Freeper Guitar Thread

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[chasio649]

Just would like to start a thread and let Freepers list their guitar related equipment, gear they long for or gear they have recently tried....or just anything guitar related.

[chasio649]

PRS= overrated............IMHO

[ovrtaxt]

Wow that looks loud. Nice! Have you heard one live?

There's a buddy of mine who does home theater. He deals in McIntosh amps for home audio. All tube amps. They're exposed in the chassis too, and they glow when they really get going.

I have the Pod purely for convenience sake. I can listen to 30 or so different amps without waking up the kids, and I can take them with me without getting a hernia.

[A CA Guy]

Probably some jazz solos types of stuff, thus the echotone.

I have some friends who hobby playing, I have had a decade of music and can read it, play the piano a tad and can make the deaf wish they were dead by playing the accordion. :-)

[chasio649]

I definitely know the advantages of modeling amps....i have a Line6 flextone III and the discontinued Duoverb...i love them. You can get close to the cranked tube sound at bedroom levels....for most of us older guys that noodle in the living room...what more could you ask for?? ;)

[carlr]

I tried to learn to play a few years ago but am pretty klutzy.I am at an age where I need patience lessons to stick with it,than lessons on how to actually play.

[ovrtaxt]

I remember when Korg first came out with the Pandora's Box. EVERYBODY wanted one.

When I play at church, I just run direct and listen through the monitors. Less stage volume= more clarity for everyone.

[chasio649]

You might give this a passing glance...Roland is the preferred jazzy brand....

http://www.zzounds.com/item--ROLCUBE30

[Uncle Jaque]

Stictly acoustic.
Pretty much 19th Century, too.


"The years slip slowly by, Lorena..."

Sorry.

[SteveH]

I just revamped my rig:

top 6U SKB (from top):

1. furman md-8 power conditioner
2. korg drt-2000 tuner
3. custom made mono signal volume control
5. demeter vtbp-201 tube pre-amp
6. qsc plx 2402 power amp

bottom 4U SKB (from top):

1-2. bass pod pro
3. open
4. furman ar-15 voltage regulator

The bottom SKB 4U is slated to become a 6U someday,
possibly soon. (To minimize noise, I think I need to move
the voltage regulator further away from the signal path.)

In one of the open slots I will put my RNC 1773
compressor and raven pha-1 microphone/spare pre-amp
on a flat 1U pan.

I also need to figure out if I can put my Sennheiser
wireless in there somehow.

guitars:

G&L 2500 fretted 5 string bass (thomastic enfield flatwounds)
G&L 2500 fretless 5 string bass (thomastic enfield flatwounds)
G&L 2000 fretted 4 string bass (thomastic enfield flatwounds)

fender USA strat (~2000)
fender MIM tele (2) (~2003)

Ovation deep dish acoustic electric (~1980)
Gibson C-1 classical (1950)
Martin D-1 (2005)

Martin B1 bass w/ highlander IP-2 pickup (2005)
(rotosound flatwound strings)

er-hu (well, it's a stringed instrument anyway ;-)


I have been trying the rig out in performances this month.
The korg tuner is popular with my band (as I had hoped).
I haven't patched in the bass pod pro yet but I am eagerly
anticipating also using the tap metronome feature for band
practicing.

I recently acquired a Pandora PX4 effects box and a Roland
micro-amp for practicing on the road in hotel rooms,
and they both work fine (the good Pandora effects
work well standalone , and I just refrain from
using the not-so-good Roland effects when I use it.)
Both of these help me with practicing bass very much,
and I am a bit sorry I held out for so long on getting
them (especially the Pandora).

[ovrtaxt]

Do you hear a big difference with the flatwound strings? I once tried them on a guitar, and they really didn't sound any different except during a chord change to a different fret, and then only on a clean setting. But I would think they would have some different properties on a bass.

[chasio649]

I have heard that the microcube sounds suprisingly BIG?

any truth to that?

[larryjohnson]

1952 Martin OO-15

[chasio649]

Did you inherit that?

[larryjohnson]

bought it used ~'68. Correct age is'55.

[chasio649]

I'm guessing you are glad you hung on to it!

[mcshot]

beginning/intermediate that just gave up on the blues. Going back to the fun stuff and storing or selling the library of "How to" books.
Have Alvarez 12, Guild 6, Kay 6 and Epiphone electric with Peavey 112.
As an explanation I wouldn't have most of this stuff if my kid had his finances together and be darned if I'll own something, cept guns, that I can use.

mc

[ccwoman]

Hey maybe one of you can help me. My boys age 18 and 10 want to play acoustic. I want to buy them guitars next month but I do not know what i am looking for and I and don't want to spend a lot in case they lose interest after just a short time. both of them have musical talent. The youngest plays the sax.

[derllak]

Looks like your scoping out whos house has the equipment you need so you'll know which house to rob first. Well I ain't talkin'!

[A CA Guy]

I am very physical and play all these sports as an adult, but have a creative side as well and would like to do a bit of playing and probably writing for fun.

[A CA Guy]

Yeah, I heard also of the cube 60 a lot and you can get that for two bills or so on Ebay.
Seems you are confirming what I am reading on my own.