Guitars
- Fender (MIM) 60th Diamond Annivesary Stratocaster
- Gibson ES-333 (335 shown in picture - think 335 without all the accoutrements)
- Ovation LX Elite (Super Shallow Body)
- Others that I don’t gig with: Yamaha FG-335 Acoustic, Ibanez Strat Knock-off, Epiphone 58 Korina Explorer (Natural Finish)
Amps
- Fender Hot Rod Deluxe (Ruby pre-amp tubes / JJ Electronics power tubes), various modifications
- Roland Cube 60 - great small venue amp, and great for acoustic guitars!
- Line 6 Flextone III - this is my studio workhorse that I use for recording a lot of my rhythm tracks.
Oscar Shmidt Delta King - original pups pulled and replaced with Gibson 57′ reissues. 10 gauge string, sometimes 11’s.
Oscar Shmidt Shallow Acoustic/Electric
Fender Standard Strat - refinished by hand (in the process), scalloped maple neck, Texas Special pups, grover pegs, new pots and wireing, 11 or 12 gauge strings with action raised a bit for slide.
Digitech GNX3000 - multi effects unit, really good for recording and writing for me to be able to create tons of sounds in one unit.
Steve Vai Bad Horsie Wah Wah
Washburn Bass
Plus a closet full of old gear and stuff I trip over constantly….
Later, McStrum
Homebuilt “Telecaster” butterscotch blond finish.
SX 24″ scale strat copy, powder blue finish with rosewood fingerboard.
Modded Vox AD30VT…I added an effects loop and replaced the cheap looking metal grill with black Vox grille cloth.
I run a Digitech RP-200 through the loop as an effect unit.
God bless,
Matt
Guitars:
PRS Singlecut - wrap-around tobacco burst - strung with 11s (main baby)
Hamer USA Eclipse - black strung with 10s (electronics need some TLC)
Taylor 310ce - strung with 12s
Amps:
Mesa Boogie Heartbreaker Combo (bone stock) run at half power for church
Epiphone Valve JR combo (modded)
Effects:
E-bow (newer model, not as smooth as older model I used to have)
Boss Chorus Ensemble
Boss Phaser (the newest one, not as rich as the older ones but does David Crowder stuff pretty well)
DigiTech digital delay set to emulate tape delay
Ibanez TS-9 Tube screamer (still stock my amps are warm enough this adds edge when I need it)
All effects are run in front of signal as apposed to in the effects loop.
Nice, DuhDewd!
My Current Equipment:
Guitars:
- Fender American Standard Strat, Lake Placid Blue,1986
- Taylor T5 Custom, Tobacco burst
- Ibanez EP9 elec. acoustic
- Ibanez Jem7vwh Vai signature (white)
- Ibanez AF105 NT archtop elec. acoustic
- D’Aquisto New Yorker (2006) archtop elec. acoustic,
Natural
- Gibson L-6 Custom, black, 1976
- Hagstrom Oval Hole Jimmy, archtop elec. acoustic, cherry
burst
- Parker P-38 tobacco burst
- Custom Fender Tele thinline with Peter Florence voodoo
- pups, cream swamp ash body
- Samick heavily modified LP copy, with all gold tonepro
hardware, Duncan Lil 59 neck and Screamin demon bridge.
Cherry Burst, 2 mg pots upgraded electronics.
(Not your typical Samick!)
- Neal Moser Custom, hand built SS ST #1, black opaque
quilted maple body, quilted maple fret board and head
stock, Kahler trem, lace drop and gain pups, and built in
booster switch (only one in existence and my favorite!)
- Neal Moser Custom, hand built Wraith neck through, white
poly over mahogany wings, with cocobolo fretboard and
headstock with lots of custom, built in Moser electronics.
Only one like it in existence and still in production.
- Vox Virage black with new 3 way Dimarzio pups and
special 3 position effect switches, one for each pup (brand
new model and not released yet, but paid for).
Amps:
- Mesa Boogie Mark III red stripe 100 watt head 1986
seperate 12″ speaker, Mesa boogie cabs
- Fender Blues Deluxe with varnished tweed covering 1993
- Fender M80 300 watt solid state
- Behringer 120 watt solid state modeling combo
- SWR Strawberry blonde acoustic
Effects:
- Electro Harmonix POG
- Electro Harmonix Synth
- Boss DR-880 drum machine
- Digitech JamMan loop station
- Vox Wah
- Teese Wheels of Fire Wah
- Sun Face Fuzz
- Line 6 POD 2.0
- Line 6 X3 Live
- Fulltone Vibe
- Fulltone OCD
- BBE Sonic Stomp
- others
Recording:
- Fostex 8HD - 8 track with built in 40 gb hd and cd burner
- VF160 Fosstex - 16 track with built in 40 gb hd and cd
burner
- Sennheiser E835 Mic
Yowza!
Yeah, I know…. nuts…. and I just added a new HarmonyMan and a Fulltone Octafuzz.
Now for the cool news… my Vox Virage showed up today (been waiting 6 months). Here’s the scoop so far:
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Black double cut. Let me start by saying that it’s everything Vox said it would be. Unique in many ways. First looks. IT’S BEAUTIFUL! all the hardware is very cool, even down to the “S” shaped tuners. Yep… S shaped. Your thumb and forefinger fit perfectlly to adjust. Actually, fits so well, that I felt I had even etter fine motor control of the head. Jut the way it fits gives excellent leverage for fine adjustments. Never heard abbout this and didn’t expect it. The plastic covers for the three blade pups, that some people didn’t like, look extremely cool, and match the volume and tone knobs. Very different look. The bridge is also a real looker, very different and extremely clean. The craftsmanship is excellent. No flaws of any kind. Excellent inlay and fret work. Solid wood throughout as promissed. Inside of body is very clean, without the normal bracing structures. The guitar is extremely comfortable and light as hell. It fits right into your mid section/rib area and feels very natural. Puts your picking arm and hand a really good angle.
The action came adjusted just where I like it, right from the factory. I appreciate that. The Dimarzio 3 way pups sound great. With the pup switch and two tone changing switches you have an amazing combination of voicings, with out adding any pedals. Can’t wait to start playing this bad boy through some of my pedals. No mud on any setting, and I tried them all. The tone is excellent, with exceptionally nice sustain. All tone settings are sooooo clear. Now one thing I didn’t expect…. the tone switches both work in combination to change the sound, regardless of where you have the pup selector set. I expected that each pup would be effected in some way by one switch or the other, not all pups effected by both switches. Can’t wait to here my Octafuzz, Tue creamer, OCD, POG, etc, with this baby.
Well, that’s all for now. Need to get back to my new friend.
Cheers,
Al
OMG!!!A Vox Virage?!!! Dream guitar! I’m jealous!!!
That is SO awesome!!!
yeah, I freakin love it! the designers did an excellent job. great look, feel and sound. so comfortable, light as hell and great contour.