Comments on: My Rig http://guitargear.org Real. Guitar. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:47:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: almcg2 http://guitargear.org/my-current-rig-my-musical-styles/#comment-6650 Mon, 17 Jan 2011 00:11:26 +0000 http://guitargear.org/my-current-rig-my-musical-styles/#comment-6650 Thanks, i’ll give it a try.

]]> By: GoofyDawg http://guitargear.org/my-current-rig-my-musical-styles/#comment-6646 Sun, 16 Jan 2011 19:20:10 +0000 http://guitargear.org/my-current-rig-my-musical-styles/#comment-6646 I’d start with the Falcon. It breaks up nicely at lower volume levels. As I use a lot of attenuation in my church gig, speaker breakup at lower volume levels is important to me, and the Jet Falcon gets it done! :)

]]> By: almcg2 http://guitargear.org/my-current-rig-my-musical-styles/#comment-6645 Sun, 16 Jan 2011 19:16:16 +0000 http://guitargear.org/my-current-rig-my-musical-styles/#comment-6645 Which one do you think would.have the best blues tone with some breakup at low volume levels? I have a 1966 fender vibro champ that I put a jensen speaker in and it sounds really great.

]]> By: GoofyDawg http://guitargear.org/my-current-rig-my-musical-styles/#comment-6644 Sun, 16 Jan 2011 18:53:12 +0000 http://guitargear.org/my-current-rig-my-musical-styles/#comment-6644 Speakers, eh? Have you checked out the Jensen Jet Falcon? It’s an awesome speaker, and the most inexpensive in Jensen’s Jet line, but it absolutely sings out of the box! I’ve got one in one of my 1 X 12 cabs, and also my 2 X 12 to compliment my Celestion Gold, which is another great speaker. The Celestion Blue works great as a Blues/Blues-rock speaker, but at 15 watts, you need at least a couple of them to handle the load of most amps.

]]> By: almcg2 http://guitargear.org/my-current-rig-my-musical-styles/#comment-6643 Sun, 16 Jan 2011 18:47:43 +0000 http://guitargear.org/my-current-rig-my-musical-styles/#comment-6643 You’re right about the sound. Very lush sound, not dry, muddy, harsh or brittle in any way. The only prob is the wack reverb. I don’t really need it, i have an electro harmonix holy grail, and it’s reverb is really nice.

My mesa mark III is really a great sounding amp too. It also has no mods. The mesa dc3 seemed cool, but i blew the speaker before i could really do much with it. Now i’m researching a realy god sounding speaker for blues blues rock.

]]> By: GoofyDawg http://guitargear.org/my-current-rig-my-musical-styles/#comment-6642 Sun, 16 Jan 2011 17:58:16 +0000 http://guitargear.org/my-current-rig-my-musical-styles/#comment-6642 From what I understand, it’s the replacement of a couple of resistors, but that’s about the breadth of my understanding. I only knew that those particular units were known for their noisy reverb, and it wasn’t until the IIC that Mesa finally got it fixed. But the II series overall are considered to be very sweet amps.

]]> By: almcg2 http://guitargear.org/my-current-rig-my-musical-styles/#comment-6635 Sun, 16 Jan 2011 02:52:50 +0000 http://guitargear.org/my-current-rig-my-musical-styles/#comment-6635 Yeah i know. The reverb is not modded. I know what you mdan though, i can be playing along just fine, then all of a sudden i get this weird sound. If i turn the reverb off the sound goes away. awesome sounding amp though. What kind of mod is done for the reverb? Thanks for the info. I think the amp is from 1979.

]]> By: GoofyDawg http://guitargear.org/my-current-rig-my-musical-styles/#comment-6624 Sat, 15 Jan 2011 18:21:31 +0000 http://guitargear.org/my-current-rig-my-musical-styles/#comment-6624 Wow! Boogie Mk IIA? Nice. That’s a classic amp. Did you do a mod to it to quiet the reverb?

]]> By: alan mcgaughey http://guitargear.org/my-current-rig-my-musical-styles/#comment-6620 Sat, 15 Jan 2011 03:48:35 +0000 http://guitargear.org/my-current-rig-my-musical-styles/#comment-6620 Recently added a Music Man JP6 Petrucci signature guitar w/Piezo’s, Vox Night Train, Taylor T3B, Early 1960′s Epiphone Pacemaker, 1960′s Gibson GA5 solid state (really great, warm tone for a solid state), Mesa Boogie IIA, Mesa Boogie Dual Caliber DC3

Sold the Ovation Viper

I need GAS Anonymous!

