GUITAR hero wannabe

[ericheartsu]

Sorry to hijack the thread (not super sorry, but sorry)

What's everyone playing?!

I have (2) rickenbacker 360s, and my main guitar which is a custom built semi hollow Electrical guitar company guitar!

[jvanick]

Guitars:

Fender Custom Shop 'Mary Kaye' Fender Strat
Fender Spalted Maple Tele with Seymour Duncan Humbuckers
Gibson Firebird
Taylor 314ce Acoustic
Fender 12string Acoustic
Ovation Celebrity Acoustic

Basses:
Marcus Miller Jazz Bass
Geddy Lee Jazz Bass
70's Ibanez Rickenbacker copy
Gibson Thunderbird

Amps:
Ampeg SVT3pro with a 2-10" avatar cabinet, and a 4-10" cab
handbuilt (by me) Marshall Plexi amp copy
67 Fender Black Face
Marshall Class-5

Drums:
Yamaha Stage Custom

Sound kit:
Behringer X32 mixer
Mackie SR24.4 mixer
EV Live-X monitors, mains and subs.
Various Shure and Audix mics
Shure PSM wireless system for in-ear monitoring
Custom molded in-ear monitors by Sensaphonics.

[Homer]

currently drooling over a Dean Soltero, believe it or not...not too many people jamn the deans...besides dimebag..rip.... I was a Paul Reed Smith guy for the longest time but they lost their fancy with me...I'm a les paul guy, I have a few along with Ibanez. learned to play 20+ years ago on a gibson 12 string acoustic..that effer was nuts. just picked up one of those line 6 HD400, had a mesa triple rec but i just sold it. I'm really into looping and messing around with that stuff...

Moose, just learn a frank zappa song and you'll be set for life

[Gilligan]

Jason had to bring the hard stuff.

I can't keep up like that but considering I am a bad musician (no timing and not the best fine motor skills) I have an ok spread.

Guitars:
Ibanez Les Paul copy (before they got sued)
Strat Squire (mexican from the 80's I think)
Charvell 24 fret neck through (when the only difference between them and Jackson was Jackson was hand made)
Jackson something or another... I think it was the bomber guitar.  Friend gave it to me after stripping the paint off of it and living with me for a few months rent free.

Acoustic:
Crappy Johnson that a roommate gave me
Awesome First Act pink mini guitar for the 4 year old... it's really terrible but being so small it sits around the shop and I pick it up from time to time.

I have a 5 string Banjo as well (don't think I sold it *shrug*)

Bass:
Wife has a 4 string Kramer that has some crazy knob that does some interesting pick up configs

Drums:
Yamaha DTXpress II electric drum set
Wife has a Premier 5 piece.

PA related stuff:
Presonous 16.0.2 digital mixer
Behringer something or another, need to sell it since I got the presonus.
Mackie 1202VLZ (work horse from back in my gigging days being used my wife's business)
Cheap wireless rig with two hand helds and two lavs... it's awesome and cheap!
Behringer tops (12" powered tops) cheap and loud, serve my purpose.
CAD drum pack of mics
Behringer hand held mics

Guitar amps
3 (yep three) Line 6 75 watt Spider 4's? (I don't remember, pretty much the latest ones)  They are part of a rental rig that I make a ton of money renting them out every year... paid for themselves and was making me money on the 2nd gig!

Bass Amp:
Fender Rumble 2 10" model (I think it's 10's)... the nicest one they make.

I also have a few keyboards and such and I'm sure I'm missing something else.

[Gilligan]

What I need to fill out my collection... sorry not enough space.  I want all the classics... SG, Rickenbacker, Gretch, 331, 7 string of some sorts, PRS, parker fly, Tele, Jaguar or mustang or jagstang... I'm forgetting a few of them I'm sure. Oh, the musicman EVH.

Another thing that my printer and I like to do (he plays bass) is I downloaded all the rock band and guitar hero multitrack files.  You can load them into Audacity and mute whatever instrument you want and the rest is played by the real musicians.  So we just pick a song and rock out with the real deal singing or playing drums or whatever.  If someone comes in and wants to sing or play drums, then we mute those as well.

[dirkdiggler]

Gibson 61 reissue SG
Gibson Les Paul Standard
Fender Jazzmaster
Fender Johnny Marr Jaguar
Fender SHITTY acoustic
Martin DM
Gretsch Tennessee Rose
Epi Sheraton
Epi Supernova
Epi Riviera
 
Marshall 80w solid state
Fender Deville 2x12
Vox pathfinder
Fender Frontman

Digitech rp500

[inkman996]

Like JV I have an Ovation acoustic/electric and thats all currently I gave up playing years ago. But my favorite guitar i owned was an old Takamine dreadnought left to me by my father then eventually stolen by my brother and pawned.

