't have to F--K with stuff anymore, but all the best to you HF. Thanks. SteveG wrote: And remember, this is just the beginning. Say what?

Just jiving. I think you've got enough gear to last a long, long time. Cheers.

SteveG wrote: I'm so glad that I don't have to F--K with stuff anymore, but all the best to you HF.

Thanks.

SteveG wrote: And remember, this is just the beginning.

Say what?

Polymorphia wrote: HackettFan wrote: Here's a large sample of my gear: This is my Gibson Les Paul Classic Plus, a really spectacular guitar. I love it. It sleeps with me. So does the cat. I have an Aria Pro II RS Ina Zuma V, an acoustic 12-string, and an acoustic bouzouki off in my hometown. These are the pedal boards I've been assembling. Standing room only, as you can see. There are four separate lines, which pretty much means four times as large as most peoples set-up. I have ten ADA PitchTraq Harmonizers not pictured here, three of which are used to split and buffer the guitar signal into four separate signals (three from the "direct out" lines and one from the final "effect out" line, which of course can be bypassed). Those four lines go into each of the effect lines. I can play all four lines at the same time, or pick and choose by shutting off any one the effects lines with the noise gate they each start off with. I have no idea how many synthesizers are here, largely because it depends on your definition of synthesis. Lots of switching around is inevitable. Mainly right now I am trying to get the power sources all accounted for. I had been drowning in tangled cords, which I have no patience for. I've purchased bricks for multiple DC outputs velcroed underneath. The Harmony Man and Timebender pedals, which altogether number eight, require AC power, so I've recently gotten a couple bricks for those, but they don't fit so nicely underneath. It might be hard to determine from the picture what each individual pedal is, so here goes: •The line at the top of the pic begins on the right with a DOD Gate/Loop. I will be replacing that with a Boss Noise Gate that I already have once I get the velcro on it. The next is a Pigtronix Mothership, a nice analog synthesizer with unimpressive tracking, but a really cool portamento effect. Next to that is one of my Line 6 FM4 pedals modified to double the presets from four to eight. The FM4 has magnificent monophonic tracking, by the way. After that is my Red Witch Synthotron, which tracks about as well as or as poorly as the Mothership, but it has some wonderful tones that sound like candy to a synth junky like me, and a fabulous resonant filter. To the left of that is my Digitech Synth Wah and a Boss Tera Echo after that to make the synth sound on the Synth Wah come alive. To the left of that is a multi-effect, the Mooer Mod Factory, which I bought for the envelope phaser setting but now only use for the surprisingly musical envelope ring setting. Placed somewhat arbitrarily after that is a Boss Acoustic Simulator. To the left of that is my Electro-Harmonix B9 Organ Machine. The Bell Organ setting on that will be what I mainly use that for. After that is the Mak Octronix, then a Ditto Looper, a Behringer Harmonist, A Behringer Slow Motion, and Behringer Preamp Booster. Those are followed by an Electro-Harmonix Superego Synth Engine, a Boss Dynamic Wah, and a Boss Super Octave. •The second line of effects right underneath starts again on the far right with a Boss Noise Gate, followed by an Ibanez Synthesizer Bass and a Behringer Dynamics Compressor. Those are followed by a secondhand DIY pedal, which is quite simply a passive tone control, a Boss Touch-Wah, a Boss BF-2 Flanger, and a Behringer Noise Reducer. I might take some of these out in favor of a separate old-timey lo-fi pedal board. Anyway, the next is my all-time most prized effect, the Electro-Harmonix Hog2. In essence, it's a synthesizer in which one does additive synthesis by bringing in individual harmonics which one subsequently filters and adjusts the envelope. It is fully polyphonic. I also have the foot controller, which offers 100 presets! –As with all the Electro-Harmonix products, it is a synthesizer depending on what your definition of a synthesizer is, since all the sound is created by processing the guitar sound rather than being generated by an oscillator, but, in any event, that is a problematic requirement for a synthesizer.– Anyway, after that is another Behringer Preamp Booster (Don't Judge me. It was only $25 and a simple item that Behringer can do well enough). That goes into a Digitech Harmony Man, another modded Line 6 FM4, a Digitech Timebender, a Boss Feedbacker/Booster and a Boss Digital Reverb. •The third line starts on the left this time with a Boss Noise Gate, then feeds into a Boss SYB-5 Bass Synthesizer. The SYB-5 has tracking just about as good as the FM4, concise control of different wave shapes, and a stunningly fabulous wave-shaper setting for fully polyphonic use. (Wave-shaping has something to do with altering wave shapes by filtering distortion. I can't explain any more precisely than that). The SYB-5 feeds into a Subdecay Vitruvian (ring) Mod, and then into a Subdecay Octasynth. To the right of that is my very wonderful Electro-Harmonix POG2, my Electyro-Harmonix Freeze, and two Digitech Harmony Man(s) (Harmony Men?). Further to the right is a Behringer Preamp Booster once again, an Electro-Harmonix Micro Synthesizer, 3 Boss Multi-Overtone pedals, a Behringer Slow Motion Pedal, a Digitech Timebender, and a Behringer Dynamics Compressor. •The fourth line begins at the bottom left with a Boss Noise Gate, followed by a Boss SYB-5 Bass Synthesizer, a Boss OC-2 Octave pedal, another Digitech Harmony Man, and two Digitech Timebenders. After that is a Red Panda Particle. I wish I had a second one of these. After the Particle the line is preamped with Behringer preamp, followed by the Pigtronix Philosopher King, another Ibanez Synthesizer Bass, a Line 6 Otto Filter, another Behringer preamp, a Boss Slicer, a Donner chorus pedal, and a Behringer Digital Reverb (which I plan to switch out for a Boss Digital Reverb once I buy a second). There are some other pedals that I would like to incorporate into my set-up in the future: Pictured here are: Five ring modulators (3 from Nervous Squirrel, the one on the far right is from Delptronics, and I can't remember the make of the green one) Boss DS-1 Distortion Electro-Harmonix Voice Box Electro-Harmonix Pitch Fork (just came yesterday!) Mooer Shimverb Mooer Pitch Box Boss Adaptive Distortion (the best it gets with clarity of notes in chords with distortion applied) I definitely want to incorporate my Pollyanna Otave pedal into one of my pedal boards: There are quite a few side-items I have not pictured here. A very early Digitech Whammy pedal, a Mooer Super Bender Pitch Pedal, a Morpheus Capo, an Electro-Harmonix HOG (1), a second Boss Slicer, 3 foot controllers for my ADA Pitchtraqs, two more Line 6 FM4s without the mods, an E-Bow, yada, yada, yada. I also have a Pigtronix Infinity Looper, which is what I plan to record on when I start recording. I have a Roland GR-20 as well. Wow, Look at that. It's upside down. I have a GK3 pickup for it, but I don't want to attempt putting it on my Les Paul. I plan to buy a cheap yet playable guitar specifically for it, or put it on my Aria Pro II. Do you have any music up online? I'd love to hear those pedalboards in action.