]]> By: fari http://guitargear.org/my-current-rig-my-musical-styles/#comment-6601 Fri, 07 Jan 2011 09:43:11 +0000 http://guitargear.org/my-current-rig-my-musical-styles/#comment-6601 am a huge fan of Carvin for many years now. I have 3 of their guitars, two strats, a maple fb, all mohogany neck and body w dual rails and a stellar tone control. Also have an EBONY fb strat (too cool and rare!) w Carvin’s AP-11s w booster plates neck & middle, and it has a full size HB in the bridge. The other is a LP type flame maple top beauty.

]]> By: darkhorse http://guitargear.org/my-current-rig-my-musical-styles/#comment-5804 Wed, 24 Nov 2010 07:03:21 +0000 http://guitargear.org/my-current-rig-my-musical-styles/#comment-5804 I’m a half stack player myself, I have never managed to drop down to smaller amps. I just read an article on some new tubes just out an EL34BB model which puts out less watts, there are also the new speakers which can be dialed back on the mag structure to drop the level 9db. I dig new tech myself, not so crazy on the old vintageor little 1 speaker amps. I do not play my stack loud I just like the wattage headroom capability and the multi-cab sounds more full and dimensional for me.

I run a huge board compared to most I guess, but it’s about options for me, many times I might have just 1 or 2 boxes on just like the options. I won’t bore you w the line, everyone has their favs. I am always moving towards better pedals. The amp sounds great I just dig the pedals to open up greater possibilites of tone you cannot get naked. A 4th up harmonizer through the OD just kills. Jeff Beck meets Satriani is my tone.

I am a huge fan of Carvin for many years now. I have 3 of their guitars, two strats, a maple fb, all mohogany neck and body w dual rails and a stellar tone control. Also have an EBONY fb strat (too cool and rare!) w Carvin’s AP-11s w booster plates neck & middle, and it has a full size HB in the bridge. The other is a LP type flame maple top beauty.

I run a Carvin V3 modifed head, it has an additional clean boost, biased w 5881 power tubes and 5751s in the preamps. Just a killer amp. I run a Carvin vintage load 4×12 although I think in the future I want more wattage capable speakers or those cool vol reduction new jobs.

]]> By: Welcome! « Guitar Gear http://guitargear.org/my-current-rig-my-musical-styles/#comment-4979 Mon, 10 May 2010 15:33:58 +0000 http://guitargear.org/my-current-rig-my-musical-styles/#comment-4979 [...] My Rig [...]

]]> By: assistencia tecnica electrolux http://guitargear.org/my-current-rig-my-musical-styles/#comment-4728 Mon, 05 Apr 2010 12:54:47 +0000 http://guitargear.org/my-current-rig-my-musical-styles/#comment-4728 good article, i will add my feeds.

]]> By: almcg2 http://guitargear.org/my-current-rig-my-musical-styles/#comment-4616 Mon, 22 Mar 2010 07:30:42 +0000 http://guitargear.org/my-current-rig-my-musical-styles/#comment-4616 Yep, I do love guitars and guitar “stuff”. I recently traded the Egnater rebel 20 head along with a couple pedals and my peavey cab (which I never use) for a completely mint Genz Benz El Diablo 100 head. Love that sucker! Man, what sound! And the blue lights are cool too!
Al

]]> By: goofydawg http://guitargear.org/my-current-rig-my-musical-styles/#comment-4094 Sun, 27 Dec 2009 22:38:15 +0000 http://guitargear.org/my-current-rig-my-musical-styles/#comment-4094 WTF?!!! Didn’t you just get a VOX Virage last year?!!! HAHAHAHAHA!!! I thought I was bad!!!

BTW, you got that right with the Tokai’s! Now that I’ve got my main purchases aside, I’m looking at getting some of these MIJ’s to buy, fix up, and trade/sell. I’ve been looking at Fernades guitars as well. Very well made, and cheap. I’ve got a Chinese one that is surprisingly good-playing, but needs a new set of pickups – they’re really crappy. But who cares? I scored it for $100. It’s a player.

]]> By: almcg. http://guitargear.org/my-current-rig-my-musical-styles/#comment-4093 Sun, 27 Dec 2009 20:34:39 +0000 http://guitargear.org/my-current-rig-my-musical-styles/#comment-4093 Ok, so I’m a GAS addict… so what!

