The Definitive Gear Thread

^ Thanks again Gerard! I'll see if I can do something about it this weekend, I just hope I won't screw up the guitar

My two favourite bases. Both build from Warmoth parts (Canary necks with ebony fretboard, Black Korina bodies) and with Nordstrand vintage pick ups and Volume-Tone-Balance controls. The Jazz is just that, the Z-shape is a fretless with extended fretboard.

Edited by Angelo - December 31 2014 at 10:22

And I can assure you they sound the way the look :)

Thanks Meltdowner!

I didn't say anything about throwing it away, I even said "(and will play)". I'm considering buying a new one but I'll also do something about that one eventually. The thing is, I barely ever played on any other electric guitar to know if I really like the way it plays and by investigating about guitars I hope to learn more about them. I once played some Floyd on a Fender Stratocaster though and I really liked the way it felt

Thanks for the information on the first paragraph, I'll need to analyze it more carefully in order to know what I really want.

I bought my Ibanez really cheap, the owner really wanted to get rid of it for some reason It doesn't look as pretty as the one on the photo.
I was 13 and my father immediately bought it without consulting me, so that one's on him
Anyway, if I get a new guitar, the Ibanez will be a backup guitar if anything happens on stage

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.

Yes, never buy a guitar without having test-played it (or any instrument for that matter). Many years ago my friends bought me a Fender acoustic as a present (made in Korea). I never liked it's sound and feel but I was stuck with it. Years later my girlfriend bought me a Yamaha keyboard I didn't like either, but I didn't dare to tell her so I kept playing it.

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

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.

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