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[seamus76]

I play mostly guitar and some limited piano/keys.  I can play percussion, but not behind a kit.  I also have a sampler/resampler I've been messing with lately, an  Ensoniq ASR-X.  I was lucky to get an old hand me down piano from my Mom's house so I've been loving that lately, however it needs some tuning.

Guitar rig:

Ibanez RG EXQM1 with the quilted maple top>
Boss Blues Driver>
Boss Compressor>
Cry Baby Wah>
Marshall Regerator>
Boss DD-7>
Boss RC-20>
Marshall mg50dfx

[2x2]

Guitars:

PRS 20th Anniv Custom 24
G&L Commanche
Alvarez Yairi Dreadnaught
G&L L-2000 4 string bass



Pedals:

Teese wah
Guyatone Micro Delay
Boss Tubescreamer (self modded)
Voodoo Labs Sparkle Drive
Barber Tonepress
more, more, more


Keys:

Korg R3
Korg Kontrol 49
Oberheim Matrix 12
Software VSTs



Amps:

Fender, Marshall, Carvin / Avatar




Drums:

Mapex Pro-M
various Zildjian and Paiste cymbals

[The Lapper Redux]

Until it was all stolen:

Guitars:
Fender USA Strat (lefty)
Gibson USA-1 (converted)

Pedals:
Vox Real Mccoy Wah
Boss CS-2 Compressor
Homebrew Electronics Overdrive
Boss DS-1
MXR Phase 90
Line 6 FM-4 Filter Mod
Visual Sound H20 Echo
Boss DD-3 Delay

Amp:
Fender "The Twin" (essentially a Twin Reverb with 135 watts, and a half power switch)

Some shithead decided that he wanted this gear more than I did one night, when he broke into my apartment and managed to steal it all, except for this shitty little practice amp that was sitting next to all of this shit.

Now I play...

Fender mexi strat (lefty)
Marshall DFX 100.

Definitely looking to upgrade to a tube amp soon. The only fun part of starting over from the ground up is well....getting to start over from the ground up.

[Jakestash]

current gear
Guitars:
Fender Strat (mexican)
Becker Retro Grad ( picking up this saturday )

Amp:
Egnater Rebel 30

Pedals:
Boss Tuner
Rocktek Compressor
Morley Bad Horsie Wah
Boss Phase Shifter
Boss Chorus
Boss DD-3

looking to upgrade a lot of pedals soon. POG 2 is on my list of things to get.

Recently retired gear:
Gibson les paul standard cherry burst
Marshall TSL 60 half stack with 1960 AV cab
Fender "The Twin" (great amp)

[CarliBear]

You guys are really packing some nice gear!
I would absolutely love to hear some music if any of you've recorded.

I feel totally out of the loop and actually odd...
but I play one of these bad boys.

I can play pedal harp but I own a full Celtic harp.

I fool around with a lot of other instruments (piano, drums, bass, guitar),
but this is my main instrument and really the only one I would consider that I 'play'.

As far as gear goes, harps don't require much.
However, I do have a Fender Princeton (Blackface) Amp.
(With harps, the sound is extremely sensitive and often powerful on its own, so the right amps are small ones).

[Puddy40]

^ a real harp, that's pretty bad ass.

Guitars:

shitty electric = Epiphone Les Paul Special

I mostly play acoustic so I recently got a Taylor 214ce, and it's absolutely beautiful, I'm in love.

Bass:

cheap acoustic bass

5 string fender jazz bass


and last but not least, I love my harmonicas the most, too many to list.

[AlexTheDictator]

I started learning music on piano.  Then I picked up sax in elementary school with the school band.  I started playing guitar freshman year of high school and that slowly became my "main" instrument.  I can also play drums but that's still a development in the works since I've never actually owned a drum set; I've just had tons of friends and roommates that have had them.