My latest acquisitions:

-All original 1950 Gibson BR6F 12 watt tube amp. Creamy cool!
- 1966 Fender Vibro Champ. LOVE IT!
- 1980′s Marshall JCM 800 head (2203 horizontal inputs)
- Early 1980′s Music Man 212 65 watt combo. Super vintage
tone.
- New Egnater Rebel 20 head. Fun and cool.
- New Peavey Classic 50 2×12 cab.
- 2000? Peavey Steve Cropper Classic – Tele style guitar.
beautiful.
- 1970′s Ovation Viper solid body. LP style in natural finish.
Mint condition with just awesome vintage sound. Great
pickups. Beautiful flame maple neck.
- Early 1980′s Tokai (MIJ) perfect copy of 1957 LP Goldtop.
No wonder they got sued! Beautiful craftsmanship and
tone. STUNNING!!!! Great copies of 57′ PAF pickups too!
- Early 1980′s Tokai Goldstar Strat copy. Cream color with
beautiful birdseye maple neck and fretboard. Perfect copy
as well of 60′s strat… BUT…. the pickups are SUPERB!!
One of the best sounding “strats” I have ever heard, copy
or original. Just amazing glassy sound.
- Another early 80′s Tokai 60′s strat copy in tobacco
sunburst. Again, a perfect replication. Mint condition!
- 2004 Gibson Les Paul Supreme in wine red. Beautiful
guitar and warm chunky sound.
- 2009 Dean Soltero, hand built by the Dean custom shop
on a special order for a friend of the shop manager (with
full Dean authorization – I emailed them to make sure).
Now, they changed a couple of features on the axe so it’s
not a regular Dean production item. Because of this they
couldn’t put Dean and Soltero logos on it. No biggy, it’s
one of the most beautiful guitars I have ever seen. It’s the
only Soltero gold top on the face of the earth at this point.
The pups used were the Nostalgia and one other Dean
pup I can’t remember. Neck pup is warm and slightly
chunky, and the bridge screams! Hot as hell! One of my
players now, along with the Tokai’s and the Moser’s.

I sold or traded my D’Aquisto New Yorker, Jem7VWH (for the LP Supreme), Bassman Head, Parker P-38 and the VF 160.

NOTE: Buy all the 70′s and 80′s Tokai’s you can afford!! The prices are going up as people find out how great these MIJ axes are. I have no reservations at all about saying they are manufactured as well as the best Fenders and Gibson LP’s (sorry… but true) and the playability and sound is as good or in many cases better than the best Strats, Tele;s and LP’s available today. Been a player for over 40 years and I’ve owned my share of the real thing. Tokai’s, and I hear, Greco’s are fantastic, and still way more affordable. 70′s Tokai Strat copies are called Springy Sound and at some point in 80′s they changed to Goldstar. The Springy Sound are exact strat copies including the headstock shape, which got the sued. Goldstar’s are exact 60′s Strat copies with a slightly modified headstock. The early LP copies (into the early 80′s) are exact copies with only a very minimal change to the head stock shape. You need to look really close. All materials used in the ones I own and have inspected are top quality. New Tokai’s are very good as well, more expensive other Fender MIJ builds and current MIJ’s don’t even come close. Don’t hesitate, do it!!!!! SOON!!!!

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]]> By: Seth Weber http://guitargear.org/my-current-rig-my-musical-styles/#comment-3486 Tue, 01 Sep 2009 23:28:34 +0000 http://guitargear.org/my-current-rig-my-musical-styles/#comment-3486 Love the sound you get in the recordings i heard of yours, and i can see why it sounds so good, your set up is awesome! I use a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe too and I love it! I also really want to check out those drive pedals you use. Whats your opinion on the Fulltone Fulldrive 2 MOSFET?

]]> By: Lenny Brooks http://guitargear.org/my-current-rig-my-musical-styles/#comment-2902 Mon, 06 Apr 2009 01:31:41 +0000 http://guitargear.org/my-current-rig-my-musical-styles/#comment-2902 Suhr Hss strat with a full “C” Neck
American Fat strat Deluxe also Hss
G&L bluesboy “Tele” with F holes

A fender Prosonic (the best Amp I’ve ever played through)
I have 2 seafoam green combo’s and a head that I play through a Marshalll 1960 412 cab (not all together either or)

budda Wah
Od3 boss super overdrive
Hughes and Kettner rotosphere ( through the effects loop)
killer tone!!!

]]> By: goofydawg http://guitargear.org/my-current-rig-my-musical-styles/#comment-2900 Fri, 03 Apr 2009 15:50:50 +0000 http://guitargear.org/my-current-rig-my-musical-styles/#comment-2900 Gotcha. Made me wonder when I saw that box in your pedal listing. I’ve yet to hear an acoustic guitar that sounds great through a tube amp. My buddy has a Genz-Benz Shenendoah that’s half-tube/half-FET. He tends to later more FET than tube.

Myself, amp-wise, I play my acoustic through nothing but my Roland Cube 60, and line out to a board if I need to go to a PA. On the other hand, for most gigs where I use an acoustic, I plug into my DigiTech Vocalist Live 4, then use the balanced out to a board.

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