I'm so glad that I don't have to F--K with stuff anymore, but all the best to you HF.

Argonaught wrote: HackettFan wrote: Here's a large sample of my gear: Yours wouldn't be the first cat to be actively involved in music making. These ones below are superb; if they started meowing, they'd would sound very similar to some Sigur Ros music  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEAyHkFd6F4

That's just too precious. And they're really doing Prog too. I've gotta go share this with some other people.

HackettFan wrote: Here's a large sample of my gear:

Edited by Argonaught - January 12 2015 at 11:48

No, I was thinking about the potentiometer inside the pedal.

Standard is hot potz 100k, try putting 250k inside and that way you'll get a wider wah range. It doesn't have anything to do with the outside switches and trimmers.
I am talking about the pot underneath the pedal - the one you move while playing and getting the wah wah effect

But crybaby 535q is pretty bad wah wah ime. I got rid of it when the first chance came by.
I only have the case of it.

HackettFan wrote: Here's a large sample of my gear: This is my Gibson Les Paul Classic Plus, a really spectacular guitar. I love it. It sleeps with me. So does the cat. I have an Aria Pro II RS Ina Zuma V, an acoustic 12-string, and an acoustic bouzouki off in my hometown. These are the pedal boards I've been assembling. Standing room only, as you can see. There are four separate lines, which pretty much means four times as large as most peoples set-up. I have ten ADA PitchTraq Harmonizers not pictured here, three of which are used to split and buffer the guitar signal into four separate signals (three from the "direct out" lines and one from the final "effect out" line, which of course can be bypassed). Those four lines go into each of the effect lines. I can play all four lines at the same time, or pick and choose by shutting off any one the effects lines with the noise gate they each start off with. I have no idea how many synthesizers are here, largely because it depends on your definition of synthesis. Lots of switching around is inevitable. Mainly right now I am trying to get the power sources all accounted for. I had been drowning in tangled cords, which I have no patience for. I've purchased bricks for multiple DC outputs velcroed underneath. The Harmony Man and Timebender pedals, which altogether number eight, require AC power, so I've recently gotten a couple bricks for those, but they don't fit so nicely underneath. It might be hard to determine from the picture what each individual pedal is, so here goes: •The line at the top of the pic begins on the right with a DOD Gate/Loop. I will be replacing that with a Boss Noise Gate that I already have once I get the velcro on it. The next is a Pigtronix Mothership, a nice analog synthesizer with unimpressive tracking, but a really cool portamento effect. Next to that is one of my Line 6 FM4 pedals modified to double the presets from four to eight. The FM4 has magnificent monophonic tracking, by the way. After that is my Red Witch Synthotron, which tracks about as well as or as poorly as the Mothership, but it has some wonderful tones that sound like candy to a synth junky like me, and a fabulous resonant filter. To the left of that is my Digitech Synth Wah and a Boss Tera Echo after that to make the synth sound on the Synth Wah come alive. To the left of that is a multi-effect, the Mooer Mod Factory, which I bought for the envelope phaser setting but now only use for the surprisingly musical envelope ring setting. Placed somewhat arbitrarily after that is a Boss Acoustic Simulator. To the left of that is my Electro-Harmonix B9 Organ Machine. The Bell Organ setting on that will be what I mainly use that for. After that is the Mak Octronix, then a Ditto Looper, a Behringer Harmonist, A Behringer Slow Motion, and Behringer Preamp Booster. Those are followed by an Electro-Harmonix Superego Synth Engine, a Boss Dynamic Wah, and a Boss Super