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el böthy
Prog Reviewer Joined: April 27 2005 Location: Argentina Status: Offline Points: 6336 |
Topic: Your guitar Posted: May 16 2010 at 22:56 |
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I don´t know if such a topic already exists, but I couldn´t find it...
So, tell us a bit about what guitar you are rocking out! A picture of it would be nice. What is it about it that you like? What type of music do you play and how does your axe work out for you? Are you satisfied with it? Do you have your eye on another one? Do you use any pedals? I for one can make this very shot. I have a Les Paul Custom Sx... and it´s time to change it. It´s an alright guitar but I´m playing some gigs with my band now and live I can truly feel it´s limitations, specially when it comes to keeping it in tune and the pick ups, which sound kinda gritty... if that´s a way to discrive sound at all. What is great about this guitar is the wood. With two good pick ups and chaning the tunning pegs I´ve heard this guitar becomes something completly different. BUT... I want to change it cause I´m into semi hollow bodie guitars, and I have my eye on a Washburn Hb30. With a bit of help I will change it in a few weeks, but money is short at the time... What about you? |
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"You want me to play what, Robert?"
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Slartibartfast
Collaborator Honorary Collaborator / In Memoriam Joined: April 29 2006 Location: Atlantais Status: Offline Points: 29630 |
Posted: May 16 2010 at 23:16 | |
My main axe is a Yamaha classical. Old and beat up by me. Not intentional, sh*t happens. I'll post a pic later. One if the things I had to get out as the house was being flooded. I carried it over the bridge and across the waters before I rescued the cat. My electric is a Jackson Performer Floyd Rose tremelo. I put on top of the cube freezer in the utility room and it didn't get soaked.
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Triceratopsoil
Forum Senior Member Joined: April 03 2010 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 18016 |
Posted: May 16 2010 at 23:24 | |
I've got a Danelectro 56 pro, which is a great instrument, what it lacks in high-end parts and construction (it's made out of plywood and masonite, like a kitchen table) it makes up in personality and spankin' tone. It really is a beautiful instrument that my hand get along wonderfully with. Her name is Mikayla
My other guitar is an ESP ltd H-401, with Seymore Duncan pickups. This one is a gorgeous, smooth, shredding rock machine that's also very well suited to jazz and heavy metal. Her name is Natasha I've also more-or-less commandeered my dad's late-70s Fender F-35 acoustic guitar, it's a huge beastly guitar, ridiculously loud, very warm tone. I love everything about it except the extra heavy strings, they sure do put up a fight. Yes, that's a Mesa/Boogie amp. Thing cost me an arm and a leg, but was worth it. Right now, I'm really lusting after two guitars. The Loar LH-200 small body acoustic: and Hagstrom Viking: I need a job. Edited by HTCF - May 16 2010 at 23:25 |
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el böthy
Prog Reviewer Joined: April 27 2005 Location: Argentina Status: Offline Points: 6336 |
Posted: May 17 2010 at 12:13 | |
Nice ESP!!! And VERY nice Hagstrom!!! I love these type of guitars |
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"You want me to play what, Robert?"
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idiotPrayer
Forum Senior Member Joined: November 06 2009 Location: Finland Status: Offline Points: 324 |
Posted: May 17 2010 at 16:00 | |
cheap off-brand sh*tty japanese guitar that my uncle gave me when he got a "real one". it has 5 strings (the high e broke like 3 times so i didn't change it anymore). actually i hadn't touched a guitar before this, but now 2 years later i've became a self-taught guitarist (not that good but average i guess). i should really buy a better one but i'm too lazy
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Vompatti
Forum Senior Member VIP Member Joined: October 22 2005 Location: elsewhere Status: Offline Points: 67407 |
Posted: May 17 2010 at 16:03 | |
A cheap strat copy of an unknown manufacturer. I hit it and it makes a sound.
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Slartibartfast
Collaborator Honorary Collaborator / In Memoriam Joined: April 29 2006 Location: Atlantais Status: Offline Points: 29630 |
Posted: May 17 2010 at 16:06 | |
Sounds a little like "my" first guitar. My Mom treated one of my brother's friends to a Kansas concert. He repaid her with this beat up acoustic he had. One of the tuner knobs had busted off so you had to use pliers. But it did get me started as my Mom didn't play guitar and I could pick it up and just mess around. One of the first things I could imitate was Phil Manzanarea doing Bogus Man on Viva. Edited by Slartibartfast - May 17 2010 at 16:07 |
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clarke2001
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: June 14 2006 Location: Croatia Status: Offline Points: 4160 |
Posted: May 17 2010 at 16:15 | |
A vintage Yamaha FG 420
...and cheap but lovely classical Aria. I have an electric bass and a plethora of synths, but I never had an electric guitar. |
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Triceratopsoil
Forum Senior Member Joined: April 03 2010 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 18016 |
Posted: May 17 2010 at 17:48 | |
Yeah me too, that's why it will probably be my next purchase. There was one at a local guitar store, it was the most beautiful thing I've ever played |
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Slartibartfast
Collaborator Honorary Collaborator / In Memoriam Joined: April 29 2006 Location: Atlantais Status: Offline Points: 29630 |
Posted: May 17 2010 at 21:37 | |
