whats your guitar set-up?

[Killjingle]

Paul,

dont sweat it.... I said I would never buy a guitar with active electronics, and I bought an ESP EC400 Les Paul style today that sounds ferocious. I am considering buying another ESP w/ Floyd Rose to use on stage as well with actives in it.

Never say never... LOL!!!

[Killjingle]

Ken.....

U Dont need 150 watts man! Just say no to a Triple Rectifier. U aint ever going to get to even turn that puppy up. Never even get your speakers warm.


A Double Rectifier is plenty, I actually really like the sound of my Single Rectifier cause it runs a little harder. I actually taste tested a 5150 vs Rectifier in my basement for a few days. I chose the Rectifier for the clean tone. Although I recently tried an SG Standard out in Monroeville at Music Go Round and I plugged into a 5150 version 1 plugged into a Randall 4x12 cab with Vintage 30's. This thing sounded brutal. I often wonder if I should have bought that head. I think it would have been a great all around head, and it might have toasted my Single Rectifier had I tried taht particular head.

Hope that helped at least a little...

[lonewolf]

It's pretty much standard practice to buy a Fender and rip out the noisy single-coils in favor of rail pickups or something, but I just don't know if throwing down the coin for a PRS warrants a change of the pickups and electronics right off of the bat.

PRS SE series guitars are under $600 new and go for around $300 on eBay. They have much cheaper electronics than the high end models and I believe they are made in either Korea or Taiwan.

[orangekick]

My rig is always in the process on being changed somewhere. What I have been running lately is:

Guitars:
Fender Toronado w/ Rio Grande BBQ in the bridge (x2)
Fender '72 Tele Custom reissue
Dean V w/ Duncan Custom (b) and a GFS Mean 90 (n)
Schecter "S" Classic

Effects:
(out front)
Ibanez WD-7 wah
Subdecay Noise Box prototype
M.I. Audio Blues Pro overdrive (x2)
(in the effects loop)
Ibanez PH-7 Phaser
Nobels Tremolo
Arion SCH-Z chorus
Electro Harmonix Small Stone phaser
EH Nano Small Stone phaser
Boss TU-2
S.I.B. Mr. Echo delay
Ibanez DE-7 delay
Akai Headrush 2 looper/delay/tape echo sim

Amp
Orange Rockerverb 100 head
Mojo 4x12 cab
w/ Avatar Hellatone 30L's (special V30's w/ less spike and better low end)

[old Skool]

Actually Ken moddin' a Tremonti SE model is a good idea. A friend of mine bought one used in excellent condition and dropped a set of EMGs in it (81 & 85). That thing sounds killer and plays very well for an inexpensive import. Still not a Jackson though ha, ha!!!

[Killjingle]

today will be the 1st time I ever used actives at practice. I am excited to see how I feel about them after the fact.

[SpellboundByMetal]

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!

make sure to take pix and video and have a writeup about it.

(this was only a joke about gear nuts...dont take it serious.)

[Killjingle]

at first I said to myself there goes Keith with a dickhead comment, and then I kinda just laughed said to myself it is kinda funny how much energy we put into our posts sometimes

I aint gonna tell if I liked em or not

[SpellboundByMetal]

I wasnt trying to be a meatpole dancer...i was just poking fun @ the gear posts. I posted myself, nothing wrong with being into gear. I am to a degree. I should be alot more though.

[Killjingle]

meatpole dance over here.

I still aint tellin u shit

[bassist4life2004]

Actually Ken moddin' a Tremonti SE model is a good idea. A friend of mine bought one used in excellent condition and dropped a set of EMGs in it (81 & 85). That thing sounds killer and plays very well for an inexpensive import. Still not a Jackson though ha, ha!!!

Thats what ive always believed as far as the SE series guitars go. I want to get the guitar as close to the real thing without paying 2,000 for it, and thats really the only way to do it. I love the sound that the guitars can make, and i want to produce the best tone for my ear. I might go with a Triple Rec. eventually just because they are mean amps, and if i want to turn it up to 11, i can, haha. I think that, for now, i might go with the Hughes and Kettner, but eventually i will get a Mesa.

Tearing apart the Tremonti SE and souping it up a little bit is the less expensive way to go, plus i can customize it any way i want to, where as if i buy the expensive model, i wouldnt even wanna touch it with a screwdriver.


And yes, i am a huge fan of Mark Tremonti, im young enough to say that he is one of the major reasons i started playing guitar, basically because i loved what he could do with a guitar, and i wanted to play the same style with my own twist on it.

[bassist_25]

I tried out a small 30 watt Hughes & Kettner solid state combo yesterday at a music store. The full name escapes me, but it was something Blue, and the control section lit up blue when you turned it on. Let me tell you, it was a sweet little amp, and the clean channel was very warm for SS circuitry. I wouldn't mind having one to mess around with when I do my hacked guitar playing.

[Killjingle]

whats the price tag on the Hughes combos? I dont think I have seen one

[bassist_25]

Chad, I think this particular model was around the $300 mark. It was definitely a quality little amp.

[bassist4life2004]

The H&K Matrix Halfstack and head sells for 799.99 on Americanmusical.com

[stratobastard27]

1989 American Std. Fender Strat
- 2 Duncan Hot Rails (neck + bridge) the middle single is in the guitar,
not wired. Got a schematic off Duncan's website that allows me single
bridge, inside coils, neck bucker, both buckers, bridge bucker
- exchanged the plastic knobs for metal knurled knobs (just a
personal quirk)
- Graphtek saddles
1991 Gibson Les Paul Classic ('60 reissue) unmodded
1990 Gibson SG Standard
1991 American Std Fender Strat (Bridge JB jr from duncan)

AKG Guitar Bug Wireless (has the bendy jack that does a strat or paul)

Line 6 PODxtLive (I'm partial to the Bassman, Plexi, 5150, and Bogner
Uberschall patches)

Line 6 Flextone II+ (going into the loop return, so it's power amp and
speaker only)

Cabinets - (Pick one depending on size of stage) Fender 2x12 with
Celestions, Red Bear 4x12 with celestions, homemade wedge with no
horn - nice to have your guitar back in your face, not at your calves!
The flextone has stereo power amps, so the combo's speaker is the
left, and the external cab is the right

Elixir Nanoweb strings 10-46, Dunlop Tortex 1mm picks (blue)

If we're on a stage so small I'm tripping over the kick drum and the singer's mic stand, I'll run the pod straight to the mixer and feed a little bit into the monitors

[Banned]

Not much here:

Yamaha tele-style Pacifica

Crybaby Wah
Ernie Ball Volume Pedal
Voodoo Lab Sparkle Drive

Mesa Roadster 2x12