Octave. •The second line of effects right underneath starts again on the far right with a Boss Noise Gate, followed by an Ibanez Synthesizer Bass and a Behringer Dynamics Compressor. Those are followed by a secondhand DIY pedal, which is quite simply a passive tone control, a Boss Touch-Wah, a Boss BF-2 Flanger, and a Behringer Noise Reducer. I might take some of these out in favor of a separate old-timey lo-fi pedal board. Anyway, the next is my all-time most prized effect, the Electro-Harmonix Hog2. In essence, it's a synthesizer in which one does additive synthesis by bringing in individual harmonics which one subsequently filters and adjusts the envelope. It is fully polyphonic. I also have the foot controller, which offers 100 presets! –As with all the Electro-Harmonix products, it is a synthesizer depending on what your definition of a synthesizer is, since all the sound is created by processing the guitar sound rather than being generated by an oscillator, but, in any event, that is a problematic requirement for a synthesizer.– Anyway, after that is another Behringer Preamp Booster (Don't Judge me. It was only $25 and a simple item that Behringer can do well enough). That goes into a Digitech Harmony Man, another modded Line 6 FM4, a Digitech Timebender, a Boss Feedbacker/Booster and a Boss Digital Reverb. •The third line starts on the left this time with a Boss Noise Gate, then feeds into a Boss SYB-5 Bass Synthesizer. The SYB-5 has tracking just about as good as the FM4, concise control of different wave shapes, and a stunningly fabulous wave-shaper setting for fully polyphonic use. (Wave-shaping has something to do with altering wave shapes by filtering distortion. I can't explain any more precisely than that). The SYB-5 feeds into a Subdecay Vitruvian (ring) Mod, and then into a Subdecay Octasynth. To the right of that is my very wonderful Electro-Harmonix POG2, my Electyro-Harmonix Freeze, and two Digitech Harmony Man(s) (Harmony Men?). Further to the right is a Behringer Preamp Booster once again, an Electro-Harmonix Micro Synthesizer, 3 Boss Multi-Overtone pedals, a Behringer Slow Motion Pedal, a Digitech Timebender, and a Behringer Dynamics Compressor. •The fourth line begins at the bottom left with a Boss Noise Gate, followed by a Boss SYB-5 Bass Synthesizer, a Boss OC-2 Octave pedal, another Digitech Harmony Man, and two Digitech Timebenders. After that is a Red Panda Particle. I wish I had a second one of these. After the Particle the line is preamped with Behringer preamp, followed by the Pigtronix Philosopher King, another Ibanez Synthesizer Bass, a Line 6 Otto Filter, another Behringer preamp, a Boss Slicer, a Donner chorus pedal, and a Behringer Digital Reverb (which I plan to switch out for a Boss Digital Reverb once I buy a second). There are some other pedals that I would like to incorporate into my set-up in the future: Pictured here are: Five ring modulators (3 from Nervous Squirrel, the one on the far right is from Delptronics, and I can't remember the make of the green one) Boss DS-1 Distortion Electro-Harmonix Voice Box Electro-Harmonix Pitch Fork (just came yesterday!) Mooer Shimverb Mooer Pitch Box Boss Adaptive Distortion (the best it gets with clarity of notes in chords with distortion applied) I definitely want to incorporate my Pollyanna Otave pedal into one of my pedal boards: There are quite a few side-items I have not pictured here. A very early Digitech Whammy pedal, a Mooer Super Bender Pitch Pedal, a Morpheus Capo, an Electro-Harmonix HOG (1), a second Boss Slicer, 3 foot controllers for my ADA Pitchtraqs, two more Line 6 FM4s without the mods, an E-Bow, yada, yada, yada. I also have a Pigtronix Infinity Looper, which is what I plan to record on when I start recording. I have a Roland GR-20 as well. Wow, Look at that. It's upside down. I have a GK3 pickup for it, but I don't want to attempt putting it on my Les Paul. I plan to buy a cheap yet playable guitar specifically for it, or put it on my Aria Pro II.