I'm not sure why I'm not able to post a higher resolution pic through this service (Photobucket), either they want money or it could be me. Anyway on the left we have the monitor and plastic desk that used to reside in the library room. The CPU (off camera) was in the music room. You can still seed flood mud stains on the desk. I did my best to clean it up but it's not easy. The amp is new. MY oldest surviving acoustic guitar is in front. Yeah I play a classical guitar with a pick, sue me. Behind the head of the acoustic is a sequencer that I am still trying to figure out how to use. I can do some basic stuff with it, but you really have to spend some time to learn how to make it do what you want it to do. The keyboard is a flood survivor. Barely made it. One corner got some water. The onboard patches were a bit scrambled. The patches on the memory card are totally fine. Weird. The effects box on the floor is a a replacement. I like it a lot. My last was a Zoom and quite fun, but I never had a pedal. I really haven't done much with that. Being in an apartment now you really don't want to annoy the neighbors too much. Moving on along is the Jackson. I really love the Flyod Rose. Once in tune the thing stays in tune for just about forever. The first time I tried to tune it I hadn't been told that you have to do the strings in a certain order or the bridge will keep rising up kind of like a cat does when getting a nice back stroke. Off to the right is the latest computer which replaces one that died a few months ago, not flood related. I shut everything possible off as the waters were coming in. The box to the right is what the replacement home theater system came in. Makes a really good temporary table. Edited by Slartibartfast - May 17 2010 at 22:24 |
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WalterDigsTunes
Forum Senior Member Joined: September 11 2007 Location: SanDiegoTijuana Status: Offline Points: 4373 |
Posted: May 17 2010 at 21:47 | |
Schecter Omen-6 electric guitar Ibanez Soundgear Gio 5 string bass |
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refugee
Forum Senior Member VIP Member Joined: November 20 2006 Location: Greece Status: Offline Points: 7026 |
Posted: May 18 2010 at 08:02 | |
My guitar is a unique Morten Faye #1, a classical guitar handmade especially for me. She’s a beauty, but sadly I am unably to post pictures. However, you can hear the sound here (wait until the vocal part):
http://www.supload.com/listen?s=t7ocJI She’s made of rosewood and ebony — and spruce, I think. I don’t really play the electric guitar, but I used to have a Washburn. A friend of mine borrowed it. Then he sold it, I think. Then he died (I didn’t know he was a junkie, or at least experimenting with substances far more dangerous than cannabis). |
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Ronnie Pilgrim
Forum Senior Member Joined: February 09 2010 Location: The South of TX Status: Offline Points: 771 |
Posted: May 18 2010 at 08:57 | |
1968 Fender Telecaster. Bought it in college for $225. Just like the one pictured here.
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NecronCommander
Special Collaborator Prog Metal Team Joined: September 17 2009 Location: Madison, WI Status: Offline Points: 16122 |
Posted: May 18 2010 at 13:56 | |
I also have a knockoff Strat.
I'm buying a ESP F250 from a friend for about $300. It's a great metal guitar, and it has a Floyd Rose licensed tremolo bridge. For the other clef, I have an Ibanez EDA-905 fretless bass, as well as an unbranded startup bass. |
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Tarquin Underspoon
Forum Senior Member Joined: September 12 2009 Location: USA Status: Offline Points: 1416 |
Posted: May 18 2010 at 15:51 | |
Gibson Les Paul Studio, Black, w/ '57 Classics Mesa Boogie Mark VA ZOOM multi-fx (G7.1ut)
....give me a Dunlop Jazz III and I'm good to go
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"WAAAAAAOOOOOUGH! WAAAAAAAUUUUGGHHHH!! WAAAAAOOOO!!!"
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Triceratopsoil
Forum Senior Member Joined: April 03 2010 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 18016 |
Posted: May 18 2010 at 17:29 | |
Nice, Tarquin; I wish I could afford a Mark V. Alas, my F-50 is considerably cheaper (by Mesa standards)
I also use Jazz III picks, it's gotten to the point where I can't tolerate anything else in my hand |
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el böthy
Prog Reviewer Joined: April 27 2005 Location: Argentina Status: Offline Points: 6336 |
Posted: May 18 2010 at 19:29 | |
NICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How about a picture??? |
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"You want me to play what, Robert?"
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Tarquin Underspoon
Forum Senior Member Joined: September 12 2009 Location: USA Status: Offline Points: 1416 |
Posted: May 18 2010 at 21:26 | |
I would, but the amp's in the shop. Something wrong with the loop bypass, and I've barely had it two months. I absolutely love that thing, but when something goes wrong with it, it's best left to the pros, methinks. Its so complicated
But yes, it's my pride & joy
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"WAAAAAAOOOOOUGH! WAAAAAAAUUUUGGHHHH!! WAAAAAOOOO!!!"
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Pekka
Forum Senior Member Joined: August 03 2006 Location: Espoo, Finland Status: Offline Points: 6442 |
Posted: May 19 2010 at 00:05 | |
This Tokai Les Paul is my number one guitar for recording, I get pretty good distorted sounds out of it. I don't really play it that much apart from recording. That acoustic Yamaha is a pretty new family member, I should play it more to get the feel of it. The Squier Strat on the right was my very first guitar ever, I've been dreaming of arming it with a humbucker and making it my punk axe, but so far I've been too lazy and poor for it. My fiancée won the Tokai Strat on the left from a rock mag poll a while ago and since then that has been my guitar of choice for general strumming and composing. I'll probably do my first recordings with it soon. Great touch, pretty good sound. There you also see my amps, I've got no pedals, just those. Should re-string the classical guitar one day and bring it back from the graveyard behind the amp wall. There's my trusted bass with his tattoos and my second guitar, Epiphone Les Paul. Some electronics of it have been messed up so that the bridge pick up doesn't work anymore, otherwise a good quitar I miss using.
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Slartibartfast
Collaborator Honorary Collaborator / In Memoriam Joined: April 29 2006 Location: Atlantais Status: Offline Points: 29630 |
Posted: May 19 2010 at 06:26 | |
Are your acoustic guitars shy or something?
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