I second prowling the pawn shops, many excellent guitars find their way into them and many are real jewels in the rough hand some of the shop owners really do not know the real values of some of the stuff they get in.

[jvanick]

Careful with the Ovations...

They are very prone to the neck/body joint separating... mine separated about 4 or 5 years after I got it... had to steam it off, and glued it back on with epoxy and some screws...  (not a factory approved repair job).

I really do like the way it sounds tho...

[Homer]

Gibson 61 reissue SG
Gibson Les Paul Standard
Fender Jazzmaster
Fender Johnny Marr Jaguar
Fender SHITTY acoustic
Martin DM
Gretsch Tennessee Rose
Epi Sheraton
Epi Supernova
Epi Riviera
 
Marshall 80w solid state
Fender Deville 2x12
Vox pathfinder
Fender Frontman

Digitech rp500

you sir have an addiction  ...nice line up for sure. my badassness is about a 1, no badass here gilly...

I'm addicted to watching rig rundown on you-tube, Anyone ever watch these things? it will consume an entire day.... Joe Perry from Aerosmith, his rig is nuts....15-20 amps....30 guitars, 1 1/2 hour set....freakin tone snob

I want to go thrift shopping over Christmas break and see if I can find a new toy. I really want a viola, violin, or some v-drums, maybe a guitar needing a make over, some duncan pick ups or something...

you guys have some nice gear....Taylors and Martins, dang...someday....

[Sbrem]

1965 Harmony Monterey Leader
1964 Gibson ES-330
1964 Fender Duo-Sonic
1986 '62 Reissue Stratocaster
1984 MIJ Telecaster (in '84, the Fender factory was closed while being sold from CBS to the current owners)
1986 Guild Nightbird
2001 Guild Bluesbird
1990 Guild Liberator
1969 Antonio Hernandis classical
2000 Takamine 132 SC classical C/E
2005 Godin Concert Classical (midi equipped to drive a Roland Synth)
2002 Darren Hippner classical (my very favorite instrument)
1984 Masuru Kohno classical (my best instument)
1998 Taylor 714 C/E
1986 Taylor K-22
1998 Santa Cruz Model "H"

'62 Ampeg Rocket II (not the ReverbRocket)
'64 Fender Deluxe Reverb blackface (bought it for my wife back in '78 for $250)
100W Marshall Stack, long gone, 100W Ampeg V4 stack, long gone
Bedrock 652 50W combo, 2-12"
Bedrock 651 25W combo, 1-12"
Quilter Micro-Pro 200 (holy crap, 20lbs., 200 watts)

a bevy of vintage and current pedals

Steve (note my avatar from '73)

[dirkdiggler]

I love rig rundown, I have watched all of them multiple times.  Have you watched the Brian Setzer one?  He is one of my fav. guitarists, I met him last Friday night after his show in ATL.  Super cool dude, and I dare ANY living guitarist to challenge his skills, ANY!

[ericheartsu]

if any of you old grandpas have a Sound City Amp lying around...i'd love to buy it from you!

[Gilligan]

... my badassness is about a 1, no badass here gilly...

I'm addicted to watching rig rundown on you-tube, Anyone ever watch these things? it will consume an entire day.... Joe Perry from Aerosmith, his rig is nuts....15-20 amps....30 guitars, 1 1/2 hour set....freakin tone snob

I was referring to Jason's ridiculous list above your post... took me too long to punch mine up.

Do they have one of these rig rundowns on Eric Johnson?  Now, I have never heard of anyone worse than him.

He leaves the battery covers off some pedals because of the tone difference, he has pedals laid on top of other pedals and particular angles because of the tone difference.  He uses a copper 1/4" on this end of the cable and nickle on this end of the cable.

COME ON MAN!!  No one listening to your ass through the PA is gonna hear that!

[Sbrem]

One of my old mates from the late '60's and early 70's is the local guy who made it. Hit the LA scene in the early eighties and made the rounds; was Cher's touring player for about 7 years, and has been in REO Speedwagon for the last 20 years. Every summer they come by, and we all get backstage passes and great seats. His touring cabinet is just loaded with drool-worthy toys. His personal collection is pretty spectacular. Check out daveamato.com

Steve

[ScreenPrinter123]

At the end of the day this is just for my fun, my brother is a very accomplished sax palyer, he is a musician, I do not have that talent or desire.
I will never be a musician, I just want to learn some music and have some fun (and drive my wife nuts).

A sax scholarship paid for my college...was very close to majoring in jazz studies but being broke and wanting a large family made me head in another direction. I am glad to hear it sounds like your brother is making it work because it can be a tough life.  Wish I could help with the electric guitar question but I have only owned acoustics.