Do you have any music up online? I'd love to hear those pedalboards in action.

Here's a large sample of my gear:


This is my Gibson Les Paul Classic Plus, a really spectacular guitar. I love it. It sleeps with me. So does the cat. I have an Aria Pro II RS Ina Zuma V, an acoustic 12-string, and an acoustic bouzouki off in my hometown.


These are the pedal boards I've been assembling. Standing room only, as you can see. There are four separate lines, which pretty much means four times as large as most peoples set-up. I have ten ADA PitchTraq Harmonizers not pictured here, three of which are used to split and buffer the guitar signal into four separate signals (three from the "direct out" lines and one from the final "effect out" line, which of course can be bypassed). Those four lines go into each of the effect lines. I can play all four lines at the same time, or pick and choose by shutting off any one the effects lines with the noise gate they each start off with. I have no idea how many synthesizers are here, largely because it depends on your definition of synthesis.

Lots of switching around is inevitable. Mainly right now I am trying to get the power sources all accounted for. I had been drowning in tangled cords, which I have no patience for. I've purchased bricks for multiple DC outputs velcroed underneath. The Harmony Man and Timebender pedals, which altogether number eight, require AC power, so I've recently gotten a couple bricks for those, but they don't fit so nicely underneath.

It might be hard to determine from the picture what each individual pedal is, so here goes:
•The line at the top of the pic begins on the right with a DOD Gate/Loop. I will be replacing that with a Boss Noise Gate that I already have once I get the velcro on it. The next is a Pigtronix Mothership, a nice analog synthesizer with unimpressive tracking, but a really cool portamento effect. Next to that is one of my Line 6 FM4 pedals modified to double the presets from four to eight. The FM4 has magnificent monophonic tracking, by the way. After that is my Red Witch Synthotron, which tracks about as well as or as poorly as the Mothership, but it has some wonderful tones that sound like candy to a synth junky like me, and a fabulous resonant filter. To the left of that is my Digitech Synth Wah and a Boss Tera Echo after that to make the synth sound on the Synth Wah come alive. To the left of that is a multi-effect, the Mooer Mod Factory, which I bought for the envelope phaser setting but now only use for the surprisingly musical envelope ring setting. Placed somewhat arbitrarily after that is a Boss Acoustic Simulator. To the left of that is my Electro-Harmonix B9 Organ Machine. The Bell Organ setting on that will be what I mainly use that for. After that is the Mak Octronix, then a Ditto Looper, a Behringer Harmonist, A Behringer Slow Motion, and Behringer Preamp Booster. Those are followed by an Electro-Harmonix Superego Synth Engine, a Boss Dynamic Wah, and a Boss Super Octave.