Guitars:

Carvin SC90T
Carvin Bolt-T (built from the build-your-own kit)
Ibanez Artcore (looking to sell this)
Schecter Tempest Custom (looking to sell this, too)
Seagull acoustic

Amps:

'66 Fender Vibro Champ
Fender Hot Rod DeVille

Pedalboard:

Electro-Harmonix POG >
Dunlop Crybaby 535Q >
Digitech Whammy 2 >
Clark Gainster >
Marshall Guv'nor >
Digitech Hardwire SC-2 >
Boss BF-3 >
Boss TR-2 >
Line 6 DL4

Keyboards:

Yamaha MM6
microKORG

[jachapman]

'92 Fender USA Telecaster (my most favorite sounding guitar ever made)
'83 Gibson Les Paul

I use run-of-the mill Peavey amps, which is a travesty, but I don't play guitar all that often or that well.  My pops is a slasher though, so I've grown up around great equipment.  His guitar collection makes me ponder burglary.

I also play the shit out of a saxa-boom

[willonguitar]

Guitars
Acoustics:
McConnell Custom WM model is being built as we speak with Max Kauffman designed inlay...
Yairi WY-1
Taylor 412 (prefactory)
Taylor Big Baby (custom)
Alavarez AJ60SCE

Electrics:
PRS CE22
Fender Lone Star Strat
Fender Custom Frankenstein Strat
Dean Stylist Jazz Standard

Bass:
Fender 70's Jazz Bass

Amps
Guitar:
Mesa Mark 1 Combo
 -Mesa 2x12 vertical extension cab
Fender Champion 112

Bass:
Ampeg BA115

Effects
Fulltone OCD overdrive
Marshall Guvnr overdrive
Morley Bad Horsey 2
Dunlop CryBaby
Line6 DL4
MXR Carbon Copy Delay
Danelectro Mini Delay
MXR Phase 90
Boss OC2

Mandolin
POS Savannah

Midi
Akai MPK61

Drums
Pearl Forum 5pc kit.
Rototoms
LP Woodblock
Zildjian A Custom Ping Ride
Zildjian New Beat Hats
Zildian Scimitar Crash
Sabian AA China
Sabian AA china splash
Iron Cobra double kick.

Percussion
LP Cajon w/snares
Handmade Djembe from Ghana

[chadk]

McConnell Custom WM model is being built as we speak with Max Kauffman designed inlay...

would LOVE to see pics of this once it's complete

[willonguitar]

McConnell Custom WM model is being built as we speak with Max Kauffman designed inlay...

would LOVE to see pics of this once it's complete

have no fear, it will be fully documented... Jordan McConnell is the guy that built the customs for The Avett Brothers, meaning: all signs point to EPCOT.

[chadk]

McConnell Custom WM model is being built as we speak with Max Kauffman designed inlay...

would LOVE to see pics of this once it's complete

have no fear, it will be fully documented... Jordan McConnell is the guy that built the customs for The Avett Brothers, meaning: all signs point to EPCOT.

i was gonna say having a MK inlay = epcot

[jazzypaul]

Mostly a latin percussionist, which means I usually bring a lot of gear around...

Pearl Bobby Allende bongos
LP Matador Congo & Quinto (if you play three, the third is the tumbao)
LP Salsa Cowbell (both mountable and handheld)
LP Brass Tambourine (both mountable and a handheld which is wrapped with an ace bandage and played on my ankle)
LP Guiro Block
LP Rock Block
LP Two Octave Chimes
LP Soft Shakers
LP Maracas
LP Claves
LP Super Guiro
LP Afuche Cabasa

But the bad boy that I've been playing the most lately is this thing:


LP Angled Cajon -- using the aforementioned tambourine, I can basically make all of the sounds of a drum kit at 1/3 the volume and 1/8 the space.

When I do play a drum kit, it's a Yamaha Maple Custom with traditional jazz sized shells.  22" K Custom Dark Ride, a 21" Sabian HH unlathed ride and a 19" K Custom Dry with rivets, used as a crash.  My newest addition is a Sabian 16" Ozone, and I love that cymbal.