•The second line of effects right underneath starts again on the far right with a Boss Noise Gate, followed by an Ibanez Synthesizer Bass and a Behringer Dynamics Compressor. Those are followed by a secondhand DIY pedal, which is quite simply a passive tone control, a Boss Touch-Wah, a Boss BF-2 Flanger, and a Behringer Noise Reducer. I might take some of these out in favor of a separate old-timey lo-fi pedal board. Anyway, the next is my all-time most prized effect, the Electro-Harmonix Hog2. In essence, it's a synthesizer in which one does additive synthesis by bringing in individual harmonics which one subsequently filters and adjusts the envelope. It is fully polyphonic. I also have the foot controller, which offers 100 presets! –As with all the Electro-Harmonix products, it is a synthesizer depending on what your definition of a synthesizer is, since all the sound is created by processing the guitar sound rather than being generated by an oscillator, but, in any event, that is a problematic requirement for a synthesizer.– Anyway, after that is another Behringer Preamp Booster (Don't Judge me. It was only $25 and a simple item that Behringer can do well enough). That goes into a Digitech Harmony Man, another modded Line 6 FM4, a Digitech Timebender, a Boss Feedbacker/Booster and a Boss Digital Reverb.

•The third line starts on the left this time with a Boss Noise Gate, then feeds into a Boss SYB-5 Bass Synthesizer. The SYB-5 has tracking just about as good as the FM4, concise control of different wave shapes, and a stunningly fabulous wave-shaper setting for fully polyphonic use. (Wave-shaping has something to do with altering wave shapes by filtering distortion. I can't explain any more precisely than that). The SYB-5 feeds into a Subdecay Vitruvian (ring) Mod, and then into a Subdecay Octasynth. To the right of that is my very wonderful Electro-Harmonix POG2, my Electyro-Harmonix Freeze, and two Digitech Harmony Man(s) (Harmony Men?). Further to the right is a Behringer Preamp Booster once again, an Electro-Harmonix Micro Synthesizer, 3 Boss Multi-Overtone pedals, a Behringer Slow Motion Pedal, a Digitech Timebender, and a Behringer Dynamics Compressor.

•The fourth line begins at the bottom left with a Boss Noise Gate, followed by a Boss SYB-5 Bass Synthesizer, a Boss OC-2 Octave pedal, another Digitech Harmony Man, and two Digitech Timebenders. After that is a Red Panda Particle. I wish I had a second one of these. After the Particle the line is preamped with Behringer preamp, followed by the Pigtronix Philosopher King, another Ibanez Synthesizer Bass, a Line 6 Otto Filter, another Behringer preamp, a Boss Slicer, a Donner chorus pedal, and a Behringer Digital Reverb (which I plan to switch out for a Boss Digital Reverb once I buy a second).

There are some other pedals that I would like to incorporate into my set-up in the future:

Pictured here are:
Five ring modulators (3 from Nervous Squirrel, the one on the far right is from Delptronics, and I can't remember the make of the green one)
Boss DS-1 Distortion
Electro-Harmonix Voice Box
Electro-Harmonix Pitch Fork (just came yesterday!)
Mooer Shimverb
Mooer Pitch Box
Boss Adaptive Distortion (the best it gets with clarity of notes in chords with distortion applied)
I definitely want to incorporate my Pollyanna Otave pedal into one of my pedal boards:


There are quite a few side-items I have not pictured here. A very early Digitech Whammy pedal, a Mooer Super Bender Pitch Pedal, a Morpheus Capo, an Electro-Harmonix HOG (1), a second Boss Slicer, 3 foot controllers for my ADA Pitchtraqs, two more Line 6 FM4s without the mods, an E-Bow, yada, yada, yada.

I also have a Pigtronix Infinity Looper, which is what I plan to record on when I start recording.

I have a Roland GR-20 as well.

Wow, Look at that. It's upside down. I have a GK3 pickup for it, but I don't want to attempt putting it on my Les Paul. I plan to buy a cheap yet playable guitar specifically for it, or put it on my Aria Pro II.

Edited by HackettFan - January 11 2015 at 20:01

Right now the AC adapter on my Pedaltrain only has four jacks. It's set up with a Dunlop Cry Baby wah wah, a Danelectro Daddy O overdrive, Cool Cat chorus and Dan Echo.

TeleStrat wrote: I play my '73 Strat almost every day. It has a very comfortable feel to it and with the three position switch you can get a variety of tones. It is lighter than my Les Paul Studio and has a slightly thinner neck. The frets are showing signs of wear but it is still very playable. I asked a guitar tech about this a couple of years ago but he recommended that I leave it in original condition for the sake of value. When you're ready to buy I suggest you try to find a place where you can plug in and test play a few different guitars. I have a Sam Ash music store near me and they have a large selection of guitars and have no problem with you plugging in and playing anything they have on display. Right now they are selling standard American Strats for $1299. They also have Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck models for $1599.

That seems really good, your inseparable guitar I see
Thanks for the suggestion: I don't know where I could do that near me, I'll have to look into that