[CarliBear]

Mostly a latin percussionist, which means I usually bring a lot of gear around...

LP Angled Cajon -- using the aforementioned tambourine, I can basically make all of the sounds of a drum kit at 1/3 the volume and 1/8 the space.

This looks awesome! I'm dying to hear it!!

[Puddy40]

^ wow that is pretty sweet.  diggin both of these vids

[cdevlin]

Those Cajones are suuuper cool! I saw a lot of street performers in Europe playing them. They can make soooo many sounds at a fraction of the cost to lug around a set.


Everyone on here plays some pretty nice equipment... I played a garbage entry-level Ibanez for a while, but a year ago this month I got a Taylor 214ce, which someone else already mentioned they had recently bought and loved.

Its such a great guitar! I love it, but I wish I would have paid $500 more and gotten the 300-series, mostly because it's a fully wooden guitar and has the full expression system. But I have NO complaints at all with the 214, the highs and mids are just soooo gorgeous coming out of it!




On a semi-related note:
I am hard-of-hearing and have always played my instruments LOUD. I grew up playing percussion in the school bands as well as with friends and everyone always tells me I play too loud. Part of it is my own hearing deficiencies, however I also have a hard time controlling myself-- I'd rather close my eyes and lose it! This being said... I've noticed the section of wood just below the sound hole that is uncovered by the pick guard is taking some serious beating! I've only had my Taylor for a year and I wonder how many more years this section will last. As I said, I play loud and hit the strings hard, which I think is what is contributing to this problem..... but I'm not sure. Has anyone had similar problems with this area of the guitar? Is there anything I can do besides change my playing style? Is it unheard of to get a pick guard that would cover that 3-centimeter between the bottom of the sound hole and where the guard currently begins?

Is this even something I should be wasting my energy on?

[AlexTheDictator]

On a semi-related note:
I am hard-of-hearing and have always played my instruments LOUD. I grew up playing percussion in the school bands as well as with friends and everyone always tells me I play too loud. Part of it is my own hearing deficiencies, however I also have a hard time controlling myself-- I'd rather close my eyes and lose it! This being said... I've noticed the section of wood just below the sound hole that is uncovered by the pick guard is taking some serious beating! I've only had my Taylor for a year and I wonder how many more years this section will last. As I said, I play loud and hit the strings hard, which I think is what is contributing to this problem..... but I'm not sure. Has anyone had similar problems with this area of the guitar? Is there anything I can do besides change my playing style? Is it unheard of to get a pick guard that would cover that 3-centimeter between the bottom of the sound hole and where the guard currently begins?

Is this even something I should be wasting my energy on?

That part is really messed up on my acoustic, too.  That stuff just happens.  But the fact that you've only had it for a year and it's already taking a "serious beating" shows that may be playing with more wrist and less forearm.

[willonguitar]

I've noticed the section of wood just below the sound hole that is uncovered by the pick guard is taking some serious beating! I've only had my Taylor for a year and I wonder how many more years this section will last. As I said, I play loud and hit the strings hard, which I think is what is contributing to this problem..... but I'm not sure. Has anyone had similar problems with this area of the guitar? Is there anything I can do besides change my playing style? Is it unheard of to get a pick guard that would cover that 3-centimeter between the bottom of the sound hole and where the guard currently begins?

Is this even something I should be wasting my energy on?

dude, I honestly doubt you could play any harder than I do. All my acoustics get severe wear & tear in that area. it happens... wouldnt waste my time worrying about it.

[seakamp]

Hey all.  We are rockin some sweet gear on the bort!  I'm primarily a bassist but can mash around on guitar, keys and I really dig the recording/production end too.   

Instruments:

Fender Marcus Miller 4 string bass
Tokai tele copy
Takamine Acoustic


Amplification/Cabs:

Ampeg SVT II non-pro
Sunn 2x15
SWR 2x10
BFM speaker 2 x 1x15



Pedalboard:

Boss OC-2>
EBS Octabass>
WMD Fatman>
Soundblox Multiwave Bass Distortion>
Zvex Woolly Mammoth>
Moog LPF>
Line 6 M9>
Boss GEB-7>
Boss CEB-3>
DOD Stereo Flanger>
EBS Multicomp

Moog LPF, Fatman, M9 and Multiwave controlled by Moog MP-201


Interfaces:

Cakewalk UA-25ex
Focusrite Saffire 6
Mackie Onyx 1640i


Controllers:

Novation 61SL
Novation 25SL


DAW:

Reaper.fm - try it out if you haven't already.  ~5mb, huge performance, light on resources, and a free download.  Great for tracking and mixing
Ableton


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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GArbUV_yv2k<3 the Harp and Harpo

Sweet vids Paul.  Very cool tunes and sound oh that LP unit 

[AlexTheDictator]

I've noticed the section of wood just below the sound hole that is uncovered by the pick guard is taking some serious beating! I've only had my Taylor for a year and I wonder how many more years this section will last. As I said, I play loud and hit the strings hard, which I think is what is contributing to this problem..... but I'm not sure. Has anyone had similar problems with this area of the guitar? Is there anything I can do besides change my playing style? Is it unheard of to get a pick guard that would cover that 3-centimeter between the bottom of the sound hole and where the guard currently begins?

Is this even something I should be wasting my energy on?

dude, I honestly doubt you could play any harder than I do. All my acoustics get severe wear & tear in that area. it happens... wouldnt waste my time worrying about it.

Ok, good. I'll just not worry about it! Hopefully when the time comes that it's too beaten up to be played I'll have some money to buy another one...

Wrist vs. forearm eh? I've never had any formal training, I took a 100-level guitar class in my undergrad, but the wrist is bad?

I missed typing in a word in that post.  I meant you should play with more wrist and less forearm.  You can be a lot more dynamic and possess much more finesse in your playing.

[sarsalars17]

-Martin D-16 GTE
-Big ol' acoustic amp that i've never turned up past 2
-ummm... picks.. of the 0.60 variety

that is all

[cdevlin]

-Martin D-16 GTE
-Big ol' acoustic amp that i've never turned up past 2
-ummm... picks.. of the 0.60 variety

that is all

Just listened to your Plunger cover on the other UM board... digglebop or whatever, very very solid work man! Are you flat-picking the whole thing? It sounded really great, and as you said, UM songs are soooo difficult to learn. I haven't even attempted because I don't think I'm anywhere near ready to try.

[Puddy40]

^ yeah it is really good, I've played it for a few people as well...Post it over here (still working on finding that All In Time recording)

[Karl Hungus]

Martin D-16 GT
Taylor 414ce
Epiphone Casino
Fender Strat (MX)

POS Fender Princeton 65

Boss TU-2
MXR Super Comp
Ibanez TS9 Tubescreamer
Ibanes TS9 Turbo

[opsopcopolis]

Guitars:
2003 Black Mexi Tele (I love this guitar)
2005 Faded Cherry Mahogany Les Paul Studio (with cream plasticware)
Hand Made Strat (I just finished it, wired the pickups myself as well as putting it all together. Slightly inspired by Jake's butterscoth G&L)

1973 Gibson ES-320
1973 Guild Hollowbody
'60s Gibson D 25 Acoustic Guitar

Bass:
1976 Fender Jazz Bass

Amps:
Shitty Fender 25R Frontman
Old Tweed Marshall Bass Amp

Pedals:
Boss ME-50
Cry Baby Wah

Drums:
Standard 5 piece Ludwig kit

Trumpet:
Yamaha Pro horn

I'm really looking to upgrade my pedal set up and to get a new tube combo amp.  I've been looking at Egnaters.